# Overview

Most teams already draw diagrams. They just draw them somewhere else, paste a screenshot into Confluence, and then discover six months later that the picture and the truth have drifted apart. Nobody can edit the screenshot, so nobody updates it.

Capable Diagrams removes the round trip. The diagram is made on the page, stored with the page, and stays editable by whoever opens it next.

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## Pick your way in

Three editors, because the right one depends entirely on what you are drawing. [Guides](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/guides.html) covers each in detail.

| **If you are drawing**                   | **Use**                 | **Because**                                                                        |
| ---------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Architecture, network maps, floor plans  | draw.io                 | Position carries meaning, and you want precise control of it.                      |
| A sketch for a workshop or an RFC        | Excalidraw              | It looks deliberately hand-drawn, so people treat it as a draft and argue with it. |
| Sequence diagrams, flowcharts, ER models | **Mermaid or PlantUML** | Text diffs in review and regenerates itself when the source changes.               |
| A business process or decision table     | BPMN or DMN             | These are standards with real semantics, not just boxes that look official.        |

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## What you get either way

![The all diagrams view listing diagram cards with thumbnails, each captioned with the diagram name and a link to the page it appears on, beside a sidebar for diagrams on pages, templates and language e](https://help.gocapable.com/images/cb70c761-6ab4-4b0b-9e25-aa990fd279c4.webp)

Every diagram on the site is indexed, so you can browse them all and jump to the page each one sits on.

* **It stays editable.** Anyone with page edit permission can open the diagram and change it. No separate tool, no separate licence.
* **It travels.** Diagrams render in exports and on published sites. See [Integrations](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/integrations.html).
* **It is searchable.** Diagram text is indexed, so a shape label is findable from Confluence search.
* **It is yours.** Source lives in your Confluence site, not in ours. See [Security and privacy](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/security-and-privacy.html).

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## Where to go next

[Get startedInstall it and draw something in two minutes.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/get-started.html)

[Diagram typesEvery type, and the tool we recommend for it.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/diagram-types.html)

[GuidesHow to drive each editor properly.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/guides.html)

[ExamplesWorking diagrams you can copy.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/examples.html)

[ReferenceLanguages, macros, settings and limits.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/reference.html)

[Security and privacyWhere the data lives and what leaves your site.](https://help.gocapable.com/diagrams/security-and-privacy.html)

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_However you draw it, it belongs on the page._