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Diagrams that feel like diagrams

A diagram tool with five shapes and no resizing isn't a diagram tool. It's a sketch surface. Useful in a pinch, frustrating the moment you want to communicate something specific.

v0.8.0 fixes the obvious gaps in Yoinko's diagram page. The shape picker now ships with a curated library built for diagramming — processes, decisions, data, containers, actors, and the rest of the vocabulary you actually need to draw a flow or a system map. It isn't every shape in the universe. It's the set people reach for over and over.

Shapes are resizable. Grab a handle and drag — width and height respond independently, the connectors stay attached, the labels reflow. This sounds basic because it is basic. It just wasn't there before.

Text inside shapes — and standalone text anywhere on the canvas — now has font-size control. You can make a heading large enough to act like a heading, drop labels small enough to fit inside a tight node, and stop reaching for awkward workarounds to communicate hierarchy.

Taken together, these three changes are the difference between a diagram page that looks like a placeholder and one you'd actually paste into a doc. The shape library gives you a vocabulary. Resizing lets you compose. Font sizes let you communicate.

Diagram files also got fixed shared view rendering in this release, so when you publish a page that contains a diagram, the diagram now renders correctly for the viewer. The thing you drew is the thing they see.

Diagrams sit beside notes, tasks, and spreadsheets in the same folder tree, get the same sharing and locking behavior, and now look the part. If your last attempt at a Yoinko diagram ended with you opening another tool, give the page another pass in 0.8.0.