# Plugin suggestion: Excalidraw

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [25 March 2022 15:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676 "2022-03-25T15:04:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![eagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba8739/32.png) [@eagle](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/eagle)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2022 15:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676/1 "2022-03-25T15:04:05Z")

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Excalidraw is an open souce virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. It would be great if we could integrate this with Joplin. Obsidian and Notion has integrations for it, but I have not tested those.

Ideally I would like to see the following:

1. Adding an excalidraw file to a joplin note as a file attachment.
2. A click on the attachement would open the file in excalidraw.
3. Saving the file and exiting excalidraw a png version of the drawing should be updated in Joplin.

Background info:

Excalidraw can be run in the browser by visiting [https://excalidraw.com/](https://excalidraw.com/)

It can also be downloaded as a Chrome PWA, which I have done, but I can not get Joplin to open the with the pwa (on Mac).

Further info:

[https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw](https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw)

[https://web.dev/excalidraw-and-fugu/](https://web.dev/excalidraw-and-fugu/)

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**Author:** ![johano](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/johano/32/1053_2.png) [@johano](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/johano)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2022 17:05 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676/2 "2022-03-25T17:05:55Z")

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> [@eagle](#):
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> Excalidraw

Have you tried the `Draw.io` plugin? It may give you the functionality you're after.

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**Author:** ![bepolymathe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/bepolymathe/32/8492_2.png) [@bepolymathe](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/bepolymathe)\
**Post date:** [25 March 2022 20:01 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676/3 "2022-03-25T20:01:33Z")

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[Draw.io](http://Draw.io) plugin very useful for that too

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [24 April 2022 20:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-suggestion-excalidraw/24676/4 "2022-04-24T20:02:03Z")

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