[feature] Two-column posts (words, pictures)? Diagram tool?

[qpwo]

(Feel free to close this if you don't accept open-ended feature idea github issues.)

So we all know that sometimes words suck for communication and sometimes pictures can suck less.

Main proposal: Let users make their posts 2-column (words on left, pictures on right) like a slide transcript:

Could also allow eg mathjax on right maybe.

Secondary proposal: Also include a diagram-drawing widget to make it easier to add diagrams. Excalidraw is open-source and seems easy enough to embed. https://docs.excalidraw.com/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/integration . Lesswrong & EA forum are full of wordies but enough convenience could get more folks drawing pictures.

Benefits: Maybe people make nice explainer posts more often (eg entropy, chaos ). Long term, if adoption is high, could be serious upgrade to communication quality??

Implementation: I'm totally speculating, but I think under the hood the format could be pretty simple:

metadata: is_two_column=true

these are the words on the left for pic1

![](pic1-uuid.png)

these are the words on the left for diagram1

![](diagram1-uuid.png)
// diagram data is stored at diagram1-uuid.json

Probably could have the client generate the image from the diagram to not overcomplicate server.

Who does this: I could try a PR for this if yall are interested. Although I'm sure you'd do a better implementation haha.

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