Boost Your Workflow: Generate Complex Flowcharts Fast with DeepSeek & Draw.io

Flowcharts are essential visual tools for modeling papers, PPTs, and other complex processes, but creating them manually can be time‑consuming. This article demonstrates how to use the combination of DeepSeek and Draw.io to generate flowcharts efficiently and shares a general AI‑driven workflow pattern.

Mermaid Code Generation and Application

We first feed the process description to DeepSeek, asking it (in deep‑thinking mode) to output Mermaid code.

<code>graph TD
    start([开始]) --> A[明确问题背景与目标]
    A --> B[假设和简化问题]
    B --> C[转化为数学模型]
    C --> D[定义变量并选择模型类型]
    D --> E[求解模型并分析结果]
    E --> F{结果是否符合实际?}
    F -->|否| C
    F -->|是| G[验证模型准确性与稳定性]
    G --> H{验证是否通过?}
    H -->|否| D
    H -->|是| I[解释结果与决策建议]
    I --> J[应用到实际问题中]
    J --> K[持续监控和优化模型]
    K --> L{需要调整?}
    L -->|是| A
    L -->|否| K
    style start fill:#60f,color:white
    style A fill:#6BE,color:black
    style B fill:#6BE,color:black
    style C fill:#6BE,color:black
    style D fill:#6BE,color:black
    style E fill:#6BE,color:black
    style F fill:#f96,color:black
    style G fill:#6BE,color:black
    style H fill:#f96,color:black
    style I fill:#6BE,color:black
    style J fill:#6BE,color:black
    style K fill:#6BE,color:black
    style L fill:#f96,color:black</code>

Paste the generated code into Draw.io via Adjust → Insert → Advanced → Mermaid . The diagram renders automatically.

After insertion, click Insert to obtain the complete flowchart.

The final detailed diagram appears as shown below.

AI Efficient Workflow: From Problem to Solution

The core steps of the AI‑driven workflow are:

Prompt the large language model for code in the required format (e.g., HTML for a web page).

Copy the returned code into an appropriate editor (Notepad, VS Code, etc.) and save the file.

Open the file in a browser or relevant application, verify the result, and iterate by refining the prompt if needed.

Different Code Formats and Their Applications

Below is a concise reference of 20 common code formats, the typical applications that support them, and a short example snippet for each.

Mermaid – Draw.io, Typora – flowcharts, e.g., graph TD; A-->B; B-->C;

LaTeX – Overleaf, TeXShop, VS Code (LaTeX plugin) – mathematical formulas, e.g., \int_{a}^{b} f(x) \, dx

HTML/CSS/JS – VS Code, Sublime Text, Notepad++ – web development, e.g., <div class="container">Hello, World!</div>

Markdown – Typora, VS Code, GitHub – documentation, e.g., # Heading 1\n**Bold text**

Python – Jupyter Notebook, PyCharm, VS Code – data analysis, ML, e.g., import numpy as np; np.array([1, 2, 3])

R – RStudio, VS Code (R plugin) – statistical analysis, e.g., plot(x, y)

SQL – MySQL Workbench, pgAdmin – database queries, e.g., SELECT * FROM students WHERE age > 18;

Bash – Terminal, VS Code, Sublime Text – automation, e.g., echo "Hello World"

VHDL/Verilog – Vivado, Quartus, ModelSim – hardware design, e.g., module AND_gate(input A, B, output Y); assign Y = A & B; endmodule

XML – XMLSpy, Notepad++ – data storage, e.g., <person><name>John</name><age>30</age></person>

JSON – Postman, VS Code, Notepad++ – data exchange, e.g., {"name": "John", "age": 30}

YAML – VS Code, Sublime Text – configuration files, e.g., name: John\nage: 30

SVG – Inkscape, Illustrator, VS Code – vector graphics, e.g., <svg><circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" /></svg>

TikZ – Overleaf – LaTeX graphics, e.g., \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (0,0) rectangle (2,2); \end{tikzpicture}

Graphviz – Graphviz, VS Code – graph visualization, e.g., digraph G {A -> B -> C;}

Excel/VBA – Excel – data automation, e.g., =SUM(A1:A10)

Prolog – SWI‑Prolog, VS Code – logical programming, e.g., father(john, mary).

HLSL/GLSL – Unity, Unreal Engine, VS Code – GPU shading, e.g., float4 ps_main() : SV_Target { return float4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0); }

TypeScript – VS Code – typed JavaScript, e.g., let message: string = "Hello, TypeScript";

Fortran – Intel Fortran, VS Code – scientific computing, e.g., REAL :: x = 3.14

The key to an AI‑efficient workflow is understanding the code format required by each domain and the corresponding application that can execute it.