Most diagrams are shapes and arrows, but sometimes you want to show a value: how far along a project is, how good something scored, how a total splits up, or where milestones fall on a line. livediagram has a small family of data elements for exactly that. They live in the Data category of the floating palette and behave like any other shape once they land, so you can move, resize, recolour, group, and theme them as usual.
What you can add
- Progress bars and rings show a single 0 to 100 percentage as a filling bar or a donut ring, with optional fill, pulse, or stripe animations. See Progress Bars and Rings.
- Rating shows a one to five score as a row of stars, in an amber accent, with star-specific entrance and idle animations. See Rating.
- Pie chart splits a total into slices you edit as label and value rows, drawn in your theme's colours. See Pie Chart.
- Bar and line charts plot one or more series across categories, from an editable grid or a CSV import. See Bar and Line Charts.
- Timeline rail is a horizontal line with evenly spaced, labelled points, handy for roadmaps and process steps. See Timeline Rail.
How they work
Each data element is added from the palette's Data category and drops onto the canvas with sensible sample values, so you always start from something that looks finished. From there you tune it in the element's context menu: right-click (or long-press) to open it and you'll find a category dedicated to that element's data, whether that's a percentage slider, a star picker, editable value rows, or a points stepper.
Because they are ordinary canvas elements underneath, everything you already know carries over. Their accent colour tracks the active theme, so a chart or rating reads as part of the diagram out of the box, and animations freeze when you export so a still image looks right.
Mix data elements with regular shapes and arrows to annotate a system map: drop a progress ring next to a service to show its rollout, or a rating beside an option you're comparing.
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