In general, I use labels for power, which is easy to keep track of (just a couple of voltages and maybe two grounds). If a chip has many inputs (I am working with something that requires five different wires to the MCU), I use labels between that and the MCU, but you can see the flow between the sensor, the op amps, etc.

Something I am not completely happy with is how to handle decoupling capacitors for a specific op amp. Right now they live in their own island.

If the original schematic is badly drawn, then it is of course less useful. First going to a pixel program, and shoving some blocks around may help in that case, depending of course on how badly it was drawn.

I suppose the skill is using function blocks in a clear and readable way.

Using function blocks semi randomly spread out doesn’t help. Oth having a spider web of wires isn’t usefull either. A combination surely could win, at the cost of effort and space?

Paul, I forgot to link last year’s article. Here is it. There is a discussion there about this topic — schematic styles.

https://hackaday.com/2023/11/13/vectorscope-kicad-redrawing-project/

Nah, just use a computer to view the page.

Hmm. The circuit maker file was off in a completely different repo, the one I cloned from the Hackaday badge design GitHub. I created an independent project directory and repo for the redrawn schematic.

After making a new blank KiCad project in the new repo, I imported the circuit maker file. What KiCad did behind the scenes was create a whole new KiCad project over in the Hackaday repo, in the same directory as the circuit maker file I was importing. But it wasn’t obvious to me that I was now working in the wrong place. Once I figured out what was going on, I just copy / pasted the whole PCB from the errant KiCad project into the new one.