So you just load the template into the floppy drive and off you go. 
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Floppy? Heretic!
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That punch reel goes back to the Dinosaur age.
Whats on the reel .. ? BLINK back up.
Off topic, but:
Ooh .. punched paper tape used to program the first CNC milling machine I used. Not as much fun/annoying as punched cards when you swap a few around then sit back and watch your college mate try and figure out why his program didn't work. (We had to make our own entertainment back then!).
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This topic is now fully ready for the Bar….
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Side note
Someone articulated this:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
This notion of be the change you want to see in the world does 3 powerful things when we adopt it:
- It stops us from judging others;
- It replaces complaining about others with reflection on self;
- It stirs us into taking action within the only thing in the world over which we have any control: ourselves.
But I guess he did not adopt it yet
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@StefanL38
Regarding your answer, I will use the teaching I learned about wisdom, taught by the Tibetan monk.
Topic should not be moved to Bar Sport because it's off topic, it could be split and the new topic placed in Bar Sport.
That would not fix the initial language and further posts along the way which some may/do find agressive.
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speechless 
I think this topic is getting a bit out of hand, please keep to discussing the OP's original point about software for creating schematics for use by beginners. I might do some pruning of this topic later.
Thank you
I think the most appropriate response to the OP's question is to suggest a program that might help the OP, and maybe some why you think that is a good program for the OPs goal. PERIOD.
Move on. Personally I would not waste my time trying to convince someone something is red when they think its blue.
UPDATE: The red/ blue was NOT political, it's just the first two colors of wire on my desk.
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I was actually hoping to find an answer to the question "simple alternative to KiCad" but I don't think we found one.
For me, given my invested knowledge of KiCad, it seems simplest to continue using KiCad. I can generate new symbols in a few minutes, so that is not a problem.
I occasionally try diagrams in LibreOffice Draw, ok for block diagrams but that is quite tedious for detailed stuff. I tend to avoid cloud/registration required apps like EasyEDA.
Have you looked at TinyCad?
It's free, small and very easy to use.
There is also Circuit Lab which also integrates with a simulator. You can test it in https://electronics.stackexchange.com/ (without logging in) in that you attempt to answer a question then select the symbol to start the schematic editor. It looks like this:
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Paper and pencil is be far the best for beginners of any type, even people that think they know what they are doing result to sketching before drawing electronically. I prefer using Autocad for all of my schematics and PCBs, you can draw down to 1/10000 of an inch what could be simpler?
Not necessarily to be a Smart_ss but few schematics need to be to be within 1/10000 of an inch. And Kicad internal precision is the same. And it takes care of spacing, design rule verification, gerber output etc. Oh and its free.
But I don't know about you but when I'm designing a circuit taking the time to "draw" out (as opposed to scribble) is long after I've got most of the circuit figured out. I would start with an 11 x 17 piece of paper and a pencil. I never erased (mostly) just crossed out and continued on.
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Got me to thinking back and it's been about 11 years since I retired and my last few years I really no longer did much of any design work. It was nice to be hiring new engineers right out of school. I remember starting some projects on quadrill pads. 
Have a good one.
Ron
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Or Napkins.
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