Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by ryanmickle » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds
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Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by teich » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

Hi HN. Canvas lays the foundation for some great long term plans. Long term is great, but why use Canvas today?

- Focused on flow. Folding to merge preview and editing modes. Markdown to keep fingers on keys. - Absurdly easy sharing. URLs are magic. Start up a meeting, share the URL in Slack - Hackable. Make it easy to integrate into your workflows and systems. No lock in.

Love for you folks to try it, and give us feedback. The quickest way to get a feel is to hit the try button, share the URL to write with friends, then append .json to the URL and see what happens.

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Post by dipnuggetron » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyMT4ZVQEc

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Post by geraldbauer » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

FYI:If anyone is interested in following along how markdown "conquers" the world of writing. You're invited to follow along on the world's first markdown news channel @manuscriptsnews -> https://twitter.com/manuscriptsnews Cheers. Congrats to the canvas launch! All covered on @manuscriptsnews ;-)

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Post by polymeris » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC

Am super frustrated with how buggy Evernote is, and would be interested in an alternative, but...

"We currently only support your browser in read-only mode. Read more."

You don't support firefox!? It's not like it's some obscure browser.

Also the demo canvas on the landing page being slightly tilted to the left freaks me out.

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Post by thebiglebrewski » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:06 PM UTC

Are you worried you'll get sued by Instructure/Blackboard?

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Post by jaymoorthi » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

It feels a lot like Hackpad, which is great.

One of the main issues we had with Hackpad, though, was that the collaborative editing led to it being used for note-taking with third-parties, and it was really easy to inadvertently share a document by putting it into a space that was public or shared.

What are your plans with Canvas to make sharing easy within a team, and but less error prone for sharing outside?

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Post by wnevets » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:09 PM UTC

This is going to sound silly but the crooked box at the bottom of the home page is so off putting.

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Post by dkuntz2 » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

thebiglebrewski wrote: post #6

Are you worried you'll get sued by Instructure/Blackboard?

Where do they overlap? Or is it the product name? In which case it seems far more likely that they'll ask for the name to be changed first, before moving to litigation.

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Post by ofbriggs » Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

polymeris wrote: post #5

Am super frustrated with how buggy Evernote is, and would be interested in an alternative, but... "We currently only support your browser in read-only mode. Read more." You don't support firefox !? It's not like it's some obscure browser. Also the demo canvas on the landing page being slightly tilted to the left freaks me out.

Currently firefox is blocked by this, and some other related APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectio...

Once dom.select_events.enabled defaults to true, we'll be able to polyfill most of the other missing APIs.