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Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Re: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Post by nwah »

desigooner wrote: post #20

Great work. Bookmarked it. 2 questions: 1) Is there a way to erase or reset the drawing in case i bungle it up? 2) It'd be brilliant if you could collaborate using the same URL. I sent a markup URL to someone who wanted to share his notes on my annotations and he hit respond, drew the appropriate stuff and hit publish only to find that there was a new link that had to be pushed to me for it to be seen. Again, I under…

1) Yep. Keyboard only for now (though we're looking into adding UI controls): You can select any shape, then hit backspace/delete. You can also select every shape with ctrl+a/cmd+a. Also ctrl+z/cmd+z and ctrl+shift+z/cmd+shift+z to go back and forth in the history.

2) We've got some ideas about making collaborating easier (revision history, realtime multi-user drawing, wave-style replaying, &c.) What would work well for you?

Re: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Post by proexploit »

senex wrote: post #15
mmmmax wrote: post #8

I like this a lot, and for quick notes it's easier than Notable. I like the implementation as a bookmarklet, but here are two big problems: 1) Starting MarkUp clears any info you've entered into a form on the page 2) There is no easy way to exit/cancel (how about trapping ESC or adding a little X?)

Thanks for the feedback! I've added (1) to our bug list. Others have asked for (2), so we'll definitely be adding that sometime soon.

Obviously you've already added it to your list, but just for feedback, this is the biggest thing I'm missing right now too (no cancel or close). The history is amazing and I'm not sure if you've got a limit on it but I did undo roughly 30 times easily. You may want to also consider an undo button for people who don't think to try Ctrl-Z or just some info on possible commands on the info button. Do you support any other keyboard shortcuts (switching tools, size up or down etc?)

Re: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Post by 0xFF »

Seems to have a bug - on Mac/FF, I generally get the free-form no matter which tool I click on, although at one point I got the circle when the free-form tool was highlighted, and every once in a while I do get the arrow to work correctly - didn't figure out the pattern.

Re: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Post by nwah »

klochner wrote: post #27

what about this one? http://drawhere.com/site/www.yahoo.com/

Pretty nice, and it's similar. But, no text tools, and no Safari/Chrome support. Also, MarkUp captures the DOM exactly as it is (including stuff loaded in through AJAX), and kills any javascript.

Re: Show HN: Review my project: MarkUp, a tool to draw on any webpage.

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Post by nwah »

gojomo wrote: post #18

Nice. Some ideas (that you probably already have): typable sticky notes; a library of icons/images to overlay; audio notes; have some gestures (double-click like an iOS double-tap?) auto-select containing DOM elements.

You can get something pretty sticky-note-ish by dragging a box with the text tool. And yep, we've got some of those on our list.
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