You should partner with Moleskine. They already have a platform for taking notes in handwriting form and digitizes them, but taking them directly from Moleskine to Ppt. I would buy that in an instant!
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#12Wow, this is the first time I actually want to get a pad!
If not in your plans: - Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop. - In the current and past companies we'd use draw.io. Not sure if it's possible how difficult it would be to export it.
Would pay.
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#13Just suggestion: since most people (esp at work) use traditional setup (keyboard+mouse), I think it'd be better if people can type for text instead of drawing.
This is a demo for their stroke to text converter. It took me a while to figure that out. I was hoping to run it local to my iPad, so I could create slides on my long plane rides. But they are also hitting their server to do the conversion, so it looks like I would need Internet access (and I wasn't able to make it work with ppt on my ipad anyway.) But it is a good demo.
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#14Interesting but a small annoyance is the evil destruction of history/back button functionality - totally unnecessary and is either manipulative or inept.
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#15Just suggestion: since most people (esp at work) use traditional setup (keyboard+mouse), I think it'd be better if people can type for text instead of drawing.
I don't want to be that shameless, but https://onthesamepage.online does just that. I use it for sketching diagrams and mind maps daily. Not for presentations, but can export to PNG and SVG. Also kind of collaborative (I often use it alone, but from both tablet and laptop at the same time).
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#16Interesting but a small annoyance is the evil destruction of history/back button functionality - totally unnecessary and is either manipulative or inept.
I accidentally clicked this link, got trapped, and came back here just to say the same thing. Any page that acts like this is simply dead to me.
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#17This is absolute witchcraft. SOooo amazing - keep up the great work!
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#18Wow, this is the first time I actually want to get a pad! If not in your plans: - Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop. - In the current and past companies we'd use draw.io. Not sure if it's possible how difficult it would be to export it. Would pay.
Disclaimer: I work at Lucid
Lucidchart is a much better and feature rich platform than draw.io and allows for creating slides and exporting them to Google slides.
You'll have to pay for the more advanced features like export to Google slides though
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#19Aw man, I don't have a mouse or trackball with me today. The trackpad sucks for drawing. I wish there was something I could do in freehand drawing interfaces that assumed mouse-button-down and let me just drag.
Perhaps a keyboard shortcut to replace mouse-button-down, that definitely sounds do-able.
LeftAlt + LeftShift + Numlock? Then 0 to hold mouse button and . to release.
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#20This is interesting/amusing, but the math version is remarkable. I like the scribble erase.