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I maintain another opensource whiteboard web application that has a slightly different set of features, but allows persisting drawings to the server. It's called WBO :
> Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them In general, don’t whiteboard sketches have a hand-drawn feel? Seems like the trick would be a tool to give diagramming tools a hand-drawn whiteboard sketch feel, or take hand-drawn whiteboard sketches and give them a diagramming feel. Could be neat to put this engine behind e.g. graphviz/dot, for instance, a la…
Nirvana for me is a tool that takes my really sloppy sketches and writing and converts it to something that looks like an actual sketch artist drew it. Maybe pick different styles. No idea how one would go about doing that though. (TBH, it would probably be a case of it being better to just hire an artist.)
I've always been surprised by the affordability of one-off graphic requests like these.
> Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them In general, don’t whiteboard sketches have a hand-drawn feel? Seems like the trick would be a tool to give diagramming tools a hand-drawn whiteboard sketch feel, or take hand-drawn whiteboard sketches and give them a diagramming feel. Could be neat to put this engine behind e.g. graphviz/dot, for instance, a la…
Nirvana for me is a tool that takes my really sloppy sketches and writing and converts it to something that looks like an actual sketch artist drew it. Maybe pick different styles. No idea how one would go about doing that though. (TBH, it would probably be a case of it being better to just hire an artist.)
I enjoyed this recent talk from its creator: https://youtu.be/fix2-SynPGE
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Nirvana for me is a tool that takes my really sloppy sketches and writing and converts it to something that looks like an actual sketch artist drew it. Maybe pick different styles. No idea how one would go about doing that though. (TBH, it would probably be a case of it being better to just hire an artist.)
Some of these tools do exactly that. I draw my gross arcs, lines, ovals, rectangles and it renders much nicer ones, that feels like someone with way better motor skills had drawn it. I know Freehand does that.
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Nirvana for me is a tool that takes my really sloppy sketches and writing and converts it to something that looks like an actual sketch artist drew it. Maybe pick different styles. No idea how one would go about doing that though. (TBH, it would probably be a case of it being better to just hire an artist.)
Do people still use dribbble? If you can find a style there you like I'm willing to bet it would be more affordable than you'd think. I've always been surprised by the affordability of one-off graphic requests like these.
Excalidraw is pretty cool, but its main drawback is that is has no backend. The drawings cannot be persisted to the server, and you cannot collaborate with someone on a drawing unless you are both connected at the same time. I maintain another opensource whiteboard web application that has a slightly different set of features, but allows persisting drawings to the server. It's called WBO : - https://wbo.ophir.dev/
Excalidraw is pretty cool, but its main drawback is that is has no backend. The drawings cannot be persisted to the server, and you cannot collaborate with someone on a drawing unless you are both connected at the same time. I maintain another opensource whiteboard web application that has a slightly different set of features, but allows persisting drawings to the server. It's called WBO : - https://wbo.ophir.dev/
I saw that you can save it (as a JSON file) or export to PNG,SVG or the Clipboard (was that what the icon was?).
So I prefer people let me use a tool without creating another online account.
Also, glad you have an option for people with a different view of this. And also for simultaneous collaboration, too.