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Re: Witeboard

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Post by mongol »

ponker wrote: post #39
mongol wrote: post #31

A good remote whiteboard is surely missed in these times of remote work and isolation. But I begin to doubt that is possible to create something for regular computers that can fully replace the interaction and creativity that you can have with a colleague at a real whiteboard. Something about the size I think. It is not legible to draw as much on a screen as on a whiteboard and if you need to zoom and stuff the case…

It's also about being on your feet and in close proximity to your colleagues. It's not just about the writing surface.

Yes indeed. To hand over the pen and ask them to extend or elaborate on what you have drawn.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by melvinroest »

solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

> I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad.

I'm actually experimenting with that with my side project Doodledocs [1], that feature isn't live yet, though. Also, for the user, one thing I found is that if you hold a large paperclip in your hand like it's a pencil, you can make easier writing motions on a trackpad. I do this when I'm using my Macbook instead of my iPad.

[1] https://doodledocs.com is basically Witeboard but with a less pretty and more buggy interface :P (I wrote it last year as a side project)

Re: Witeboard

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Post by ThePadawan »

solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

> everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard

Are you hiring?

(Just kidding, but I seriously wish that were true.)

Re: Witeboard

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Post by brbsix »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #36
brbsix wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. I had a similar experience. Witeboard seems to have trouble with curves. Trying to draw an "o" would invariably result in geometric shapes, a perfect circle, or some sort of rectangle. I was experiencing a lot of latency as well, which only aggravated the situation.

There's a shape detection checkbox in the menu. That's probably the cause of geometric shapes.

That stopped it from conversion to perfect circles or elongated rectangles, but I still have issues drawing anything with smooth curves. E.g. Here's a side by side just drawing "o's" at varying speeds on witeboard and ziteboard.[0]

To get anything remotely legible on witeboard, I have to be exceptionally slow. Even then, it's not a great result.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/QqJ3vpq

Re: Witeboard

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Post by teglsbo »

zuhayeer wrote: post #10
solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

Check out https://excalidraw.com/

Thank you! What I am missing is not a whiteboard. Whiteboard is just a solution that works in the office. The underlying requirement is: I want to be able to express myself in a visual way together with others. So a solution to the same requirement, that works remote, shouldn't have to mimick a whiteboard. Instead I would like the ability to : * Draw straight rectangles, lines and arrows

* Type text with my keyboard

* Move stuff afterwards

* Let participants point at different places simultaneously

I'm looking forward to trying out Escalidraw.

It seems to cover the first points, but not the last one.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by irskep »

Stratoscope wrote: post #20

I wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with sim…

While you're trying things out, would you mind testing https://browserboard.com? It's a little thing I made similar to these tools. It's not commercial, I just want to make sure it works well.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by red_trumpet »

teglsbo wrote: post #46
zuhayeer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out https://excalidraw.com/

Thank you! What I am missing is not a whiteboard. Whiteboard is just a solution that works in the office. The underlying requirement is: I want to be able to express myself in a visual way together with others. So a solution to the same requirement, that works remote, shouldn't have to mimick a whiteboard. Instead I would like the ability to : * Draw straight rectangles, lines and arrows * Type text with my keyboard…

The first points might also describe a diagram tool like draw.io

Re: Witeboard

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Post by Joeri »

monoideism wrote: post #15
solidasparagus wrote: post #6

I love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeb…

You can get a decent little drawing tablet for $30 these days. You'd probably spend half of that in the cost of pens over the device's lifetime. They're no longer ultra-expensive specialized equipment.

Most people probably already have an ipad or android tablet. Drawing with your fingers is already far better than a mouse and a basic active pen like the logitech crayon is within anyone’s range who has an ipad. There are many clipboard sharing options to quickly push a cloud whiteboard from the laptop to the tablet.

I don’t get why anyone would subject themselves to the pain of drawing with a mouse.

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