I miss uploading images and PDFs that I can "lock" and write on top. Ziteboard does it, but it is expensive and also when someone zooms everyone is zoomed, which kind of sucks. Jamboard is also bad at writing on background images. We do need a good whiteboard app with a simple share indeed for classes.
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#102Just noticed - undo is pretty flaky, e.g. if you draw a few shapes that get shape-detected like squares and circles, pressing undo will not only erase the last shape but also remove shape-detection on the second-last shape.
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The clear page functionality has been asked before, but I'm not sure I want to implement it. It seems useful when you are alone on your board, but when there are dozens of participants, you don't want a single one to be able to clear everything in a single button press, be it by mistake or maliciously.
Maybe add a confirmation dialog and clear the page while showing a message as to who cleared it? If you already have an undo system then you could push the pre-cleared state to it as well. it's easy to make armchair feature request suggestions when I haven't even so much just looked at the code, so I will end by saying good work on having a tool that people actually use!
Maybe require a quorum on the confirmation dialog? Less than 5 participants on the board - single confirmation. Less than 20 — 2 need to agree to erase. etc.
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My first three tests of anything like this are: 1. Does it keep up with rapid movement? (If something fails this, it’s a total non-starter.) 2. Does the eraser on the back of my pen work? (If not, it’s very frustrating and a very bad sign.) 3. Does pressure sensitivity vary the thickness of lines? (I just find it’s a bad sign if something lacks this—tools that support pressure sensitivity seem to pretty consistently…
Those are great insights. Have you found any online collaborative whiteboard tool that does what you want here? It is so frustrating compared to native apps where low latency, pressure sensitivity, and the pen eraser are table stakes.
Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session.
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#105I 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…
My first three tests of anything like this are: 1. Does it keep up with rapid movement? (If something fails this, it’s a total non-starter.) 2. Does the eraser on the back of my pen work? (If not, it’s very frustrating and a very bad sign.) 3. Does pressure sensitivity vary the thickness of lines? (I just find it’s a bad sign if something lacks this—tools that support pressure sensitivity seem to pretty consistently…
I've used aww app for years, terrible domain, I always have to google it, but it works great
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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. Can you suggest a model?
I got my wife an XP-PEN Deco01 V2 for $60 a couple months ago to help with teaching and it has been great. Not $30, but still very affordable.
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#107I miss uploading images and PDFs that I can "lock" and write on top. Ziteboard does it, but it is expensive and also when someone zooms everyone is zoomed, which kind of sucks. Jamboard is also bad at writing on background images. We do need a good whiteboard app with a simple share indeed for classes.
Shameless plug: AWW (https://awwapp.com/) supports all of these and there's a free version.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those are great insights. Have you found any online collaborative whiteboard tool that does what you want here? It is so frustrating compared to native apps where low latency, pressure sensitivity, and the pen eraser are table stakes.
Mr.doob's multiuser sketchpad has the essentials as far as real-time sharing and drawing capacity. It would work very well in private mode: you could share a link to start recording a live session. https://multiuser-sketchpad.glitch.me https://mrdoob.com/#/125/multiuser_sketchpad
As soon as I put my pen to the surface and made a big sweeping movement, it popped up five or ten alerts in a row, all reading “please, draw slowly”, and broke (the socket disconnected and stayed disconnected). Um. When I drew things small, this didn’t happen, but it was as badly broken as Browserboard in that it wasn’t registering the first (and maybe last?) short time of each stroke, which makes it completely useless for writing. So, total failure of #1, and #2 and #3 seem inapplicable by design so I can’t judge them. But I’m not in the slightest bit impressed with this, functionally.
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#109I 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…
>It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it.
Could it be because of their feature called "shape detection"? It's on by default, you can turn it off in the menu.
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#110Is this supposed to be a touch/pen interface first? I'm trying it out with a mouse, and having many issues, like drawing of random lines as I draw, as well as losing lots of draw operations when it does a sync with the server.