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Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#82

I do some digital illustration, so maybe my perception is colored by a workflow that can't be generalized to others, but I am puzzled by it switching back to the arrow tool after drawing a shape. If I just drew a circle, I'm far more likely to draw another circle than select something.

Yup. One of the first things I noticed. I'd rather prefer it stays on the same tool.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or objects rearrangement at least.

We do have that! You can right click and select commands like Move > Send to Back.

Thanks, I didn't notice this.

By the way, Tldraw somehow remembered my unsaved drawing — that's impressive!

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#84

Really nice app. So much finesse. Similar but seemingly simpler than the excellent https://excalidraw.com/ . Tiny thing: I think it would be clearer if the alt tags and menu items showed keyboard shortcuts as "[ctrl][G]" instead of "c t r l G".

Are you on Windows? The context menu seems to be behaving strangely for PCs users, probably a different set of default styles than I saw while developing. :/ Working on it! https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/243

It also looks like that on Android Firefox.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#89

Hey, author here! Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship new features, check out my timeline ( https://twitter.com/steveruizok ). - The whole tldraw project is MIT licensed and open source ( https://github.com/tldraw ). And it's still in development! If you'd like to contribute, join the Di…

Love this. One idea that I haven't seen implemented in other drawing tools: the default behavior after drawing a shape is to revert to the select tool. This is rational but it can also pull you out of flow if you're trying to diagram quickly. It'd be useful to extend the keyboard shortcuts to the select tool, so that when I highlight a region with select, I can press, e.g. 5, and have a circle automatically filled inside the selected region, so that I can bail myself out and not have to draw the same selection twice.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#90

Hey, author here! Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship new features, check out my timeline ( https://twitter.com/steveruizok ). - The whole tldraw project is MIT licensed and open source ( https://github.com/tldraw ). And it's still in development! If you'd like to contribute, join the Di…

An epic journey behind the scenes on the twitter feed leading up to this and I couldn't help but share. Congrats/well done. Sorry if site's been getting hugged to death!
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