Infinite Canvas
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Infinite Canvas
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#2A particularly interesting one in the gallery is TLdraw (https://beta.tldraw.com/). As well as building an infinite canvas app they are also developing a toolkit for others to use to build application specific infinite canvases.
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#3A useful survey of current efforts. However, I don't see what I want here: depth. The third dimension. Yes, we think visually. But we also aggressively compartmentalize. We rigorously group things into mental boxes, dig into the boxes when necessary, or stick them in our mental attic while concerns are elsewhere.
There are examples of grouping and some clear hierarchies. But our mental processes are more complex. Things can exist in multiple boxes, boxes can overlap, crosscut, have different priorities, constraints, etc. Conventional hierarchies are too simple.
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#4“Zooming User Interface” article on Wikipedia is another overview of the history behind ZUI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
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#5Great to see this catalog! I’m extremely excited about the current wave of ZUI / infinite canvas apps & was surprised by how many apps there are. So far, my favorite infinite canvas apps have been InVision Freehand and Excalidraw.
This category of app might finally be the “killer app” that drives tablet adoption & moves digital collaboration ahead of the physical whiteboard.
Freehand has changed how I work with my team. It’s phenomenal for documenting workflows. It’s also better than PowerPoint at evolving a slide deck. Amazingly, it works well enough on a phone to reference on the go. Currently too expensive for large teams though.
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#6how do you submit an app?
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#7how do you submit an app?
Submit an issue on GitHub!
I’m one of the creators. Got a bit backed up due to personal circumstances, but I have time carved out in the holidays to make changes.
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#8I don't understand the value proposition of ZUI. Yes, I think visually, but I tend to remember things as atoms, or as narratives. An atom might be "CBC means Cipher Block Chaining", a narrative might be, "you take your plaintext and split it into blocks, then you take your IV and XOR it with your first block, then you XOR block n with the block n-1". I'm not sure that a graph data structure adds value. What's the value add for y'all? Is this mostly an information collection exercise?
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#9Would be nice if this website also tracked software projects for building infinite canvases in your own apps. Especially for collaborative online canvases there's not that many (F)OSS projects around. All the nice, well-designed products are proprietary SaaS'es.
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#10A particularly interesting one in the gallery is TLdraw ( https://beta.tldraw.com/ ). As well as building an infinite canvas app they are also developing a toolkit for others to use to build application specific infinite canvases.
Was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818822