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Re: Witeboard

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Post by mcpeepants »

irskep wrote: post #118
TeMPOraL wrote: post #84

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Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox. Works surprisingly well, it's the first web whiteboard that's actually usable with the pen. Congratulations on getting this right! One minor inconvenience: when I draw with the pen, it doesn't show the line I'm drawing until I lift the pen back.

I think you found a bug! I didn't build any special support for pens, and it sounds like something's wrong here.

late to this thread, but I noticed the same behavior on Firefox (81.0.1) without a stylus/pen. whatever tool is the default when creating a new board, when I started writing nothing showed up until I stopped clicking.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by Diesel555 »

coding-saints wrote: post #17

Sorry if this was already suggested. Make sure you fix that load time asap so you don't lose any potential users prior to the screen being interactive. A quick hack might be to simply display a quick overlay dressed up like a landing page with a short description and have it load behind that until some CTA is pressed. That may prevent anyone from thinking the link is broke or whatever. As for the widget, I enjoy seei…

My load time was not perceptible. It was telling me to draw before I could mentally register the page.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by Stratoscope »

tomerbd wrote: post #88
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…

How do you like your ThinkPad Yoga for note taking? I'm thinking if to get something like this or Samsung tablet for pdf reading and annotation writing notes on pdf for learning what do you think?

I don't actually use it that much for note taking, so can't advise on that specifically. I do use it for things like taking a screenshot and marking it up, and sketching out design ideas whiteboard-style. It works great for that, although most of the time I just use it as a conventional ThinkPad laptop.

In fact when I use the pen it is usually with the display hinge in "laptop" mode, not flipped all the way around to tablet mode.

Either way, as long as you have the software support you need, the hardware works great. It is both a touchscreen and a Wacom tablet with pressure sensitivity. At least the pressure sensing works in native Windows apps - web app support has been more spotty.

For annotating PDF files, I guess you would need Acrobat Pro? Or would you use some other software?

Re: Witeboard

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Post by kerryoco »

yet another: a long time ago I found fabric.js and took a different approach to many I see here, which is to use it's SVG-style approach to the canvas.

this has many pros and cons as you can imagine: https://dpkt.oko.nyc

I haven't attempted to support drawing in a serious way yet, I want to do it justice when I do.

never-ending personal project, constructive criticism welcome

Re: Witeboard

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Post by andeee23 »

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

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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…

Try out figma. It wasn't made for this purpose exactly but it supports everything you just listed.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by tomerbd »

Stratoscope wrote: post #133
tomerbd wrote: post #88

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How do you like your ThinkPad Yoga for note taking? I'm thinking if to get something like this or Samsung tablet for pdf reading and annotation writing notes on pdf for learning what do you think?

I don't actually use it that much for note taking, so can't advise on that specifically. I do use it for things like taking a screenshot and marking it up, and sketching out design ideas whiteboard-style. It works great for that, although most of the time I just use it as a conventional ThinkPad laptop. In fact when I use the pen it is usually with the display hinge in "laptop" mode, not flipped all the way around to…

Right now on my computer I use foxit reader it's superb I think for annotation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJoxZABjOY. So sounds like both Samsung and yoga are good for note taking and the only question is whether I want something light or something that could serve also as a laptop, thanks!

Re: Witeboard

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Post by numpad0 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #129
numpad0 wrote: post #111

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More of an input for developers than actual suggestion but collaborative art boards like MagicalDraw[1] aren't new among digital artists and they're quite robust 1: https://draw.kuku.lu/index.php

> This is a non-supported browser. > Your browser is not compatible with this site. Please try accessing the site from your Chrome browser. That’s a new type of hard fail. That’s the first time I’ve had Firefox be rejected.

I... think back then(tm) those web apps used to run as Java Applet or Flash, then switched to HTML5 when those were obsoleted and while Firefox was still struggling to modernize.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by 3gg »

avtar wrote: post #67
3gg wrote: post #13

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Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II https://witeboard.com/9eae7ec0-05fe-11eb-943a-d1242b840242

Don't bother clicking on that link unless you want to be greeted with a swastika...

Sorry, that was not me! I had put my mouse-drawing abilities to test crafting a solution to the leetcode problem, and soon after publishing the link here, swarms of HN denizens rushed in and destroyed the beautifully crafted solution that would have otherwise gotten me a job in top tech companies.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by sneeuwpopsneeuw »

amelius wrote: post #124
chrismorgan wrote: post #60

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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…

And it also needs voice and video to be useful.

No it should definitely not. I really see this as an extra tool you use when you are already in a call with people, And if you don't like the Microsoft teams / zoom culture just use https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ its free and opensource and works just by sharing a url.

Re: Witeboard

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Post by ric2b »

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/

This is amazing! It's so clean and intuitive and it supports live collaboration and saving documents without ever registering for an account, love it!
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