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Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by ntpeters »

jspiral wrote: post #19
spdustin wrote: post #18

Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, is a pretty big company, and their software is used by many, many companies/educational institutions. It could be argued that Canvas (the notes app here) is confusingly similar to Canvas LMS wiki pages. I hate being the guy to suggest a name change, but it may be something to consider before you get a lot of traction. I definitely understand the instinctive "fuck no" respon…

Yes, I thought this was going to be a repurposing of something in the LMS

Same here.

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by yesimahuman »

This looks awesome, been oscillating between Google Keep, OneNote, and Quiver, but never entirely satisfied.

To me, code highlighting and checkboxes that ident properly like an outline are key, and they seem to be well done here. Minor thing: tried ```javascript and it didn't work, doing ``` did engage the code editor but I can't seem to select the language.

Congrats on the launch, will be spending more time with this later...

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by vulpino »

yesimahuman wrote: post #23

This looks awesome, been oscillating between Google Keep, OneNote, and Quiver, but never entirely satisfied. To me, code highlighting and checkboxes that ident properly like an outline are key, and they seem to be well done here. Minor thing: tried ```javascript and it didn't work, doing ``` did engage the code editor but I can't seem to select the language. Congrats on the launch, will be spending more time with thi…

I've been really happy with Dropbox Paper (invite only right now, http://paper.dropbox.com, an article overviewing it: http://www.techinsider.io/hands-on-with-dropbox-paper-2015-1...).

Canvas looks strikingly similar to this (almost exactly the same aesthetically), and I'm curious what the "killer feature(s)" are which give it an advantage over Paper, which is developed by a much larger company (Dropbox).

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by a3n »

spdustin wrote: post #18

Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, is a pretty big company, and their software is used by many, many companies/educational institutions. It could be argued that Canvas (the notes app here) is confusingly similar to Canvas LMS wiki pages. I hate being the guy to suggest a name change, but it may be something to consider before you get a lot of traction. I definitely understand the instinctive "fuck no" respon…

Not to mention Canvas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_X

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by amelius »

spdustin wrote: post #18

Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, is a pretty big company, and their software is used by many, many companies/educational institutions. It could be argued that Canvas (the notes app here) is confusingly similar to Canvas LMS wiki pages. I hate being the guy to suggest a name change, but it may be something to consider before you get a lot of traction. I definitely understand the instinctive "fuck no" respon…

"Canvas" is a generic term found in the dictionary. IANAL, but I suspect nobody can claim it as a trademark. I found this about it:

> Generic terms are common words or terms, often found in the dictionary, that identify products and services and are not specific to any particular source. It is not possible to register as a trademark a term that is generic for the goods and/or services identified in the application. If a trademark becomes generic, often as a result of improper use, rights in the mark may no longer be enforceable.

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by grimgrin »

It looks nice and works well, except for the few things I found:

Clicking into a link expands it making editing very easy. I think the same should happen for images. I click the example "boom" image and it just focuses it. I can remove it, but cannot edit (as far as I can tell).

Backspace over some text to remove it. Press ctrl-z. Nothing happens, except it does register something, because try backspacing again. You'll notice it doesn't actually remove the next character, almost as if it's removing something you cannot see. Press ctrl-z 5x in a row and then press backspace 5x, to see what I mean.

Re: Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds

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Post by phaedryx »

jspiral wrote: post #19
spdustin wrote: post #18

Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, is a pretty big company, and their software is used by many, many companies/educational institutions. It could be argued that Canvas (the notes app here) is confusingly similar to Canvas LMS wiki pages. I hate being the guy to suggest a name change, but it may be something to consider before you get a lot of traction. I definitely understand the instinctive "fuck no" respon…

Yes, I thought this was going to be a repurposing of something in the LMS

Same
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