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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

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Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

#21
I really wish you could use this app without signing in to a MS account (and just use it offline).

Does anyone know of a good alternative app that gives you an easy to use whiteboard that works offline?

Edit: Before anyone says "paint"... The paint app creates very harsh and blocky lines with all of its brush tools and photoshop is massive overkill.

The "ink workspaces" are almost perfect but not quite. The sketch app only runs in full screen which is a pretty big limitation.

Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used it a few times on my Surface Pro with friends not being on tablets, and it worked really well when skyping and doing maths/cs.

It seems to be yet another area where people are organically iterating into solutions that work for them and the people they collaborate/interact with rather than everyone using the same tool that addresses all use cases. For example, I haven't tried anything for whiteboarding recently but a number of my standing conference calls use Google Docs to dynamically add notes, action items, etc. in realtime and that works…

Yup, I've used to do OneNote + screensharing, but this is really directly superior, as the objects are more "interactive" in the whiteboard app, and everybody can actually draw simultaneously. (not like with screensharing, where it ends up with everybody dictating to one writing person)

Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

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so basically multiplayer MS paint? heck, it's a good idea!

Obligatory: https://jspaint.app/#session:test

Also: https://www.formgraph.com - a bit richer (multiple layers, drawing tools, social features, etc)

Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

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post #21

I really wish you could use this app without signing in to a MS account (and just use it offline). Does anyone know of a good alternative app that gives you an easy to use whiteboard that works offline? Edit: Before anyone says "paint"... The paint app creates very harsh and blocky lines with all of its brush tools and photoshop is massive overkill. The "ink workspaces" are almost perfect but not quite. The sketch ap…

OneNote has a similar drawing tool set. Paint3D's a bit different but is also close. The main draw of Whiteboard is the collaboration aspect.

Re: Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

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We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms.

Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them?

I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...

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