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Neat! I wonder if there is a way to modify something like xfig to output in hand drawn "look". Collaborative editing is of course also very good and tools like xfig don't have it. I guess I'm wondering aloud if it makes sense to see "hand drawn look", collaborative editing and cloud storage/saas as orthogonal issues.
I found the default font has the problematic side-effect that when shared through a zoom/google meet type platform, the 'handwriting' becomes illegible. This has annoyed me a lot at $company, which uses it widely.
You should file an issue on the repo - folks working on it are super open to contributions.
For quick sketches during sprint planning meetings or design sessions, I started using Witeboard.com a couple of years ago but have been experimenting with Excalidraw for the past two months. TL;DR: I still tend to use Witeboard.com for quick sketches, but if I plan on doing something more complicated and not time-sensitive I use Excalidraw. What I like about Witeboard.com: - fast to load and easy to get started - qu…
- Preventing me from switching to it: once a tool (ie. pencil) is used for a stroke, it reverts back to mouse cursor (I'd rather have it stay as pencil and hit 1 for it to switch to a cursor) There is a little lock icon next to the drawing tools which enables you to lock a tool, so it won't revert back.
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- Preventing me from switching to it: once a tool (ie. pencil) is used for a stroke, it reverts back to mouse cursor (I'd rather have it stay as pencil and hit 1 for it to switch to a cursor) There is a little lock icon next to the drawing tools which enables you to lock a tool, so it won't revert back.
Fun fact: I added this to Excalidraw for this exact reason! It was super annoying.
Lowers the bar for diagrams. And keyboard shortcuts super handy too.
this also has end-to-end encryption built in. I think it should be the default and no hidden in a hard-to-find section.
I wish it would export in the Mermaid format - https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
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Yes it does.
When using the stylus, it doesn't support pressure sensitivity (I just tried with my Wacom). I created doodledocs.com as a side project, which does support it (and almost doesn't support anything else :P). The code is open source and also purely front-end based. So the Excalidraw authors can see how it could be implemented. It's basically Bresenham's algorithm combined with the DOM API. The code is at https://github.…