A good remote whiteboard is surely missed in these times of remote work and isolation. But I begin to doubt that is possible to create something for regular computers that can fully replace the interaction and creativity that you can have with a colleague at a real whiteboard. Something about the size I think. It is not legible to draw as much on a screen as on a whiteboard and if you need to zoom and stuff the case is already lost.
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#32A good remote whiteboard is surely missed in these times of remote work and isolation. But I begin to doubt that is possible to create something for regular computers that can fully replace the interaction and creativity that you can have with a colleague at a real whiteboard. Something about the size I think. It is not legible to draw as much on a screen as on a whiteboard and if you need to zoom and stuff the case…
Agree that the computer screen is too small
There is the google Jamboard. It’s not perfect but I think it has the right idea.
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#33I 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…
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. I had a similar experience. Witeboard seems to have trouble with curves. Trying to draw an "o" would invariably result in geometric shapes, a perfect circle, or some sort of rectangle. I was experiencing a lot of latency as well, which only aggravated the situation.
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#34Very nice interface!
Two minor suggestions. (1) when you enable "blackboard mode", the cursor should become white. As it is, the cursor is very hard to see on the blackboard. (2) it honestly took me a while to figure out that you can share just by sharing the link. Maybe make that clearer somehow?
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#35Doesn't allow characters it doesn't think belong in my email address. LH of @ is local-only.
Binned.
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#36I 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…
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. I had a similar experience. Witeboard seems to have trouble with curves. Trying to draw an "o" would invariably result in geometric shapes, a perfect circle, or some sort of rectangle. I was experiencing a lot of latency as well, which only aggravated the situation.
There's a shape detection checkbox in the menu. That's probably the cause of geometric shapes.
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#37Is this live? As in if I share it, is it collaborative? (Excuse me if that's clearly stated or implied and I'm just dense)
I think so. I opened it in two tabs and everything I drew in one showed up in the other (using the link creates by the share button).
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#38Great tool, so instantaneous.
Bug: Erase All button doesn't work for me.
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#39A good remote whiteboard is surely missed in these times of remote work and isolation. But I begin to doubt that is possible to create something for regular computers that can fully replace the interaction and creativity that you can have with a colleague at a real whiteboard. Something about the size I think. It is not legible to draw as much on a screen as on a whiteboard and if you need to zoom and stuff the case…
It's also about being on your feet and in close proximity to your colleagues. It's not just about the writing surface.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. I had a similar experience. Witeboard seems to have trouble with curves. Trying to draw an "o" would invariably result in geometric shapes, a perfect circle, or some sort of rectangle. I was experiencing a lot of latency as well, which only aggravated the situation.
There's a shape detection checkbox in the menu. That's probably the cause of geometric shapes.
Thanks for the tip.
I tried turning off that option and unfortunately it didn't improve things at all.