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Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard

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Re: Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard

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Shameless plug: I’ve built https://board.new to help with ad-hoc collaborative whiteboarding. One thing I’ve found using more sophisticated tools was that folks spent too much time making it look nice vs discussing the content. Hence this tool that doesn’t distract with that. That said, mermaid looks pretty nice —- going to try that out for my design documents once settled on an approach.

I love this. It's so easy to use and works great on a trackpad. I'm going to start using it in my meetings. Nice job! ------ EDIT: After playing with it for a bit, I have some feedback :) - Sometimes, I accidentally press Z instead of shift, or vice versa. I would love to have undo! Backspace or delete hotkey would be perfect. - For selecting colors, it would be great to just be able to press 1,2,3,4 (rather than cyc…

> I would love to have undo!

not sure if they added this literally in the last 18 hours, but the usual CMD+Z undo shortcut seems to work for me.

Re: Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard

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Shameless plug: I’ve built https://board.new to help with ad-hoc collaborative whiteboarding. One thing I’ve found using more sophisticated tools was that folks spent too much time making it look nice vs discussing the content. Hence this tool that doesn’t distract with that. That said, mermaid looks pretty nice —- going to try that out for my design documents once settled on an approach.

Two small things:

- It interrupted my drawing-by-holding-LMB twice with the "just use shift" popup. Didn't happen again though.

- The "tip" of the text tool is not where drawing begins when I press shift. This is the result of placing the text cursor tip dead center on the top of the bottom line and then pressing shift to draw upwards: https://i.imgur.com/RKoiyar.png

Firefox 84.0, private mode.

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