I am using small (A4) physical whiteboards with an Ipevo v4k camera pointing at them. Its not quite the same, but I do like having a physical board. And its cheap compared to an ipad+pencil.
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#62+1 for Miro
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#63Here's the best set up I've used so far: 1) Get the cheapest iPad that supports the Apple Pencil. The 2018 non-Pro was this for me last I looked. 2) Get the Google Jamboard app (not the Jamboard hardware, it is not at all worth it). 3) Share the "jam" with yourself on a different device (a nearby laptop) 4) Screenshare the laptop. Things I think any virtual whiteboard scheme needs to have: 1) You need to be able to s…
One thing apple pencil is missing is hover. In a collaborative whiteboard you want to be able to quickly point to things without marking (can solve with a button for it, but it isn't as natural).
huh, i didn't realize i was missing this and now i miss it.
that said, it's usually not too bad to underline and then click "undo" (which is what i have been doing since i didn't know what i was missing)
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#64I use MSFT whiteboard with my surface pro 7 and share it over teams. (teams also has a whiteboard tool, but for some reason it is very clunky)
If it doesn't have to be collaborative, then I use Onenote, because the scribbles can be saved as meeting notes.
It helps that I work at MSFT and everyone uses Windows + has whiteboard installed.
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#65If you're into Obeya and/or Agile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeya
Then check out Iobeya:
Does one thing and does it very well.
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#66InVision's Freehand has developed leaps and bounds over the last month - it integrates with our MS Teams so it was easy to use and jump into.
Also comes with a presentation mode so you can walk through designs and have others on it follow along.
Compatible with iPad and Apple Pencil, which I recommend over the browser for markups.
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#67Our team's have been using Miro for this kind of collaboration. I was surprised that it felt better than using a whiteboard in person, because the cost of changing the already drawn boxes and arrows went way down.
For more technical whiteboards, I've been using excalidraw. I like presenting the "drawn" look to help imply that this is an unfinished idea and we're sketching the concepts out.
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#68I recommend WBO : https://wbo.ophir.dev/
I am the main developer, and I have been maintaining and using it for several years now. Some of its advantages :
- It is fully open-source, free, and without advertisement. You can easily deploy it to your own server.
- All the whiteboards have an infinite size.
- It is fully web-based, you can use it without installing anything, even on relatively old browsers.
- It's translated in several languages.
- It's actively developed. In-development features include image upload, element resizing, new tools, and others...
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#69This seems very good: https://awwapp.com/
The second I'm presented with a pop-up as the first thing on a website, I close out.
Same here.
I don't understand where people get the idea it is a good pattern. It feels like a designer meme, or more like cargo cult, that people add just because everybody else does.
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#70Here's the best set up I've used so far: 1) Get the cheapest iPad that supports the Apple Pencil. The 2018 non-Pro was this for me last I looked. 2) Get the Google Jamboard app (not the Jamboard hardware, it is not at all worth it). 3) Share the "jam" with yourself on a different device (a nearby laptop) 4) Screenshare the laptop. Things I think any virtual whiteboard scheme needs to have: 1) You need to be able to s…
Checkout doodledocs.com -- no account creation needed, front-end app only (it doesn't always work behind corporate wifi)
It's nowhere near perfect, but it's open source and I'm open to any collaboration on it for fun (even a complete rewrite, I'm not a fan of EmberJS. I explored EmberJS with it). I'm currently noticing an eraser bug when you are in draw mode and they are in eraser mode (d'oh).
I didn't know Jamboard existed when I made it. But I made it because I didn't find any app that applies pressure sensitivity and it's quite simple to do (TL;DR modern browsers support pressure sensitivity).
You can also annotate websites with it. Though, I didn't get the collaborative aspects of that working.
My focus was on the question "what if websites are like paper?" And I ran with it for a month, while exploring EmberJS. For that reason, I don't have an undo, but simply an eraser. It's also why the default style is pencil / pressure-sensitive based (you can have a more pen-like style though).
Its main use cases that I use it for are:
- Learning how to draw by tracing images.
- Brainstorming / whiteboarding (empty board)
- Brainstorming / whiteboarding (image loaded via URL)
- Draw over websites (mostly for annotation / having margins to write on)
I'm curious to know what you think of it.
People can also use an MS Surface or Wacom by the way.