We have a few touchscreens in the office loaded with https://realtimeboard.com and https://awwapp.com/ in full screen. You can save your doodles straight to Google Drive. Works like a charm.
I think I created something similar with a slightly more moder UI, I have yet to add the network interface. https://drawo.sh, would you like to collaborate?
You know what would be _maybe_ a good idea? on macOS, when you use the default PDF viewer you can add signatures to documents. If you don't already have a signature, it lets you draw on the trackpad like it represents the screen, no need to click! just draw on it like it's a piece of paper and you have some ink at the tip of your finger.
What if you did the same thing, where the trackpad represents the entire whiteboard. Maybe it's too small, or maybe it would work perfectly :)
This is awesome! I think the hand tool needs some work though. To me, it should be used to move specific shapes or text around rather than scroll the entire whiteboard. Also some way to select multiple objects and move them around would be great too.
These are great. Not sure if I am more impressed by some of the artwork or that it users actually let the artists create it without ruining it. All around a pretty neat project.
I would use this as an annotation tool in meetings, particularly architectural diagrams and other complex information-rich image artefacts. I'm not sure if it has been mentioned yet but loading images would greatly add to its utility in meetings.
Have you given any thought to adding image loading?
Amazing! Curious about whether you faced an issue with latency? What if two people are concurrently editing the same item on the whiteboard with high latency?
What do you mean by "the same item" ? You cannot really "edit" things other people drew. You can delete something as someone else is drawing it. Then it doesn't really matter if the other person continues drawing, the item will eventually be deleted.
If you start drawing with the pencil and your line is erased before you finish, a new line looks to be started, with different properties (black and a certain thickness).
Actually, this is already supported in firefox. The color picker in firefox has an eye dropper, and it works not only in the current page, but on your whole screen.
The evolution is really quite fascinating. At first, the swastika and penis faction was losing since it is easier to erase than draw, but then they figured out that you could make the work of the clean up people harder by stippling their drawings, so the erase tool became less effective. In response, the erasers began to draw over the drawings and were quickly pushed back by the erase tool now used by the villains. Now it's almost balanced with both factions using the stipple technique.
It reminds me of the battles that take place in one of my drawing sites.
You can see the fight in action here (in the room one down and one right from the center, especially the first 30 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJ3XFPRsSw (a lot of swastikas and penises so beware)
I'm glad that it's somewhat self-moderating but the vandals usually have the upper hand.
> I was pleasantly surprised to go to the public whiteboard and not immediately see it covered with phalluses.
Wikipedia had inclusionist vs deletionist ("this is strictly an online encyclopedia - most research programming languages are not notable - delete!") warfare, because the kludgy early Wikipedia infrastructure couldn't provide multiple views, so both communities couldn't be made happy.
HN is a stew of high-effort insight, and low-effort cruft, because it doesn't provide multiple views, so you can't toggle between expertise and chat.
A public whiteboard could be both without phalluses, and covered in them, toggled by preference. Image recognition, and user profiling, has gotten quite good. But for an absence of multiple views. Or... at least the arms race might become richer.
If user requirements are multimodal, and one's current UI, being monomodal, can't cope with that, well then...
