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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 op
by melvinroest 6y ago
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.
- bmiller2 6y agoJust curious, What’s not to like about ember?
- melvinroest 6y agoIt's not a framework optimized for canvas. Since this project is mostly based on HTML canvas, it doesn't jive well.
- egfx 6y agoIt’s not exactly mobile friendly. You should direct mobile users to use this on their desktop with some kind of alert.
- melvinroest 6y agoThat is a really good tip! Thanks :)