I'm excited about this. I've used Excalidraw as a simple, lo-fi interviewing tool at a few companies for when we want candidates to draw something without having too many tools to get bogged down in making a masterpiece. For me it really hits the sweet spot between being fast and flexible like a whiteboard while still working well for computer input (i.e. doesn't make you free draw with a mouse).<p>It might be worth adding a toggle to the marketing website alongside dark mode to switch the handwriting font to something more readable though
We use excalidraw within our team at work. It's amazingly easy to produce diagrams to share business logic around. I might recommend this.<p>My biggest pain is that we need to manage and share the drawings ourselves. I normally share a screenshot and I have a collection of .excalidraw files saved locally
Tried it out. Really shows the power of sane defaults and minimal controls. I was able to quickly create a decent drawing without looking at any documentation.<p>One unexpected thing. If I select the pointer icon, and double click on a shape, it lets me add a text label. But the label isn't grouped with the shape by default. I might expect that had I started with the "A" text tool, but I started with the arrow pointer. In that case, I'd expect the label to be automatically grouped with the shape.
Don't use it much but I love excalidraw. really has that oldschool freeware vibes. Must say it makes me a bit sad that it is being monetized. Understandable, but still sad.<p>Hope it doesn't lose it's spirit now money is involved.
Honestly, excalidraw's advantages is it's simplicity with export and working locally, which makes me think a lot of the enterprisy stuff could be built with external tools or something like that. say an integration with Google Drive/Dropbox.
It seems related to eraser recently mentionned
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963840" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963840</a>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330288" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26330288</a>
I'm really enjoying this Excalidraw plug-in for Roam Research by Zsolt Viczian:<p><a href="https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/03/roam-excalidraw-plugin-mvp-release.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.zsolt.blog/2021/03/roam-excalidraw-plugin-mvp-re...</a><p>It let's you jump into diagramming within any block within Roam.
See also Miro[1] and Plectica[2]. We use both extensively for working out technical strategy, mapping system dependencies, etc.<p>[1]: <a href="https://miro.com" rel="nofollow">https://miro.com</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://beta.plectica.com" rel="nofollow">https://beta.plectica.com</a>
Looking forward to Excalidraw switching to an “open core” license in 2023 to get rid of competition! /s<p>Jokes aside, congratulations to the team - it’s one of the best tools for “thinking in a group” ever invented. Thank you to all contributors!
I hope kinks have been worked out. z-index errors, sync not working for some participants and JavaScript alert windows about losing data, were issues the three times I've used it with my team, so i basically dont dare suggest my team using it again.<p>They've been very good at communicating in the GitHub issues I've filed, so hopefully it works for others, but I would advise you to test with a few co-workers before facilitating anything in a group
This page has a link to "Try Excalidraw+ for free", but I didn't find a way to try it when I clicked there.<p>I found I could try it at <a href="https://excalidraw.com/" rel="nofollow">https://excalidraw.com/</a><p>This looks really good and I'm going to try it out at my work. I haven't found anything so far that comes close to a real whiteboard. If it works out maybe we'll get the + version.
I made an app with the purpose of drawing cloud backend architecture diagrams using apple pencil. I haven't used Excalidraw+ but I guess it's the same though. - <a href="https://cloudarchitect.app" rel="nofollow">https://cloudarchitect.app</a>
I like Excalidraw very much. I even used it to create a game with the Godot game engine:
<a href="https://curious-games.itch.io/flight13" rel="nofollow">https://curious-games.itch.io/flight13</a>