I've contributed some lines of code to this project, and thought it might be interesting to some that the library powering the UI is also written by the OP. It's a clever experiment that uses JSX but instead of VDOM diffing it embeds observables directly into the DOM.<p>Harmaja (<a href="https://github.com/raimohanska/harmaja" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/raimohanska/harmaja</a>)
This is my open-source project. I use it almost daily for simple whiteboarding, notetaking, online whiteboard sessions.<p>The idea is to have a simple and highly usable, fast alternative to more complex software such as Miro or Mural.
Here's an Ourboard board that demonstrates the key features of the service. <a href="https://www.ourboard.io/b/0b5a9bd8-93ae-446c-afbd-80ebfcb1e0ee" rel="nofollow">https://www.ourboard.io/b/0b5a9bd8-93ae-446c-afbd-80ebfcb1e0...</a><p>It's read-only, but you can select all (Cmd-A), create a new board and paste the contents on a new board of yours on the Ourboard front page.<p>I now realize that a Fork Board feature might be useful.<p>Also having second thoughts on whether it's a good idea to have a "default board" that's read-write for anonymous users. Some political content observed on that one today.
I have tried quite a few online whiteboards during the pandemic WFH. IMHO nothing comes close to <a href="https://excalidraw.com" rel="nofollow">https://excalidraw.com</a><p>No signup needed, clean interface, fast load times and an option to self host makes it an excellent product.
The hover text for "note" and "area" both say "drag to add a new text note". Then the one for "text" says "drag to add a new text area". I'm not sure if that's on purpose, but it's confusing. Though all three function in a way that's consistent with their respective icon.<p>Also, on the "area" widget, there's a popup when I click on it, with a background color picker and font size choice. But there's also an icon with 4 squares arranged 2x2. It's not clear what that does.
This looks great. Thanks for sharing!<p>If folks are interested in this sort of thing, I also maintain an <i>extremely</i> minimalist open source whiteboarding tool:<p><a href="https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text</a>
I'm mildly surprised that the view rectangle in the "mini-map" in the bottom right is not draggable with the usual semantics of panning the view. Or at least if it's supposed to work that way, it doesn't in my browser.