The idea is to have a simple and highly usable, fast alternative to more complex software such as Miro or Mural.
Also, is the change log in a working state? I can't seem to make it show anything. Is it possible to close it after you've opened it?
Whiteboarding maybe a bit misleading here. Let’s call it a sticky note wall, with images and connectors?
For instance, something I quickly noticed is that there is no freehand drawing, arrows, or connection-building tools currently. Are those coming?
- notes, areas for organizing, a few shapes and colors, connectors
- images and videos dragn drop / copypaste
- more on github readme
- not very active development lately. Just today I improved on the front page features
- You get a simple and easy board, where other tools may seem bloated and complex
You can also self-host this one very easily btw.
I do have some layout issues in Chrome, y is overflowing so I get two y-scrollbars.
Also, perhaps edit your comment with link to the source code.
What I am missing are a few more sentences about hosting. I saw the documentation about the variables and the commands to host a dev environment, but which commands should I use to run it in production?
I don't want to remain locked to their closed systems.
Godspeed!
No signup needed, clean interface, fast load times and an option to self host makes it an excellent product.
- Excalidraw is superb if you want to draw something freestyle.
- Ourboard seems to focus more on creating boxes (notes) which you can group and connect. If I understand it correctly, you can even load Github issues into your board.
At the start of the pandemic, I searched for Whiteboards where I could draw things freestyle (installed MS Whiteboard), but over time I noticed, that I used MS Powerpoint most of the time, because it was so much better at handling boxes in collaborative environments. I think OurBoard could be even better at this job.
Then, there was one meeting where it was particularly effective in running a “sticky note” exercise and my opinion on it flipped that day from around -7 to +3 [on a -10 to +10 scale]. It’s grown slightly on me since then as well; I might be a +5 on it right now.
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.
I now realize that a Fork Board feature might be useful.
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.
This is more like a free-form Trello board.
If folks are interested in this sort of thing, I also maintain an extremely minimalist open source whiteboarding tool:
I really like the collaborative nature of what you've built. I can definitely imagine using this in meetings or group planning sessions.
Once I went to a board, I could back to the board selection screen, but no further, including back to HN. It just doesn't go - no errors in the console, but never goes back further. Are you doing something with the browser's history?
Edit: never mind, back up!
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.
Harmaja (https://github.com/raimohanska/harmaja)
