Just tried on my iPad. Preview works in both Chrome and Firefox, but neither save (I do have PowerPoint loaded on the iPad and I use it there occasionally.) On Firefox when I save I get an "error" dialog, and the chance to choose someplace to save it to - but Powerpoint is not one of the options. In Chrome when I save a new browser tab opens with a lot of data - I'm assuming that it is what would have been written as a ppt file.
I added a new slide to the demo. Then I tried my best to legibly write "TEST SLIDE" with a simple smiling face underneath. When I clicked preview, my poorly drawn words and face had been transformed into real text and an emoji.
Looks great! I recently tried to make something similar where one could simultaneously sketch on a tablet and on a laptop - https://onthesamepage.online/about
works great on iphone too. I added it to my homescreen, but the experience is not great, it behaves just like a bookmark. I was thinking it would work like a PWA. Just launch, scribble notes, close. Launch again to restart or start new sketch.
Ink is really good.
Yes, I actually plan to make it a pwa and now am in progress - offline sync is a bit problematic (I wish all browsers supported PWA), but I'm getting closer.
Just suggestion: since most people (esp at work) use traditional setup (keyboard+mouse), I think it'd be better if people can type for text instead of drawing.
This is a demo for their stroke to text converter. It took me a while to figure that out. I was hoping to run it local to my iPad, so I could create slides on my long plane rides. But they are also hitting their server to do the conversion, so it looks like I would need Internet access (and I wasn't able to make it work with ppt on my ipad anyway.) But it is a good demo.
I don't want to be that shameless, but https://onthesamepage.online does just that. I use it for sketching diagrams and mind maps daily. Not for presentations, but can export to PNG and SVG. Also kind of collaborative (I often use it alone, but from both tablet and laptop at the same time).
You should partner with Moleskine. They already have a platform for taking notes in handwriting form and digitizes them, but taking them directly from Moleskine to Ppt. I would buy that in an instant!
Wow, this is the first time I actually want to get a pad!
If not in your plans:
- Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop.
- In the current and past companies we'd use draw.io. Not sure if it's possible how difficult it would be to export it.
Interesting but a small annoyance is the evil destruction of history/back button functionality - totally unnecessary and is either manipulative or inept.
Isn't that just using something like an apple pencil to write directly on slides on an ipad? I didn't notice anything special. But maybe I missed something.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 62.9 ms ] threadI couldn't test it in a tablet right now. How does it do when hand-drawing in a tablet?
Thanks!
I added a new slide to the demo. Then I tried my best to legibly write "TEST SLIDE" with a simple smiling face underneath. When I clicked preview, my poorly drawn words and face had been transformed into real text and an emoji.
Fantastic work.
I wish there was something I could do in freehand drawing interfaces that assumed mouse-button-down and let me just drag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_keys
If not in your plans: - Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop. - In the current and past companies we'd use draw.io. Not sure if it's possible how difficult it would be to export it.
Would pay.
Lucidchart is a much better and feature rich platform than draw.io and allows for creating slides and exporting them to Google slides.
You'll have to pay for the more advanced features like export to Google slides though
Every time I tried to swipe Back I would briefly see the HN page, and then it would reload the demo page. It wouldn’t let me swipe Back to HN.
Aaaand my interest in this is gone.
The handwriting recognition is amazing.
I didn't know if he was drawing them, or using a framework to create them. Anyone know what he uses ?
Sounded great but in practice was too fiddly.
Why not allow scanned documents to be OCR'ed to diagram + text. Thats the killer app!!!