Hi guys, I’m sharing below a few ideas of improvements on the Whiteboard tool. I’ve been using Whimsical for years and there are a lot of great stuff there. At the same time, there are a lot of great stuff in Fibery Whiteboard. The possibility to reduce the amount of tools is awesome. The possibility to add entities and make the Whiteboard alive is really awesome. I’m already structuring my processes inside Fibery Whiteboard. It’s already usable. With a few ideas below, I guess it could be even better. Add Pill Shape option This is a great visual aid for processes that would be awesome if it could be added. Faster pan movement / sensitivity When I compare the panning movement to other whiteboards, Fibery seems slower. It gives me an impression that the Whiteboard is slow. However, it looks like it’s only a sensitivity configuration. It would be awesome if it could be a bit faster. Improve padding on Diamond Shape that sometimes get too close tho the border Fibery: [CleanShot 2024-09-03 at 14.58.04@2x] Whimsical: [CleanShot 2024-09-03 at 14.58.16@2x] Sometimes the shapes will use the “wrong text color” Hold “Z” and Right Click / Left Click on Whiteboard to to Zoom On / Zoom Out Like in Whimsical, holding the keyboard “Z” and Left click will Zoom In. Them same would happen for holding the keyboard “Z” and Right click will Zoom Out. Snap to Grid and Show Guides by default I noticed this is not the default standard configuration, however, any whiteboard out there starts with those options on. I even thought Fibery didn’t have these features, but then I realized I could torn them on. Anyway, having to turn them on every single time is a bit annoying. [CleanShot 2024-09-03 at 14.47.38@2x] As soon as I get more ideas, I’ll share with you :slight_smile: Thanks for the Whiteboard.

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Several of these seem big enough that they should be their own separate Feature Requests. They’re going to get lost here, not be vote-able, etc.

I haven’t had available votes for ages. :wink: But you are right, @Oshyan, the question is, how does the Fibery team want to manage this to be helpful for them.

[image] njyo: I haven’t had available votes for ages. :wink: This is a problem I wrote also about here: [image] Done Feature Requests are not being moved to release votes! Bugs & Issues I just noticed today that I have eight Feature Request votes in “[Done]” (text appended to the title) state that are still taking up my votes. Wtf guys? I understand some might be awaiting feedback and not truly done, but some are not, for example the whole “Implement GPT” thread: [DONE] GPT3 implementation in Fibery (share your ideas and cases)

Hi @Oshyan, a little late to the party and your FRQ has been closed by @Chr1sG, so I cannot respond there… My votes were not freed up either. Went now and removed them myself from the [DONE] requests… Thanks!

Not quite sure if all the whiteboard improvement ideas should be logged into this thread, but posting some ideas here that I suspect are relatively simple to add :slight_smile: Ability to make shapes the same size. Mural does it pretty well. [image] Add an eraser tool for when using pen Mural: [image] Miro: [image] Lasso would also be very useful Miro: [image]

Returning to the Whiteboard after many months of not using it due to rough edges, and I thought there was a polishing pass released within the last 6-12 months so… Nope, still feels janky. :confused: Undo doesn’t work after creating a connecting arrow, and creating connecting arrows feels - to me - far too easy/prioritized. I’ll get used to the latter, but Ctrl-Z has gotta let me fix accidental stuff creation, otherwise it’s maddening. Totally interrupts “flow”, which for me is a lot of what the Whiteboard is about. Also can’t use Left-Align and Top-Align for text simultaneously unless I select them in a specific order? And the indicator for which alignment mode is selected can also be broken fairly easily. This is stuff that I noticed within 5 mins of trying to use the Whiteboard for an incredibly simple mindmapping/decision tree exercise, not using fancy formatting, object alignment, or really any newer features. My experience previously using the Whiteboard is that it was trivial and almost immediate to find some bug or issue, to the point where it felt exhausting to try to report them all, and I had little faith they’d be fixed in a timely fashion. So I didn’t report them. And I was right about them not being fixed quickly either. :sweat_smile: I’m not trying to be overly harsh, I’m just amazed that Whiteboard has remained behind all other areas of Fibery as far as the general UX, the feeling of “trust” I have with this particular area of the product. It’s a real bummer. Don’t get me wrong the Calendar view is also, well… very basic and needs work. But at least it works consistently for what it does do, I use it daily. There is something different about how Whiteboard has been handled, random features have been added but not in a state of polish, that perhaps is one clear difference vs. other feature areas IMO. Something to think about… I know that Whiteboard is coming back into focus and I urge you one thing above all else: make it work smoothly and consistently first, then add features. It hasn’t yet achieved a baseline level of feature polish on what it already does IMO.

Thanks for you feedback. We have an issue with Undo behavior on the whiteboard and we’ll fix it soon. Could you tell me a bit more about text alignment? I checked, and it seems to be working correctly — it applies to a specific type of object, just like in other tools (e.g., Miro). We’re building the whiteboard engine from scratch ourselves, which means we have to invest a lot of effort into the basic rendering. Also, the calendar view and whiteboard view differ quite a bit in complexity :slight_smile: You’re welcome to report any whiteboard issues in the community or email me directly at alex@fibery.io — we’ll work on fixing them or we can jump on a call and discuss the problem areas together.

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This is a problem I wrote also about here:

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