Tools & Systems
Workboard
A local visual workspace for writing and drawing on an infinite canvas.
Tools & SystemsIn developmentRelease candidate
Overview
What this project explores
Workboard is a personal notebook-like workspace that can sit beside other applications. Text remains editable text, and drawings remain editable paths. The intended desktop target is Windows, with a browser development environment and a Tauri shell.
Contribution
My role
Product direction, interaction requirements and hands-on usability testing within an AI-assisted development collaboration.
Current state
What exists today
- Infinite canvas navigation and zoom, point and area text, freehand drawing and highlighting.
- Layer ordering, locking and visibility; local board saving and recovery.
- Text-session history is separated from board-level undo and redo.
- Manual acceptance of the current release candidate remains open. Native Windows behavior and native file saving are not yet verified.
- The eraser still needs geometric improvements. Images, tabs and full rich-text formatting are future capabilities.
Toolkit
Tools and methods
ReactTypeScriptTauriSVGLocal-first
Next
Where it goes from here
Complete manual acceptance of the current release candidate, then address the vector eraser before expanding the toolset.