It’s been kind of a different year, but it was the first year and pretty amazing for Excalidraw. Excalidraw started as a way to procrastinate on January 1st, 2020, and ended up being a fully fledged whiteboard product only one year later! In this post, we’ll go over the most…
One of the hidden features of Excalidraw, is that you can generate charts in seconds. Once you imported the chart, all the elements are yours to manipulate using Excalidraw features for you to tell the story you want! Read more to see how to make a chart. Telling a story…
On the Excalidraw project, we have decided to deprecate Excalidraw Desktop, an Electron wrapper for Excalidraw, in favor of the web version that you can—and always could—find at excalidraw.com. After a careful analysis, we have decided that Progressive Web App (PWA) is the future we want to build upon. Read…
Browsers have been able to deal with files and directories for a long time. The File API provides features for representing file objects in web applications, as well as programmatically selecting them and accessing their data. The moment you look closer, though, all that glitters is not gold. The traditional…
One of the qualities of Excalidraw is its simplicity. Even though we have the option to use any color of the spectrum, we have decided to limit our palette to a curated set of 15 colors in three different shades. The Open Colors color scheme has a total of 13…
Since we’ve shipped the editor redesign late last year, one burning question many of you devs had was when is it going to be released to the Excalidraw package, and why has it not been released in the first place? The editor redesign just dropped, check it out! 🔥💖 Designed…
How did Excalidraw fare in its third year of existence, and what’s to come? Let’s find out! Greetings Excalidraw users! Thank you all for the support throughout the year, and for being a part of our growing user base! ❤️ With your help, we’ve recently crossed 350K monthly users. 🔥…
Excalidraw celebrated its second birthday! What happened during the last year and what’s next? It’s been another great year for Excalidraw, the virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. Let’s review what happened since the last time. The importance of remote working and collaboration has not been diminished, and more…
Collaborate using Excalidraw whiteboard directly in your Webex meetings. Excalidraw ❤️ Meetings Listening to your stories it’s amazing what you use Excalidraw for in the wild, from illustrating blog posts, to wireframing, teaching, presenting, to interviewing. One common denominator is collaboration, which has always been a core part of Excalidraw.…
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Unless you understand it. My name is Thomas Steiner, I work in Developer Relations at Google and in this write-up of my Google I/O talk, I will look at some of the new Fugu APIs and how they improve core user journeys…