Your personal corkboard(corkboard.me)
corkboard.me
Your personal corkboard
http://corkboard.me/
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Very cool, I wrote something similar for my company's clients to annotate various online documents. The UI on corkboard is nicer but I have arrows,drawing tools and you can rotate the notes around so text can vertical if you want.
Wow, if you step back and to the right the post it notes look real like they are really on your screen. Neat.
HN official corkboard
http://corkboard.me/jm6XtCnV8k
http://corkboard.me/jm6XtCnV8k
everything disappeared when I dragged the viewport/board.
What browser were you on?
Chrome 10.0.648.205 on Ubuntu 10.10 with Adblock (which sometimes gives me wonkiness)
I put up a few spare notes ;)
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Ya, I was about to say, I saw this at least a year ago. Doesn't seem to have changed much.
It was released Dec. 2nd, so not that long. There are competitors. Big things coming soon.
Hasn't the project been live for much longer than that? I feel like I used it a long time ago... maybe it was one of these competitors you speak of...
This sort of reminds of something I saw in the Lively Kernel (http://labs.oracle.com/projects/lively/) a while ago.
I really liked this, until I used the shared HN one and it got really laggy / Chrome kill button came up
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What is it built in?
Rails and Javascript (about 93% Javascript) with python app handling real time updating.
This is pretty amazing. Very well done!
It would be fantastic if it had a Gmaps-style zoom feature. A ZUI of a sort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
(I added this comment to the HN corkboard above but it got removed very soon afterwards!)
Edit: This was already suggested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963075
It would be fantastic if it had a Gmaps-style zoom feature. A ZUI of a sort.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
(I added this comment to the HN corkboard above but it got removed very soon afterwards!)
Edit: This was already suggested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963075
Good stuff.
In terms of UX I'd propose one small change. Creating a new post-it by a simple click is too easy and becomes too accidental. An alternative way might be best.
Also ideally, implementing ctrl+z/y for undo/redo would be a big plus.
But good stuff.
In terms of UX I'd propose one small change. Creating a new post-it by a simple click is too easy and becomes too accidental. An alternative way might be best.
Also ideally, implementing ctrl+z/y for undo/redo would be a big plus.
But good stuff.
What's with having to drag to pan? Is there some reason you decided to not use native scrolling?
I like it. I don't think this will replace my stickies in OSX dashboard...but overall well done.
Great, except people don't use stickies on a corkboard. They use push-pins. If you had custom push-pins, that would add something aesthetically. Also, if you could embed something on the corkboard, like a scribd document, that'd be very useful.
> people don't use stickies on a corkboard. They use push-pins.
Don't judge me.
Don't judge me.
Beats the one we hacked together over here a bit back, although we've got pins. http://corknik.com
Wow I thought about making something similar, but you guys hit it out of the park!
I like it as a demo, but if I were ever to actually use it I would want to have an account, a login, not just a URL to bookmark.
That said, don't know if I would find something like this useful if I were to try using it.
That said, don't know if I would find something like this useful if I were to try using it.
I've tried various to-do managers, notes apps, etc over the years. Everything from Google tasks to 37 signals stuff, Remember the Milk, etc, etc. Nothing has stuck for me.
Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on.
My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the opportunity to pay for it just to know there is an account there and be more assured it will stay around.
Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on.
My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the opportunity to pay for it just to know there is an account there and be more assured it will stay around.
This makes me happy. If you had to name a price what would it be?
Something in the $4.99 a month range would be a no-brainer.
Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as:
* some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath * fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Windows 7) * Iframe integration -- let me create a sticky that embeds an arbitrary iframe. This would open up a whole pile of possibilities. * Integration with a mobile app that replaces the corkboard metaphor with a simple pile of notes.
Going forward I'd see the most important features to add as:
* some simple text formatting: bold, italics, bullet points. * clickable URLs (opening in a new tab) * a way to cycle throw the Z-order of the stickies, I keep moving them around to uncover the ones underneath * fixing the weird bug where by new stickies appear off screen sometimes (Chrome 12 on Windows 7) * Iframe integration -- let me create a sticky that embeds an arbitrary iframe. This would open up a whole pile of possibilities. * Integration with a mobile app that replaces the corkboard metaphor with a simple pile of notes.
Except for the mobile app, everything you want is right here: http://www.spaaze.com/
Access Control
Right now anyone can modify a board at will (can be vandalized).
Right now anyone can modify a board at will (can be vandalized).
Don't forgot about multi-user licenses. I'd love to incorporate this into our intranet. This is great.
Anyway to back up your notes?
Anyway to back up your notes?
How about letting users decide how much to pay?
This is cool. Realtime? Awesome.
Some thoughts:
* As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note.
* Pasting a URL to an image isn't discoverable. An explicit button for this on the toolbar, or one that appears when a new note is created, would be better.
* That aside, I really, really want to be able to just drag and drop images from my computer onto the page.
* As others have noted I wish I could zoom out to see more notes. The "map" is a good start but I think it should be fully zoomable.
* Chat is cool but it sort of takes you out of the experience. Try experimenting with integrating the chat into the corkboard metaphor, maybe: Instead of a pop-up in the lower-left corner, let me create post-its that are actually live chat rooms.
Anyway, this is a great start. I hope you keep improving it!
Some thoughts:
* As others have mentioned, it's too easy to single-click accidentally and create a note.
* Pasting a URL to an image isn't discoverable. An explicit button for this on the toolbar, or one that appears when a new note is created, would be better.
* That aside, I really, really want to be able to just drag and drop images from my computer onto the page.
* As others have noted I wish I could zoom out to see more notes. The "map" is a good start but I think it should be fully zoomable.
* Chat is cool but it sort of takes you out of the experience. Try experimenting with integrating the chat into the corkboard metaphor, maybe: Instead of a pop-up in the lower-left corner, let me create post-its that are actually live chat rooms.
Anyway, this is a great start. I hope you keep improving it!
Looks awesome. I small issue though: I tried collaborating with a friend and everytime I have to hit refresh to see the changes he has made. I'm not sure if this is intended.
A timeline would be a great feature too. Being able to scroll back to my old notes and check things.
I love it, but it would be awesome if there was some way to persist the corkboard. As a minimum save the url in a long term cookie or something.
But definitely useful.
But definitely useful.