Per your feedback, we've made the rounding of rectangles less pronounced on large shapes, and more consistent across sizes!
(Old elements will stay the same so we don't break your diagrams!)
By
When adding a background to custom shapes, it can be hard to close the loop, and maintain the points so the loop stays closed when resizing.
What about auto-closing the shape when background is set?
Details 👇https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/4359…
Excited to share a sneak peek of my new side project. "Readily," a web highlighter for visual thinkers.
‒ Read, Highlight, and Visualize (@Excalidraw)
‒ Simple & Fast
‒ Everything is stored in the browser
Reply with a "" if you want to get notified when the project launches.
With this launch, we had to change how to enter the arrow/line editor.
From now on, use "Cmd/Ctrl+Enter" or "Cmd/Ctrl+double click" to enter the line editor.
We will be redesigning the color picker a bit, giving you more customization without sacrificing too much on simplicity.
More on the reasoning behind this in the linked issue.
Please drop your opinion, especially around the "open questions"! 💬https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/issues/5931…
From now on, pasting a multiline text will paste as multiple elements, so you can easily reorder item lists or paragraphs of text on canvas.
Use cmd/ctrl-shift-v, or paste inside the text editor to opt out of this behavior.
Implemented by
My talk on Excalidraw at Next.js is out! I talked about the history behind the project, how rendering and multiplayer works and a bit about the funding model for this open source project.
📢 v0.13.0 is out! https://npmjs.com/package/@excalidraw/excalidraw…
Highlights ✨
Custom Sidebar support in Excalidraw 🥳
Store Custom Data in Excalidraw elements 🤩
Custom Padding when exporting data 😬
Check out the release notes for more updates -
Things are getting real :o I'm glad to have recorded the talk so I won't be a mess tonight!
Excalidraw - Under the Hood of the Virtual Whiteboard: Stage S / 3:31 PM - 3:51 PM
Equally as important (probably more so) we have docs.
These docs use the wonderful mkdocs and mkdocs-material projects. Diagrams were done with excalidraw.
https://textual.textualize.io
We cover two chapters from the book Understanding Distributed Systems by @RaVitillo:
1. Downstream resiliency
Timeout, retries, circuit breaker
2. Upstream resiliency
Load shedding, load leveling, rate limiting, constant work.
Read it here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/resiliency-in-distributed-systems…
Need to quickly jot down some ideas? 📝
In Excalidraw+ you can now create a new drawing using the "start drawing" button when you're in the dashboard, or by using "Opt/Alt-A" shortcut anywhere.
Will create a new drawing in your private collection!
Via
We've reduced the white flash if you have previously enabled the dark theme on http://excalidraw.com, so that you're not blinded every time you (re)load!
Thanks for the help,