Tldraw Computer

Even "vanilla" tldraw is super cool as a clean, functional, open-source html5 whiteboard, and the team have absolutely been killing it in their comms and use of LLMs. I honestly think they might be some of the most innovative people around when it comes to really novel UI for LLMs. Also, Todepond is just very cool.

I didn't know Todepond worked on tldraw. That's cool.

> really novel UI for LLMs

Are you referring to Tldraw Computer or something else? Don't get me wrong, it looks really nice but not that different from other graph representations of LLM workflows, including live updates in the nodes themselves.

does the cloud product’s “new project” button still trash your saved documents with one click behind a docstring something like “make sure you have saved your stuff before making a new project” where what they meant is “our cloud product does not save your projects to the cloud, it is in local storage actually and you can only have one project at a time so the new project button actually overwrites your old one, so when we say ‘save’ we actually mean export your stuff to a json file and save to local disk!! so you can re-import it back into the product later from local disk and overwrite it back!!!!” I did my VC seed pitch deck in tldraw along with a bunch of product mocks, ask me how i know this

hello it's me Todepond

Hi Lu

And ("vanilla") tldraw supports subpixel font rendering, unlike most of their competition (for example excalidraw or Miro).

hi

File > New Shared Project -- and your problem is solved. Remember to bookmark your work, since there is no login/account/automatic storage.

So sorry Dustin. We'll have a new version of tldraw with user accounts in a few weeks that should improve things, but until then please no one clear your browser storage

Great chat

a clear docstring would be great

Do you somewhere have slides/recordings from the awesome AI tinkerers talk you did? Because that's what I had in mind when I made this comment and will be way easier than me trying to describe it

How?

We actually intentionally round it to the nearest pixel in excalidraw because otherwise the font tends to be blurry. We may want to reconsider.

Isn’t it just DOM translated?

Well they should add accounts to the main product soon! (Even if yes, it is a demo and not a technical product, the dev package is.)

Which one? I've done a couple there. don't think any got recorded though

In tldraw the text is always in the DOM, so the browser can use your native font rendering (for example ClearType on Windows). In Excalidraw the text is only in the DOM while you're editing it.

We will be!

That was fast. TLDraw now shows a dialog box clarifying project saving on first visit. Way to go!

That would be awesome! I love tldraw, but I’ll admit that more than once I’ve had to go through my web history to find a project I forgot to bookmark