101.15 Canvas Whiteboard/Storyboard

NoteDex just got a huge new upgrade with NoteDex Canvas. With this new feature you can:

Brainstorm your thoughts and ideas quickly and easily on a virtual whiteboard
Visualize concepts in freeform mind-maps and concept maps
Create a virtual
Have a visual view of many index cards in one place to see your big picture|

As always with NoteDex, we believe a picture is worth a thousand words so we'll show some highlights of what is possible to be created with NoteDex. Check out our blog to see what you can do with Canvas.

Examples of what you can create with NoteDex Canvas

Cards and Canvases exist side by side in your Stacks. When you are in a Stack you can add new Cards or Canvases - like this:

Cards and Canvases exist Side-by- Side in NoteDex

Use NoteDex Cards to take more detailed notes, with images and ink. NoteDex Cards can be printed in a variety of formats.

Use NoteDex Canvas to capture short pieces of text which enable to think fast and capture your thoughts in the flow. You can then export this text to be used later.

How to Use Canvas

<b>To Add a new Canvas, navigate into a Stack and then click on 'Add New Canvas'</b> — **To Add a new Canvas, navigate into a Stack and then click on 'Add New Canvas'**

REMEMBER THAT YOU ADD A NEW CANVAS OR CARD INSIDE A STACK!

This will bring up the Canvas template picker - click on Blank or choose a template

If you click Blank canvas, a blank canvas will appear. Double click on the Canvas to create a new card. You can give your Canvas a title too in the top-left box.

A new card appears that you can type in.

Click on the canvas background to exit card edit mode and then click on the card. Now you will see an option to change the card background color, go into ink mode, plus some card options. If you have clicked a card you can also drag it to move it around on th

Click the white square to change card color

Click the ... menu option to get various card options, e.g. Delete Card

Click the ink icon to get the ink drawing toolbar

At the top of the app are options to set as defaults for the Canvas - Card Size, Font Size and even background color and card color. You can also set to 'Snap to Grid' which means when you move the cards they will be aligned on a fine grid. You can turn this off by selecting 'Free Position'. Snap to Grid usually looks best since then many cards can be aligned nicely.

You can scroll around the canvas, useful if you are on a smaller screen. You can give the canvas a title.

Finally, there are also many Canvas menu options - including duplicating a Canvas, Printing to PDF, or even sharing on the web:

You can export the cards on a Canvas into the Stack by selecting the last option 'Export Cards to Stack'. At the time of writing, you can't add existing Cards in a Stack to the Canvas but that is planned for our roadmap.

Canvas Themes

You can customize how your Canvas looks - perhaps you like a white background, or perhaps white ink on a black background. Click the gear icon to the left to the card size dropdown. We've also included some pre-defined themes (Default, Whiteboard and Blackboard) for fun.

Card Sizes and Zoom Canvas

At the top of the Canvas you can set the default size of the cards and font size. There are also icons to zoom in and out of the Canvas. The middle icon resets the zoom view.

Introducing Ink Canvas

We recently introduced the ability to draw with ink on the Canvas. Just change the dropdown at the top of the Canvas from Text to Ink. This will tell the Canvas to be ready to go into ink mode with each new card. Then when you double click on the canvas to add a new card you can immediately jot down a thought or idea. Easy and quick to keep up with your flow of ideas and brainstorming.

Think with Ink - use NoteDex Canvas to jot down ink notes and ideas

Canvas Templates

We've included a range of Canvas templates to help you jump start your creativity. Let us know if we should add any others!

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