Idea boards

Idea Boards — Visual Sketchpad

Idea boards are visual-only scratchpads. Drop nodes onto a canvas, give each a title, colour and short description, and draw arrows between them to map how the ideas relate. Nothing is executed — an idea board is pure thinking-in-public. A project can hold any number of boards, each independently named and saved.

Adding a node. Click + Idea in the floating toolbar. A new card appears on the canvas with an editable title, a colour swatch, and a multi-line description area.

Changing colour. Click the round swatch in the coloured header. A palette popover appears — pick any of the six shared grafer colours (ochre, teal, lavender, sage, rose, golden).

Connecting nodes. Every node has four ports (top, right, bottom, left), each acting as both source and target. Drag from one port onto another node to draw a bezier arrow. Connections are forgiving — the grab radius is generous, so you don't have to land precisely on a port. Click an arrow to cycle its direction: forward →, reverse ←, both ↔. Hover an arrow to reveal a × button at its midpoint for deletion.

Multiple boards. Add more boards from the left sidebar's + New idea board button. Rename by double-clicking, duplicate or delete via the row icons. Boards persist with the project file.

Idea Boards — Drawing Pad & Handwriting Recognition

Each idea node has a pen icon in its header. Click it to open the drawing pad — a pressure-aware canvas that accepts pen, touch or mouse. Pen pressure drives stroke width. The pad supports undo, clear, and close-to-save; strokes persist on the node across project save / load.

Recognize handwriting. Click Recognize to run the strokes through an open-source TrOCR model (Xenova/trocr-small-handwritten) hosted by the Hugging Face CDN. The first call downloads ~80 MB of model weights; subsequent calls are instant because the browser caches them. Recognised text is appended to the node's description field. Best results come from writing one line at a time in reasonably clean print.