![]() Now is the virtual age and so we have virtual sticky notes. Writing everything down is a good way to organize things you need to know but there is no need to hassle with paper and pen or even Stick-It notes anymore. Though it’s true that never before in history was our day-to-day memory tested with such an enormous amount of information that it had to absorb and retain in a very short period of time. MAJOR improvement over what we had before and largely aligned to what we get from Mural.Human short-term memory is notoriously frail, as everyone who’s ever misplaced their keys knows. So, all in all, I’m liking what I’m seeing. Let’s get ink everywhere in the platform, as it is much more collaborative than typing. There are still a few odd places you can’t ink, like in the title of a template, or “text” boxes. Microsoft, I still don’t like loading whiteboards… You should be able to have someone presenting and the whiteboard be available at the same time vs. needing to load it and un-load it from the consciousness. Why not make it something that is ALWAYS there, like the flip chart in the room vs. I still really want the whiteboard to function like a persistent background asset vs. What are we doing here continuing to have Whiteboard and OneNote? Can’t these converge at some point? Where is the plan for that? Can you imagine how much easier a real-time Visio integration would be? It is so much faster to draw an architecture than to make a Visio diagram. I’ll sing your praises forever if you do this. Let’s hit them again one more time.Ĭome on now… create a stinking Visio integration. In some of these cases it just makes sense, or would be very helpful to target groups. Here is the list of things it still cannot do which continue to be annoying or just features I’d really like to have. You can see multiple people editing in the Whiteboard and it brings a flavor of collaboration to the experience. There are a few times when I wanted something behind the interface. ![]() You sometimes want a grid, or a… triangle? I’m not sure I understand all the choices, but still, I’m glad to have the ability to do it. I’m looking forward to “inking” from my mobile device in the future. This new Microsoft Whiteboard is much more cross compatible and allows for a consistent experience. The old version had a problem of only working certain places. This was something MURAL did pretty well, was the big board zoom in / zoom out experience. This seems to naturally let you do that and gives you an ability to see the board at scale. It didn’t have a true “big board” feel and it was hard to find your way around. The old version was clunky to zoom in and out. This may seem simple, but is a nice advantage as you stack up historical whiteboards you’ve used. In addition to it being connected to a meeting it can not have its own persistent name. The new Whiteboard App lets you name the Whiteboard for later reference. Perhaps a “Concurrency Brainstorming Framework” I’m looking forward to using these with customers in collaborative ways where we brainstorm together or talk about ideas with a structured start. The new template implementation fully respects ink and exists as frameworks for your engagements. The old templates had terrible implementation and poor ink recognition. A nice improvement but I’d like to see the header addressed. In the grouped sticky note template the top header seems to be text only, which is a bit odd. You’ll notice in the individual sticky notes I can ink on them pretty easily. The old Whiteboard app couldn’t recognize ink in the sticky notes. To truly capture the idea of translating sticky notes with collaboration/pen to a digital setting you need to recognize ink from a variety of sources. That said, if I did need to click-off the Whiteboard, it still needs to re-load vs. I don’t find myself seeking to use the “App Experience” as the Teams experience isn’t as clunky anymore and it isn’t frequently clicking off the UI, causing a re-load. It no longer does this and it feels that the Teams native experience is better integrated than it was before. I hate that the Teams experience frequently would ask me to “Open in the App”. ![]() ![]() Let’s talk about all the improvements you’re sure to be talking about if you ever used the old Whiteboard app. Then… something amazing happened… Microsoft released their new Whiteboard platform and TOTALLY REDEEMED THEMSELVES… (dumb and dumber fans rejoice). This was a pretty accurate view of the capabilities of Microsoft Whiteboard (at the time). I recently wrote a blog on 5 Things I Love About Microsoft Whiteboard and 5 Things I Hate.
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