{"id":316,"date":"2012-01-24T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T11:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/?p=316"},"modified":"2012-05-16T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:38:44","slug":"digital-whiteboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/staging\/digital-whiteboard\/316\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Whiteboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MyWhiteboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-321\" title=\"MyWhiteboard\" src=\"http:\/\/storycase.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MyWhiteboard.png\" alt=\"Whiteboard image with mind-map\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>One of the latest gadgets in the StoryCase office is a Intuous drawing tablet from Wacom. I remember getting a Wacom tablet many years ago when it needed an RS232 cable and separate power supply. It never really got used mainly due to the fiddly interface (was it 8 bit, parity or no parity?) and wires that just got in the way. These new models are so much easier &#8211; just one usb plug and you&#8217;re up and running or there&#8217;s even a wire free one if you want.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow in the last office move I lost my whiteboard and so I thought it would be good to try and hook up a digital one instead. Of course the ubiquitous iPad could be used but there&#8217;s something about holding a pen in the hand that makes writing and doodling for me so much more natural. So I fired up Photoshop on the MacBookPro and started with a blank canvas 1200x780px. I claimed it &#8220;My Whiteboard&#8221; and added &#8220;Do not erase!&#8221; on the background layer to add some reality (yes, it&#8217;s tempting fate especially when saving on the project share).<\/p>\n<p>Next I added a new layer with today&#8217;s date and began with a mindmap of tasks I&#8217;d been thinking about and needed to focus on. Changing company name has generated a myriad of stuff to do and the linear todo lists had just grown longer. The whiteboard helped us see the dependencies so we &#8216;d spend less time arguing why we&#8217;d actioned things in the wrong order &#8211; another story, when I get a minute.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the layers build up into a digital version of the whiteboard that seems really quite useful. Toggling the layer visibility makes it easy to see what&#8217;s changed and when and if you want to try a new branch of ideas just fill the layer to obscure the previous doodles. Okay, there have been many attempts at virtual whiteboards already &#8211; Trello, EasyChalk, Uniboard or integrated into Livemeeting for example, but a simple multiple layer approach in PSE or Photoshop works fine if you want to be creative with doodles. &#8220;My Whiteboard&#8221; is shared on the office NAS so we can all participate and there are separate Kanbans for each project we&#8217;re working on.<\/p>\n<p>So did the new Wacom get used? Well yes, just need to add the whiteboard pen aroma to complete the user experience!<\/p>\n<p>Postscript &#8211; we&#8217;re evaluating digital whiteboard solutions and the cloud based Trello is our current favorite so if you have not seen what it can do why no try it out? : <a href=\"http:\/\/trello.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/trello.com<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s currently free!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the latest gadgets in the StoryCase office is a Intuous drawing tablet from Wacom. 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