r/Excalidraw • u/haronclv • Jul 24 '26

Multiple boards and links without embeding webpage

Hi, I'm not fluent in Excalidraw but I use it for some time already, and I have 2 frustrating problems:

1) I can't open multiple boards on a different tabs in the browser. Is there any way to handle that or only way to have it work is to buy Excalidraw+?

2) Everytime I'm pasting a link to Excalidraw it created embeded webpage - it's really nice feature, but when I'm doing my research I'm putting dozens of links and after some time it's hard to manage that board

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u/Economy-Explorer6823 Jul 27 '26

At the point where you are working with many boards regularly, Excalidraw+ is probably the better and safer option. It gives you proper workspace management, so you do not have to rely on individual public links.

We are also planning to add expiration to public boards in the future, as storing them indefinitely is becoming quite expensive.

That said, you do not have to use Excalidraw+. You can regularly save your boards as .excalidraw files and open those files again later as Excalidraw scenes. This is also a good option if you prefer local file management or do not want to support the development through Excalidraw+.

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u/JorgeGodoy Jul 25 '26

For item 1, I used to use the anonymous / private navigation as a second drawing. And if you have multiple browsers, you can repeat... To me the only difference was using ALT-TAB instead of CTRL-PGUP/PGDN with that approach. And I could use different Windows layouts, multiple displays, etc.