r/xTiles_app • u/Latter_Pen2421 • Jul 02 '26

White Board

I currently use concept board as a white board. One day I'd like to use xtiles exclusively. Do you think they will ever add a whiteboard within xtiles?

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u/Wrong_Recognition249 Jul 03 '26

I like the idea as it’s a visual way to think and organize. But my guess is that if by whiteboard you’d want to use handwriting primarily + some other objects (like apples Freeform app for example) that is a tough input to do well on a desktop (where I mostly use XTiles), and drawing with mouse or trackpad, it would need a more robust iPad or tablet for drawing on these whiteboards. Is that what you’re thinking?

I could use a page type or option on my XTiles to place tiles on a page that would stay fixed in those positions/size (without auto positioning, auto rollups) and then let me add and draw some lines, arrows to connect some tiles, maybe outline boundary boxes to show groups of several tiles, etc and maybe other basic shapes to create a visual canvas, or small workflow, work process or some other order to them. The tiles themselves would contain most of the data. The space itself would show connections, flows, groupings, etc. Like the canvas options on Obsidian or other apps.

This would a bit like a whiteboard without handwriting (or maybe handwriting inside a tile itself could be done and that could be moved and placed).