kkoomen/pointless

An endless drawing canvas desktop app made with Tauri (Rust) and React 🎨 ✍️

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Features
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Development
• Creating a build
• FAQ
• License

Introduction

Pointless is an endless drawing canvas that provides useful features when you're in need for a simple whiteboard/note app.

It is build using Tauri (Rust) and React with a pure SVG canvas and local files are saved with brotli-unicode compression to ensure small file sizes.

📦 If you want to use the app, grab yourself a prebuild binary here and enjoy!

Arch linux users can use the pointless AUR package.

🤝 Feel like contributing? Submit an issue with your ideas (or bugs) and we'll discuss it.

Features

• Export individual papers
  • PNG
  • JPEG
  • SVG
• Toolbar
  • Undo
  • Redo
  • Pan
  • Clear
  • Zoom in
  • Zoom out
  • Scale to fit
  • Create arrow shapes
  • Create rectangle shapes
  • Create ellipse shapes
  • Selection
    • Move selected shapes
    • Change color of selected shapes
    • Copy/paste selected shapes
  • Text
• Create folders
• Local file state persistence
• Light/dark theme
• Basic touch support

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• Yarn
• Cargo

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/kkoomen/pointless.git && cd pointless
$ yarn install

Development

Starting the development server can be done with yarn run tauri dev

Creating a build

Creating a build can simply be done with yarn run tauri build

FAQ

• Pointless.app is damaged and can't be opened: This mac issue occurs because non-signed apps are blocked. You can fix this by running xattr -cr /Applications/Pointless.app and then open the app again.

License

Pointless is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.