So, I love making little scrappy drawings in my notes to flesh out an idea, and one of the biggest things I’ve missed from Apple Notes is the low friction drawing.
The drawing plugins I’ve seen for Obsidian are all overkill for my use case.
Either embedding entirely separate services or features like an infinite canvas and diagramming.
Here’s my plugin: Doodle. https://github.com/alexsussy/obsidian-doodle
Super simple, super minimal.
You can add a drawing through the command palette/set up a hotkey, and it plops down a transparent 1024x1024 bitmap block (I think vectors aren’t whimsical enough).
Tap/Click on it to edit, and draw away. You get some nice Flexoki colors and four sizes of brush. Click away to stop drawing.
Doodles are saved as PNGs into a doodles folder in your vault and can be re-edited anytime.
Nice. I think, something like a color wheel wouldn’t hurt.
Since we usually don’t use potatoes (mices) to write, but pens, also pen pressure “would” be nice.
Ok, I guess you think now, I want a full painting app with layers and so on, no worries!
Also doodles should have some style
Both are good ideas. I actually did have a color wheel in the early days, but I really enjoy keeping things like this minimal. Limitation breeds creativity, etc, etc.
I also primarily use my fleshy finger on my phone to do little doodles, didn’t even think of pen pressure.
Will look into it. Not opposed to either idea but will probably have them both be things you enable in settings, in the spirit of minimalism.
Whoops you take me by surprise!
I remember vaguely when I drew on touch phone, maybe 10y ago? I guess more…
getting things right on mobile felt then a difficult task for me, used to draw. Didn’t work, even with pinch/zoom bc of the missing pressure sensitivity.
So I dismissed and forgot about drawing on phone…
humm, thanks for considering!
Of course! Feel free to implement it as you like
