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.

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

Arch linux users can use the pointless AUR package.

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

Features

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