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.