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One clear barrier to having domestic whiteboards anywhere but home office seems to be that one can hide them on demand. Persistent scribbles on an enormous surface in a living space are too visually noisy.
And yet persistence is important. Tough tension.
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Andy Matuschak
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Weird/fun prompt—how much marginal problem-solving capacity could you create by making good domestic whiteboards way more viable?
Domestic whiteboards are usually either too small or too obtrusive. There's rarely enough unbroken wall space; free-standing boards eat huge sqftage.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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A ceiling-mounted retractable solution is appealing, but it seems hard to get the rigidity you'd need.
Switchable glass seems promising. It's available as an aftermarket film @ ~$50/sqft. But it'd feel obtrusive to leave writing up for days, though, which is no good.
…AR? :/ pic.twitter.com/F7zgBM0hFO
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Andy Matuschak
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Whiteboards—particularly whiteboards persistent and big enough to accumulate writing for many days—create a change in consciousness! I straight-up think different thoughts when one's present. Doubly true in a collaborative situation.
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Andy Matuschak
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Lots of people mentioned putting whiteboards in their home offices, but I think if you really did this right, you would be able to have one on demand in your living room, for spontaneous use when conversation turned in that direction.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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25. sij |
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Curtains seem like a good solution though I suspect few homes can sacrifice that much precious contiguous wall space.
twitter.com/jongold/status… twitter.com/jongold/status…
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Maciek Kupczak
@kurrrrrak
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25. sij |
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You might want to check infinite digital whiteboard that Explain Everything on iPad provides, no matter where you are
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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25. sij |
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Screen's too small, doesn't cause the same change in consciousness—at least for me! Possibly something about standing-vs-sitting too…
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David Chapman
@Meaningness
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25. sij |
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This was a cool thing. I wonder what happened to it! kraka.com/DesignPortfoli…
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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Many of the interactions there made their way into "smartboards," particularly in K-12 edu! I've spoken with many teachers who've used smartboards; many view them as wasteful and useless, some view them as incrementally helpful. Hasn't been transformative, it seems.
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Ian Fenn
@ifenn
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25. sij |
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Easily solved with Magic Whiteboard. At least, that’s my way around the issue. magicwhiteboard.co.uk
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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25. sij |
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Hm! Seems much too small? I find that even 6'x4' is very restrictive. Do you tile many of these?
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Ben Reinhardt
@Ben_Reinhardt
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26. sij |
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Has anybody tried building something like a whiteboard Japanese screen with some kind of temporary back-brace?
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Tim Rooney
@tjrwriting
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felix
@gsw7
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I'm thinking of doing lapboard sized, easy to keep scattered around or temporarily mounted, easy to put away
twitter.com/GalaxyKate/sta…
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