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Vision Pad — A modern, offline-first whiteboard app built with Tauri. Combines Tldraw and Excalidraw in one lightweight cross-platform desktop app for brainstorming, diagramming, and sketching.

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✨ Overview

VisionPad is a modern, offline-first whiteboard app powered by Tauri.
It brings together the best open-source tools for sketching, diagramming, and productivity — all in one lightweight cross-platform desktop application.

🎨 Whiteboarding & Diagramming

  • Add tldraw (infinite canvas)
  • Add Excalidraw (hand-drawn style diagrams)
  • Integrate React Flow for flowcharts and mind maps
  • Explore Rete.js for visual programming / node-based editor

📝 Notes & Writing

  • Add TipTap for rich-text editing (Notion-style editor)
  • Add Editor.js (alternative block-style editor)
  • Support Markdown rendering with react-markdown

📊 Productivity & Organization

  • Add React Kanban for Trello-style boards
  • Integrate FullCalendar for scheduling & planning
  • Build sticky notes using dnd-kit

👨‍💻 Developer Tools

  • Add Monaco Editor (VSCode in the app)
  • Add react-live for live React code playground
  • Add Mermaid.js for text-to-diagram rendering

🎨 Utilities

  • Add React Colorful (color picker for all tools)
  • Add React PDF (view & export PDFs)
  • Add react-dropzone for drag-and-drop file uploads
  • Add browser-image-compression for image optimization

🚀 Future Ideas

  • Multi-tab workspace (switch between tools easily)
  • Cloud sync / collaboration mode
  • Plugin system for 3rd-party extensions
  • Export to formats (PNG, SVG, PDF, Markdown, JSON)

📦 Downloads

Check the Releases page to download VisionPad for your operating system:

  • Windows.msi installer or .zip portable
  • Linux.deb, .rpm, or .AppImage
  • macOS → Universal binary (Intel + Apple Silicon)

⚡ Notes

  • VisionPad is offline-first → all your data is stored locally.
  • Dark/Light mode is supported out of the box.
  • This project is still in early development, expect frequent updates!

📸 Screenshots

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues, suggest features, or submit PRs.
If you’re adding a new tool, please update the checklist above.

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Vision Pad — A modern, offline-first whiteboard app built with Tauri. Combines Tldraw and Excalidraw in one lightweight cross-platform desktop app for brainstorming, diagramming, and sketching.

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