Meet Arrowdraft
Arrowdraft

Copy the board as fast as it's drawn.

Arrow keys draw. Typing writes. Boxes hold whatever you put in them. A notepad for keeping up with a lecturer who never stops moving.

Open Arrowdraft Runs in the browser. Your sheets stay on your device.
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Three movesthat's the whole app

There is no toolbar to learn. Your hands stay on the arrows and the letters.

Arrows draw

The cursor sits on a grid and trails a line behind it. Hold a key to run. Lines stay square, so a fast key-roll never smears into a diagonal.

abcany letter

Typing writes

Start typing anywhere and a label appears at the cursor. Click any word later to fix it in place.

⌥Bor trace four sides

Boxes hold things

Draw a rectangle and it becomes a box. Text inside wraps to its edges and the box grows to fit. Move the box and everything in it comes along.

What a sheet holdsand the board didn't
  • Boxes that adaptText in a box owns its rows, border to border. Write in a corner, in the middle, anywhere. Blocks never overlap, and the box makes room.
  • Headings, colours, highlights, facesTitle through small text, bold, italic, underline, nine colours, nine highlights, and six typefaces from a clean sans to a script.
  • PicturesPaste a screenshot with ⌘V and it lands at the cursor. Paste inside a box and it fits the box. Copy it back out with ⌘C.
  • Arrowheads that turnTab drops an arrowhead pointing the way you last moved. Click it to turn it a quarter turn.
  • Folders for projectsOne folder per subject or term. Drag sheets in and out. A new sheet lands in the folder you are working in.
  • Whiteboard by day, chalkboard by nightFollows your system or pick one. Every colour on the sheet is chosen for both grounds.
The keysalso under Keys in the app
PressWhat happens
Draw a line. Hold to run.
+ arrowsMove without drawing.
SpaceLift or drop the pen.
any letterStart writing at the cursor.
ReturnNext line. Inside a box, a new line in the same block.
# then spaceMake the label a heading.
⌘A ⇧← ⇧→Select all, or a run of words, then type over it.
TabArrowhead pointing the way you last moved.
⌥BBox. Arrows size it, Return keeps it.
⌥VSelect a region and carry it somewhere else.
⌘VPaste text or a picture at the cursor.
DeleteErase what is under the cursor.
⌘ZUndo.
⌥0Find my notes: fit the whole sheet on screen.
⌥TTheme: auto, light, dark.

Open a sheet before the marker squeaks.

Nothing to install. One file, saved in your browser, ready in the time it takes the lecturer to find a pen that works.

Open Arrowdraft