Digital Canvas for Visual Brainstorming
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Dawid Bednarski
Add a digital canvas feature for sketching, adding text, and creating diagrams to brainstorm ideas in a more dynamic and interactive way. This could repurpose visual elements from the Automations UI.
Expected functionality:
Sketching Tools: Include a variety of sketching tools such as pencils and shapes.
Text Annotations: Enable users to add text annotations to the canvas.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Allow users to easily drag and drop images, icons, and other visual elements onto the canvas.
Zoom and Pan: Provide the ability to zoom in and out of the canvas and pan across different areas.
Collaboration: Support real-time collaboration, allowing multiple users to contribute to the canvas simultaneously.
Export and Sharing: Make it possible to export the canvas as an image or PDF.
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John at Taskade
This one really resonates — 86 votes says the community agrees. A freeform digital canvas with sketching tools, sticky notes, and diagram primitives is a genuinely different experience from a structured task list or even a mind map, and there's a real creative use case for it.
Right now Taskade's closest options are Mind Map view (with AI generation), Mermaid diagram rendering (with download support since v6.32), and far-zoom-out canvas support added in v5.186 for larger visual layouts. These cover structured visual thinking but not the open-ended freeform sketching and annotation you're describing.
With Taskade Genesis you can generate Mermaid diagrams, flowcharts, and org charts via AI agents — which helps with structured brainstorming — and the Automations UI you mentioned is genuinely interesting as a repurposing candidate. A true freeform whiteboard layer is the gap. This is the kind of high-impact, high-effort feature that needs the right moment — your upvotes keep it visible. https://taskade.com/create | https://taskade.com/changelog
John at Taskade
Update: This is on our roadmap!
We've prioritized this based on your votes and feedback.We're planning to include this in an upcoming release. Stay tuned for updates!
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Thanks for the votes!
A digital canvas for visual brainstorming is on our roadmap. We've noted the strong demand (86 votes!) and this is being planned.In the meantime, you can use Mind Map view for visual brainstorming and Org Chart view for structured layouts.
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Narek Zograbian
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1️⃣One place.
jack-s
I have a vision.
🤔
I would like to have one place to start. A place where I can collect notes, calendar, tasks, graphic projects, etc.
So that I can see the planning.
One screen
where I can gather it all.
Whiteboards and mind maps are an inspiration.
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For example, Apple Freeform:
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ryantaskade
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🖍️Handwritten notes
jack-s
Inspiration/Idea: Google Keep, Evernote, Microsoft OneNote, Wacom Notes …
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Narek Zograbian
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free board type option
João Lopes
Hello.
I've been using taskade and it is extremely useful and well designed.
I'm a designer and sometimes it's useful to have a more free board type option for projects just like Milanote. Where I can freely place the boards around and images and comments like a moodboard and have folders.
Is it possible to implement something like this that gives more creative freedom?
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Narek Zograbian
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Whiteboard
Zola Aguillera
hi can you guys add the following things if you can :D
1)a visual journal like drawing board or book like a visual journal and you can and your pictures and stickers? 2)stickers and images in text aswell.
3)Can you add like a chart/poll for to check ur emotions and which was used the most aswell.
4)fronts and more colour backgrounds instead of black and white?
Edit: thank you for responding about the emoji issue.
jbiby1996
This would mean everything to me if we could get this added!
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ryantaskade
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Whiteboard view
pauk
Whiteboard view please! 🙏👀
This would introduce more visual planners to Taskade.
On such Whiteboard we should be able to post any type of file, embeds, and Taskade tasks/projects, and draw connections between them. A customized mind map so to speak. See Clickup's new Whiteboard feature for reference.
We would cutt off Miro from our tech stack if we would be able to have a Whiteboard linked to each project and ALSO a Master Whiteboard for a Workspace.
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ryantaskade Whiteboards please! 🙏👀
This would introduce more visual planners to Taskade.
On such Whiteboard we should be able to post any type of file, embeds, and Taskade tasks/projects, and draw connections between them. A customized mind map so to speak. See Clickup's new Whiteboard feature for reference.
We would cutt off Miro from our tech stack if we would be able to have a Whiteboard linked to each project and ALSO a Master Whiteboard for a Workspace.
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