Dogfooding a Boost Meeting

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area

digital notebook

Information Sharing Tools

I'm wondering which one to use. If it is a notebook, it can be used mainly by one person, but if it is an information sharing tool, it would be strange to say "mainly used by one person".

Digital whiteboard

You can use it alone to get your head out of the clouds, or you can use it with multiple people.

Maybe not as "one of a kind" feeling as a notebook.

Objective.

To organize information

What do you mean "organize"?

Digital assists in situations that can be confusing when you're thinking in your head to help you get your head straight.

Is it strange that digital assistance is a means to an end, so it's not right to include it here?

The purpose of this service is to help people who are confused trying to think of complex things in their minds to become organized and clear.

means

Running in the browser

Sticky notes with pieces of information that can be dragged and moved.

Is this a common story so far?

Compared to existing

Important stickies can be made larger.

Stickies can be grouped and folded

Can be handwritten.

→"Write down what's in your head and drag it around to help organize it on the digital whiteboard Regroup2" (tentative)

Let's find out what was created for a similar purpose as the proposal.

Post sticky notes on the whiteboard.

Move sticky notes and information cards on the desk.

outline editor

Miro

Comparison

whiteboard

Good for information sharing among multiple people in the same physical location.

But as remote work progresses, problems arise.

Taking pictures of the whiteboard with a camera doesn't share very well with the remote.

It would be nice if the digital whiteboard could be shared with remote

But maybe this isn't directly related to the goal of "getting my head out of my ass."

For single use

Actually, the legible and accessible area of a vertical whiteboard is not very large due to height limitations.

The next "on the desk" has more sticky notes it can handle.

Sticky note on the desk

This is pretty good, or I used to use it myself.

discontent

Written on paper is difficult to search and reuse.

The effort of writing by hand on a paper sticky note is hard when you already have something written digitally.

This is a common problem with whiteboards as well, but they take up a lot of space, so you often have to clean up what you've laid out.

Bundling" allows "compression," but then the spatial arrangement is destroyed.

Regroup2 "Fold" will be restored to its original form.

outline editor

Bullet points to organize ideas.

The tree can be folded.

Low degree of freedom of placement

Less information can be displayed on one screen.

Miro

Online Shared Whiteboard Service

Sticky note functionality has also been added.

Hmmm, there are minor feature differences, but "why not just use Miro?" It's hard to say...

Maybe, but Miro is not specialized in organizing information, so there could be a difference there...

I'm getting the feeling you're not going to adopt anything.

I wouldn't be persuaded to at least give Miro a try...

I feel that Miro is not good at all, but I need to explain why that is so that the audience can understand

Regroup is focused on organizing 100+ sticky notes as an assumption, maximizing the limited screen space.

I get the feeling that Miro is not suited for organizing sticky gaps, shadows, and other things like getting stuck on a limit and failing to import after a few dozen stickies.

Well, aside from the comparison with Miro, consider what to do with the boost meeting if it were to be adopted.

The prototype is pretty much done, but there is no point in appealing to the public about it because it will just end with "it's done.

I think I'll focus on what I want to do and my immediate concerns.

outline

What is this?

What to make it for.

What are you struggling with right now?

What is this?

You're blurring the axis of whether it's a "digital whiteboard" for multiple people or a "digital notebook" for one person...

I think comparing it to a whiteboard would make you think of a whiteboard-like use, but the intended use is to first put up 100 sticky notes and then move them around, so it's rather misleading.

I wouldn't compare it to a notebook or a whiteboard...

An AI that helps you organize by writing out what's in your head and dragging it around."

You can't do that.

AI is going to be too vague and picky.

But I'd like to assist there in the future.

I'd say it's widely done up to the point of "moving stickies around to organize your mind," but there's a limit to the number of sheets and such due to the constraints of physical stickies and whiteboards.

This is like, for example, the kind of work you do on your PC now can only be done on the small screen of your smartphone.

Restrictions on video limit human intellectual production.

So technology needs to evolve in a direction that removes that limitation.

Let's call it a "thought support tool."

What to make it for.

The basic premise is that when organizing thoughts, it is very useful to put them on sticky notes and move them around as you think.

We need to be convinced here.

But there are some dissatisfactions with the current tool.

So we need better "tools for thinking".

What I'm struggling with now

Can we assume that it's "for one person's use?"

The backend is Firestore, so casual collaborative editing is still possible, which is surprisingly convenient.

One person can both list on the wide screen of a PC and handwrite on an iPad + Apple Pencil.

There are cases where you want others to see what you have organized.

The fact that tools that support thinking are supposed to be used by one person may be a captive of the idea that thinking is something to be done by one person.

On the other hand, the "make it possible to edit together well" line requires a complete change of the server side to our own implementation, and I'm not sure if I should do that.

The current prototype was made while learning React and TypeScript, so the code is dirty, but I wonder if I should rebuild it.

Let's demo the title slide.

Information density issues, hard to understand, so I'll start by talking about the benefits of digitization.

I'll go ahead and mention the hassle of "digital to paper" because it could be countered by talking about OCR from paper to digital.

Everything needs to be done digitally.

Assumed Questions

Automatic placement with machine learning and physics

→I can do it, but I don't think it will end well.

If it's not auto-placement but presentation of related stickies, it's possible.

Placement is a human intellectual product and should not be overridden by mechanical output.

Digital whiteboards

Miro

Show them how to use it the way it's supposed to be used and tell them it's not good at all.

Assumed zone with more than 100 sticky notes.

For example, if you have about 20 sheets, you can do it with sticky notes on the whiteboard or with Miro, but if you have more sheets, it becomes harder to do it.

Even if you use your smartphone to do work on your PC.

Human potential is limited.

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I was going to release it yesterday to help other creators, or to eliminate the anxiety of being the first to release it, but Mattermost failure has taken up all my time.

memo

The title demo will ask "Digital Notebook? Digital whiteboard? → Let's do a "Thinking Support Tool" flow.

Let's use the key phrase "think with your hands" somewhere.

I thought the deadline was 23:59 but it was 11:59!

I'm very late to the party, but what should I do?

Write down what's in your head.

Move sticky notes around to organize your thoughts.

Tools to Support Thinking

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tag

what's inside your head

Write it down.

tag

Organize.

Move it.

thinking

thinking

support

notebook

whiteboard

digital

Tools to Support Thinking

inside the head

jumbled up

I want to organize.

Write it on a sticky note.

Move it.

Organize.

Commonly used methods

When you already have something digitally written.

Labor to write by hand on paper sticky notes

occupy space

I've gone to a lot of trouble to arrange them.

It will need to be put away.

On paper

search (e.g. for someone using a search engine)

reuse

difficult (e.g. customer, guest, child)

spicy

conversion to electronics

necessary

whiteboard

Physically in the same place.

Information sharing for multiple people

The problem with more remote work

Taken with a camera

Cannot share well.

Get your head out of the clouds.

Might not be directly connected.

For single use

Visible and accessible areas

Not very wide due to height limitations.

Sticky note on the desk

I used to use it myself.

Difficult to search and reuse

Labor to write by hand on paper sticky notes

occupy space

It will need to be put away.

compression

Bundling" allows for "compression."

Spatial arrangements are destroyed.

Regroup's "Fold"

Restored to its original form

outline editor

Bullet points to organize ideas.

The tree can be folded.

Low degree of freedom of placement

Less information can be displayed on one screen.

Miro

Online Shared Whiteboard Service

Sticky note functionality has also been added.

I don't specialize in organizing information.

character limit

Only halfway through is imported.

Organize information in a limited area

Opening gaps and

Shadows and

Low density of information

Failure to adjust font size

Font smaller than necessary

Multi-line text

Paste does not import with sticky

Become a text box

Paste into a spreadsheet and copy and paste again

good point

touchpad

Two-finger swipe to move parallel

Pinch to zoom in and out

Regroup

assumption

More than 100 sticky notes

Limited screen space

Organize.

The presentation materials are ready for now, but my wife is taking a nap, so I'll take pictures later.

done

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