Whiteboards for brainstorming/notes?

McGreed

I want to be able to quickly make notes, and make quick graphs, and looks at them and found that a whiteboard actually worked well for me, though it has it has it's advantages and disadvantages compared to a note book.

Optimal I would have liked a digital one to put on wall which had option to have pages and undo, however as I'm not rich I'll go with some more realistic as markers and whiteboard.

My space is limited, I have some room on a wall to put it up on, not too big, around 100x80 and maybe able to flip around (have a concept in my mind for functional use, might 3d it if needed) so you can use both sides?

Anyone has any advices about getting one, which might be good or bad, certain ones to avoid or some other suggestions, maybe having some experience using them?

Brian "Panda" Choi

what about a notebook of dry eraserable pages?  Or we specifically locking into a wall one?

pior

Ha ! I made my own using a cheap one from Amazon, removed the ugly aluminium frame, reframed it with my own wooden frame matching the look of the office space, and mounted it in a way to easily switch from landscape to portrait. 118x88cm drawing area. I don't use it as much as I intended (in the sense that stuff stays on it for weeks/months) but it's still useful to have. Makes you look all serious and busy too.

poopipe

I bought one of those little illuminated LCD Writing Tablet things for a few quid off amazon. 
I'm not sure if they make them big enough for your purposes but it's worth a look

lefix

You want something like https://miro.com/ or https://whimsical.com/ (my personal preferrence).

Sometimes i also just dump everything in https://www.figma.com/

McGreed

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

what about a notebook of dry eraserable pages?  Or we specifically locking into a wall one?

Yeah, I don't have much space on my desk and it's a pain to push keyboard/mouse around to make notes, and would rather stand up and make notes on the wall in front of me.

pior said:

Ha ! I made my own using a cheap one from Amazon, removed the ugly aluminium frame, reframed it with my own wooden frame matching the look of the office space, and mounted it in a way to easily switch from landscape to portrait. 118x88cm drawing area. I don't use it as much as I intended (in the sense that stuff stays on it for weeks/months) but it's still useful to have. Makes you look all serious and busy too.

That's cool, might do that if the frame is too ugly.

poopipe said:

I bought one of those little illuminated LCD Writing Tablet things for a few quid off amazon. 
I'm not sure if they make them big enough for your purposes but it's worth a look

Yeah, that's not gonna do it for me, the advantage of having it on the wall was also so I can just look up at the notes. There is something freeing by writing on the wall compared to at desk imo.

lefix said:

You want something like https://miro.com/ or https://whimsical.com/ (my personal preferrence).

Sometimes i also just dump everything in https://www.figma.com/

Yeah, thought about digital versions but it doesn't do it for me, thanks for the suggestions though.