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Draw

Draw is a whiteboard for sketches, diagrams and plans. The canvas is Excalidraw, so its shapes, arrows, frames and shortcuts all work.

  • Click New to start a drawing. Name it and add a description and tags in the header.
  • Your strokes save to a private draft as you work.
  • Click Commit (or press Ctrl/Cmd+S) to publish the draft. Only committed drawings are shared and searchable.
  • Revert throws the draft away and goes back to the last commit.
  • To show a drawing in a page, type / in the page editor and pick Drawing. The page shows the latest commit.

Share a drawing or export it from the header.

Assistant

  • “Find my sketch about the ingest pipeline.”
  • “What did I plan on the architecture whiteboard?”

The assistant reads a drawing’s text, not its pixels. Label your shapes and name your frames so it can find them. It cannot draw or edit.

Technical

  • A drawing is a draw node with a sidecar holding the scene, the draft and a text version of it.
  • On commit, frame names, shape labels and labelled arrows become searchable text, and a preview image is saved.
  • Pasted images are stored in Files. Deleting a drawing keeps them.
  • Tools: draw_list, draw_get. They read committed drawings only.