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by jimbokun 56 days ago
This is why whiteboards used to be so popular in many/most tech company offices.

Doing this exact same process interactively with other people, and a not to NOT ERASE or later taking a picture of the whiteboard with your phone.

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"used to be" ?? What are engineering team doing nowadays when discussing architecturing their systems ?
In my experience the last several years, primarily we’re all on Zoom waving our hands and making false promises to update Confluence with what we talked about. I miss offices with walls and whiteboards.
Miro.com is one of the few SaaS products that our team's collaboration could not live without.

Perfect for a distributed team to replace the DO NOT ERASE white boards of yore.

yes miro is also what i'm using. It's really a digital whiteboard.
Working remotely.
I have theee whiteboards in ly office, and almost all the walls of my teams space is covered with whiteboards. They are always full and it is always a drama when some space need to be made
In my opinion you should immediately erase after solving the problem on the whiteboard, never taking a picture.

Same with notes that you will never see again. Done in pen, on random pages.

That process is bulletproof, for me.

exactly the same for me, 30 years and counting…