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by z_phxd 25 days ago
Hey all, this is a fun project I made to take your desktop and provide a seamless excalidraw experience on the Mac totally free. I wanted to build something intuitive, lightweight (3.4 MB) and completely swift native. It's designed for power users.

It provides a borderless whiteboard pinned to your desktop layer. Quick hotkeys to access and use. If you want it will leave the architecture behind your files on your desktop after your flip it off.

link files, connect to obsidian, integrates with your apple ecosystem. MCP enabled. Would love your thoughts. Thanks!

https://github.com/zpphxd/whitespace
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z_phxd 25 days ago
Ill touch on how we got it so lightweight. The final DMG is 3.4MB. It's drawing everything with core graphics. Other apps bundle electron apps which at minimum is 100mb. Every framework it uses ships with macOS, so the bundle contains just the binary, one dependency (Sparkle, for auto-updates), a 60 KB font, and a small PNG.
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