Pen input on card surfaces

[jordanh]

Issue - Enhancement

We hear input that folks wish they could draw or somehow the meeting input could be more visually creative (#3923). Folks also want to add images to cards (#3957).

What if we allowed simple sketching / pen input? Using our meetings on a tablet would be a lot more engaging.

[jordanh]

First validation!

A user writes:

One feature request! I'd love to have cards that I can draw on - prior to my team going partially remote, we had a lot of retro activities that involved drawing, and I'd love to be able to integrate those back in.

[moskyb]

👋 hi! I'm "a user" referred to above.

A common activity we'd do prior to using parabol was to draw how we feel about the last sprint on a post it note and talk about it. We also archived everyone's past cards, so that we could track trends in how we feel about our work, though I suspect that this aspect (at least the archival stage) would be difficult to replicate in Parabol.

We'd also often do normal retro activities (Mad/Glad/Sad, Sailboat etc, all the usual suspects), but augment things we write with doodles and such - it makes our cards feel more personal, I think. It also allowed me to better remember why I wrote something on a card - I have some memory/attention issues, and putting more emotion into a card by drawing on it helped me connect what I put on the card with how I actually feel about something.

One potential downside I can see is that drawing on a laptop usually sucks a bit - perhaps this could be solved with a mobile app or something, though that's a pretty big lift for just pen input.

[drewhousman1010]

A user 🔒 writes:

I would love to see some whiteboard functionality (Like Miro) as that is the only piece missing that causes me to use aforementioned platform.

[jordanh]

See also: #4516 (for examples of more input types on Reflection cards)

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