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maykbrito/screenboard
👨🏾🏫 It's a overlay blackboard on your screen
Screenboard is an Electron app that puts a transparent drawing overlay on top of your screen — useful for screencasts, presentations, or annotating video calls. It's aimed at developers and educators who want to sketch diagrams or highlight things on screen without switching apps.
The keyboard shortcut system is well thought out and covers the real workflow: toggle visibility, switch tools, change colors, undo/redo — all without touching the mouse. Cross-platform builds are handled via Electron's packaging, so you get native-ish installers for Mac, Linux, and Windows from a single codebase. Shortcuts are externalized to a single `src/shortcuts.js` file, so customizing them doesn't require digging through source. The MIT license and small codebase make it trivially forkable.
The project has been dead since March 2023 and the 'Maintained: yes' badge is a lie at this point. The renderer still ships vendored jQuery and mousetrap as local files in a `third/` folder rather than managed dependencies — a maintenance smell. The main process entry is a `.ts` file but the rest of the project is plain JS with no type coverage, so the TypeScript is cosmetic. On Windows, transparent windows have known Electron limitations that aren't fully worked around — the README documents them but doesn't solve them.