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Nexthena — A Local-First Whiteboard App Built on Excalidraw (opens in new tab)

Managing 50+ whiteboard files locally shouldn't be this hard. So I built something. First, a Big Thank You Before anything else — a huge shoutout to the Excalidraw team. What they've built is genuinely one of the most elegant and expressive diagramming tools out there. If you've never tried it, you're missing out. I've been a heavy user for years. And that's exactly how Nexthena was born. The Problem: 50+ Files and No Good Way to Manage Them I'm a visual thinker. Over the past few years I've ...

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