The Draw canvas

Think with
your hands

Some ideas only make sense once you've drawn them. PocketNote gives every notebook an infinite canvas — sketch the diagram, map the argument, work the problem out by hand, right next to the material it came from.

A hand-drawn neural-network explainer — layers, weights and activation functions — sketched on PocketNote's draw canvas
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In your notebook

Your drawings live with your sources

A whiteboard sketch dies when the room empties. A canvas in PocketNote sits in the same notebook as the lecture it explains — and the AI can see it, so you can ask about what you drew the same way you'd ask about a document.

You“Explain my sketch of backprop”
PocketNoteYour diagram traces the error backwards through the layers — each arrow you drew from output to input is the gradient flowing back to update that layer's weights.
Canvas + lecture-04.pdf in context

“What you draw, you understand.”

Why drawing works

Drawing is generative: to sketch an idea you have to decide what its parts are, how they connect, and what to leave out — decisions a highlighter never forces. The figure that comes out matters less than the sorting your hand made your head do on the way. That's why the canvas rewards rough and unfinished: the messy first pass is the studying.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The canvas is
already open

Start a notebook, open a canvas, and draw the idea you've been circling.