About
Why a drawing tool
should remember.
Most software treats a drawing as a pile of pixels. Nekudot treats it as a place - one your marks keep returning to.
The name is the Hebrew word נקודות - nekudot, "points." That's the whole premise. A drawing isn't only the strokes you can see; it's also the constellation of points underneath them. Give a tool a memory of those points, and something quietly magical happens: new marks reach back toward old ones, threads bloom across the gaps, and a loose scribble turns into a web with a life of its own.
Nekudot was built around that single idea and then kept deliberately calm. There's no account to make, no canvas size you have to commit to, no cloud quietly storing your work. You open it, and there's a page and a patient brush. Everything else - the connection styles, the symmetry, the layers - is just a way of shaping how the bloom falls.
A lineage, not an invention
The connecting-line idea isn't new, and Nekudot is happy to say so. It stands on the shoulders of mrdoob's Harmony, the sketch tool that made those gossamer, spider-web strokes famous a generation of browsers ago. Nekudot takes that spark and asks what else it could be: what if the memory were shared across the whole canvas, reusable, layerable - something you could compose with, not just stumble into.
Tools shape the marks we're willing to make. A tool that remembers invites a different kind of drawing.
Who made it
Nekudot is a personal, open-source project by Barak Bloch - made in the open, for the love of the medium, and released as free software so anyone can use it, study it, and build on it. It isn't a startup or a product with a roadmap to sell you; it's a small, careful thing put on the web because drawing should be playful and the good ideas should stay free.
If it sparks something for you - a bug, an idea, a brush you wish existed - the workshop door is open on GitHub.
- with care, for anyone who likes to make a mark.