@sarveshwaran_k2008 on ORBIT MATRIX
I made Orbit Matrix, an interactive spatial canvas for Google Workspace users. It lets you pull your Google Drive documents, sheets, and presentations, along with your Google Calendar events, directly onto a massive visual grid. You can move files around as interactive node blocks and physically stitch logic lines between them to organize your workflows visually. It also has a local, in-browser AI engine built right into the sidebar that reads your active canvas data to help you synthesize your files completely offline. The biggest technical hurdle was a canvas collision bug with the mouse listeners. When you load a live Google Doc preview into a canvas node, it renders inside an iframe. That iframe was swallowing mouse clicks, meaning if you clicked a file to draw a logic thread to another one, the canvas never heard the click. I had to write a pure JavaScript layer that dynamically blocks pointer-events across all iframes the split-second you hit the "Link" button, allowing perfect node targeting, and then cleanly restores mouse interactions right after. Dealing with Google's strict production OAuth and Search Console verification rules for subpaths on GitHub Pages was also a massive test of patience!
"""""""""The app is currently transitioning into Google's final production verification queue. When you click "Sign in with Google," you will see a temporary "Unverified App" warning. You can safely bypass this by clicking Advanced -> Go to Orbit Matrix (unsafe) to link your account. Once signed in, use the creation hub in the bottom-left to spawn blank documents or drop items from your active side panels to start stitching your workspace map!"""""""""
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