It's as you think it is, the main benefit is that it's like a notebook that you can zoom in/out of as you wish.
Some of my more visually-inclined friends use a similar program called Miro to keep track of their projects. At the conception stage they collect links to similar projects, scribble notes and draw sketches to create a moodboard. As the design takes form, they create some subsections in the canvas dedicated to certain details of the project and collect related notes there. Images or links of the work-in-progress are also pasted to track progress and to point out what needs to be changed. Each stage and each part of the project gets its own space with its own notes and when you zoom out you get a nice overview of the whole thing.
Miro can also be used collaboratively, so with groups you can also add in a Gantt chart and whatnot to organize.
My friends were in search of offline alternatives to Miro, so I think there is a group of people who will find this new feature very useful.
Yup, design people are very fond of things like Miro, but this is very behind that. Here's hoping that some Diagrams-like capabilities are added to this (yes, I am aware of unofficial plugins for Excalidraw or Draw.io)
Some of my more visually-inclined friends use a similar program called Miro to keep track of their projects. At the conception stage they collect links to similar projects, scribble notes and draw sketches to create a moodboard. As the design takes form, they create some subsections in the canvas dedicated to certain details of the project and collect related notes there. Images or links of the work-in-progress are also pasted to track progress and to point out what needs to be changed. Each stage and each part of the project gets its own space with its own notes and when you zoom out you get a nice overview of the whole thing.
Miro can also be used collaboratively, so with groups you can also add in a Gantt chart and whatnot to organize.
My friends were in search of offline alternatives to Miro, so I think there is a group of people who will find this new feature very useful.