Kinopio Blog

A new editable space that welcomes new users, saying less and showing more.

Painting to select cards, boxes, and connections is faster and more responsive.

Hi friends, Icy chill has graduated to mere wind and rain, which means it's probably spring, which means it's time for spring cleaning.

The recipe for a good life is something like: create → share → ♥ To help with that last step, the redesigned notification system will let you know when someone likes your spaces and follows you A similar interface is used whether you access your notificat…

When you paste into cards, URLs are now be hidden by default so that just the preview info displays.

More creative controls to get your cards looking just right (also works with boxes, and background tint color too) Implementation Notes While building Ways to pass time inside this room, I heavily relied on the secret ability to use transparent as the card

🔍 Forgot which space you put an idea in?

Hi friends, I’ve been thinking for a while about how to grow awareness for Kinopio, and I keep coming back to the same problem.

Find the perfect background for the tone of your space.

Share Kinopio with your friends through Share → Earn Credits.

To make it easier for your eye to follow connected ideas in busy spaces, connection lines appear transparent when connected to a comment card.

Hi friends, It's been a while since I've sent one of these bulletins out, looking back over this very long list of changes it feels like I built a whole other app in that time.

The UI for changing space backgrounds has been streamlined to be more direct and intuitive to use.

Whether you're a night owl or into the mysterious and cool, dark mode is here for you.

The perfect frame for your missives and manifestos, Sculpted out of plasticine by cobcris Implementation Notes I didn't realize this when I reached out to him, but unlike the other frames which are 3d modelled using software like Blender, cobcris' art is…

Quickly capture ideas to your inbox with the Kinopio extension for Raycast on macOS You can install it from the Raycast Store Implementation Notes Raycast Extensions are each little self contained React/Typescript web-apps which you build locally and then…

Drag boxes close to each other to snap them together.

Press Z to instantly zoom all the way out or in.

The inbox is great for quickly capturing ideas – now it's just as easy to get those cards out of your inbox and into your current space Inbox button → Select a Card Implementation Notes The idea for this feature came from a forum thread that started as be…

If a card is named as a color – like pink or #5e978b – then it'll become that color.

Share → Present to hide the Kinopio UI and put the focus solely on your content.

Drag the zoom slider or hold cmd/ctrl while scrolling to zoom out for perspective on large spaces.

Hi friends, Many weeks ago, when we still lived in the area, I went to a pottery event in Brooklyn.

Why plan with your team in Kinopio?

Hi friends, I recently watched a short video about an illustrator who lived on a remote island in Maine, where he worked in an old wooden barn.

Why make a crochet diary?

Why make a life tasks space?

Why make a personal homepage?

Why make a space for your skincare routine?

Why present your research in Kinopio?

Why use Kinopio to track the TV shows you've watched and want to watch?

Hi friends, I recently got back from a two week trip to France, the first vacation-like thing I’ve had in years.

The Kinopio blog is open for business.

Hi Friends, The theme of this bulletin is 'friendship'.

Hi Friends, We're coming up on the Kinopio's third birthday, here's to another year of creative spatial thinking and new connections.

Hi Friends, As a software maker working by myself, almost all my meetings are between the left and right sides of my brain.

I’ve noticed that people use Kinopio in two broadly different ways, More introverted: for personal thinking, organization, and research.

This is the first bulletin of 2022, so maybe you thought I was going to write something about the new year?

When I send these bulletin emails I kind of enjoy the out of office auto-responder messages I get back.

What's New Continuing from the last bulletin, I spent the last couple weeks working on making every interaction, like loading spaces, scrolling, painting, dragging and editing cards 2-5x faster and more responsive.

Hi Friends, The goal of these Kinopio bulletins is to be interesting.

A couple months ago, I commissioned the Elmer Gomer embroidery company to create 20 Kinopio patches.

Kinopio is on Product Hunt today, This is my second time launching on Product Hunt.

In theory, every marketing website has the same job, "hey this thing can help you, you should use it".

In the last Bulletin, I asked for your thoughts on how to grow the audience for Kinopio.

New bulletin, new home.

Waiting for yet another plane, to yet another location.

Have you ever heard of the Nakagin Capsule Tower?

This week I started reading ‘Ask Iwata’, a collection of essays by the late/former boss of Nintendo.

This month and next, I'm living in a magical attic in still-sometimes-snowing Windsor, Ontario.