Kinopio Blog

From sippy cups to bottles, if it can hold water, Trove Brands has designed and manufactured products for it under a couple different household names, including Owala, which I saw the other day at Target.

For a couple months now, on and off, I’ve been working on ways to solve the problem of connection lines always appearing as lines between top-right item connectors.

Hi friends, It's not quite summer yet but the trees outside our new apartment make it feel like we're in a treehouse.

The built-in templates were totally revamped to more closely match the kinds of things that people are using Kinopio for.

Have you ever felt the need for a handy place to work on some longer-form text associated with a space, or little private place draft a note before sharing it in a card?

Lists allow you to vertically group and easily reorder cards.

Dear Shareholders, As you may know, Kinopio is organic software that's completely community funded.

Reading comments from happy users is so much more fulfilling for me than any amount of social media likes.

New visitors to kinopio (and search engine robots) will see a new static About Kinopio page when visiting the site.

Hi friends, I get sick at least twice a year: when the seasons change from fall-to-winter, and from winter-to-spring.

Kinopio is 5 years old now :0 I'm dusting off my e-quill to share the fan art that Tony made for the Kinopio Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) campaign he started, and that 5 of us have been slowly playing over the last few months.

When people join a space, either as spectators or collaborators, they’ll do a little bow to introduce themselves Once a space has too many spectators or collaborators to display comfortably, they'll nest inside a button that lets you view and manage the f…

The kinopio client application source code is now public so anyone can read it's code and contribute to it.

When you need to exclaim "Hey look over here!"

Make titles and headlines stand out – or Really stand out – with new size options for card and box header fonts.

When the name of a card or box contains a headline, the fonts button will appear, allowing you to find the right font for your ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ I've been collecting fonts over the last year.

A summary of all the bug fixes and little improvements from the last two weeks: [Improved] Added a handy link in About to the Roadmap space [Fixed] Added unread badges to Explore, following, Everyone sections to better connect the unread count to the sect…

New journal spaces now start with date images generated each day for you.

A summary of all the bug fixes and little improvements from the last two weeks: [Fixed] Sidebar → Inbox: Dark colored cards rendered black text, instead of white text when looking at the space.

To make it easier to find cool new spaces and people, Explore has a new design with Following and Everyone.

Little quality of life updates for bulk actions on cards and connections: Previous 'Connect' button replaced with an icon only Separate 'CARD' and 'LINE' buttons replace the previous single/combined options button, to make revealing options feel more purp…

Last week, I reported a Kinopio service outage: 🚑 Kinopio service will be unstable for the next few days as we work to diagnose some really tricky race-condition bugs that are crashing the server.

The latest Kinopio release brings ~33% faster interaction performance on actions like selecting, moving, and editing cards, and scrolling through big spaces.

Kinopio is the first app to support the open JSON Canvas format, so you can easily import/export spaces between a growing number of spatial apps like Obsidian.

Angle cards for fun and emphasis by dragging their bottom-left corners.

Do you have lots of spaces, like 100s or 1000s (like I do)?

Email space invites out to one or many people at once.

The latest release of Kinopio lets you work offline while in a subway, plane, or uncharted rainforest.

This year-end bulletin will be a little different.

When you link to a space (either with the / command, or by pasting in it's URL), you'll get a visual preview of the space Power-User Tips The need for space links that felt like space links (akin to portals to another world) was originally requested on di…

Reposition connection labels to get them just right.

In a complex space, moving cards could skip frames and go out of sync with the connection lines.

Hi friends, So for the last couple months I've been experimenting with cross-posting all my social media posts to see what kind of energy I'd get back on each site.

If you're like me, one of the first things you do when creating a new space is picking juuust the right background.

If you want to add unlimited cards – or support my work – but don't want to pay monthly or yearly for Kinopio, you can now purchase a liftetime plan for $200.

Kinopio makes it easy to save code snippets and give them context for reference spaces, engineering diagrams, and decision trees.

Invite someone to view a private space – but not edit it.

Hi friends, A couple months ago, I promised that the next bulletin I'd write would be about Kinopio for iOS.

Painting or hovering over connection lines will highlight connected cards – and painting or hovering on cards will highlight connections.

Whether you're hanging off the side of Mount Everest, or on the toilet, Kinopio for iOS is here to capture your ideas and turn them into notes, plans, and mood-boards.

Sometimes it's easier to make edits and review things linearly.

When dark mode is enabled, grid backgrounds will display new dark versions (p.s. you can toggle dark mode with 't')

Hi friends, While I was in Bali last month, I had lunch with Lucas and asked if he'd be interested in making a Kinopio iOS app.

When viewing a public space, your cursor position and paint strokes are broadcasted to everyone else viewing that space.

Bring more of the web into your spaces by pasting in songs, albums, and document links.

Add a numerical count to your cards for voting on ideas, to assign meanings like priority or status (eg 1 = x, 2 = y), or just to count things.

“What do I need to do to be the best version of myself?”

Hi friends, This month I spent time in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Detroit.

Now every card has it's own URL that you can share with other people directly.

The space backgrounds list now pulls from a community channel on are.na to provide cool new backgrounds on a regular basis.