Roadmap [Work Template] Roadmaps are a plan, but they aren't set in stone. As you learn new things about the market and about your customers the roadmap should adjust – but fortunately Kinopio makes it easy to keeps things fluid.

Project & Issue Tracker [Work Template] A classic kanban board that uses lists for Tasks, Up Next, In Progress, and Deferred cards. Unlike a traditional kanban app, a Kinopio space is also a great way to link to project resources and state the goals of the project right next to the planning.

What makes Kinopio distinct is that it’s a tool for makers, not merely curators. Designed for the place where creativity meets productivity.

Org Chart [Work Template] Because Org Charts in Kinopio are so easy to edit, company structures are more adaptable to changing market or customer needs. Using Boxes to group teams, gives a stronger sense of relative team sizes and organization shape.

Moodboard [Work Template] Collect visual inspiration to evoke a vibe and a direction for your next big project. Bonus points for explaining what you like about each image, and grouping or tagging them by theme. (e.g. [[minimal]], [[organic]])

Business Plan [Work Template] Use this Business Plan template to help you describe your product, and build it with confidence. This is also the perfect way to provide you, your team, and investors a clear picture of the plan for your company.

2×2 Matrix [Work Template] Use this Eisenhower matrix to help you and your team prioritize the best ideas by dragging idea cards from high to low impact and ease of implementation.

Weekly Planner [Life Template] Start the week by adding your tasks to each day list. If you don't get something done, then move it to top of the next day. You'll be a productivity master in no time.

Time Tracking [Work Template] This is how I track time to create invoices when contracting. Besides recording work hours, the same progress screenshots I share with the company, I also paste in here. Having that reference can be really helpful later on.

Personal Dashboard [Life Template] Stay organized by keeping all the life and work projects you need accessible from one place – alongside links to articles you want to read later, and images that inspire you.

Calendar [Life Template] A 31 box grid that can be used as a shared monthly calendar. Really comes alive when you invite a friend and add videos, stickers, drawings, and music to make something unique. Could also be an advent calendar counting down to a big event.

Blog Post: Private Space Notes, including my thoughts on "Distraction-Free" Writing kinopio.club/blog/posts/p...

Right-Click to Save Image [New] All desktop browser extensions were updated to add the ability to right-click on images to add them to your Inbox. (the safari and chrome ones are in app review, but should be live in a couple days)

Private Space Notes [New] 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? Sidebar → Note

Line Jump To Buttons [New little feature] Added up and down buttons on lines for convenient hopping between page sections

Drag Lines Higher Up [new little detail] Lines can be positioned higher up for more flexibility. They'll nearly shift themselves out of the way of the toolbar.

Updated Share → Links When you paste Kinopio spaces or invites into Discord, Slack, or wherever, the link preview now contains more useful information to make the best first impression when sharing Kinopio with new users or with your team.

PSA: The format of invite links is changing so that the spaceId or groupId is in the path of the url (instead of a query string). This means that Invite links that were generated previously won't work anymore (they'll 404), so you'll want to update any reference invites

Added play/pause button to chill out distracting video (mp4) cards

Spent the last couple days improving the reliability and backups for your uploaded files, like images, videos, and mp3s. One of those "better to do before you actually ever need it" kind of things.

All-new Templates [New] The Templates picker was rebuilt from the ground up with a bunch of all-new and more useful templates that use modern Kinopio features like Boxes, Lines, and Lists. (Even if you're a long-time user, you might find some of them handy, like the Calendar or Time Tracker.)

Jump To [New] Navigate your space's Table of Contents by jumping between lines, lists, and boxes sorted by Y position. (This replaces the old 'Minimap' dialog)

You can now set a custom value for card/list wrap width if you don't like the Normal or Wide settings

Sidebar → Todos [Improved] The list of todos now hides completed cards by default, and also shows a little progress remaining count

Box Snapping v2 [New] Re-introducing the ability to drag a box near the *outer* edge of another box to snap them together. Handy for making grids and tables.

Even though it demos well, snapping cards together to create new lists will be removed. It had the unintended consequence of needing to be more careful when moving cards, and it got in the way of tight mood-boarding. (You can still create lists w the toolbar or by paint select)

❓ After living woth it for a while, how do you feel about cards snapping together to create lists? Do you create new lists this way? Do you find yourself being more careful/slower when moving cards to avoid acidentally making a list?

☎️ alrighty the beta for draggable multi-select and outside box snapping is now available. If you'd like to try it out and let me know how it goes, the link is in the Discord #makers-log

Also adding the ability to drag to reposition the multiactions dialog. The little horizontal lines on the top of the dialog is a drag affordance/indicator, but actually you can drag from any part of the dialog to move it around

🚑 Apologies for the server downtime today

Snap Cards into Lists [New] Vertically group and easily reorder cards by snapping them into lists.

There are Canvas apps for thinking, and there are List apps for productivity, but they’ve never been combined together like I’m about to do

Download Card File [new] You can use the little download button to download an image, video, audio, or document file in a card.

This week’s *space of the week* reads like a documentary about the relationship between factories, exports, and rising unemployment in china kinopio.club/px7ZLhbWJChe...

Roadmap Update: Over the last couple days I cleared out the most critical fixes and some easy QoL updates. So now work on Lists (useful for kanban and other productivity workflows) officially starts today. I've got it mostly spec-ed and planned out now

🍇 Recent Fixes

Card Quotes [New] If you type the markdown syntax for quotes inside a card: > Give a hoot, don't pollute It'll be formatted as a quote. Easy peasy.

Alt/Option Drag to Duplicate [New] While holding the alt/option key, drag cards or boxes to duplicate them. Duplicating boxes will also dupe everything inside them.

🥂 Recent Small Fixes and Updates

Resize Card Details [New] Cards work best when they're a single idea or thought – but if you're editing long-form text, you can now drag the bottom-right to resize the card editing dialog. Double click the corner to reset the size. A quality of life update for the new year 🥂

> I’ve tried using so many tools to arrange my book collections, and Kinopio is by far the most satisfying and easy to use 📷📷 — I can’t believe I can get these cute little cards just by pasting a Goodreads link

Kinopio Year-End Investor Report As you may know, Kinopio is organic software that's completely community funded. But if you're reading this, as far as I’m concerned, you’re invested in the future of Kinopio. ↓ 1/10

Iterating on the Kinopio logo and wordmark for print things and document websites

The next bulletin email going out to Kinopio users will be a Year-End Strategy Letter. I'm doing something I almost never do, crunching through the many numbers and graphs in my Stripe account. To ease the suspense, I think you'll like what I have to say.

🚛 Recent Fixes

[New Kinopio Blog Post] Case Study: Kinopio for Agencies kinopio.club/blog/posts/f...

Whole Stroke Eraser [New] Due to popular demand, erasing over a drawing stroke now erases the whole stroke immediately. (Actually the whole drawing system was rewritten to improve reliability and performance.)

[New] Draw Straight Lines Hold shift while drawing to draw straight horizontal or vertical lines. Handy for chart axes among other things.

💐 [New] Under-the-hood Improvements