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

Line Dividers [New] Add lines from the toolbar (or with 'L') to mark pages, sections, slides, and other large variable height areas that can be cumbersome to manage with boxes alone. Jump between lines, and make room in busy spaces with the 'Select All Below' button.

next, i moved to @kinopio.club so i could rearrange my ideas on a canvas and better visualize everything that's going on at once kinopio.club/caged-in-the...

working on a one-shot adventure for DURF. it’s got giant vultures, humanoid bulldogs birdwatching, witches, a birthday party and more

“While AI features get likes on Twitter, they never seemed to resonate with actual users.” In the new Apptisan, we talk with @pketh.org , formerly co-creator of Glitch , about his spatial note-taking tool Kinopio, a canvas for collecting and connecting your thoughts, ideas, and feelings. ⤵️

More Drawing Tools [New] You can now draw with a thinner XS sized brush, and erase your whole drawing at once with the remove button

This is so cool !! Kinopio is the BEST

Is the ability to switch between multiple accounts something that you’d want and use?

Kinopio isn’t for the Fortune 500 – there’s plenty of enterprise options for them. I’m personally drawn to the people and teams who care about using great tools because they take pride in their work.

Turn your boxes into presentation slides with Vitrine by Morgan (ampersand.pm). Really impressed with they used the Kinopio API to create this, and how easy this is to use. More details at kinopio.club/kn-toolkit-Q...

Plan something spooky this Halloween (seasonal logo by tonytranrpg.com)

ヽ｀ヽ Latest Fixes ヽ｀、ヽ

Share and Invite with QR Codes [New] For sharing a presentation space with your audience, or when inviting someone IRL to collaborate

Happy Birthday Nathalie, from Mariyah and friends

So... should be doing artwork... and kindle my other PbP games back to life but currently locked into sci-horror of @mothership.bsky.social Currently using @kinopio.club for working a new PbP gameflow. But Mothership just goes hand-in-hand with my love for dithering. kinopio.club/mosh---orpha...

Book Worm [New] A new Card Frame for reading enthusiasts, or wanna-be enthusiasts like me. Created by Dávid: yoursit.ee/xou

New blog post about the code and design details of the new About Page blog.kinopio.club/posts/about-...

New card frame tomorrow! ヽ｀ヽ(*￣o￣*)>ヽ｀、ヽ This one's for the book worms.

🚛 Shipped a really noticeably performance/quality-of-life improvement that @lucas.love found which eliminates the white-screen-of-death delay when loading the app/site, and when switching spaces

As bitsy rpg grows i started using @kinopio.club for planning - and it's still the BEST ! I've been using it for a year now for brainstorm ideas or organize thoughts but as a planning tool, it replaced every other tool i needed...so cool! #bitsy #gamedev #devlog

@kinopio.club has a cool new homepage. 🫦 kinopio.club

About Page [New] First time visitors to Kinopio (and search engines) will see the new marketing page when opening the root site URL. For everyone else, opening the site/app, or a specific space URL, will load a space, just like it did before

🚝 Recent Fixes and Updates

🐸 Recent Fixes

unique portfolio by Gayoung Im

Updated the pricing and privacy pages on the help site. Basically, now the app is more private than before (less uses of third parties), so I made that clearer ┗(＾0＾)┓

🎑 Recent Updates and Fixes

“using kinopio to make a recruitment poster for my web accessibility research! I want to try to making some event posters next time” – charelle

Price increases are happening on Monday – be sure to upgrade before then if you want to be grandfathered on the lower prices

“I've been putting more journal-y things into kinopio as of late, on hectic days it's nice to dump all my thoughts into todo items then write down the stuff I get done as I do it next to it in a timeline” – morgan

Header FontPicker Preview [new, little update] To make it a little easier to select the right h1/h2 fonts, a preview is displayed in the 'Aa' font picker.

if there was a keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off the sidebar what do you think it should be? Maybe 's'? Are there equivalent sidebar keyboard shortcuts in other apps you use?

Improved Box Snapping [New] Boxes can grow to envelop cards when you drag them over edges. Boxes snap together the same way. Handy for making your own grids, kanbans, and calendars.

A couple new space backgrounds added

🌵 Recent fixes

🌺 Today's Fixes

A very cool example of what's possible with the Kinopio public API: morgan's (ampersand.pm) Kinopio Glue app collects all their todo cards with tags across all the spaces in a specific group and creates a website running on a mac mini hooked up to tailscale

Sidebar Todo List [New] When your brain is in "Todo Mode" you can now open the Sidebar to see a simple list of all your [] checkbox boxes and cards. Helpful for getting things done after planning out a project, or for checking off groceries.

💐 Recent Fixes

So this week and next i'll be travelling so updates will be slower. I'm starting work writing up a new About Kinopio marketing page to help new users and for SEO. Lucas is almost finished with the plumbing required to enable the app to serve static webpages for this.

💐 today's fixes

[new blog post] How I Do Support and Community pketh.org/support-comm...

Only a few days ago the newest issue of c ‘n c was released! I may be biased, but oh boy there are some fantastic features this time around: → @kinopio.club by @pketh.org → Indie App Sales by @matt1corey.bsky.social → and a shiny retro keyset by pbt.fans (just to name a few)