❓ 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
For more info, there’s a handy Lists overview on the help site.
kinopio.club/help/posts/l...
Lists can also be used to track completed tasks.
Lists allow you to add more organization and Kanban-style project management pipelines like Todo/Doing/Done, in the same space that you used to figure out the plan and moodboard.
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
kinopio works offline too
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
The full report, including a coupon for 50% off your first year is up on the the blog
kinopio.club/blog/posts/37
10/10
It’d be awesome if the last 6 months marked the beginning of a hockey stick growth inflection point, but it's really too early to tell right now. As long as people love using Kinopio, and new users continue to subscribe, then I'd like to keep building it.
↓ 9/10
It would still take a couple years at the current growth rate for Kinopio to be minimally economically sustainable. But now that the technical foundations are firm, there are a bucketload of promising ideas I'm looking forward to building in the new year.
↓ 8/10
I prefer to think of these things as the cumulative result of all the work that came before. Doing a single push up won't change your life, but a steady thankless sequence of workouts just might.
↓ 7/10
Silver bullet explanations are enticing because they whisper that you can repeat success by shooting at the same thing. But that's a trap. You can't predict virality, and chasing it is cringe. Even performance improvements eventually hit a point of diminishing returns.
↓ 6/10
a couple potentially related things happened around this time:
- Right before this, I spent a month on major improvements to stability and performance
- Kinopio went mini-viral on TikTok as a way to make handmade-feeling birthday cards
- The price was increased
↓ 5/10
📈 Midway through the year, the MRR and subscriber graphs really started climbing. TBH I'm not entirely sure why though.
↓ 4/10
Comparing % increases to key biz metrics to the same period last year paints a rosy picture:
(side-note : because of server optimizations, costs have largely stayed the same)
↓ 3/10
Being bootstrapped comes with major financial hurdles early on, which is why you can count the number of solely customer-funded software companies on one hand.
↓ 2/10
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
