Co-creator of Glitch

Some overlap with Trello, but

Shared an office with Trello, which was my jam

Less structure, less confined

I’ve never gotten into mind-mapping. It has felt too structured. Kinopio is perfect.

Sentence diagramming for bible passage analysis

Notes for academic paper

Presentation on Pair Programming

Team retrospective

Shared team notes (buy-in for fun fund)

Weekly work notes

Sharing feature requests

Too much trying to mimic the real world (stickies, dots, etc.)

Document my guitar setup

Do brain dump/quick entry

How I’ve used Kinopio

Team discussion notes

The UI is so playful, organic. It is fun to drag around and make connections. Kinda like a fidget toy for my brain.

The options are exhausting and somewhat clunky

Come back later to organize, make connections, noodle

The constraints were empowering

https://twitter.com/KinopioClub/status/1286643173171879936?s=20

This was astounding

The experience felt perfect

Felt like hive mind

“What happens to my data if Kinopio dies?” http://pketh.org/kinopio-plans.html

Easy to export JSON

I’ve generally searched for a plaintext solution

Roam and other tools are document based and defy moving and organizing