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what for?
thoughts
Contribution
found this community space
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I honestly forgot the specific case that led me to create this. But generally was referring to the comment truncating on hover. I do think its fine if the stuff outside the screen gets cut off
id set the connection color to the last manually selected color
any reason for this?
if rejected, then gg
Q: am i able to expand comments so i can see the full content? i just want to be able to toggle all
no sure exactly what needs to change. just an observation
Q: how to take advantage of kinopio filtering? examples?
See ‘La Scapiliata up close’ sections at: This is similar animation but a lot more gentle. The pulses decrease in speed over time.
the ‘here’ ping via right click is kind of aggressive
<esc>
while in a modal should close the modal. Currently, it takes two esc presses to exit the modal
Feel free to add wherever you want
Also open to any current workarounds to listed feature requests
Avoid hard breaks in the repeating pattern.
ctrl+1
: show user who created each card
ctrl+2
: show card (update) date
ctrl+4
: hide comment cards
ctrl+3
: show unchecked cards
I don’t think you need to press ctrl
? Might just be my keyboard.
E.g., the ‘Garden Leaves’ frame could add vines that wrap around the immediate connections
things like this are only possible with a flexible canvas application
things like this are only possible with a flexible canvas application
no eye sore on my google cal
no eye sore on my google cal
i placed a simple card ”# Don’t use twitter before deep work” above the area i plan my daily work
i placed a simple card ”# Don’t use twitter before deep work” above the area i plan my daily work
then I realized, “why not just put it in kinopio?”
then I realized, “why not just put it in kinopio?”
this doesn’t feel good
this doesn’t feel good
my mind went to: google calendar to time block
my mind went to: google calendar to time block
the pull to algo content is strong
the pull to algo content is strong
for example, I realized how much mental ram reading twitter was taking and I was wondering how I could remember this
for example, I realized how much mental ram reading twitter was taking and I was wondering how I could remember this
I like how I can put digital sticky notes in the environment where i plan my day
I like how I can put digital sticky notes in the environment where i plan my day
i like being able to see how many days left in the month on a daily basis
i like being able to see how many days left in the month on a daily basis
daily work done in kinopio impressions
daily work done in kinopio impressions
im constantly having to re-choose the color of connection
Q: why is color of connection not the color of the last chosen color?
Q: what is stopping public spaces from being defaced?
curated content is a breath of fresh air compared to doom scrolling
explore other people’s spaces
able to read my existing spaces, with sparse writes
quickly dump ideas to inbox
Q: what do I want to use kinopio mobile for?
if it turns out to not be a horrible idea, then create a thread in forums
if not obvious, first ask discord
my guess:
Q: what is the best way to go about bringing up a feature request?
if obvious, go directly to the forums
kinopio now has comment only space permission
Q: How to add a comment section to spaces?
encrypted in transit, not at rest. it is costly to add encrypted collaboration. for an tool like kinopio, i’ll easily take being less private in exchange for new features and performance updates
if you have “inbox space not found”, then you probably deleted it somehow
Q: how private is kinopio?
inbox space can be deleted
google “images with repeating patten”
Q: how do you find more backgrounds for kinopio?
then what...
doing this automatically won’t work. this would mean that the code block would dictate the size of the card. this would prevent the code block cards from overflowing and adding scroll bars
the image urls are given. this means that images could be downloaded this way id still like to be able to work with images. for instance, id like to be able to sync an are.na channel to my inspiration space
Q: why doesn’t the api support images?
i would be okay if this expansion was done automatically
i’ve never not immediately resized a newly created card that contains a code block, such that the entire code block is visible
I can understand the diagonal approach a bit more when using straight lines over curved lines.
shift+enter
to create a child card; simply putting over cursor over card is sufficient enough for shift+enter
to work
as a work around, i can just do enter
to create the chain of cards, select cards, and use the “Connect” feature
this may come from the way i use kinopio, which tends to make spaces screen-width wide and prefer vertical spaces
i almost always have to run “Align Left and Distribute” on parent/child cards
i also found this to be true
Q: why does shift+enter
while in a card create a child card in the bottom right direction?
Q: is copying boxes possible?
shift+scroll
will horizontally scroll
i tended to create vertical spaces because covering long, horizontal distances was not easy. shift+scroll
makes me a lot more open to making use of horizontal space
you could keep this week template at the top of your space. then select, copy, and paste each day when needed
...
pomo 2
do a handstand
pomo 2
pomo 1
plan the week
pomo 1
Q: when i do copy to another space and i have that other space open in another tab, why do i have to refresh to see the moved content?
it lets you do cool things like set recurring weekly tasks; you can specify day-specific tasks
the new refactoring of the copy/paste system is interesting
i think connection UI can be improved. i tend to only use a single connection type because i dont want to have to deal with the UI
i want more customization
i want kinopio select in my calendar
why?
i been using kinopio for months and i just realized when making a connection, you dont have to drop the connection on the dot, anywhere on the card will make the connection....
i want enter
to create new timeblock
Q: could i make a better google calender with kinopio api?
Q: when selecting items, why not allow backspace
to delete items? why only delete
?
proposal to merge journal and normal spaces:
Deep Interface
you first create a node, then you can set size, color, etc
I’m assuming: same title = same type

The selection modal opens such that it is out of the way.
this helps immensely in overcoming the little amount friction that comes with the default select cursor.
ctrl+click
a node to select all connected nodes.
It makes it more clear when I disagree with previous thinking.

Example:
It makes checking things off my space a lot more rewarding.
This little feature ended being more impactful that I thought it would of.
Setting transparency on card check.
Good backgrounds:
It is not consistent though; big spaces with comparable stats behave differently: one is fast and the other is laggy. Strange.
This came up after the indexdb update. This would make sense since this update changed synchronous updates to be async. So I’m thinking that there is some bug with the updates.

“Big space”
I think I figured out how to reproduce this. For a big space, Try adding a tag via text, then any following text will be really laggy.
when picking a tag, the tag options do not have the correct color?
copying boxes with out contained cards does not work
when you are zoomed out and try to move around cards with connections, it frequently messes up connection
moving 140 items (cards and boxes) to another space is not robust. some of the boxes lost their position
box snapping sometimes overlaps
boxes sometimes fail to grab cards that reside within
i think “distribute vertically/horizontally” icons need to be swapped?
Example (go between h1 and h2 several times):
select all these nodes and slowly move them closer to the box. the “need to implement...” card will be under the box, yet still sets off the box expansion sequence *for the left side of the box

right click + drag
and ending on a card that contains a link to another card opens the “Edit card” modal and will cause you to pan even when you stop right click + drag
(links): clicking & holding on a link, then dragging will open the link
I think this happens when you have a UI pinned (like sidebar)
??? its back to normal? am i going crazy...
h1
and h2
adds lots of corresponding #
& ##
enter
should close selection modal and then continue on with creating a new card
big space, an set of operations involving box (e.g., you move a card to the edge of a box) doesn’t consistently revert (ctrl-z) the box expansion
middle clicking on a kinopio card link will correctly open the link in a new tab, but will make pointer pan
big space is not consistent is loading content. have to log out/in frequently
not sure if this is intended, but copy and paste does not preserve font selection
shift-selecting quickly leaves items unselected
when trying to vertical split select, if an image is at the top, it won’t activate the split icon
autoligned cards with connection does not update connection position on auto align
when in card and pressing enter
it can sometimes create the card lower than it should be
moving boxes inside a box is really annoying
dark mode makes code black background dark and doesn’t change text to white
dragging a box to a hard border will shift its internal cards.
when zoomed out, dragging a box in any direction for any meaningful amount of time will start to shift its contents
i think it was smoother to move boxes around
wish i had the option to “box select”
wish i could copy boxes
Open to all
then use the “copy card names” to move work to zet
capture & expand ideas
store favorite stuff
images, quotes, gifs, sticker, etc
daily tasks
used for weekly/monthly reviews
breaking down problems
project management
long cards located at the bottom of the rendered canvas will be cut off
moving the outer box is hell:

seeing arguments makes me wish people used kinopio
i find myself wanting social digital places to be in kinopio: discord, forums,
language is not very precise. too many words requires a lot of mental ram. a white board helps you be precise in a compact form. information is compressed using visuals like connections and boxes
you can specify really fine distributions between cards using Distribute Horizontally
and Distribute Vertically
pketh was right in thinking of putting focus on marketing. seriously underrated app. it clears all canvas competition
attention to detail is insane. 4 months in and im still learning new things
splittings a card that contains a list with sub-points indents the cards that contain sub-points
~4 months
this is true during and after the link creation process
they aren’t good at visualizing the text-based connections
they aren’t so great (comparatively) at handling lots of complex connections. it simply takes up too much space to make a “physical” connection which leads to visual chaos
creating doubly links is more time consuming
a link is cheap, its a single line in a text file
text-based connection (think digital Zettelkasten) is very good at handing large amounts of connections
whiteboards are really good at making and showing the connections made in a relatively small area
link connections
i’ve always like the idea of canvas applications, but canvas software has been clunky to use. kinopio is by far the best canvas app i’ve tried
frequent new features
therefore, it is best to use kinopio to display a few ideas on the canvas, and after fleshing out the relationships it can be transferred to markdown via the copy feature
it has a public api
~3 months
I like the constraint on top-left border
looks good
ui/ux is well thought out
i like the dev blog
its fun
split feature allows bulk creation
~2 weeks using kinopio

to this:
i.e., go from this:



this can be done by just getting rid of “Move from Inbox”
I want it to be this easy to create a new card to inbox (without having to actually go into the inbox space)

the most pressing feat requests i can come up with
nice to have feats, but they aren’t pressing. feats i’d be fine waiting months for
other tools I use
notes
bugs
what i like about it
feature requests
general thoughts
what i use it for
a space all about kinopio where i share: