I'm thinking one tangible use case for this notes app will be for interior designers to keep client mood boards with annotated photos, long notes, to do lists, meeting notes and short scribbles - all together in the same space.
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Tobias Renström
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Tobias Renström
@tbsrnstrm
Building Spatial. A digital shoebox for what you see, think and want to remember. get-spatial.com
- Ten months ago, I set a goal to design and build the visual notes app of my dreams. To give it one year. This week, the first Alpha invites went out 🤘 In no small part thanks to the amazing feedback I've gotten from you guys. Can't thank you enough for supporting this journey!
00:00 - Need help! Am getting super close to a beta now, BUT still don't have a name for this visually-collect-your-thoughts-and-things-app. What would you name something like this? Would love to hear it. My shortlist has been Spatial, Scratch, Liminal, Texture and Untitled...
00:00 - Combining all these interactions - wrap, drop, undo/redo, unfold, drop-back, unwrap... gives me that cozy feeling that things are starting to come together 🥰💖
00:00 - Stacks will be an organic, lightweight way of grouping things together - without all the structure. Bunch stuff together, click to expand, open to view or pull back what's needed again. The lovely kind of mess.
00:00 - Finally got around to adding a contextual toolbar. Didn't realize how much it was missing until now - such a speed boost to using the app ⚡️
00:00 - Color's got to be one of the fastest ways to recognize meaning. Green for done, red for priority, pink for insights.. It's like we're hard wired for it. However you use them, I'm hoping a color picker like this might make you want to use them more often.
00:00 - Adding resizing with snap guidelines. Width, height and edges. Plus highlights to see what's being snapped to, trackpad haptics and proximity priority. Straightforward, necessary and feels like a pleasure to use.
00:00 - About half a year ago I started designing what would be my dream app for note taking, and shortly after that I started building it. It's been by far the most fun I've had designing a product. Haven't posted much here about it, so here's a recap of where this app has gotten to.
00:00 - Sometimes, it's the smallest of things that makes me the happiest. Yesterday's win was having smooth scrolling while selecting more text. Not sure why this is typically so choppy looking.
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00:00 - Keyboard-only navigation will be coming. And it is 🧑🍳💋
00:00 - Cancelable animations are such underrated heroes of user interface design.
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