Lists are possibly the biggest update to Kinopio in years. Vertically group and easily reorder cards in Kanban-style lists. This started as a feature request from 2022, but it took this long to figure out how to do it right.

To show off the creative and productive potential of lists, we have all new Templates for life and work. Including hits like Calendar, Project & Issue Tracker, and Personal Dashboard.

In the bottom-right, you can toggle on a Little Minimap to help explore spaces. It's little, beautiful, and fast.

Next to the minimap button, use the TOC to jump between lines, lists, and boxes sorted by Y position.

Hold shift while dragging cards, boxes, or lists to Snap Align them up perfectly with nearby items. When this released, it especially resonated with people who really value having their cards neatly organized. (I'm a bit messier, but I get the appeal!)

Over the years I've noticed people, including myself, stumbling over how connections worked. If you wanted to change the color of a single line, you first had to assign it a connection type which let you share that color with other lines – unlike how card, list, or box colors can be edited directly. So after a bit of community planning, Connections Were Simplified so you can edit names and colors directly, like the other item types.

Have you ever felt the need for a handy place to work on some longer-form text associated with a space, or little private place to draft an email or blog post next to your research? For each space you get your own personal Sidebar Note that only you can see. TBH I built this one for me, but I hope you find it handy too.

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🙅‍♀️ And finally, after months of on-and-off R&D, I decided not to ship Dynamic Connection Lines. The idea with this was that as you dragged items, the connections between them would adjust their start and end positions to the nearest angle. This helped make lines easier to follow and allowed for more flow-chart-y diagram structures.

But while it demoed really nicely, I ended up shelving this for two reasons:

• The recent change to simplify connection types was shocking to enough people that I wanted to wait for the waves to settle.
• I just couldn't make the lines feel perfect in every condition. There was always some scenario where the connections would be technically correct, but look 'off'. I think auto-magically adapting lines is fundamentally the wrong approach.

On the bright side, snap align was spun off from this work and has proven to be a big hit.