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You've created something simple, elegant, and instantly understandable. In a world where we're constantly bombarded with technical discussions of…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"6601026","gcb0","i was actually trying to use sketchbookX from autodesk to take quick notes and draw schema diagrams. the lack of boundaries will make me continue to use your app! it is how i…",{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"Artists, designers and people who doodle or take sketch notes on iPad",[64,65,69],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"6598564","jongold","This looks excellent - as a designer my brain has always worked better with infinite canvases like Illustrator\u002FSketch.app; I feel really constrained by Photoshop etc. Great stuff.",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"6599745","alex_c","Very, very cool. It \"feels\" great to use it - the lines look smooth and satisfying to draw. I can see this being a lot of fun to use for random doodling. 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I understand it's hard to export a svg,…",{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"6598623","NLPsajeeth","Can you export to SVG, PDF or some other vector format?",{"value":146,"source":51,"evidence":147},"Text tool",[148,152],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"6599746","mortenjorck","This is probably outside your vision for the product, but adding a text box tool would transform this into a pretty amazing notebook app. All the type-and-draw apps I've used are…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"value":154,"source":51,"evidence":155},"Android or Windows ports",[156,160],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"6599329","gabriel34","Are there Android and Windows Phone ports on the horizon? This App would pair up nicely with active digitizers such as Samsung's S-pen and Surface Pro's pen input. 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Also would it work on an iPad Mini",[185,192,199,207,218],{"value":186,"source":51,"evidence":187},"Adobe Ideas",[188],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"6599373","toddmorey","A couple of years ago, I watched a guy explaining his concept starting with nothing but a blank canvas in Adobe Ideas (very similar iPad vector drawing app that's been out a…",{"value":193,"source":51,"evidence":194},"53 Paper",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"6599948","micheljansen","I much prefer Sketchology's freely zoomable canvases over a fixed canvas, but somehow the brush styles don't look as nice as 53 Paper (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.fiftythree.com\u002Fpaper). I don't…",{"value":200,"source":51,"evidence":201},"Autodesk SketchBook",[202,203],{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"6599092","incision","Looks very neat, I'm disappointed that's it's apparently iPad only. I'd love to give it a try next to Sketchbook Ink [0] on my Android devices. Though, I have to say, I'm growing…",{"value":208,"source":51,"evidence":209},"MyPaint",[210,214],{"id":211,"by":212,"text":213},"6599476","oib","Looks like a closed source Ipad clone of mypaint. If you want this for the desktop I recommend mypaint instead, it already has 8 years of development and its free.",{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},"6601028","droelf","wow, something like this and no one points out two fantastic FOSS alternatives: krita and mypaint",{"value":219,"source":51,"evidence":220},"Krita",[221],{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},{"comments":223,"answered":224,"key":225},13,10,[226,229,232],{"id":227,"text":228},"6600217","Having recently taught myself to draw (somewhat) I know where you're coming from. From a design perspective this is a super challenging problem though. 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