@wmorein always juggling quick "note to self" apps. excited to give this a try! looks great

One thing we'd love to share with people is our "Swipe to Style" feature. As we were thinking through text input on mobile devices, we asked ourselves what the equivalent of Markdown would be for touch. Once we thought the problem through, it seemed obvious that you could just swipe left and right to style text (headings, bullets, checklists) and just grab items to reorder. https://twitter.com/wmorein/stat...

@bradleyengel @wmorein I also wanted to add, I LOVE the intro video and the tips. They are done very well and clearly convey how to leverage all of the functionality to new users.

@wmorein Love your demo video on the homepage. Can I ask how you keep the phone so still when shooting this?

@craigjbarber We used a tripod, but it was actually heavily stabilized in post-production.

@rrhoover We are really strong believer of the value of pen and touch in the scenarios we care about, and we do believe that the existence of Apple’s Pencil will bring this to prominence for even more people. If you check out their promo page (http://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/) you can see we are featured there. We're excited to see what happens. Having said that, there are an absolutely huge number people with iPads and iPhones that won’t support it, and we want to let them experience the power of pen and touch. So, we’ll keep investing in and selling Pencil to that audience.

@rrhoover This is a great point that I brought up with a few friends yesterday. The Apple Pencil is specifically for the iPad Pro, and not something that the other current iPads seem to support on day one (if ever). It's arguable that FiftyThree now has an even greater market advantage. There is going to be an entire group of people that are even more interested in styli, but will be disappointed to learn that the Apple Pencil won't work on there current devices. FiftyThree's Pencil can fill that void while also increasing their market share while also promoting their great devices and software.

@wmorein @rrhoover One thing that can't be argued and that I continually boast about when speaking of FiftyThree and the Pencil is how warm it is. I have the walnut and it feels like a pencil should. The somewhat larger width of the pencil (as opposed to our No.2's from middle school) remind me of much earlier days with big crayons and markers, while still remaining warm to the touch—despite it being a piece of hardware. It's aesthetically pleasing to say the least. And while the Apple Pencil is also beautiful (in its own way), it certainly doesn't have that warmth. Will I buy the iPad Pro? Absolutely. Will I chuck my FiftyThree Pencil? No. I love it and I'm sure, as with all of your products, you'll continue to iterate on the technology of both the pencil and the app itself. FiftyThree has a lot in common with Apple, in that it's built up such a strong brand with its users, that they stick around even when things aren't at 100%. But it'd be wrong to say that just because Apple launched this, that 53 isn't operating at 100%. Keep doing what you're doing. Because in the end, it's fun having a competitor and honestly, it's pretty warming knowing your competitor is (one of) the best and most loved on earth. Says something about FiftyThree.

@ngoel36 Definitely something that we know is critically important - we're really interested in this area and have some fun ideas.

@joshpuetz Totally understood. Tricky set of tradeoffs as you try to balance platform-specificity against trying to have an app that behaves consistently and predictably. For rewind, we actually still do have it but to start it you have to tap the screen with two fingers to enable it. After that you can rewind as before. Zoom has changed more completely, but with the addition of two finger pan I've found it pretty great once you get used to it, and this was a place where we did want to have consistency. Sync is a big deal, we know. Stay tuned :)

@wmorein Awesome, thanks for the rewind tip! Rewind is my most used feature because, let's face it, I'm a terrible artist :)

@beachedmiami Thanks for the feedback. We hope that the app is a bit of a mix of both (indulgence and productivity). We care a ton about the impact that creativity can have at work (https://medium.com/@wmorein/crea...) but we don't want to give up the more enjoyable side either. Always interested in hearing about how that balance is going. We've heard your feedback on Spaces from a number of people and over time we'll do more with navigation and management, I'm sure. Similarly, we've heard the feedback on multiple photos. We've been talking a lot about what the right scope is for an idea vs a Space (i.e. is a Space the "document" or is each idea a "document" - the analogy is imperfect but we like the idea of the smaller nuggets that come together in a space. We'll keep thinking about this.

@wmorein my two cents: I would organize my Spaces around broad themes/topics/projects, like "Calendar App Concept," so I would like to be able to connect related Ideas (for example, Ideas about a particular section of the app) within the Space it occupies and separate from other Ideas that belong in the same Space but not in that particular Idea cluster. Whether I'm connecting multiple Ideas in their current "nugget" form or able to add more media to a single Idea than currently allowed -- either way could work, I think. This is related to the navigation feedback because if I can't organize Spaces around broad themes, then I'm going to have a lot of them (maybe 10+ for a single app concept project) and I'm going to want to navigate easily from one to the next. All that said, I'm a big 53 fan. Keep up the great work.

@beachedmiami Thanks - great feedback and all ideas that we are thinking about a lot.