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Wow, dropping "how" from the actual title really changes what I expected this to be about.

I think there are about five thousand projects that try to do exactly this. Omnigraffle comes to mind, so does OneNote which I hated because I don't want any of this infinite canvas stuff in my note app.

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I think it depends on what you're doing. I didn't previously value an infinite canvas until I started working on video games professionally—it's extremely important to be able to just append a new area or objective at a moment's notice with minimal mucking around, especially if you don't know if the idea will even work.

Oh definitely. I spend most of my work time in Illustrator and I love its infinite* canvas, it's great to let my drawings sprawl off the edge of an artboard when they need to and resize the art or the board later, but I never feel a need for it when I'm writing stuff.

* there's a limit but I really never run against it in practice

@dang, they’re right, that change completely changes the meaning of the headline.

100% agreed, I wasn't expecting a product request post and was a little disappointed, there are endless posts like this and they are uninteresting compared to what I've come to expect from Drew. Was hoping for something more personal and insightful.

C'est la vie, but posting such drivel dilutes his unique brand. Based on what we know about his personality, I suspect he doesn't care whether he wasted our time blasting out app feature complaint articles or not. Plus it is his blog, after all. It's no longer clear what level of consideration he ascribes to our attention.

Calling it drivel is a bit over the top, it’s perfectly fine for you to be uninterested and move on politely.

Compared to what he normally writes, it's drivel.

Thanks for the feedback and ideas kyleee, I'll take them under advisement.

I think HN automatically removes "How" from the title; I submitted this post[0] whose original source starts with "How", but after submitting, the word "How" disappeared from the the title.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350462

You can edit it back in, the HN system automatically does this to reduce low-effort click-bait submissions like "How I increased my productivity 100x in 24 hours with these 69 easy steps!"

Unfortunately in this case it (paradoxically) enhanced the click-bait factor immensely. An impressive feat if it was intentional on behalf of the submitter.

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