What is Inkling?

the computer
forces your thoughts
through an aperture
the breadth
of a mouse cursor,
tapping buttons one by one.

Feeling is reality,
and that is not
how we want to feel
when we're thinking.

What is Inkling?

In Inkling, the pen draws freely.

To erase, press two fingers to the screen, then draw.

Meta Mode

Tap the ink splat in the corner to enter "Meta Mode".

Tap any ink stroke to add handles.

In Meta Mode, drawing creates a Gizmo — two connected handles, with a special sigil at the center.

Handles snap together.

Tap the sigil to impose a length constraint on the gizmo.

Tap again to constrain both length and angle.

And again to constrain just the angle.

Draw a wire from one sigil to another. Their lengths and angles are made equal.

Draw a wire from a sigil to nowhere.

Draw a wire from a property to nowhere

Tickle the value with your finger, to see the gizmo react.

Tap the pen to create a linear equation.

Tap a number.
Light, free to change.
Dark, not free.

Start by drawing ink strokes,
then constraints onto those strokes
then relationships for those constraints

What is Inkling?

A smooth progression from doodling to modelling.

"speed of thought" speed of feeling