Pick the T in the tool rail and tap the page, then type. It comes out in a handwriting face — the same three the reels are lettered with — so it reads as handwriting without being written by hand.
Either tool does both jobs, so you never swap back and forth: with T, tap a line to type in it or press and drag it to shift it. With the arrow, one tap picks it up to move and resize, and a tap on it again opens it for typing. Dragging the words always moves them — the grips reach outward from the edge, not in over the writing, so centred and right-aligned lines can be dragged by the words like anything else. Where two things sit on top of each other, the message that names what you picked offers Under this to step to the one beneath, and round again.
Paste a screenshot straight onto the page (Ctrl/Cmd + V), drop files onto it, or pick them here — as many as you like. Several at once are laid out in a grid so you can see them all; one at a time steps down off the last so it does not cover it. They land under the ink, so everything you draw goes on top. Resize with the arrow tool, one or several together. Big photos are shrunk to fit the page before they are kept.
Once you have copied something, a Paste button sits at the bottom-left of the screen for as long as the copy lasts — you never have to come back in here for it. A copy keeps until you copy something else, so you can paste it into another drawing — or another tab. Each paste steps down and across from the last, so two copies never sit exactly on top of each other.
Pick the arrow at the top of the tool rail, then drag a box round the things you want — or hold one thing to add it to what is already picked, which is the way to do it when there is no empty paper left to drag a box on. Drag a corner dot to make them bigger or smaller, or drag from inside the box to move them. Resizing is always the same amount both ways, so nothing ever comes out stretched or squashed — and the corner dots stay inside the page even when the drawing spills over it, so you can always pull it back down.
Finger writing comes out fat and shaky. So write it big — when you stop, the whole line shrinks down to where you started it, and your wobble shrinks with it. The nib lands at the weight you picked, not the width of your fingertip.
Every stroke gets its shake smoothed out and a real ink taper. Full also snaps circles, boxes, triangles, arrows and straight lines — then re-draws them by hand, wobble and all, so nothing turns into clip art.
0% = ruler straight. 200% = properly shaky.
The sketch file replays in social/hand_sketch.py, so a doodle
drawn here can draw itself on branded paper inside a reel.
Every drawing saves itself as you go, on this device. There is no Save button to forget. In the gallery, hold a card (or tap Select) to pick several and delete them in one go.