We’re continually making incremental updates to Ideate as much as we can and we’re always listening to user feedback. The latest release of Ideate (1.1.4) includes a frequently requested feature: the ability to create and save your own custom Templates.
Creating and saving your own custom Templates is really easy and it all starts with a sketch. That is, anything that you can add to your Sketch, including images, drawing, Clips, etc. can be saved as a Sketch by tapping the Share icon in the top toolbar. All your saved Templates appear under the Templates listing under My Templates and they can also be deleted.
Now, if you ever come across a situation where the default Ideate Templates don’t satisfy, you can bring images in from the web, load an image from your Photo Library, draw or load a Sketch in and save it as a Template.
In addition, we’ve created an Ideate Templates Flickr Group for the community to share Templates they create. Just open the Ideate Templates Flickr Group URL in Safari and then copy the image or save it to your Photo Library and then paste or load the image into Ideate.
We’ve been getting a lot of great feedback on how people have been using Ideate and one commonly requested feature is the ability to create and save custom templates. While the feature is on our roadmap, I wanted to walk through how you can use images in Ideate in the mean time.
Basically, you can bring in an image from your Photo Library or copy/paste an image from the web, email, etc. Once you load the image into Ideate you can sketch on it just like a Template or Clip and edit it like a Clip too. Here’s a video that walks through these features.
Since releasing Ideate last Thursday, we’ve been getting a lot of great feedback on how people are using the application. Our goal is to highlight different features, current and future, of the application as much as possible.
Here’s a video on one of the current features, called Clips. Clips can be used to add inspiration, reference and additional elements to your sketch to help you communicate your ideas more clearly. They can also help with annotation.
We always welcome feedback and suggestions on current features and where you think this application should go. Give us a shout