Doodle.ly Update Takes Doodling to the Next Level

Compulsive doodlers like me miss the good old days of paper, pens and white space for random scratches. Laptops, tablets and smartphones have almost done away with the need for handwritten notes — at least in meetings — and have likely decreased the amount of global doodling by half (totally my guess). Platforms such as and , though, are helping to revive this creative (or time-wasting) impulse

I've been using the Doodle.ly iPad app and social network (you can draw directly on the website) for more than a year. Its simplicity — lack of tools, no zoom, layers, fixed aspect ratio — was part of its appeal. The Doodle.ly sketchpad was the closest thing I had to real pen and paper. Unlike pad and paper, though, Doodle.ly has always offered almost unlimited undos.