![]() Tap a new page and your entire screen turns an almost white shade of vanilla, unadorned by faux binder rings or ripped edges you see in other apps. When you tap a notebook, you're launched into a CoverFlow-esque page browser where you can thumb through sketches in your notebook. Each notebook looks like a premium Moleskine journal, fit with a stunning cover and pages that look soft to the touch. When you first open the app, you first see a panoramic view of all of your notebooks floating in mid-air. Whatever the case is, the humanistic sensibilities that made the Courier so attractive are very much present in this app, unbound from the chains at Microsoft. ![]() Still, the FiftyThree team is reluctant to admit that there's Courier DNA in Paper, perhaps only because the project they so passionately incubated never came to be. That device and its software was very publicly killed by Microsoft, but you can see threads of it that survived in this new project. If Paper looks familiar, it's probably because the team behind it has an interesting history: a handful of them spent several years at Microsoft, with a good chunk of that time focused on the Courier, a dual-screen, digital notebook which had the tech world salivating. ![]() It's essentially a blank slate of paper devoid of settings panels, menus, and adjustable line widths. The tool Petschnigg and his company FiftyThree thought up is the aptly named Paper, designed exclusively for the iPad.
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