Organization & Productivity · Freelance & Business
Cathy Penton on using visual boards to plan custom pieces and collaborations
A 2023 interview: a soft-furnishings maker uses Milanote boards to keep custom-order details and share pop-up plans with collaborators.
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Interview by someone who teaches the tool
WHAT THEY DID
Cathy Penton, who runs a stitched soft-furnishings business, keeps a board for each intricate custom order to refer back to, shares boards with collaborators for the six to eight online pop-ups she runs a year, and built a board to get back into sketching. She starts each board from a single image, word or quote.
HOW IT WENT
She says the app has changed her business; no measured gains.
WORTH KNOWING
She is a maker rather than a graphic designer, and the interviewer sells a class on the same tool, which Penton had taken.
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Source: Cathy Penton / Kim Klassen · Kim Klassen · Sep 12, 2023Open as a page
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Type: Creator interview · Firsthand report · Older example, not a recent development
- Talking with Cathy Penton on Milanote MoodBoarding — Kim Klassen
Cathy Penton / Kim Klassen · Kim Klassen · Published Sep 12, 2023 (Year from the page’s image file names.) · Checked Oct 20, 2026
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Source check: Spot-checked by the 4TC build team on Oct 20, 2026. Re-read the interview; she is a textile maker, and the interviewer teaches a Milanote class. Nobody at 4TC has tested this.
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Added to 4TC Oct 20, 2026 · Last checked Oct 20, 2026
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