Abstract: Techniques for object selection mode are described. In one or more implementations, digital content is generated as an interactive canvas, and the interactive canvas is displayed on one or more display devices of a computing device. Additional digital content is also displayed on the interactive canvas as one or more objects. The one or more objects are anchored to the interactive canvas in an anchor mode which prevents user input to the interactive canvas from being interpreted as input to manipulate the one or more objects. A trigger event to trigger an object selection mode is detected, and an object selection mode is initiated in response to the trigger event. The object selection mode causes user input to the interactive canvas to be interpreted as input to manipulate the one or more objects.

Abstract: Techniques for page-based navigation for a dual display device are described. In one or more implementations, a journal application maintains multiple different journals. A navigation manager enables navigation through different journals in response to a first set of user gestures, and enables navigation through a sequence of interactive pages of a selected journal in response to a second set of gestures. In one or more implementations, the navigation manager enables navigation forward and backward through the sequence of interactive pages of the journal application using single-page navigation for a dual-display device.

Abstract: Techniques for contextual object manipulation are described. In one or more implementations, digital content is generated as an interactive canvas, and the interactive canvas is displayed on one or more display devices. Additional digital content is also generated as one or more objects, and the one or more objects are displayed on the interactive canvas. In response to detection of a user selection of an object displayed in the interactive canvas, a type of the selected object is determined. Next, one or more controls that are contextual to the selected object are displayed on the interactive canvas. In response to a user selection of one of the controls, the selected control is applied to the selected object.

Abstract: Techniques for smart templates are described. In one or more implementations, digital content is generated as pages of a journal application. Selectable representations associated with various smart templates are displayed via a user interface of the journal application. Responsive to user selection of one of the selectable representations, a smart page is generated by altering the digital content of an identified page and causing the identified page to inherit one or more rules or functionalities associated with the smart template. Subsequently, free-form user input is received to the smart page, and additional digital content corresponding to the free-form user input is generated on the smart page. The free-form user input is then processed by applying the one or more rules or functionalities to the free-form user input to generate page data.