[HN Gopher] Rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes
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       Rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 100 points
       Date   : 2024-08-25 15:51 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | novagameco wrote:
       | Looks cool!
        
       | dvdkon wrote:
       | I used this for taking notes last semester, and I think it's the
       | best free software option right now. The UI is intuitive and,
       | more importantly, the drawing feels good.
       | 
       | The absolute best might still be Styluslabs Write, which has very
       | nice editing capabilities and I prefer its "pencil case" tool
       | model (you have multiple tools with colour, shape, hardness,
       | etc.). But it's closed source, doesn't run natively under
       | Wayland, and I like Rnote's smoothing more.
        
         | abdullahkhalids wrote:
         | I tried a whole bunch of the these apps, and I decided that
         | Xournal++ [1] is better than Rnote for note taking. However, I
         | have used Openboard [2] for teaching online since 2020.
         | 
         | I agree that Rnote's smoothing is better, but its tool
         | selection UX is terrible. There are three different bars (top,
         | bottom, and side), and you often need to move your mouse/hand
         | to all of them across the screen in order to select the right
         | tool. In Xournal++ I can put everything on the top bar.
         | 
         | Xournal++ has it's own problems. Pasting an image always makes
         | it so big, that resizing to the correct size is difficult. It
         | also doesn't have a laser pointer, which is why I can't use it
         | for teaching. Creating a new document with the correct template
         | is also painful.
         | 
         | Honestly, in another life, I would write a decent note-taking
         | app.
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/
         | 
         | [2] https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard/
        
       | olejorgenb wrote:
       | ~~Unfortunately doesn't implement expand/contract vertical space
       | (insert or remove vertical space).~~ Ages ago when I used a
       | Toshiba tablet laptop to do math this was a real killer feature
       | in xournal (https://xournal.sourceforge.net/ |
       | https://xournalpp.github.io/)
       | 
       | Demonstration: https://youtu.be/uxFRWpY5o8k?t=299
        
         | red_trumpet wrote:
         | Yes it does. Click the wrench at the bottom of the window
         | ("Tools"), and the first option is "Insert Vertical Space".
        
           | olejorgenb wrote:
           | Ah, thanks. That was about the only place I didn't look
           | apparently
        
       | sbt567 wrote:
       | This piece of software is so good and fast even I'm using it for
       | presenting my work at dayjob
        
       | snoutie wrote:
       | I found out about this software way too late, but converting from
       | Xournal to Rnote was not hard luckily. Since then this is among
       | the first apps I install on my 2in1 and I urge anyone using
       | Xournal to give this one a try. I wonder which one of them has
       | the better performance (battery life), this might be an
       | interesting marketing point
        
       | mrinfinitiesx wrote:
       | Excellent. As somebody getting in to and learning Rust with some
       | ideas, this is amazing to see and learn, especially with Linux
       | application development.
       | 
       | Gives me a lot to play with!
       | 
       | Absolutely great work.
        
       | airstrike wrote:
       | This looks cool. I'd love an iOS variant too.
       | 
       | I used to do a LOT of handwritten notetaking on top of existing
       | PDFs so if you're shopping around for apps I'd call out
       | 
       | https://pdfexpert.com/ which to date has the best handwriting
       | recognition I've seen. Plus I they're Ukrainian so bonus points
       | for helping support that economy
       | 
       | https://www.drawboard.com/ which is what I used for Windows
        
       | astr0n0mer wrote:
       | An earlier post from about 5 months ago
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671212
        
       | patrakov wrote:
       | Sadly, this is not in Debian (but it is in Arch repositories).
        
       | fastasucan wrote:
       | Having onenote erase a days worth of work because it couldn't
       | sync my tablet (and there was no way of exporting it as pdf or
       | anything else) this looks really interesting. Hope there is an
       | android version eventually.
        
       | m-s-y wrote:
       | Who's going to use this on MacOS to take notes? The only input
       | devices are expensive Wacom-style devices. iPad Pro with Apple
       | Pencil is the way to go here, am I wrong?
        
         | owenpalmer wrote:
         | Drawing tablets are not expensive. I recently purchased a Deco
         | Mini 7 for under $40
        
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