Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives to notability? (for intel mac) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by first_ad4972@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The main features I want are:

Import PDFs and annotate them in the app’s native format (so that I’ll still be able to remove previous changes after I save and re-open it)
Quickly add text boxes anywhere on the PDF
Draw some basic shapes and lines with different colors (can either be notability-style “draw and hold to make shape” or just a classic “insert shapes” option from the toolbar)
Have a page thumbnail option and can search text in the PDF file and quickly go there

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[-] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Xournal++

[-] first_ad4972@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I tried this app before, but on Mac this app has a weird layout and I can’t even find the toolbar that is in the screenshot on the official site. How do I make the toolbar show?

[-] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I use it on Linux and it works fine there. What exactly do you mean by "weird layout?"

[-] first_ad4972@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t have the tool selection menu on top of the document, instead there’s a menu called “tools” that I have to click in, and the tools are listed by names instead of icons which is confusing and hard to find.

Screenshot on my computer (after I clicked open the "tools" menu):