Rnote: Sketch and take handwritten notes

Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. It is targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet and provides features like Pdf and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.

Disclaimer: The file format is still unstable. It might change and break compatibility between versions.

Features

• Adaptive UI focused on stylus input
• Pressure-sensitive stylus input with different and configurable stroke styles
• Create many different shapes with the shape tool
• Move, rotate, resize and modify existing content with the selection tool
• Different document expansion layouts ( fixed pages, continuous vertical, infinite in every direction, .. )
• Customizable background colors, patterns, sizes
• Customizable page format
• (Optional) pen sounds
• Reconfigurable stylus button shortcuts
• An integrated workspace browser for quick access to related files
• Drag & Drop, clipboard support
• PDF, Bitmap and SVG image import
• Document, document pages and selection export to many formats including SVG, PDF, Xopp
• Save and load the documents in the native .rnote file format
• Tabs to work on multiple documents at the same time
• Autosave, printing

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Installation