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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Doesn’t MacOS do this natively?
But MacOS’s pdf editor saves the file as PDF, which means I can’t change a text box or drawing I already did once I save the file and delete previous versions. And I’m planning to switch to linux in the future so I want something open source.
Doesn’t it let you do that? Have you tried?
Works for me iirc, but haven’t gone crazy with it.
Honestly, building a Notion level FOSS alternative, probably in the lines of Obsidian as well, would be a fun project. Especially with the features you mentioned.
