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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t MacOS do this natively?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn’t it let you do that? Have you tried?

Works for me iirc, but haven’t gone crazy with it.