Rnote 0.12 brings several new features, new customisation and configuration options, user experience buffs, bug fixes, and other lower-level tune-ups.
For those unfamiliar with it, Rnote is a digital note-taking app built using GTK4 and Rust. It’s primarily intended to be used with stylus input (so includes pen pressure, stroke styles, button actions, etc) but supports typed text entry, shapes, importing images, etc too.
Rnote offers a range of document layouts, from fixed pages to infinite canvases, plus customisable page colour, grid lines and a choice of page patterns (or none). Files can be exported to SVG, PDF, or JPEG, or saved in the native (if deemed unstable) .rnote format.
It even has a mode especially designed for e-ink displays. With a slew of e-ink tablet devices (including the Debian-powered Pine Note) out there, it’s a nice “niche” feature addition to have present.
Prior to the latest update (covered below), Rnote was already well stocked with a selection of tools, settings, palettes and UI adjustments.
That is say: the changes that follow are simply new in this version – they aren’t the only features the app has!
Rnote 0.12 adds:
- New laser highlighting tool with animations
- Tab overview button
- Keyboard clipboard paste at pointer location
- Multi-click selection support
- Confirmation prompt when deleting file/folders
- Encrypted PDF import
- New ‘limit movement‘ options for vertical-space tool
- ‘Open workspace folder’ option
- Thumbnailer for
.rnotefiles
Beyond those, Rnote 0.12 is fitted out a flurry of fixes and refinements, ranging from improved support keyboard shortcut support to more tooltips, smarter clipboard pasting, and better selection handle sensitivity in “single-selection” mode.
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Xournal++ is perhaps the best-known and most widely used hand-written note-taking app for Linux but Rnote shouldn’t be overlooked. For GNOME desktop fans especially, it has a great UX, a solid feature set and first-rate stylus support.
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