ff-ultra-compact-mode VS xournalpp

I already made one https://github.com/dannycolin/fx-compact-mode

More compact mode

I made a one-liner theme with vertical toolbar, using a combination of compact mode and vertical toolbar customization. It's intended to be the best fit with tiling manager, where multiple FF window is stacked. I don't use much tabs(~10 per window) but if it's your thing, this might not be for you. It's still WIP but I'm pretty happy with the result already!

Instead of using ui-fix you can use fx-compact-mode to get back the non-oversized menus and stuff and that should work alongside Photon-Australis.

And I also made a userChrome.css that reduce even more the spaces. See: https://github.com/dannycolin/fx-compact-mode

I see your point. In case if you wanted the compact mode more even compact like i am for my laptop screen, there's this css to solve it: https://github.com/dannycolin/fx-compact-mode

I highly recommend Rnote to anyone on Linux that misses the "hodgepodge" notetaking of apps like OneNote. It works like a dream on touchscreens and drawing tablets, with a surprising amount of configuration under the hood.

Also worth noting is Xournal, an older but similar project: https://xournalpp.github.io/

I've been using Xournalpp[1] for many years, highlighting books as I read them, adding in text/hand drawn annotations in whitespaces if necessary. Unlike other PDF readers/annotators, it saves a separate file, so the original PDF is untouched. It can also export the annotated PDF as a new PDF with highlights and annotations.

Obsidian[2] also has PDF support, where you can open a markdown document side by side with the PDF to take notes as you read. I think it also lets you highlight the PDF itself.

Emacs I think has a similar feature, via plugins/org-mode(?) to the Obsidian setup.

And of course your typical PDF reader probably has support for highlighting PDFs too, but I find them clunky and they save by exporting a PDF, which can be a bit heavy-handed IMO compared to just saving the annotations/highlights as a separate file as Xournalpp does.

[1]: https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/

Currently, I am trying to build a small open source NLP project for which I first find text on a page and then translate it; see the current project state here: https://github.com/PellelNitram/xournalpp_htr. The purpose of this project is to make handwritten text in Xournal++ searchable for all users.

[Xournal++](https://xournalpp.github.io/) is in my option the best handwritten note-taking software out there, because it has all the coolest features (like LaTeX snippets and shapes) and it's open source too, so make sure to check it out!