xournalpp VS net.cozic.joplin_desktop

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!

No problem. I just noticed that I added - --device=all, which you probably don't need, so just replace that with - --device=dri. You can also build from source, and a good example is Joplin's packaging that also has a workflow to update the Node.js modules, that flathubbot doesn't handle currently. And you can also repackage a different type of binary release, like deb, tarball, or even AppImage. See these example: 1, 2, and 3.

Like /u/doc_willis said you can install the flatpak version from Pop Shop or run the command from here https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.cozic.joplin_desktop

For Notes, I prefer Joplin, it's practically a drop-in replacement for OneNote and surprisingly faster and more feature-rich too, but if you prefer something simpler then I think Notejot and Standard Notes is pretty good too.

You can try https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.cozic.joplin_desktop too It can import Evernote files apparently

And the Flatpak to it.

Joplin is available on every platform and if it's not in your repository you can get it as a Flatpak.

I just noticed it and haven't been able to find any announcements or the like anywhere so thought I would post about it here. Looking at the repository it's only been around about 2 weeks.