I am kinda surprised there is not a huge FOSS competitor in the PDF "Annotation" field

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  • xournalpp

    Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

  • I think you missed xournalpp which is pretty active with great functionality imo.

  • rnote

    Sketch and take handwritten notes.

  • rnote is another annotator to potentially keep an eye on. It's pretty barebones since it was only created a month ago but it could become something someday.

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  • doom-emacs

    Discontinued An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

  • For me Doom-Emacs does everything I need. It has pdf-tools incorporated. Everything works like highlighting, annotations ...

  • pdf-tools

    Discontinued Emacs support library for PDF files.

  • For me Doom-Emacs does everything I need. It has pdf-tools incorporated. Everything works like highlighting, annotations ...

  • org-noter

    Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode

  • And with org-noter one can easily interface with org-mode, and then maybe some more.

  • el-easydraw

    Embedded drawing tool for Emacs

  • And with org-noter one can easily interface with org-mode, and then maybe some more.

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