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It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives (lifehacker.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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[–] Aurix 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What most note taking apps ignore is OneNote's strong drawing tablet capabilities, but Obsidian is here to save the day with the Excalidraw plugin. In total it is not as user friendly as OneNote, but the data portability cannot be weighted in gold.

[–] mastazi 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Joplin also has a drawing plugin called Freehand Drawing.

[–] Aurix 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does it have premade forms available like circles?

[–] mastazi 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] That extension is more for freehand drawing. For pre-made shapes and diagrams, you can use the Draw .io extension instead:

Freehand drawing: https://joplinapp.org/plugins/plugin/io.github.personalizedrefrigerator.js-draw/

Draw .io: https://joplinapp.org/plugins/plugin/com.github.marc0l92.joplin-plugin-drawio/

[–] Aurix 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I did a lot of hemming and hawing over stylus support.

In the end, I realized I really just wanted to export/share the sketch or notes from the Samsung app as a PNG or PDF to whatever note organizer I used. So ended up with anytype