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xournal

Lightweight notetaking and sketching app.

Free Open Source
Windows
Linux

Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus. It is free software (GNU GPL) and runs on Linux (recent distributions), Windows and other GTK+/Gnome platforms.

It supports drawing and writing on pdf's.

Link to official xournal site

Official Website

Features

Handwritten Notes PDF annotation Edit PDF Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

Category

Photos & Graphics

Tags

journaling sketching

xournal was added by hero1900 in Feb 2010 and the latest update was made in Sep 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on xournal or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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