[jopizio]

Very nice work. I'll definitely play around with it. For the use case of a digital lab notebook, it would be nice to be able to annotate (superimpose drawings, highlight, etc.) images and pdfs directly in the editor. This would be even more powerful if such annotations could be grouped or locked, so that their position relative to the annotated image remains fixed. This is something that all other note taking apps either miss entirely or implement poorly (or maybe there's something else out there that does this well?). Is this possible in Stempad, or are you considering adding such functionality?

[ralph_r]

Glad to hear you're interesting in trying it. For your use case, I'm curious, are you referring to general use annotations (ex. highlighting, text boxes, commenting, drawing), or are you specifically interested in scientific annotations (ex. Adding an annotation with math or code in it)?

Regardless, it's definitely a realistic feature to have. I'm thinking of it as a block right now, perhaps a file block, that can be resized and annotated freely. Maybe annotations can be mini, floating, moveable and resizable editors. Would that make a big difference for you?

[jopizio]

I'm mostly interested in general use annotations. Basically, I want the ability to quickly circle a feature in a plot and point to it with an arrow associated with a text box with some explanation. I think the mini, floating blocks as you described could work well as long as they can be grouped and "locked" in place so they don't accidently get pushed away. OneNote has the ability to add such general annotations very easily, but there's no ability to lock the positions, and so as a result notebooks can easily become a jumbled mess.