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It is endorsed on the website of the original Xournal:

>You may also want to try out Xournal++ (which started out as a rewrite of Xournal in C++, but now has evolved well beyond the original, while retaining a decent amount of compatibility).

When I need to take notes during my lectures I use xournal http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ . You should find it in your distro repos. You can import pdf, images and stuff like that. Lately I've found https://github.com/MarPiRK/xournalpp which is a complete rewrite in c++ and seems to be a bit more "smooth" with a stylus. I've both compiled xournal for my note 10.1 (I've installed fedora in it) and I've been using it since I started university. When I'm home I reopen them on my pc on a bigger screen, or export them back to pdf.

It may not fit your needs, but people tend to forget that there have been tablet versions of PCs for about ten years now. I personally use a Lenovo x201t. It's a fully featured Core i7 machine, but has a capacitive touchscreen/Wacom active digitizer; this means you can use your finger(s) for navigating PDFs, websites, etc., but also write notes with the built-in stylus. It has either 256 or 512 levels of pressure sensitivity (I've forgotten), but is more than adequate for sketching and drawing.

Microsoft OneNote is also a great app for combining typed and hand-written notes; you can also find software for annotating PDFs. OneNote may do this, but I prefer an open-source app called Xournal.

There are plenty of other models of Tablet PCs, too. Check out tabletpcreview.com.

What you won't get, however, is the great UI experience that the iPad offers. Even Android will give you a better user experience than Windows 7, but at the expense of no active digitizer, mobile-only apps, difficult text entry, etc.

In the past I would use xournal on a tablet with a pen and used a custom sheet.

When I can't use a tablet with a pen I use real paper, usually with a custom, hand-drawn sheet. Something about being able to write it down/erase/spread out/etc. made it easier.

Xournal

Xournal is a GTK+ application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal using a stylus. It can also be used to add annotations to PDF files.

Xournal works well enough for me in Ubuntu-Gnome 14.04

From what I've heard there is one local file only note app that works with styli optimized for a device like this. Xournal++ Screenshot I've used pen and touch tablets, not on the screen itself, and I've used touchscreen in Gnome, and touch is okay, but the stylus is super neutered in potential in general on linux.

I own an L390 Yoga and I'll probably never even spend my time booting linux on it. It would be a waste.

Surprised no one mentioned Basket...it hasn't been updated since 2010. But it's a great OneNote alternative, but it doesn't do handwriting. For handwritten notes I would use Xournal.

https://basket-notepads.github.io/

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

I'm also a fan of xournal for editing PDFs (you can draw write on them) after creating them using CalTopo or similar. (And if you use linux, pdftk is totally the way to go to merge PDF files.)

When I first bought my machine I found out it had a touch screen. I thought that I would never use it though. I recently found a annotation software called xournal that offers exceptional tools to work with. This in conjunction with my touch screen has been exceptional for annotation.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

This doesn't fit your description exactly, but I'll mention it anyway.

Sadly this requires a laptop and usb-connected tablet.

I'm using the wacom bamboo connect together with xournal. It works great for my notes, and I can easily export it to a pdf.

Wacom has very good tablets and I think some of the more expensive ones can be written on portably.

I'm using xournal, which works really well.

I use it to take all my notes, and write up all my problem sets. Once you get used to notetaking and problem sets with different colors (equations in blue, answers in green, definitions in orange, for example) you can never go back.

Seriously, get off reddit and buy a Thinkpad tablet.

I'm saving up for one of these- http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Slate-EP121-1A010M-12-1-Inch-Tablet/dp/B004HKIIFI

Its a bit expensive, but all around it looks like a good computer. Wacom pen, cap-touch screen, and BT keyboard. Its enough for notes, sketching, and what ever else.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ - great note pad program with PDF annotation and exporting, really simple.

Xournal++ exists since 2013. Maybe you typoed and by your comment about abandoning you were referring to Xournal without the ++? The Xournal website even suggests to try Xournal++.

Have a look at Xournal which is a tool that can read PDFs and allows drawing lines, text, images, ... over it in a MSPaint like fashion. However, you retain the ability to delete individual drawn elements, move them, ... The result can be stored again as PDF.

I've been using this software for years and "it just works". One caveat: I'm using Linux but there is a Windows version, and since it is free, just try it out to see if it works for you.

The http://xournal.sourceforge.net does seem to be working better on my low powered YogaBook. The pen has some annoying tap touch thing I don't know how to disable so I can make normal periods and short lines.

From my experience HP laptops are horrible for Linux. You may not have a lot of luck with driver support. You may also have to mess with the BIOS a little to get it to accept a Linux install. From my experience with a Surface Book though Ubuntu has pretty good tablet PC support. It will know if you are in tablet vs laptop mode and switch accordingly. It also works with the surface pen so it might work with the HP pen.

As for programs xournal is recommended.

I Have the same plan, I borrowed a xp-pen artist 13 (too large) + xournal (http://xournal.sourceforge.net/) on ubuntu 18.04 (Kernel 5.0). Can't set-up the button: bash ~/App/xp pen artist 13.3/Linux Beta Driver(20190820)/Linux_Pentablet_V1.3.0.0$ ./Pentablet_Driver ./Pentablet_Driver: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.10' not found (required by ./Pentablet_Driver) However the tablet is detected, for writing, I found that was easier to disable the pressure detection. I think I would buy a deco 01, available for less than 50€.

The main Xournal website says

> Win32 binaries of version 0.4.8 are also available (note the windows version is less thoroughly tested and still unstable).

I been using Xournal > Annotate PDF. I just wrote a blog about it.

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This is a great Journal application. I download a example Job Application PDF file. I open up Xournal and File > Annotate PDF > Open. Now you can write with your mouse or stylus if what you have supports that. You also click in each question box and just type out your name, etc. And use the mouse at the end to add your signature to the application or what ever you have as a PDF file. Then I would export it as a PDF file instead saving the file. Now you can E-Fax it, print it out, or email it. How every you want to send it. There are more options to Xournal. Just read the manual to know more about this great application.

Thank you! So, all the Intuos series is compatible with linuxwacom? You mean this, right? http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ It's perfect, it's under a GNU GPL. I also like MyPaint, I tried with an Android Tablet. For the linuxwacom, I don't know, maybe in the latest version of Linux this tools are preinstalled. However, seems that linuxwacom project is under a GPL too :)

If you want it for annotation during lectures then either Xournal or Hoodle is the way to go. I've been using both for a couple of years now with the Wacom tablet that is integrated in my Fujitsu notebook.

A Wacom tablet. I annotate PDFs and other digital stuff with it using Xournal and could absolutely not do without it.

For annotations and "drawing on PDFs", I use Xournal. It leaves the PDF unaltered and creates a .xoj-file containing an overlay with your input. It can merge PDF and .xoj to output PDF or print your result, too.

Xournal (available via apt-get) helped me more than anything yet. Better than Okular, evince, import into inkscape / LibreofficeDraw for filling out forms in my humble opinion.

PDFstudio9 from Qoppa can do advanced Form editing, but is a commercial product.

Xournal can directly open a PDF (multipage too) and make freely any annotations with your font-type/-size / objects of your choice.

protip: if you need a pdf instead of a printout, don't use "save as" -> "pdf" als it will rasterize the original PDF and overlay with your annotations in vector. Use the printing function to save via CUPS into a PDF and everything is preserved in vector.

If anybody knows of better solutions or how you experience current form-handling of Okular/Evince, let me know

Once something is pdffed they are a real pain to edit unless you're adding, moving or deleting pages. As for actual content with the page, I just don't know. Generally I think of pdfs as locked-down.

xournal allows you to annotate pdfs which can be useful, but this is like scribbling on top of the pdf, not editing the content.

If it is your own content, what you can do is use LibreOffice and save your file as a pdfhybrid - you can find the options for it in the File -> Export to PDF menu. What this does is sneaks the odf file into the pdf so you can edit the underlying document.

It looks like either something like Xournal or a felt-tip pen on paper (which makes less sense). You can tell from some of the horizontal connections that the pen has pressure sensitivity -- he lifts off halfway through and it gets thinner before he extends the line.

For note-taking in itself, you don't actually need handwriting recognition to jot down handwritten notes (potentially including diagrams and/or formulae), it just needs to record the strokes as a vector picture, not interpret them. Come to think of it that's a major way I use my desktop stylus with Xournal.

A combination of LyX and Xournal would be nice.

But in all seriousness, I don't believe in computerized notetaking at all. A pen & paper is just great. More awesome if you use pens with different colors.

I have an old HP Compaq TC1100 and it works great for taking notes with Xournal.

I've been watching for a new tablet with pen input that is thinner and has better battery life, though. Maybe the new Toughbook Android tablet, but it will probably be expensive.