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by pbsurf 2854 days ago
I'm hoping to add some rough OCR to allow searching in the future. In the meantime, if you turn off pressure sensitivity (Pen menu -> Custom Pen), you'll get raw strokes in the SVG instead of filled paths.
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Oh, cool, didn't think of it! On to different projects now, but maybe some day... if you don't do it earlier yourself ;) (Though I actually like the pressure sensitivity feature very much...)

Also, in case you'd come back to this reply at some point in future: one feature I'd also love (I think I even wrote an email to you about it at the time) would be easy pasting of images into the document, and a "knife" tool, which would allow cutting them to parts along drawn lines. (And then moving and processing them separately.) I don't remember what exact use case I had for this, but I remember missing it badly.

Ah, and there was some problem with not being able to easily paste links into the document purely with stylus, i.e. without reaching for keyboard. I used Write once for writing a journal from a trip, with photos, and I think I might have had to edit the raw HTML/SVG to add links from thumbnails to full photos, or something like this.

For me, this would be perfect a perfect use for removing tablature from some guitar sheet music:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagepreviews/HL_DDS_0000...

...basically be able to slice the above image into various rows, and delete the "numbers" part, but keep + rearrange the "music" part.

Seems like the ability to paste / rotate an image and then add in a "razer-slicer" set perpendicular to page or matching the image rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SuHTHoRd0&t=1m25s

It's a relatively common operation (even for text, maybe even especially for lined text) giving you the option to write single-space (or double-space) and then magically have extra room to take notes, edit, etc, then later remove those edits.

Actually it'd be very similar to "folding" handwritten documents (in the code-folding sense).

Other note-taking tools generally do it by breaking strokes into lots of little line segments, each with a different width coming from the pressure. It works pretty well, and if the program stores the pressure-location data, the stroke width can be adjusted later. I do this all the time in Squid on Android, and have extracted stroke data from PDFs it exports.
Even inaccurate OCR could be cool if it appeared on separate, correctable pane.