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Neat idea. You may have addressed this but one suggesting is allowing to creating a scalable canvas (at least vertically) and annotating that blank slate. The only software I know that does this well (with robust search) is onenote.

I am not sure if it is something specific to comp sci/engineering but most of the note taking apps have a similar focus on taking source material, pretty figures and equations, and then annotating it. Maybe it is undergraduate level nitpicking where every minutiae might be tested. This mirrors old paper-based annotating and highlighting a textbook, but not note taking which aims to summarize. I think the right panel partly addresses this which is great.

I switched to digital note taking towards the end of my first degree so maybe I’m a fossil, but my then digital approach on the life sciences/medicine side has always been the opposite: take screenshots of the important content, paste them into a note taking app (e.g. onenote), and annotate or re-organize that. That cuts down the amount of notes to sift through and then review by at least an order of magnitude, if only thorugh eliminating duplication and whitespace. Years out I still do this for my CME and during meetings.