Rnote — modded version

Sketch and take handwritten notes.

Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. It is targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet and provides features like Pdf and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.

Written in Rust and GTK4.

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FORK FEATURES — Custom Enhancements

This repository is a fork of the original Rnote. It includes experimental AI-powered features not present in the base software.

New Capabilities:

• Generate and export LaTeX file:
  • Convert handwritten notes directly into structured, compiled LaTeX PDF documents.
  • Utilizes the Google Gemini API (Multimodal) to interpret handwriting and layout.
  • Offline Rendering: Automatically compiles the generated .tex code using pdflatex (requires a TeX distribution like texlive installed).

Configuration:

To use the AI features, navigate to Settings -> AI Features within the app:

• Gemini API Key: Enter your Google AI Studio API key.
• Model Name: Specify the model to use (leave it blank to use: gemini-flash-latest).

How to compile and run this project:

just setup-dev

just build

just run-ui

TO DO:

• add prompt customization function to the user interface

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Features — original version, not the fork

Features

• Adaptive UI focused on stylus input
• Pressure-sensitive stylus input with different and configurable stroke styles
• Create many different shapes with the shape tool
• Move, rotate, resize and modify existing content with the selection tool
• Different document expansion layouts ( fixed pages, continuous vertical, infinite in every direction, .. )
• Customizable background colors, patterns, sizes
• Customizable page format
• (Optional) pen sounds
• Reconfigurable stylus button shortcuts
• An integrated workspace browser for quick access to related files
• Drag & Drop, clipboard support
• Pdf, Bitmap and Svg image import
• Documents can be exported to Svg, Pdf and Xopp. Document pages and selections to Svg, Png and Jpeg.
• Save and load the documents in the native .rnote file format
• Tabs to work on multiple documents at the same time
• Autosave, printing

Disclaimer

The file format is still unstable. It might change and break compatibility between versions.

Website — original version, not the fork

Rnote has a project website: rnote.flxzt.net

Screenshots