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Styluslabs' Write is now AGPLv3 (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21154325

Write is a handwriting app that works on a lot of platforms including Linux which cannot be said about most handwritten note-taking applications.

More information and demo: https://github.com/styluslabs/Write/

I've used it for uni on a Linux tablet/convertible and it worked really quite well and has some nice convenient features for note-taking.

The UI looks like it's from android 4.something though ^^'

What I really appreciate about it is that its storage format are plain SVG(Z) which are extremely compatible. All you need to view your scribbles is an SVG viewer (i.e. a web browser) which basically every computer with a GUI has. Their website is in fact mostly just the output of their own app.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What licence did it use before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good question: https://github.com/styluslabs/Write/commits/master/LICENSE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Proprietary and closed source.

I always wondered why as they never sold it or had any kind of business model around it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you by chance used xournalpp? If so, is it better or worse in terms of features?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Back when I tried it it was a lot worse for my purposes.

I'd recommend you try both though.