OpenBoard

I tried a whole bunch of the these apps, and I decided that Xournal++ [1] is better than Rnote for note taking. However, I have used Openboard [2] for teaching online since 2020. I agree that Rnote's smoothing is better, but its tool selection UX is terrible. There are three different bars (top, bottom, and side), and you often need to move your mouse/hand to all of them across the screen in order to select the right tool. In Xournal++ I can put everything on the top bar. Xournal++ has it's own problems. Pasting an image always makes it so big, that resizing to the correct size is difficult. It also doesn't have a laser pointer, which is why I can't use it for teaching. Creating a new document with the correct template is also painful. Honestly, in another life, I would write a decent note-taking app. [1] https://github.com/xournalpp/xour

I have the medium Wacom. I think the small size would be uncomfortable. When I was a prof, I used the Wacom on linux with OpenBoard [1] to teach online for two years of the pandemic. My work gave me a Macbooks, but OpenBoard has some weird bugs on MacOS. So I am using GoodNotes, which is very annoying, but the best of what I tried. In another life, I would dedicate a few years of my life writing a decent note taking app. [1] https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard Edit: Besides the software, I think it takes a few weeks of writing on it daily where it becomes natural.

Miro app is something like OpenBoard[0] (which forked from Open-Sankoré 2.0, which was itself based on Uniboard) white board app.[1] [0] https://github.com/OpenBoard-org/OpenBoard [1] https://www.tecmint.com/linux-whiteboard-applications/