Drawing with a pen

Features
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joplin doesn't support pen input. I hope to get this feature, it's useful.
OneNote, Evernote, Google Keep, Notability, Goodnotes, Xournal++, and Squid support pen input and works well with wacom, ipad.

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what do you mean. It works perfectly well on desktop and mobile. And it is especially created for pen support, though without pen buttons support unfortunately

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The drawing feature was "secretly" released a few days ago!

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What platforms? Not seeing on the latest release for iPad

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It’s not out yet on iOS. It’ll be in 2.13 What's new in Joplin 2.13

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It's released now and will be in the store as soon as Apple approves it

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Is there a solution for windows? Using the pen directly in Joplin?

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To use handwriting? I think on PC you have to install the plugin manually

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correct just install the plugin and you are good to go with the same functionality and same everything

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App Store currently shows 12.12.3, what version will have pen support?

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On iOS, 12.13.10 should have drawing support. (It should also be available in the AppStore now!)

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Awesome, trying it now

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Hey guys, thanks for the plugin. I've been playing around with it and while it works mostly fine, there is one thing that bugs me: When using the eraser, I want to be able to remove only parts of the lines I've drawn and not the entire line object. This is the standard behavior in other apps such as Xournal++ or RNote. Hope that this is not too big of an issue to implement.

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Another thing that I noticed: When I'm drawing and then open settings, all unsaved changes are lost. This is unfortunate since I've lost quite some work. I'd suggest either raising a warning with a promt to save (or discard changes), or some autosave feature.

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Also, also (sorry for the spam).

I'm using @CalebJohn's amazing Rich Markdown Plugin. Here, a preview is shown (which is nice), but I don't know how to edit the file. I currently switch to the regular view, then an edit button appears. However, the preview is not updated when changes are saved.

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When I'm drawing and then open settings, all unsaved changes are lost.

This seems to happen with other plugins that display dialogs.

I've opened a Joplin bug report:

Depending on whether or not the plugin has tried to create a second autosave, this may help: Restoring from an autosave

It's planned :).

Select the ID for the drawing, then click the "draw" button.

See How do I edit drawings from the viewer?

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Thanks!

Good to know!

Ah, I remember that I had read it before but could not find it. But I only searched in the forum, I forgot there was already full documentation.

In any case, thanks again for your support and the cool Plugin! :nerd_face:

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glad to hear that Joplin support pen input, i would have a try with ipad and apple pencil. pctechtest

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Hi, is it possible to assign the eraser to a pen button? I know it's possible with other tools such as Rnote but somehow I cannot get it to work with Joplin.

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At present, the stylus eraser button should be auto-assigned, but only on some devices and versions of Joplin. In particular,

  • On Android, it should work with Joplin >= 3.0.4 (pre-release), but, because the image editor runs in a Chromium-based WebView, it might be broken on Samsung hardware. Also see this GitHub issue.
  • On iOS: Untested, should work with Joplin >= 13.0.2 (pre-release).