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Notable For Boox

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An open source app for stylus-based note taking on the Boox e-reader family of products.

Notes

Inspired by some Remarkable software features, Notable for Boox is an alternative note taking app on the Boox family of e-readers. It's a Kotlin app leveraging the Boox SDK to access the stylus and other hardware features, and built with Jetpack Compose.

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Some of its core features:

  • -Infinite horizontal canvas with zooming and panning
  • -Infinite page notebooks
  • -Fast page loading and overall experience
  • -Page backgrounds
  • -Simple exports as PDF or PNG
  • -Folder system
  • -Quick gestures for eraser, copying and pasting, undo-redo, and more

The app was mildly successful in this niche community, gathering a community of 300 souls on a discord server that I still manage.

This project is special to me as this is the only open source codebase that was continued by a new maintainer after I lost time and interest in building it. It still lives on as a fork and is used by a small community.

The original repo can be found here