Xournal – free and open source software for taking notes, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus, and creating annotations in PDF files
Review
Tools for creating and editing notes, as well as adding annotations to PDF:
Xournal allows you to select the page background for your note:
Screenshots Software
Installation
The software Xournal is available for installation on Linux and Windows.
| Installation method | OS |
|---|---|
| Deb | Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian |
| RPM | openSUSE, Rosa Linux, Mageia, ALT Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others |
| Flatpak | Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| EXE | Windows |
*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)
Install Software via Flatpak package
flatpak install flathub net.sourceforge.xournal
Software Information
| Language Interface: | English |
| Description version: | 0.4.8.2016 |
| Developer: | Denis Auroux |
| Programming language: | C++ |
| License: | GPL v2 |
| Software website: | xournal.sourceforge.net |