Show HN: BraiNOTES, handwritten notes on your lecture PDFs in a browser tab
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(I didn't excpect it to get that much feedback, bug reports and help from here!)This is the same idea for the other half of my studies, the handwritten notes.
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Open a tab, the slides of the lecture or multiple PDFs open next to the page or even become the page, write on them with my pen, and nothing ever leaves my browser.braiNOTES is a static website and has no backend.
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Strokes are perfect-freehand outlines which support pen pressure, the PDF files are rendered by pdf.js in a worker, and for storage it uses IndexedDB a moment after every change.
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