ElementNote

ElementNote is a handwritten note-taking, PDF annotation, and lightweight drawing app for macOS.

iPadOS, and iOS, emphasizing a clean interface, natural writing feel, and high-quality rendering experience. It offers a variety of writing tools including pencils, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, art brushes, markers, and supports gradient ink, stroke smoothing, and Apple Pencil Pro’s squeeze, haptic, hover, and scroll interactions, making classroom notes, study annotations, ElementNote planner planning, and sketching closer to real pen and paper. Within the app, you can insert text, shapes, stickers, and images, and supports PDF import annotations, batch export, lasso selection, page transfer, and notes creation from albums, among other practical operations. With local OCR, PDF and handwritten content can be searched, combined with tags, subfolders, folder colors, multi-choice drag-and-drop, and page organization functions, making it ideal for long-term management of large volumes of notes. iCloud sync and collaboration allow notes to be quickly updated across multiple devices and support multi-person collaborative editing. The intelligent dark mode adjusts the reading environment according to the system’s appearance while maintaining consistency between paper and handwriting colors.