--- title: Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation description: Rnote is an impressive open-source app written in Rust and GTK 4. It provides an adaptive UI focused on stylus input. The developers note that the native file... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rnote-an-open-source-drawing-app-for-notes-and-annotation-j5ah6007g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation | daily.dev og:description: Rnote is an impressive open-source app written in Rust and GTK 4. It provides an adaptive UI focused on stylus input. The developers note that the native file... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rnote-an-open-source-drawing-app-for-notes-and-annotation-j5ah6007g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J5ah6007G.png og:image:alt: Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · [@abhishek_foss](https://daily.dev/abhishek_foss) · 2 min read · 34 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Rnote is an impressive open-source app written in Rust and GTK 4. It provides an adaptive UI focused on stylus input. The developers note that the native file format used by Rnote may not be stable enough for compatibility between newer versions of the application. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@anubhavbhatt** · 0 upvotes > Great 👍 **@zvr** · 0 upvotes > Good! --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/rnote-an-open-source-drawing-app-for-notes-and-annotation-j5ah6007g) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/rnote-an-open-source-drawing-app-for-notes-and-annotation-j5ah6007g","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/rnote-an-open-source-drawing-app-for-notes-and-annotation-j5ah6007g"},"datePublished":"2022-11-25T10:44:37.578Z","dateModified":"2022-11-25T10:44:36.762Z","description":"Rnote is an impressive open-source app written in Rust and GTK 4. 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