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vygadeka
Microsoft
MicrosoftPDF note-taking enhanced with support for text comments
Greetings Insiders,
The ability to add text comments on PDF documents is one of the features we provided for the PDF reader in legacy Microsoft Edge. We have heard feedback that some of y...
Please PLEASE add in the ability to include hand-written notes using the stylus. I truly miss the Windows 10 version where I could highlight and write directly on webpages as well as PDFs.
To me, it makes sense to add full PDF annotation capabilities. I started hand-written highlights and annotations 2006 using the Grahl Software product PDF Annotator when I purchased my first tablet PC running on XP. Given Microsoft 365 and the integration that seems to be happening, it seems that full note-taking capabilities as well as PDF manipulation and editing would have already been integrated into Microsoft 365 (to me it is odd that .pdf's are part of Edge rather than Microsoft 365.) There are ok extensions which continue to allow this functionality on the web - one even has an excellent socialization of the web-notes you make where you can follow folks who have similar interests as you do and be followed.
Right now, the sticky notes that are placed in the .pdf, from my perspective, should also integrate with the sticky note app and the note becomes available in the notes "folder" that can be found in Outlook. I further believe that stylus handwriting and sticky notes must become ubiquitous across the Microsoft ecosystem so I can put a sticky on a PowerPoint, webpage, or video, circle something that needs to be edited in a .jpeg and send a hand-written email to my sister who just had a baby.. I know I just jumped into areas outside the Edge prevue, but for now, please bring back web and pdf highlighting and notes. Did I say please and offer a cherry to go on top of the whipped cream?
To me, it makes sense to add full PDF annotation capabilities. I started hand-written highlights and annotations 2006 using the Grahl Software product PDF Annotator when I purchased my first tablet PC running on XP. Given Microsoft 365 and the integration that seems to be happening, it seems that full note-taking capabilities as well as PDF manipulation and editing would have already been integrated into Microsoft 365 (to me it is odd that .pdf's are part of Edge rather than Microsoft 365.) There are ok extensions which continue to allow this functionality on the web - one even has an excellent socialization of the web-notes you make where you can follow folks who have similar interests as you do and be followed.
Right now, the sticky notes that are placed in the .pdf, from my perspective, should also integrate with the sticky note app and the note becomes available in the notes "folder" that can be found in Outlook. I further believe that stylus handwriting and sticky notes must become ubiquitous across the Microsoft ecosystem so I can put a sticky on a PowerPoint, webpage, or video, circle something that needs to be edited in a .jpeg and send a hand-written email to my sister who just had a baby.. I know I just jumped into areas outside the Edge prevue, but for now, please bring back web and pdf highlighting and notes. Did I say please and offer a cherry to go on top of the whipped cream?