Inking on Web Pages - Discussion

Elliot Kirk 

I use the feature to highlight and crucial text and images, to show others what I mean, IRL and on video calls. To doodle and mess about with I when I'm bored; it allows me to take notes on relevant web pages, underlining and annotating things that I would like to know or remember.

This is a killer feature and its what is holding me from switching from chrome and drawing onto screen sniper.

But there is no point unless there is pressure and rubber end of pen support, not having that is what makes all the chrome extensions useless

I would like to able to save a web page in mid edit and be able to return after a restart like I didn't stop editing so be able to rub out ink from last time.

it would be great if the webpages still functioned fully whilst inking and in saved old inks.

being able to export to png and pdf is necessary.

make it vector-based so the lines aren't super blurry when you zoom in. 

and finally, make sure the lines come out smooth and pressure-sensitive (putt in a button in if you have to that makes edge use more resources to make inking smooth), it doesn't matter it has to be done! (by smooth I mean the lines are smooth not having sharp edges not running smooth)

Elliot Kirk

It is a feature that integrated very well with OneNote by allowing editing before saving in OneNote or sharing. The feature highlighted the a seamless integration between other Microsoft software products, in this case OneNote. The extension that is available to install on the new Edge browser is very limited and is not much more than a save / print to OneNote. The extension to the new Edge browser clearly does not highlight any unique Microsoft software products integration feature offered by Edge when compared to other web browsers.

Elliot Kirk I know I'm a little late to the party, but I really wanted to chime in on this discussion. There are a few things I found very useful in Microsoft Edge Legacy that I would like to see added and improved upon in the new Microsoft Edge.

Line Highlighting with OneNote Sync

The inking feature I used the most in Microsoft Edge Legacy was the Line Highlighter in the PDF editor and the ability to add comments to the line highlights. I would like to see this feature but with a sync with OneNote option that would add all the highlighted lines and comments to a OneNote page. It would sync in the background, so as the user highlighted or erased lines, the OneNote page would get updated. I would like to see this feature not just for web pages, but also for the PDF editor and Immersive Reader. This would make it easier to note important information in articles and web pages, especially when working on a school research project. 

Inking in the Immersive Reader

I use the immersive reader to read articles without the advertisements or distractions. It would be nice to see inking features added to the immersive reader, including the features I mentioned above. Microsoft Edge Legacy did not have this ability.

Snip and Sketch Tools

Snip and sketch has a nice selection of tools that Microsoft Edge Legacy lacks, like ruler, protractor, and pencil. Adding these features would make inking more useful and would add fluency to the Windows 10 ink experience.

Thanks for you're time,

Winston

My use case for inking web pages is creating a temporary check list that can to be cleared off easily. I been doing Windows 10 upgrades as a Desktop Support technician for the last couple of years. It works really great to open a ticket web page in for apping/building a computer or user data transfer and quickly drop in inking/annotating mode in Spartan/Classic/UWP Edge while on the ticket web page to take notes or use it an informal checklist. One of the biggest benefits of using Edge to ink on webpages is that is built into the operating system and not needing to print to PDF or external program which an approval might be denied because you are a temporary contractor. It also less likely to removed/locked by aggresive enterprises that refuses anything UWP/Modern/Windwo Store Apps.

I will say what has been said before just implement inking on webpages the same exact way it was on Spartan/Classic/UWP Edge minus being locked in to saving only to OneNote.

Regarding inking on Web pages.

A fast, tight and reliable way to send web pages to Onenote would be my prefered option

I know and use the "Clip to Onenote" extention but this is unreliable, and often web pages are not transfered to Onenote.

Elliot Kirk I'm currently a University student who has to read a lot of scientific papers. The inking/highlighting/notes features from the previous Edge's PDF reader were incredibly handy in organizing my notes and thoughts, and I would love to see them returned.

Elliot Kirk My use cases primarily were research (highlighting, annotations) about certain topics, live drawing on pages to explain stuff and marking/annotating stuff so others could see it.

Sharing:

- as pdf per mail, messenger (best using the people App)

- per link, so other people still can edit it

Saving: as pdf and OneNote 

Maybe integrate it with the new collections feature (which I admittedly haven't really used yeat)

What I definitively missed was the option of generating pdfs with a high quality. 

Though I could use OneNote for that, it resulted - as far as I can remember - in bad quality.

Further, I would like to have a more direct experience with the webpage -> allow a more seemlinglessly use during browsing, and prevent creating annotations to one webpage multiple times (at least add a option to open the the previous annotations; sometimes, though, it might be desired to have multiple annotation versions)

Additionally, I would like to have the annotations synced.

Lastly, in the old version of Edge, sometimes the generated copy of the page was messed up (although looking fine when viewing the webpage)

The inking experience should be as close as possible to OneNote and also be possible with fingers. The option to add stuff using keyboard and mouse should also be there (for continuing research and editing on the computer).

Thanks for considering!

I would be looking forward to having this again (a little better).