Vertical reading, horizontal note taking
Hi, I’m a Uni student and often times have heaps of PDF photocopies to read.
I scroll horizontally to read them as they are often times photocopies of books.
Therefore I don’t want to ‘interrupt’ the flow of the document to insert a blank page to take notes on.
I figured that if you could keep scrolling vertically to read but on each page swipe horizontally to add a page next to it to take notes on it’d be a game changer.
Once you export the file all the horizontal pages would just tuck in behind the vertical one it’s attached to.
Timo Dondrup
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Punk Ael commented
Having simultaneous horizontal and vertical scrolling would be a game changer. From a UX perspective, it offers an infinite canvas like experience while containing the main content in a linear manner.
So giving @Timo the ability to take notes on a PDF and the inverse as well. Allowing a PDF to be added as a single page of a liner story vs injecting multiple pages in the middle of a story.
This is a huge differentiator vs infinite canvas which requires more pre planning, templates, or refactoring to coherently and consistently record ideas.