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My wish list for the next version of Freeform contains only two items:

• Snap to shape from free-hand drawings (such as a square/line/circle). Other note taking apps have this.

• Infinite Zoom Out and Zoom In. Currently the canvas expands in all directions, but the zoom in is locked to 10% min and 400% max. I want my boards to be able to have 'depth', particularly useful when sketching stuff with a 'drill-down' component.

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Surprisingly enough, notes does have snap to shape the feature, really weird decision to NOT have it in Freeform unfortunately

It would be weird if they don't have snap-to-shape since notes has it. Are you pausing long enough for the snap to happen? Edit: just played with it. there is a lot missing that I would have expected- for example no ruler or fountain pen or a way to customize the toolbar. Really strange for apple to have stepped back from notes

I want to be able to export as vector graphics. It converts all lines to bitmaps.

I only want to use a pen on OS X for drawing (actuall "free form" drawing). Until that happens, I would need to buy a $700 paper block called iPad and that's not in my intention.

> I only want to use a pen on OS X for drawing (actuall "free form" drawing). Until that happens,

This has only been possible since the release of Mac OS X Public Beta, "Kodiak" in September of 2000. Hundreds of freehand drawing applications have been developed since, and nearly all the hardware available since has always been supported by the OS without a third-party driver being necessary. Wacom comes to mind as a input device developer of drawing tablets and pens that has been around on Macs long before Mac OS X was first released.

Apple prohibits tablets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34080367

For one that one app. The OS supports them otherwise along with probably hundreds of other applications, as it has always been. But let's assume Freeform did support Wacom tablets; literally no one would buy a Mac for the sole purpose of using Freeform on a third party drawing surface. But people are crazy, and unreasonably so. Because unlike the GP, people will buy an iPad just to draw in Freeform. Annoying yet clever of Apple, if they want to sell iPads.

The latest iPad starts at $399 + 100 for a pencil, so it’s $500.

The 9th generation iPad starts at $329 and often sells for less [1].

[1]: https://www.apple.com/ipad-10.2/

I want folders... A directory structure feels mandatory for something that's supposed to keep your notes, but for some reason they didn't include it at the outset.

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