Accent

During my master's studies I was working on a PDF editor called "UNote" as I was missing an open-source solution on Windows to annotate PDFs directly without having a separate file format. It was my first time using PyQT and trying to combine that with PDF parsing and annotation editing. I came quite far back than; enjoyed a couple of semesters using my own PDF editor for annotating lecture slides and doing coursework.

At some point during my master I switched to Linux (and never back again) which allowed me to use Xournal++ and since UNote was never written for Linux, I kinda abandoned my own software.

During my PHD, I required a software to manage knowledge (markdown documents) and papers for which I used Obsidian for many years. Combined with VSCode for software development, these two became my most used applications on my convertible notebook.

However, I was always annoyed by the fact that VSCode requires a proprietary part for remote ssh and Obsidian being not open-source at all (although having a strong community focus). Furthermore, I got a bit frustrated by the slow performance of the latter both apps not looking native in Gnome.

This motivated me to revive my old application but gave it a complete rewrite from scratch. I've used Rust to maintain a high performance for indexing notes paired with a GTK4 frontend. Feel free to checkout the result, Accent, on Github.