I love the stickers feature which basically lets you save a drawing and then drag it when you need it and also the grid snapping feature. It has a very good UI and it's very intuitive to use. I think this may be the best one I've tried so far. It is free so I'll keep an eye on this one but realistically will not be using this. The UI is decent, but I found it confusing to navigate and not very intuitive to find the things I needed. It has a great set of features like custom backgrounds and grid sizes, a ruler and protractor. It is faster than OneNote for PDF handling but it also struggles with large PDFs (and also converts the PDF to images before importing). This is also a very good app, however it doesn't have continuous scrolling and that's quite a dealbreaker for me personally. It's completely free and I hope Microsft keeps improving it.

Also has nice ink recognition gestures like scribble to erase and bookmarking by drawing a star. It doesn't have many features but it does let you import PDF files (although just like OneNote large PDFs don't seem to work well and when you zoom in they get blurry). This one is also pretty good and it's by Microsoft themselves. I think I'll keep it and have already bought the paid version, but hopefully the developer improves it over time. Exporting PDF also converts everything to images so it doesn't look crisp when zoomed in. Also large PDF files (100+ pages) take forever to import.

However when using it I found it to be quite unreliable and sometimes it just hangs and never loads my notes. Also has a nice and simple UI that's quite easy to use. It has great features like infinite vertical scrolling, ruler and various different paper templates. So I've been looking for other apps on the store, these are the ones I've tried to so far: I know there is OneNote, but I never felt comfortable with it (exporting to PDF is quite messy with OneNote as it's tricky to have fixed width but infinite height and there are many little things I find quite annoying and it becomes laggy sometimes). I've been looking for a good application for taking notes with a pen. I'm going to start university soon (in two weeks) and this summer I was gifted a Surface Pro 7 (I had an Hp Envy x360 before).

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