A pen that behaves like a pen

Highlighting, noting and redacting cover most of what you want to do to a clip before it lands in OneNote. They do not cover circling the one thing on a screenshot that everything else on the page is about. For that you want to draw.

Clipperjay 0.8 adds it: a pen, a marker, and an undo button.

Two tools, not one tool with settings

There is no nib picker. There is a pen and there is a marker, and they behave as differently as a highlighter behaves from a redaction:

The pen is opaque, thin, and varies its width with pressure. Press harder and the stroke thickens, exactly where you pressed. Lift and it tapers.

The marker is a wide translucent band held at one width. Pressure is deliberately ignored here. A marker swipe that thins in the middle stops reading as one swipe, and the whole point of a marker is that a single gesture covers a whole region.

Real pressure when your stylus has it

If you draw with a stylus that reports pressure, Clipperjay records what the digitizer actually measured — a position and a pressure value per sample — and draws the stroke from that.

If you draw with a finger, there is no pressure to record, so the renderer simulates it from how fast you moved instead. Strokes are stored in the image’s own pixel coordinates, like the rectangles for highlights and redactions. Zoom in, rotate the phone, open the same clip on a tablet: the mark stays exactly where you put it.

Undo

Annotations in Clipperjay are written to the database as you make them. There is no “save” step and no edit session to throw away — nothing is lost if a call comes in mid-markup.

We hope you like it :)

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Clipperjay is on Android. Get it, clip something, and scribble on it.