ihatepdfs/ROADMAP.md

# Roadmap

I Hate PDFs is a small native macOS reader and annotation app. The roadmap should stay focused on local PDF review, standards-compatible annotations, and a small bundle.

## Next

- More explicit visual selection handles for the active annotation.
- Better undo/redo integration for annotation edits.
- Optional author identity preferences.
- More granular sidebar and inspector layout memory for complex multi-window workflows.
- Fully standards-compliant reply-thread relationships through a lower-level PDF writer if PDFKit continues rejecting object-valued `/IRT`.
- Stronger interoperability test corpus covering Preview, Acrobat Reader, and browser PDF viewers.
- Import/export verification fixtures for existing annotated PDFs.
- Revisit form fill and signing later as a smaller, cleaner design.

## Later

- Optional OCR for scanned readings.
- Optional citation metadata display.
- Optional AI summaries or question prompts.
- iPad companion app.
- LMS integrations.

## Not Planned

- Accounts, sync, analytics, or cloud PDF upload.
- Bundled PDF engines or large runtimes when system frameworks are enough.
- Broad document-management features that pull focus away from reading and annotation.