ihatepdfs/ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

Version 0.1

• Native macOS SwiftUI/PDFKit app.
• Local PDF opening.
• Reading controls: scrolling, zoom, fit width, fit page, page navigation, search.
• Focused default reading mode with optional page thumbnail sidebar.
• Highlight, underline, selection-bound comment, and free-text annotations.
• Anchored comment popovers from newly created selected-text comments, underlines, free text, and clicked comment-capable annotations; plain highlights remain standalone.
• Annotation list sidebar.
• Optional comments review sidebar with grouping, collapsed filtering, replies, and navigation.
• Save, Save As, and native macOS sharing with standard PDF annotation writing.
• .app and .dmg build scripts.
• Visual QA screenshots for empty, reading, popover, comments, and dark-mode states.

Shipped In Version 0.3

• Settings for highlight and comment colors.
• Higher-contrast default highlights and comments.
• Standalone highlights that do not open a comment editor.
• Drag-and-drop PDF opening from the empty app window.
• Return-to-save and Shift-Return-for-newline comment behavior.
• Preview-compatible exported comments for selected-text markup.
• Safer close/open/quit prompts for unsaved annotations and reply drafts.
• Mac App Store packaging path for net.akkolli.ihatepdfs.

Preparing Version 0.4

• Keep the reader focused on open: sidebars are hidden and the PDF is fit to the available width.
• Preserve the lightweight annotation workflow: highlight, underline, selected-text comments, free text, replies, search, bookmarks, and native sharing.
• Remove the experimental Fill & Sign, form-field navigation, and PDF signing implementation from v0.4.
• Keep the direct-download DMG and per-architecture archives under the release size budget.
• Release metadata, docs, and packaging names prepared for 0.4.0 build 6.

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.