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.