Adding the ability to re-import a pdf to an existing paperpile entry would allow us to do annotations in an external app (I believe). The paperpile android app already has a share button, so we would share to some other app, do the annotation, save, re-import back into the paperpile app. A little bit of extra work, but far better than the current situation.
This would solve two (sort of big) problems;
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The problem with disappearing annotations. If the annotation is made in some other app it won’t disappear when re-imported.
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The problem with feature requests. The android (and IOS) apps are in a no-win feature race against all the other apps on the market; there is no way you will be able to support everyone’s favorite feature from all the other apps. E.g. most recently I was using paperpile android on an Onyx eink reader, and now I wish for stylus/handwriting input with palm rejection. Rather than attempt and lose anyway, using other apps for annotation gives us paperpile and the features we want.