App: Mark And Scribble
Developer: Dharasis Behera
Genres: Dienst­programme, Produktivität

Mark and Scribble is a handy tool that helps you to annotate. It is loaded with tools like scribble, lines, arrow, ellipse, text, rectangle and whiteboard. This eases your job by its innate behaviour of marking and scribbling any applications and web pages by its fully packed hotkeys along with customised options & features. It is very light weight application which is easy to operate. It resides on the top menu bar and can be used whenever the specific shortcut keys are pressed. In a meeting or presentation you can use Mark And Scribble to attract audience attention by marking on the relevant portion or specific points as you present.

Marking tools
Currently four marking tools i.e. Scribble, line, arrow, ellipse, text, rectangle are supported (we are committed to add new exciting tools in future update). A whiteboard tool is also provided, which draws over other recent apps.To clear all the markings made on the screen we also provide an erase option. As name suggests, scribbling provides a free hand marking tool which enables you to draw any shapes and annotate contents on the screen. Line option can be utilised to annotate a graph, sentences to show its importance. Arrow can be useful to draw your audience attention to something specific. Rectangle can be used to spot out a paragraph or a portion of content you want your audience to focus. Ellipse is also helpful to draw audience attention to a specific portion of your content. Text is also a feature which can be added on screen above any webpage, documents, apps and will help you to write something meaningful while annotating. Last but not the least whiteboard provides a space to elaborate and summarise your thought process using all the above tools embedded.

Shortcuts
Shortcuts, also referred as hotkeys are used to activate the above marking tools. Initially each tool is provided with some default hotkeys. Each shortcut commands provides freedom of customising the hotkeys based on user suitability and convenience. You are recommended to record a new hotkey so that activation of marking tools can be handy.

Record Shortcuts
Each hotkeys takes a modifier (control - ⋀ , shift - ⇧ , option - ⌥ , command - ⌘) as a prefix, followed by other keys as per your choice. For recording a new hotkey for a specific tool, click on the shortcut key button, when the “Type New Shortcut” command is prompted inside the button, press one of the modifier keys followed by other keys in the keyboard. As you press the keys the same gets displayed on the button. User can have any number of key combinations as their shortcut/hotkey.

Operating Modes
Operating modes govern the rule to activate the marking mode. Activating the marking mode enables you to mark and scribble with the available tools on the screen using tool’s corresponding hotkeys. A small circle appears above the tip of the mouse cursor confirms the activation of marking mode. The two types of operating modes are Press & Hold and Press & Release.

Press & Hold Mode - You can activate the marking mode and start marking by pressing and holding the hotkeys. The moment you release the hotkeys the marking mode is disabled.
Press & Release Mode - You can activate the marking mode by pressing the hotkeys once but unlike the above mode, marking mode still stays enabled after the release of the hotkeys. The marking mode can only be disabled when you press the hotkey the second time.

Release notes:
Thank you. We are receiving profuse feature requests and feedbacks. It is nice to see you all using Mark And Scribble in your presentations, demos, meetings, screen recordings etc.

Now Mark And Scribble introduces Scribble Board which is  a digital board to aesthetically put down your ideas,  by using its scribble, arrow, line, ellipse, rectangle, text tools. Along with these tools it offers other features such as Reposition, Export, Import, Multi-tab, Page Extender to give an end-to-end experience while using it. This will be available to you as a paid feature.

New Features:

- Colour palette hotkeys
- Scribble Board

Enhancement:

- Arrow tool arrow-head size made smaller
- Menu bar icon made adaptive to appearance