Google Docs has an annotation feature that will allow you to annotate your documents just like you would with pen and paper. With today's update, announced at MWC 2024, Google Docs users on Android devices can use a finger or stylus to write notes, highlight text, and circle words as they wish. Google says the feature will work on Android tablets and smartphones, so it has real potential to give devices like foldables even more of a productivity boost. This should also make signing digital documents smoother.
Android users will have access to multiple pen colors and highlighters with the new annotation tool for Google Docs, which is good news for anyone who likes to color-code their notes. If the popularity of digital notebooks like reMarkable's tablets or Amazon's Kindle Scribe has taught us anything, it's that, as fast as typing can be, many people still prefer to write by hand when it's an option. The only thing that seems to be missing from this update is the ability to convert handwriting to text, which would allow for more extensive writing tasks. Apple is a few steps ahead in this regard, offering this functionality to Apple Pencil users on several of its native iPad productivity apps, like Pages and Numbers.
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