I started to heavily use image occlusion which seems to be supported in the iOS app as well. However sometimes I notice that the image does not contain enough hints to efficiently learn the material, in these cases I’d like to augment the picture. There is no way to change the image after having added the occlusions and the text add feature is super clumsy.
It’d be nice if I could write onto the image with the Apple pencil on the iPad. The functionality seems to already be there but it is currently greyed out.
The pen icon is used for adding drawings to regular cards, and I’m afraid it doesn’t support annotating existing images.
Another option you may want to consider if you haven’t done so already is to take a screenshot of your content, and use iOS’s markup tools to annotate the screenshot. You can then save it to the clipboard, and create an occlusion from the clipboard.
The font size is often way too large which causes the text to overflow the image. Resizing text that has overflowed is also kinda hard. I’d guess an easy fix would be to allow the user to set the font size to something that fits their cards best.
You’re absolutely right. I didn’t realize that when writing the suggestion. However, this is as easy as adding a subview with the image to the PencilKit PKCanvasView.
Thanks for the suggestion. I believe that then the image size would be changed which would cause the existing occlusions to break. (I don’t actually know how it is implemented but guessing from the numbers in the cards the occlusion is set relative to the rest of the image.)
Not quite - we’d also need to consider whether the annotations are burnt in to the image or overlayed at review time, and whether subsequent edits would be possible or not. That has implications for media usage detection, exporting, etc.
If both old + new images exceed screen dimensions, and have the same aspect ratio, I suspect it might work. But my suggestion was more intended for the newly-created-card case, not for editing existing occlusions.