Freeform

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2022–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Freeform, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Freeform freezes constantly and randomly unsaves work with 100+ notes2026-04-21
Lagging as each new drawn line joins one growing group2025-03-04
Imported PDFs stay as linked attachments, so pages can't be marked up inline2024-06-12
Cmd-F search cannot find handwritten scribbles on the canvas2022-12-21
Zooming requires trackpad gestures instead of the expected Command-scroll, which feels unintuitive on Mac2022-12-21