What would you like?
A PDF Export section in Preferences where users can choose between layout presets that apply only at export time, without affecting the in-app preview at all.
The preset should control:
- Page margins – currently very wide
- Font size – currently larger than typical document standards
- Line and heading spacing – currently very generous
Suggested presets:
- Standard – current default behavior
- Compact (Overleaf-style) – tighter margins, smaller font, reduced spacing
- Minimal – maximum content density
Why?
As a university student, Clearly has become my go-to app for taking notes — the writing experience is clean and distraction-free. However, when I export my notes to PDF to study or share them, the result is quite different from what I'd expect from a document. The font is large, the headings take up a lot of vertical space, and the margins leave much of the page empty.
Compared to PDFs generated by Overleaf (which I also use), the difference in content density per page is very noticeable — as you can see in the screenshots below.
Screenshots or examples
Overleaf PDF (first) vs Clearly PDF export (second):
- Overleaf fits significantly more content per page
- Clearly's headings and body text are noticeably larger
- Margins in Clearly leave a lot of empty space around the content
What would you like?
A PDF Export section in Preferences where users can choose between layout presets that apply only at export time, without affecting the in-app preview at all.
The preset should control:
Suggested presets:
Why?
As a university student, Clearly has become my go-to app for taking notes — the writing experience is clean and distraction-free. However, when I export my notes to PDF to study or share them, the result is quite different from what I'd expect from a document. The font is large, the headings take up a lot of vertical space, and the margins leave much of the page empty.
Compared to PDFs generated by Overleaf (which I also use), the difference in content density per page is very noticeable — as you can see in the screenshots below.
Screenshots or examples
Overleaf PDF (first) vs Clearly PDF export (second):