Thanks for the input guys!
I think we can squeeze in some simple line styles initially, like the dotted & dashed variations, without getting bogged down with too much fancy stuff. Transparency is something I've wanted to do for ages but it impacts the PDF export so that'd probably still need to wait.
Good point. We're actually introducing a colour picker drop-down to the toolbar for the rich text support so we'll need to see about making use of for the notes also. The standard approach seems to be a white colour box with a line through it to indicate no colour setting.
Re the left/right colour issues - this gets more complicated due to the addition of multiple splits - i.e. customisable numbers of colours, pie chart style if you will! This is something Shmuel alluded to when mentioned three colour support - we want to be more flexible and add say up to 6. I don't think your suggestion will work in this situation. I had also assumed the left/right settings should be independent from the full-solid colour though, which is why it's the way it is at the moment!
FEAR NOT! Another thing we plan to add is a "Style Painter" tool which I think is found in MS Office - basically it'd be a style copy/paste function, so you'd click the tool then the note you want to mimic the style of (fill/stroke/etc) and then click on other notes to "paint" the same style on them. That's make life a whole lot easier, right?!
OK sounds like we'll need to support colour splits on the stroke also. Actually that probably does make sense seeing as you'll be able to make the stroke much thicker then it'll be more visible anyway and so more useful!
Better still, we're close to the first v2 Beta so you'll be able to play with it soon - both of you will be keen to give it a try I'm sure (& hope
) Probably not the style painter in the first public beta build though. So if things are still aren't quite right you can let us know and we'll change them until they are!