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[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] titorez:
Hi, I'm testing this app on an Asus Transformer, very well coded.

I have a couple of suggestions (I know this app was built with active pen in mind so go easy on me :D )

1) Palm rejection doesn't work (of course) on my tablet (probably because I do not have active pen or similar). A quick fix to make it work on other tablets could be to only draw what comes form the leftmost touch input if I write with the right hand or from the rightmost touch input if I write with the left hand (with of course a setting to choose from left or right handwriting mode). In this scenario (with multiple touch events on the screen like the pen & the hand & probably some finger laying around) the app should recognize the pen and not the hand laying on the screen 97% of the time effectively doing some sort of palm recognition. What do you think ?

2) Some of the setting like thickness and color should be taken out of the menu and put on the main UI for even quickier access.

Thanks for your app and your time :D
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] headdy:
I second that. Maybe something hidden in the corner like the Pen selection menu on the HTC Flyer:
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] xd2009:
Volker,

I do want to thank you for the amazing app. It really does what I had hoped the stock notes app would do. Quill is so good that I actually would like to ask for a few improvements that would make it perfect for me (and perhaps for others). I am no programmer so I am don't know how much work would it be to implement them

I am a Physics teacher and I use Quill to provide help to my students both, with them and when they email asking for help. I also use to take notes in meetings.

1 - I use wordpress to upload the extra help I provide the students to our class blog. It would be excellent if the option to share with word press was included in the export menu.

2-I need to change color and thickness several times as I color code my explanations (black for forces, blue for components, etc). As someone else has asked, would ne good if these choices were taken away from the menu and placed in the main interface.

3 - I believe this one is a bit of a stretch, is it hard to include the option to import pictures so we can in a meeting or demonstration, take pictures and annotate them?

Please don't take me wrong, I never asked a dev to include specific changes before, but I did like your app and the 1st request seems to be not so hard. The others would benefit several users, I believe.

Thanks

xd2009
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Volker1:
I do read the forum, no worries. If I don't reply immediately then that means that I'm busy implementing new features ;-)

If you have the wordpress android app installed then you should be able to "Share file via: Use other Android app". Did you try that?

The rest will be coming in future versions...
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] xd2009:
Volker,

I tried Export/Use other Android App and the options that I receive are:ArcSync, Bluetooth, Dropbox, Email, Evernote, Gmail.

Thank you very much for your attention.

xd2009
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Volker1:
Should be fixed in the next version (export as PNG and share with Wordpress app)
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] xd2009:
Thank you very much for your attention and for the amazing app.

Yours,

xd2009
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] mysparkle:
Fan art :)

Hi, I just felt I needed to tell everyone that Quill is by far the best sketching app for the ThinkPad tablet!

Made some fan art to give some love back ;)

Hope you like it :)

Ciao,

Lars
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] obscure.detour:
That is super rad mysparkle! I like it a lot :) And yes, Quill is amazing!

Cheers.

Edit: Holy ****! Volker the new update is awesome! Fantastic work!
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] acebogomir:
Volker great work!!!

I tried a lot handwriting apps in the last week but quite frankly they suck.

I like quill and I think it will fullfill most of the needs I have for the app and my tpt. It's the best app so far.

I used a normal windows tablet with one note and windows journal a lot and still do.

I wish there would be a way to combine them somehow. This would be something for my wishlist

Export to Windows journal

Export as one note file with ink support

Thanks
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] xd2009:
@ Mysparkle, I wish I had just a little bit of your talent.

@ Volker - Thank you very much for the update. Quill is, at this point, all I needed for note taking. Anything else is wish list.

I am rating Quill 5 stars everywhere.

xd2009
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] rangercaptain:
Can we please have a way to have user- selected settings? I want PDF export and internal memory to be default.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] mr.sev:
I would love and be happy to pay for this on the Galaxy Note...
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] d10221:
ICS Fixed it!

Amazing app, I'm using it on an ICONIA A500, and it works great. and its Open Source!, brilliant.

The only thing it doesn't do or I didn't find how to, is to quit the application.

Back button takes me from the drawing board to thumbnails and back. only way to exit seems to be to hiting Home.

I'm currently using using v8 from google code.

I connected a Manhattan graphics tablet the usb host, active digitizer (detected as WALTOP, and probably using the wacom driver from the Kernel, just guessing the last one),

It wasn't working until I tweaked the idc configuration. now its working also pressure sensitive! , its a killer combo! to sketch or take notes.

and also way cheaper than 10 inch android tablet with an inbuilt digitizer.

With Android HC 3.2 on diff kernels and Roms the problem is ...

There isn't a a cursor or pointer when the Digitizer is working as a touchScreen ,

and if working as a pointer device you do have a cursor/pointer (like a mouse or Spots)

but...it works in relative not absolute MODE.and looses the pressure sensitive operation as well

Also when working as a pointer, you need to double tap to start writing, it doesn't feel natural, you have to write a character at a time (full stroke and release tapping again).

This has nothing to do with the app it sel, is a Honey Comb issue, not having defacto Stylus support (TouchScreen,TouchPad,Pointer, thats it)

With Android 4.0 ICS it just works!,

It Needs to be setup as a pointer but you do have a cursor, pointer, its absolute positioned and pressure sensitive. Voila!
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] twospirits:
I finally got my Thinkpad tablet this week and started to work with the default notes app on it. Its good but that palm rejection that doesn't work really was disappointing. I then remembered about this app and bought it. OMG what an app. very well done and the suggested updates just keep on coming. Whats even more amazing is that it is the only app from the developer on the market. I would have thought he would have had numerous other apps. For a first time app its one hell of a good one.

I am sure once i use it for a while I may also come up with a few suggestions for future updates, but so far it is Awesome.

TS
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] RehaCk:
Hey everyone,

First of all thank you for this amazing app Volker! I just have one request, would it be possible to make a "lasso-mode" ? So you can rearrange your written stuff at a time instead of erasing and then new writing.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Htcrezound1:
Ya i know
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] TSGM:
I wanted to repost the little review and suggestion that I made in the HTC Flyer forum, in the hopes that the developer would catch it here:

A true fountain or calligraphic pen stroke is something that I'm most excited for the possibility of in terms of a future development.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] jrpowers:
Fantastic job

Incredible application.

The vector aspect is absolutely crucial. I don't know how anyone could think a raster solution makes sense for notes ( or sketches).

I like the focus on fast responsiveness, this is easy to ignore in favor of other features, but without fast capture, nothing else matters. Keep focusing on this and any more responsiveness that can be achieved will go a long way.

I do agree with other commenters that a lasso mode would be incredibly valuable. The think pad pen's button would be the way to activate lasso. Something just like Microsoft one note would be great. Does android expose access to the button?
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Volker1:
I do follow the Flyer forum as well. Its a good idea but not that easy to implement. The reason for the current behavior is that it is fast, only using Android primitives.

ICS has a stylus API, but Honeycomb doesn't. I still don't know how to access the stylus button state on the TPT. We might have to wait for ICS...
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] HecaThePeca:
+1 for Samsung Galaxy Note version!! It has wacom and gingerbread 2.3.6, so maybe it's not that simple? Anyway, the next Samsung tablet will almost certainly have the S-Pen too, so heads up Volker! ;)
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] TSGM:
Ah, I see.

Although Quill's use of vector graphics seems to be unique (compared to Notes, for example), why is it that the resolution of Notes is so bad? Sketchpad Mobile, which presumably uses bitmap graphics, has a beautiful calligraphic pen output, which is butter smooth. Presumably, this has to do with attention paid to smoothing the edges of lines.

The reason why I bring this up is that in my naive opinion, vector graphics is not really important to note-taking. What is important is a high resolution page which can be zoomed in-out (a feature which Notes lacks), and a smooth brush of the sort of Sketchpad.

In fact, I think Sketchpad would be well suited for taking notes, if only they offered a notebook format, with multiple pages, and syncing with Evernote.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] HecaThePeca:
No, it's very important to have vector graphics for long notes. Zoom should work much better too, since there's no pixels.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] sakobatoneko:
I got to say this is the best note taking app i have tried! This app is great for taking notes for math and science classes. I have two request; could you implement away to create lines and shapes (circles,triangles, etc...) and use the keyboard folio to take notes.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] tnnm:
Volker1:

This looks to be an amazing app (I don't have an Android tablet yet so I haven't tried it). That said, does your development roadmap include plans to implement synchronized audio recording (similar to MS Onenote)? That feature would get me to go buy a Thinkpad or Jetstream after work today!

Thanks,

Tony
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] iammarrk:
PDF Import

To echo what others have said, this is a great app. One thing that I would suggest is:

Add the ability to import a pdf to markup.

All of the pdf markup apps assume that you are highlighting a text document, but nothing is geared toward students marking up powerpoint slides exported as pdf.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] TheRealBubba:
Yeah, that would be awesome!
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] headdy:
That would be a great function but I think Quill should be for taking notes only.

I would recommend to consider releasing a lone-standing app based on Quill's core to ink in pdfs.

It would keep Quill simple and understandable and give you the opportunity to earn a few more bucks for your outstanding work.

Right now I'm using ezPDF but it sucks not to have a digitizer-only function
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] hassan19:
thhhhhhhhhhhhhhanxx
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] bsoplinger:
It would be nice to do pdf markup with something like quill. But I agree that it might make more sense to have a different app for markup. Having another app to earn a bit more seems like a good idea too.

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[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Skilover:
Problems with Samsung Galaxy Nexus (phone). Part of the ink palate is hidden under the arrows, so you cannot access those colors. Trying to use the detailed colors from the menu is impossible unless you want red, as you cannot scroll it. It appears there is a scroll handle, but it doesn't work. Whatever the left logo is supposed to do when you press on it, it simply F/C the app. Also, there's no choice but to use the bottom to lean on , whether you set the setting to make it ignore gestures or not, it does ignore them. NOTE:: this is a ICS phone.

Some apps use a writing line that allows you to write at a normal size, and then it's placed into the document at the reduced size, allowing you to write on phone and still get a meaningful amount onto the page. On a tablet, this is less necessary, but done right can be useful. You have to be able to adjust the size, however. You also have to be able to switch this off, so you can draw. It can be tricky, but can be useful. HotAllMemo seems to have a nice approach to this.

I'm totally impressed by the resolution of the lines drawn, and the speed and responsiveness of the app!!! no jagged edges at all!!
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Skilover:
Anyone supporting this app at this time? It's been quite some time since the last post with no reply.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Skilover:
The feature of uploading to Evernote was fantastic--however, when i view the document in evernote on the tab, its blue print on a black background--how this happened, I have no idea. On my computer, in evernote, it looks fine, blue on white. Ideas?
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Volker1:
I'm still alive, don't worry ;-)

There is a bug with occasional corruption of the exported bitmap if no background is set, I'll push an updated version to the market over the weekend.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] manuelcalavera:
Volker1

Since the root is on its way, is it possible for you to disable touch input completely (Pen Only) to have better experience with your device ?
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] xd2009:
Volker,

I really want to thank you for this app. It's been very helpful. I would like to suggest 2 features but since I don't now anything about coding, I don't now if they are simple or not to implement.

1 - Allow to import (or open) pictures and PDF files so we can annotate on them. This would make taking classes and/or attending meetings a lot easier.

2 - Allow to attach an audio recording (this one might be a little of a stretch).

Thanks for your attention.

Alex
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Cam2505:
Ok, so here is my wishlist:

I know nothing about this, but given that this is just vector graphics, is there any way you could create a minimalist PDF reader using the Quill setup over existing pdfs (and then save with separate layer rather than flattening)? Or even a word/ppt reader? In an ideal you would be able to have a pdf/powerpoint slide pushed to the left side of the screen, and the right side would have an area to write notes (though of course you could write anywhere). being able voice record and calendar link (like the HTC Notes app) would also be great, but are less essential.

Also - any way you could create a sub option when using N-trig stylus that allows 2 finger pinch at all times, so you dont have to switch to zoom mode? It would also be useful to have an indicator in the corner of the screen while zooming to tell you what % zoom you are at.

Another request would be to create a pen size between Thin and Medium please.

Finally - is there a way of making a bigger canvas, or allowing zooming in further. I ask because I like to draw big infographs, getting more detailed as you focus in on the items. It would also be useful in this case to have an option to scale the width of the pen with your zooming, so that as you zoom in you can write with the same thickness, but then when you zoom out again it is actually smaller.

Cheers

Cam

Edit:

The ability to lasso and move items around/resize would also be useful
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] tableteer:
This is possible without root.

@Volker1 Great app! Thank you very much.

I was about to start my own note-taking app in March, but Quill is just awesome. Will you need help developing?
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] manuelcalavera:
I meant Pen Only mode at OS level . and it needs root .

There are several problem for using this awesome app .

1- hitting the bottom bar accidentally ( when touch layer deactivates at OS level this wont happen )

2- check first post of this thread out and watch the video .

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPa...mode-for-whole-OS-is-a-must-Proof/td-p/654801
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] tableteer:
I don't see the point.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] manuelcalavera:
maybe it has something to do with your understanding . look at that topic and read the complains
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] TSGM:
I'm from the HTC Flyer forum (where Quill is also developed), and I had the same idea, but perhaps on a more elementary level: it would be really useful to have two workspaces or a split screen format, where we can have two distinct pages of the same notebook displayed. I often flip back and forth when creating notes, and this would be a huge feature.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] tableteer:
Pretty sure it has more to to with other people's abilities to use their tablets. Nevermind.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] TSGM:
Well, (again coming from the HTC Flyer), I also think that a pen-only mode would be useful. My wrist often hits either the hardware buttons of the flyer or the lower taskbar. There are root-access programs which can turn off hardware buttons (but not on the fly) and also turn off the taskbar, but in my opinion, these are unwieldly.

So here is another recommendation for a pen-only mode in Quill.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] tableteer:
Your problem has nothing to do with Quill. A pen-only mode within the app can be done without rooting.

If you want to have pen-only for the whole system, you should ask elsewhere (and no, I don't see the point).
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] manuelcalavera:
AFAIK This is Volker1's topic . no one asking from you .

So please be quiet and let Volker1 answer . His answer is much appreciated, no matter is negative or positive .
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Theaxer:
scroll/pan

Is it possible to pan/scroll while zoomed in without activating the zoom mode, that is I don't want to change from my pen to zoom but still be able to move the page.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Volker1:
Once root is out I'll have a good look at the available apps that can hide the bottom status bar; if necessary I'll certainly re-implement it.

@Theaxer: You can use the two-finger-scroll gesture. Make sure that the fingers are more than half of the screen size apart.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] manuelcalavera:
Root is out and works perfectly
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Theaxer:
Well at least on the transformer prime two finger scroll does not work. The setting is greyed out, is this not supposed to work on the prime?
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] hasseye:
Grad Engineering student here and i'm on the HTC Flyer, been using HTC Notes for all of last semester and it has been lacking some key features for me.

I heard all the big hype of Quill and just tried V8.3

The only thing stopping me from using this over HTC Notes is that their is no Audio Recording. It's a HUGGGEEE no-no from me, i like to record the lecture while taking down notes. To me it seems like it should be a relatively simple integration.

The other thing stopping me, although not as big, is the fact that the erase button on the HTC pen is not functional. It's so much easier to click the little button to erase rather than having to tap on a new area on the screen. Again, seems like a relatively small change

If these changes can be made I think your software will clearly have the dominate upper hand compared to any other software out there - yes including HTC's as well.

PLEASE PLEASE try to integrate these as soon as possible :) thanks
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] mandrsn1:
I use my Thinkpad for some classroom notes and wish I had it in engineering school. It would have been great.

I am in law school now, at least in the state I am in (Illinois) it is against the law to record a class unless every person in the room gives their permission. It is weird.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] HecaThePeca:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/samsung-well-douse-kindle-fire-by-offering-more-features-pen-tv-integration

"Do you see Samsung leveraging pen input on larger screen sizes as well?

Bidan: Yes, I think so. I think a pen interface continues to make a lot of sense across a number of screen sizes, like the larger is more obvious of those. That’s about as specific as I can be without announcing a product."

Please add support for S-Pen soon! :)
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] Cam2505:
I would also like to echo this - it would be great to use the integrated erase button on the pen.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] WisdomWolf:
This is the only feature I'm really looking for. The ability to rearrange notes was in Microsoft Journal and/or OneNote and is wht makes digital note taking so appealing to me. I don't know how feasible it is to implement, but I wanted to add my name to the hat of people requesting this feature.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] HecaThePeca:
Same here, this is a very important feature! Also inserting space is very useful. Please take a look at how e.g. Windows Journal does it.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] headingwest1:
Convert Quill to Text

Hi,

This actually works well on my Galaxy Tab runninb 3.1

But what would make this REALLY useful is an "export to text" function so I can search through the notes. Does anyone have any ideas or know of apps that can take the Quill output and convert to text? I have Evernote but I can't see this function.

Thanks for any help,

Jim.
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] cp_kirkley:
If you saved it to PDF, and uploaded it to a computer, I'm sure any number of OCR programs could do the job for you. Of course its one more step of work, but its an option.

On a side note, I need to thank the App developers for such an inredible app - by far the best/most accurate I have used, and I went through like 15 diffent apps trying to find something serviceable. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
[Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps] bsoplinger:
I believe the Evernote option requires you to upload the note to the Evernote cloud because that's where the OCR magic occurs.

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