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[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@matie555: The current page can be deleted using the corresponding item in the hand menu, multiple pages are probably easier deleted in notebook overview. To divide a page vertically leaves what is above the line on the current page, inserts a page after the current page, and places what is below the line on the newly inserted page, effectively creating a full page of empty space.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Markhypnosis:
Not sure if this has been mentioned in this huge thread, I don't want to read every reply......but since updating to jelly bean today, lecture notes now has split screen. I can now launch it from the mini apps tray and resize/move it around as I want.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] kousakasan:
My wife and I both have note 10.1 tablets. We have both tried S-note and lecture notes. After a long weekend of note taking she prefers S-note and

I prefer Lecture notes. I was able to change all the settings so that it worked just like a paper notepad. One cool feature, you can set the button to erase once. After the single erase it goes back to the pen setting.

I ended up buying the Lecture Note app. That's saying a lot for someone who loves Android because I don't have to buy anything...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] abmicyau:
Me too! Haha first app I ever bought.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] matie555:
Thank you. The delete and dividing a page works.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Chowlz:
How is Lecture Notes with exporting back to pdf? I noticed that everything gets compressed into an image when I zoom in on the SNote exported pdf. I was kind of bummed because I cant search through the pdf anymore...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@Chowlz: LectureNotes is bitmap-based and the PDF it exports contain the bitmaps. If you import a PDF into LectureNotes, it gets converted into LectureNotes internal format, which is bitmaps (this is what PDFView does). If you wish to annotate PDF keeping the PDF structure intact, you need to resort to a PDF viewer.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
I think this was suggested in this thread: I just uploaded v2.0 into Google Play in which there is a text layer and much better keyboard support.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] GETCASHMONEY:
Thank you for all your amazing work. This app is one of the reasons I love my note. One request - would it be possible to have LN automatically convert imported docx, and pptx files to pdf? I have to use another program to convert, then import after. If not, its fine, just a suggestion.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@GETCASHMONEY: One could create a sibling of PDFView that reads these formats and converts them to PNG. However, this requires a free library for MS-Word and PowerPoint files, I am not sure whether this exists.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] mannyvzla:
Worths it

I bought it today from play and must say it is absolutely awesome. Good work acadoid
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] zzzzsleepyhead:
Hi guys,

I just purchased the app and really enjoy it so far. I had a quick question about orientation of imported PDFs. After importing the pdf, is there a way to rotate just the pdfs in a single notebook? I'm finding that a bunch of my lectures get imported sideways. I'm stumped but this seems like an easy fix...

I've tried playing with the settings but if I change the settings to fix that notebook/pdf set, then everything else is turned sideways.. I would appreciate any help! Thanks in advance!:victory:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] sphere314:
See posts 897 [Q] and 898 [A] here
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] zzzzsleepyhead:
Hey thanks for the reply. Those 2 posts didn't pertain to my issue and didn't help.

However I think I might've found the trick. I tinkered around with the PDF importing options and disabled the auto-rotate feature and voila the PDFs were no longer appearing sideways. Hope this fixes the problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] beeboss:
Lecture notes Is a great app, but it's uncomfortable to use it for me because when I write fast with s pen there is a lot of delay comparing to s note. It happens when I input long words especially when there are a lot of symbols like j, g, y etc
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@zzzzsleepyhead: It seems that you already solved the problem yourself, it is described in post #898 (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37779797&postcount=898) as pointed out by sphere314.

@beeboss: Many thanks for your kind comments. Do you have `enforce GPU/hardware rendering´ enabled in the device's system settings? This significantly slows down LectureNotes. You might also try to enable `fast temporary rendering´ in the app's display settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] GETCASHMONEY:
Yeah, I think that lecture notes is actually slightly quicker than s note. Not to mention its features and customization significantly place it above s note. Lecture notes became even quicker from the last update. S note is slightly better looking, but what can you expect when there are probably 10 people working on it vs 1?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] grimloktt:
I'm attempting to sync Lecture Notes using FTP & my Western Digital My Book live; however, the .nomedia files won't transfer to HD. Are they needed? Thanx!!!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@grimloktt: The `.nomedia´ files tell the media scanner not to look into this directory, so that the notebook pages do not show up in the gallery.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] prb304:
I love lecture notes. I an trying to work out a system and wonder if you can help.

Basically at the moment I hand write notes using a Livescribe pen. Then I import them to one nie and put my notes next to the imported PowerPoint show.

What would be perfect is if I could import a PowerPoint or word, and then take notes next to it or on top of it then export as apdf ready for OneNote.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] dcoales:
Event better, today I recieved an OTA update from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 and now LN has the icon in the top right corner that allows you to switch easily from full screen mode to windowed mode just like the native windowed apps.

How do people use S-Notes when it doesn't even support selecting parts of the note to move, cut or past ? Also the fact that LN saves the pages of the note as bitmaps means that by using DropSync I can have the notes sync automatically to my drop box account and read them on my PC if I happen to want to read a note when I haven't got the tablet handy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@prb304: LectureNote can presently not import Word or PowerPoint files, but you could convert such file to PDF and import the resulting file.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Kallen:
Recording sync?

One of my favorite features in OneNote is the ability to record a lecture and have my handwritten notes sync to the audio.

At each line in my notes, I can click an icon and have the recorded audio play at the point I was taking notes. It's invaluable for reviewing long lectures.

Does LN or SNotes or any other note taker have similar functionality?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@Kallen: There is an extension to LectureNotes called LectureRecordings. What LectureRecordings allows is to record audio while taking notes and to replay it in a synchronized fashion, Synchronized means here that LectureNotes/LectureRecordings keeps the information where your wrote in your notebook at a given time, and when you replay a recording, LectureNotes/LectureRecordings automatically scrolls the notebook in accordance to the audio, thereby allowing you to easily review your notes. Additionally, you can search for recordings during which you wrote something, the recordings is forwarded to that moment in time.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] hygradeb:
Is there any new on a spell checker coming and is there any way to speed up the loading time of lecture notes both when starting up and loading notes
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Kallen:
Thanks, @acadoid.

so, to be clear...

In addition to playing back the audio and auto scrolling to the notes, I can tap on a note and have it play the audio at that point?

Is that the only app that supports this feature right now?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@hygradeb: I had to disable the Android spell checker due a bug in Android that can cause a crash (annoyingly, the upcoming dialog claims that LectureNotes has crashed, even though the bug is in Android).

I received a few reports of long loading times after an update. I can only speculate about the reasons, but it seems be gone after a reboot.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] hygradeb:
Hope that bug can be fixed.

For the loading time are you saying each time this happens I should reboot my device or the one reboot will clear the for ever?

One other thing I may of missed this in the help section how to you remove a page that was inserted by mistake, and once removed wilk the page numbers automatically adjust.

Great app keep up the good work
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@hygradeb: Bugs in Android are beyond my control.

My suggestion is to try to reboot the device, this hopefully solves the problem of long loading time (maybe not forever but at least for some time).

You can delete individual pages using the corresponding item in the hand menu.

Larger modifications are presumably better done in notebook overview: Open your notebook in notebook overview (either directly from the notebooks board by a long-click and selecting `Notebook overview´ in the popup, or by opening the notebook normally and selecting `Notebook overview´ in the main menu), click on the tag icon to activate tag mode, click on the pages in question to tag them, and select `Delete tagged pages´ in the trash menu.

Notebook page numbers are alway consecutive, so that pages get renumbered whenever you insert or delete pages or rearrange them.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] CentaXx:
University starts again in about a week and i don't know whether i should use S Note or LectureNotes.

Every app has it's pros/cons.

I love LectureNotes, i don't scroll by accident. I can write like on paper. Printing works perfect with my HP, also i don't have to write as big as in S Note. One negative part is that i didn't find out until now how to import images.

S Note is a bugger sometimes.. With the MultiWindow App i can't copy from another window as in promo videos. Or i just screwed something up, i don't know. You can export it, but the pdf looks like s**t .. Also printing doesn't make sense, it will look blurred, will have artifacts and i don't want to buy a Samsung printer for it. The only thing that's pro is the Wolfram Alpha connection (i will need this, studying engineering) and better shape tools than LectureNotes (i will have to draw circuits, partly what i bought the Note 10.1 for - drawn per hand it will always look ****ty). Also, much better design but usability doesn't get better, handwriting needs really TOO MUCH space on S Note. Still it will look really bad compared to LectureNotes when converted to PDF.

I have to choose soon ... I don't want to switch apps in the semester, nor do i want to use 2 apps in different lectures. For maths, i NEED wolfram, for materials & components LectureNotes would be better - if i knew how to paste images taken in PDFs. Probably i'm blind but i didn't find this tool yet ..
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] hygradeb:
Thank for the delete advice, I will try the reboot to see if it fix the loading permanent or temp.

With the widgets is there away to have more than one on the same tab screen and instead of a notebook can the widget open a folder?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
@CentaXx: When the notebook is open, you can import images (PNG, JPEG, etc.) using the item `Import image´ in the main menu. If you do not have a file manager (or cloud) app installed, the gallery app is automatically started. You can select the image using the gallery app, but usually a file manager app is more convenient to do so. Once you selected the image, you can rotate, scale, or move the image. Alternatively, share the image to LectureNotes.

To import PDF, you need the free help app PDFView installed on your device. Then, there is an additional menu item `Import PDF´ in the main menu. If the PDF file contains of multiple pages, you will be asked which page you wish to import. Note that the full page is imported, so if you need only part of it, you presently have to import it first as a whole and cut out the material of interest (to allow to crop imported material is on my agenda). An alternative way is to display the PDF file using a PDF viewer and copy the area of interest as shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_eDpWhu058 by a LectureNotes' user.

@hygradeb: You can have multiple widgets, place them one by one on the launcher screen and choose notebook and page. You can create a shortcut for a folder (and also for a notebook) by long-clicking on it and selecting `Create shortcut´ in the popup. Note that the launcher app might place the shortcut on one of the side screens. Clicking on the shortcut starts LectureNotes and opens the folder (or the notebook, in case the shortcut is of a notebook).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] diggedy:
I study engineering at uni and lecturenotes is the main app for me.that being said, I don't use wolfram, I found snotes too awkward.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] CentaXx:
Thanks for help and advice.

I found out today how to import pictures (i really don't know why i didn't before) and the PDF import is also nice to know! I think i'll use S Note only for math lectures. Writing with LectureNotes is just impressive, i showed someone today how great it works and he was impressed.

If everything works out as expected, i will write in lecturenotes, print out and archieve at home for looking things up. I can't handle folders, it just gets messy after 2 months - problem solved with the Note 10.1. I really think i did myself i big favor with that.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] fixfox2:
Have been using Snote as my primary Note-taking app since I cannot do without the feature of ........seamlessly syncing between my "Note II" and "Note 10.1".

There have been a lot of updates to LectureNotes since my last post and I see huge improvement in text handling.

Will now give this a good work-out to see how it compares to SNote and if it does become one of my regularly used apps.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] grimloktt:
I use FolderSync to sync b/n my phone/tablet. I've been using it for a while now. No issues once you get past set-up.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] leojab:
How do you sync between the phone and tablet using foldersync... do you need to share folder for that..
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] grimloktt:
I use a WD live hd to sync a documents folder and dropbox to sync LectureNotes folder.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] hygradeb:
I have been using LN for a while now and its a great app, I am doing an Electrician course and use my Note 10.1 and LN for every thing to do with the course.

The other day I tried Payrus and found it filed a problem I had I.e have different page types in one book, I also love the way Payrus looks and the quick tutorial. I will never stop using LN but I feel I will have to use Payrus to over come any gaps I feel LN has, I may even try using Payrus for the next collage season comming and using LN for other note taking.

Since both can xport to PDF I can access my notes very easy.

Just my feelings.

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I been using LN for sometime now and thinkmits a great app and perfect for collage bar one thing which I sure will be fixed in time changing page type by a simple click. I am on an electrician course and go from plain to line to checked paper within seconds.

I have recently taken a look at Payrus and was surprised I never gave it a look before, I love the fact I can change my page type within a book just by selecting an option and can choose about 4-5 different paper type. I also loved the 1st time you open it up and get a bacis demo.

I will not stop using LN but I feel both Payrus and LN will be what I use from now on mayb Payrus for collage work amd LN or other work I do from business etc.

The fact I can put everything into pdf means I have no worry bout loosing work.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] siddharta42:
I've been looking for a good mind map app with S-Pen support but haven't found it yet, so I've gone back to using LN for mindmapping as well. To work faster I'd like to have an option that will switch back from drawing tool to writing tool after drawing a shape, much in the same way as the eraser tool (switch to eraser tool with the pen button, erase, LN switches back to writing tool). I hope this makes sense. Haven't found this in the options or in this thread. The idea is to draw a bubble, write in the bubble, rinse and repeat with as little menu icon clicking as possible.

Not certain if this is a feasible option to implement or if there's a lot of demand for it, for me it would be a nice-to-have. Thanks Acadoid for the great work so far!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=781474]siddharta42[/MENTION]: You can enable `one time drawing tools´ in the app's handling settings, then all drawing tools are automatically disabled after one usage.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] siddharta42:
Whoops. Missed that obvious setting, thanks for pointing it out. Mind mapping away.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] Mickeylittle:
Text Box?

I'm new to Lecture Notes and can't figure out how to use the keyboard in a useful manor. Whenever I try to use the keyboard it takes the whole screen. I would like to insert text boxes that I can control the size and shape of. Is this possible?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=793109]Mickeylittle[/MENTION]: LectureNotes supports typed text in two ways: There is a text layer that is essentially an embedded word processor, and there is a text drawing tool. The text drawing tool can be accessed either via the pencil toolbox (select `Show pencil toolbox´ in the pencil menu, can be moved around by click-and-hold and setup in the app's tools settings) or via the drawing tools menu (you need to enable this menu in the app's menu settings).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] pdaaalex:
Importing from SNotes

I'm testing LN (lite) and it looks great. The only problem I find is how to import the (slightly) large set of S-Notes files I have. I've tried exporting to PDF and importing, and it works, but the look of the imported file is blurry and I don't like it.

Tried importing snotes files, but it closes without doing anything. Do you guys know how to do it? Is it in the roadmap of LN?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=3042338]pdaaalex[/MENTION]: LectureNotes cannot import files from S-Notes.

When you import as PDF in LectureNotes, you might need to adjust the resolution in the app's import settings. For instance, if you use notebooks of 1280 times 1811 in LectureNotes (which is an A4 aspect ratio), the best resolution when importing A4 is 155dpi: A4 has a width of 21cm, which is 8.26772inch, and 1280dots divided by 8.26772inchs yields 155dpi (dots per inch).

Note that there are two resolution values in the setup, one for single page import and one for multiple pages import; the latter applies to creating a new notebook based on an imported PDF.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] jcooper138:
I use dropsync + dropbox to keep a specific folder updated. My notebook files are saved to that folder. It has worked reliably for a few months now.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] AndroidAble:
I am also using dropbox and dropsync. This gives me the ability to look at notes on my comouters. Not ideal having to open a file for each page, but at least I can see them. Would be nice if there was more consistency there either thru an internet app orjust one file per notebook rather than each page.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=4511536]AndroidAble[/MENTION]: You could export your notebooks to PDF; LectureNotes supports exporting only those notebooks to PDF that have been modified since their last export (`Export notebooks board to PDF´ for the whole notebooks board or `Export folder to PDF´ for the present folder), so that PDF files can be kept semi-automatically up-do-date.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] AndroidAble:
So I could export the entire board to pdf and use dropsync the same way I do now to be able to view my notebooks as single pdfs on my computer? That folder of pdfs would beas current as my last export and that would only export the modified folders from the time of the last export? Which folder does it export to, or can I pick which folder?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=4511536]AndroidAble[/MENTION]: Right, only notebooks on the notebooks board (or inside the given folder and its sub-folders) that have been `touched´ since the last export will be exported. The PDF files are stored within the directory of the notebook, so if you sync the app directory, the exported PDF files will be synced as well. Alternatively, you can set a PDF directory in the app's storage settings, than exported PDFs go there.

Note that opening a notebook means `touching´ it, even if you do not actually change something. To avoid unnecessary reexport in case you just want to read in the notebook, you can long-click on the notebook and select `View PDF´ in the popup, then the notebook's PDF is opened in a PDF viewer (and exported prior to that if the notebook has been `touched´).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] pdaaalex:
Thanks!

Other question... When I paste an image and drag around, the way of moving to another page isn't that great... I would like to drag the image to the bottom of the page and then it should jump to the next page... Is there some way to achieve this?

Up to this moment, I go to the next page using vol+ key, and then usin the cutter menu, choose to paste, but this does not work with screnshoots from S-Pen, which seem to disappear from clipboard...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=3042338]pdaaalex[/MENTION]: You can drag images over page boundaries. There is a bit of `resistance´ but just keep pulling, the image will follow. To ease that, it helps to zoom out so that you see several pages at once.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] pdaaalex:
Thanks for the great support!

Also, I have to say that multi layer support was the real deal breaker for me, but up to the moment, the best this app has, is Acadoid. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] leojab:
So true :good: .. I just eagerly waiting for the LectureNotes v2.4 update that brings in custom drawing templates :o
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] pdaaalex:
Also, I have just (and accidentally) discovered that custom patterns accept javascript and that [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION] already provided the pattern I was looking for! A perpetual calendar!!!

Here it is!

Everyday I find more advantages of this app over SNote!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 General] acadoid:
[MENTION=4401951]leojab[/MENTION]: I am somewhat behind my schedule concerning JavaScript drawing tools. I released v2.3.7 yesterday adding notebook and folder cover images, and there might be v2.3.8 with a couple of other long-pending features.

[MENTION=3042338]pdaaalex[/MENTION]: Note that most of these examples now come with LectureNotes (I include only my own examples with the app, you still need to copy and paste examples by others). To access the built-in examples, click on `custom´ as paper pattern, this brings up the JavaScript editor. Then, select `Use template´, this brings up an overview of all custom paper pattern in notebooks (to allow to easily reuse them) as well as the built-in examples. Click on one of them, this brings you back to the editor with the JavaScript code.