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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Dazo5: So your suggestion is to allow that a certain custom pencil has a certain drawing tool preset, is that correct?

To get a landscape notebook, choose your paper width larger than the paper height. When you click on the `?´ aside of `Paper size´, LectureNotes gives also recommendations for landscape notebooks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Dazo5:
Yes, so I can choose "pencil 4" and it be a circle/square/line with whichever preset (thickness, color, etc) that I set it up to be.

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
Hello,

I am new to Lecture Notes, I apologize if this has been explained earlier.

Could someone please provide some details regarding the two options in "Input":

1) Enforce lifting stylus between strokes.

2) Discard coordinates between Android events.

What exactly do they do?

Thanks !:)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Gargantuanian: Some users of Samsung devices with S-pen observe `strange´ line ends. In these cases, enable the pressure filter with a threshold of about 5%. As a result, a line starts only if pressure increases beyond the threshold, and the line ends when pressure drops below threshold. If you enable `enforce lifting the stylus´, remaining with the stylus on the display and increasing the pressure again will not yield a line and you need to lift (and lower) the stylus to start a new line; if you disable this option, increasing the pressure above the threshold will start a new line.

The `discard coordinates between Android events´ was an earlier attempt to solve the problem, in this case LectureNotes does not consider intermediate coordinates (in Android terms so-called `historical coordinates´). You can savely disable this filter.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
Thanks a lot for explanation, acadoid! Very interesting option.

As I am learning to use LN, a few possible minor suggestions, perhaps already requested before:

1) Is it possible to show all 12 pencils , instead of switching between 1-6, then 7-12? (if it doesnt fit in the landscape mode scrolling through them is easier than switching each time)

2) Is it possible to make an arbitrary number of pencils instead of fixed n=12 ?

3) Reordering pencils. I know, I can simply re-set the pencils, but sometimes, depending on the task, its nice to have some sub-set of pencils at hand, instead of resetting them. Dragging the pencils to re-order would have been great.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Gargantuanian: 1. Not in the menu, but you can display the pencil toolbox (can be moved around my click-and-drag and setup in the app's tools settings) to see all 12 custom pencils. 2. No, but you have 48 recent colors to choose from 3. To allow a user-defined pencil menu has already been suggested and is on my to-do-list. If you click on preview in the custom pencil settings, LectureNotes cycles through standard and custom pencils, this allows to copy custom pencils (and also to reorder them, even though to do this is a bit cumbersome).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
I was wondering if "export to pdf and share" could be enhanced:

Due to the limitation of tablet's screen size, my workflow is as follows: I write on the tablet and export to pdf to view it on computer to see between pages. Currently I have to follow multiple steps: Export to pdf (and wait), click share with dropbox, click upload (with the default file name), click Replace for conflicting file name. This distracts a lot of attention of working. Is it possible to squeeze them into one click?

It appears that Dropbox has an api: mDBApi.putFileOverwrite to simplify some steps. I am not sure if the directory to put file is under LN's control. Nevertheless the Dropbox root directory is already great enough. Also it would be great to have the "convert to pdf" processed in the background in this case.

EDIT: As @setasai points out, dropsync could do it. Thus I take back this feature request :) On the other hand, if it were possible (I am not sure how multi-task android could actually be), it would be better to export PDF in the background while we can still view and edit notes. A end-of-task-notification should be enough to inform the users.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] setasai:
I usually just export to PDF to a default folder and then use dropsync to sync the folder w/ dropbox. The dropsync combo is pretty useful for other apps as well.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GreenFuzzer:
I just wanted to thank you for you app. I'm a long way from using all of it's features but have come up with a use others might not have thought of. My husband is ill and we will be talking to many doctors. I decided to use Lecture Notes to keep track of questions etc. Then I remembered the recorder addon. This will be perfect so we don't forget anything the doctor tells us. I tested it with the TV tonight. I had the mic facing the opposite direction and approximately twelve feet away and it picked up beautifully.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Thanks a lot for the message. Sounds promising. I will try it out.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tririver: The DropBox API requires to bind their SDK into the app (at least as far as I understand it) which I do not like at all. I do not understand why they (and others) do not use an intent-based API like Evernote, this is much easier, it does not require to include anything into LectureNotes, it does not required LectureNotes to request additional permissions (internet access), etc. In any case, you can export PDF to your DropBox account as described by setasai.

@GreenFuzzer: Sorry to hear about your husband's illness, I hope that he recovers soon.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] JJmobile:
LectureNotes - Page Flipping

@ Acadiod, I am new to LectureNotes. As far as I am aware, manual page flipping is continous rather than on a page by page basis. It would be nice if it can be done on a page by page basis to avoid page adjustment, like what S Note does. Grateful if you would include this feature in the LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
Related to the previous question by JJmobile, I would like to do the following.

For example, working in the landscape orientation, I want to set up the page to fit width, to be able to scroll in vertical direction only within this page, and to scroll horizontally between the pages. This would be very convenient to focus on one page only, without adjusting etc. In portret mode, I second JJmobile's suggestion.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Thanks, @acadoid ! Yes, the method described by setasai works great. I was requesting the feature when I didn't know there is dropsync. It is nice to have one app to do one thing well, and then combine them to get work done.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JJmobile: You can enable `align pages´ in the app's handling settings, this enforces alignment of the page's upper left corner with the upper left corner of the display and scrolling is page-wise. However, this is rather intended for users having a page aspect ratio fitting the display aspect ratio (for instances for drawings). To have an additional display mode between `continuous page view´ and `align pages´ analogously to what you suggest is on my agenda.

@Gargantuanian: You could enable fit height (this enables horizontal scrolling of pages) and zoom so that the page width fits the page width. To avoid zooming by hand, you could set one of the fixed zoom levels on the respective value.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] JJmobile:
@acadoid: Thanks a lot for your swift reply. Really appreciate. whilst "align pages" works, it does not allow moving the page around in zoom mode. Flipping page by page analogously would, I believe, definitely give an edge to LectureNotes. Glad to know that it is on your agenda. Hope it will roll out soon.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Mirkokkk:
Why does resolution become worse when I import a pdf? I set notebook resolution to 1280 × 1810 in landscape mode.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Mirkokkk: The resolution of PDF import can be adjusted. For a page in A4 imported into a notebook of 1280 times 1811 pixel, a resolution of 155 dpi is optimal (A4 has width 21 cm, which is 8.26772 inches, and 1280 dots divided by 8.26772 inches gives 154.89 dpi), assuming that you do not have margins set for PDF import. If the width and height of a PDF page is smaller/larger than the width and height of the notebook pages, it is scaled down/up.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] JJmobile:
Two Notebooks

@acadoid: Would LectureNotes allows opening two notebooks so that one can switch between the two without closing one before opening the other? This would certainly help speed things up when, say, jotting notes and reviewing/marking a document.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: The number of pages does not effect the overall performance when writing, it only slows down page counting (note that pages and layers are stored in individual PNG files, so that LectureNotes has to count how many pages are available, which is however done only once), but the latter effect should be noticeable only for a *very* large number of pages. I have several notebooks of around 100 pages, and there is no noticeable difference to notebooks of just a couple of pages.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
I'm using LectureNotes a lot more, and really liking it. I did feel like I noticed a slowdown though and wasn't sure what it's related to. Could it be related to layers? I "scan" in handouts using a camera scan app on one layer and then write notes on the page on a second layer. Could that slow things down?

As an aside, I've been syncing LectureNotes with Dropbox. IF LectureNotes stored a file (granted an extra file) as one with the layers combined that would be great since then I could view actual notes in their final form on my PC.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: Adding a second or third layer certainly slows down rendering, as two or three times as much has to be rendered on the screen.

If you share a page, layers get combined. A more convenient way to review your notes outside LectureNotes is to export to PDF and view the PDF file (note that you can export a subset of pages to PDF in notebook overview).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] surfdev:
is there a way to use the finger tool for free page movement (including zoom) and when a pen or any other tool is selected the movement becomes fully restricted? i tried fiddling with the settings but couldnt achieve that :(

i was looking for a behavior similar to that in s-notes.

Thanks for the wonderful app!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@surfdev: I am not sure whether I correctly understand the question. If you enable `allow one finger scrolling´, `allow two fingers scrolling´, and/or `allow two finger zooming´ in the app's settings, you can scroll/zoom in all modes (`pencil´, `eraser´, etc.); if you disable `allow one finger scrolling´, `allow two fingers scrolling´, and `allow two finger zooming´ in the app's settings, you can scroll/zoom only in `hand´ mode. Is it the latter what you aim at?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] surfdev:
The latter is what I'm aiming at.

I don't know if that helps but I have 'Use stylus (hardware detection)' enabled.

Right now:

1) if I enable 'one finger scrolling in all modes', it'll scroll in all modes (including pen mode) when using my finger.

2) when I disable 'one finger scrolling in all modes', it doesn't scroll in any mode using my finger, but it will only scroll using my stylus while 'hand tool' is selected.

I was wondering if it is possible to restrict scrolling (with my finger and not the stylus) to 'hand tool' only? this way I won't have to worry about the page scrolling unintentionally when the pen mode is selected and at the same time be able to scroll with my finger when 'hand tool' is selected.

Sorry if my description is not clear and thanks for keeping it up!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] quinman22:
I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it'd be nice if the index of a notebook was exported with a pdf as its outline to make pdf navigation easier. Its my favorite feature of lecture notes while studying, and I'd like my notes which I've share to desktop friends to be accessible in this way. Love this app, thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
Request for Transparent Pens

Would be great to have transparent pens in LectureNotes. I have used highlighters by having the pens mark below other pens. That works great except for the setup I use. Basically I use my tablet to take a picture of a handout I receive, put that picture on Layer 1 and then add all handwritten notes on layer 2. This preserves my ability to erase my handwritten notes without erasing any part of the handout.

The problem is when I go back to review and highlight important notes. If I highlight only text on layer 2 that works great. If I want to highlight part of the paper it's impossible. Highlighting on the paper layer is behind the image. Highlighting on layer 2 just covers the entire page and over the text (see image for example.) I think a transparent highlighter would be better and would allow me to highlight on top of the paper and still see the text on the paper image I've imported.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
So.. I'm sort of using, maybe hijacking, this thread to report bugs and issues. If there is a better place please let me know.

I want to report that exporting multi-layer notes to Evernote does not work properly. Layers are not stacked in the resulting note created in Evernote. If you'd like to see I can send an example.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@surfdev: Good point, I will change that so that one can scroll in `hand´ mode with finger if one or two finger scrolling in all modes is disabled.

@quinman22: You can export your keywords to the PDF as bookmarks (is disabled by default).

@jeggen: A semi-transparent highlighter which does not draw behind other colors applied to layer 1 should do what you suggest, shouldn't it? Layer-wise export to Evernote is actually by intention to ease handwriting recognition that Evernotes applies.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
Yes, semi-transparent highlighter would do exactly what I describe. I don't see a way to add transparency in the current version though. Hopefully a future version?

For what it's worth I would like an option to flatten layers when exporting to Evernote. Since, at least in my application, the information on each layer only really makes sense when superimposed on the other layer this function might allow for improved handwriting recognition but it significantly reduces the actual functionality of being able to read these notes in Evernote.

Is there any possibility that at some point LectureNotes would include an option to automatically Sync a notebook(s) to Evernote? If it would, I think it would be the first to offer this "trifecta" of features. (See my thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918686)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] surfdev:
Thanks for your support :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: To get a transparent custom pencil, adjust `alpha´ to values below 1. Note that transparency can presently neither be combined with pressure (or velocity) sensitivity nor softness.

To (optionally) flatten layers upon export to Evernote can be done, I put that on my to-do-list. Note that layers get flatten upon export to PDF, have you tried to upload this into Evernote? In which sense do you wish an automatic sync? In the sense of an automatic export?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
All of my pens are pressure sensitive so that's why I didn't figure that out. I'll add a non-pressure/velocity sensitive pen then to create the transparent highlighter.

I have done PDF into Evernote although I think the export to Evernote is better.

When I export to Evernote I notice the option to use the same/different UUID (right?) which makes me think exporting a notebook the second time I assume would update the existing note in Evernote with changed/updated pages. I am talking about an automatic sync where I could select specific notebooks to sync (or automatically export) after changing/saving/closing notebook or at predefined time intervals that would update the existing Evernote note with any updated/changed/new pages.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] quinman22:
Wow, that's the only thing I'd found to improve this for me. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: I can add such auto-export, but it will not be entirely automatic, as the Evernote app still requires some user interaction, doesn't it?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
@acadoid

The current functionality in LectureNotes exports to Evernote with the only interaction being within LectureNotes. If LectureNotes was capable of exporting again using the same settings as before then no interaction would be required.

What I did notice in testing this is that the function within LectureNotes that retains the UUID of the notes and indicates it will "overwrite" the existing note does not. Instead it creates another new note. So unless this is fixed everytime the note was updated to Evernote a new note in Evernote would get created.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: Exporting a notebook with the same UUID should actually replace an existing one with the same UUID (this is at least how I understand the Evernote documentation), I am puzzled why this is not working for you. Can you see the notebooks' UUIDs in Evernote? If so, after you exported a notebook again, are the UUIDs different or are they the same?

Note that the export is done by issuing a so-called intent (Android terminology) which starts the Evernote app. Whether this app that performs the requested action silently or insists on user interaction is decided by this app, not by LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] psx2pal:
Hey acadoid.

1. Can you add support for password protected pdf files. Import pdf file with password and export a pdf file and protect it with a password.

2. Protect notes with password in LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@psx2pal: Password protected PDF files are presently not supported, but this can be done, I noted it down. Note that tools such as pdftk allow you to remove the password from a PDF file (if you know the password, of course),

Password or PIN protection is requested frequently. It is pretty straightforward to add a dialog when starting the app (or opening a notebook) and require a password or PIN to be entered. But this will give users a wrong feeling of security, as anyone with a minimal computer knowledge will still be able to access your notebook pages indirectly (there are stored plainly on your SD card). A password or PIN protection makes only sense if the notebook pages are encrypted. Without encryption, password or PIN protection is more a kind of `child-protection´, if at all. Note that hard encryption is illegal in some countries, so adding hard encryption to LectureNotes could easily put me in some legal difficulties, whereas adding weak encryption could easily be circumvented and leaves us essentially at the `child-protection´ level. I anyway think that a much better approach is to encrypt the whole SD card, as for instance Lenovo and Samsung tablets allow you to do.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JJmobile: To allow that is on my agenda. In the meanwhile, note the `open recently´ items in the menu at the app's launcher icon, allowing to quickly change notebooks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Markhypnosis:
To Acadoid. I use your app all the time for note taking with my counselling clients...I love it. Since updating to jelly bean I have noticed that lecture notes now has multi screen and can be launched from the mini apps tray, and can be resized and moved around as I wish, which is fantastic. However, when I maximize the app to fullscreen the ability to minimize it again to multi window is lost. As far as I can see there is no multi window button or option whilst in full screen, but only when launched from the mini app tray. Is this an oversight or are you working on it? Thanks for a great app.

Also, is there a way to add more pages directly from a page I am currently writing on? I got to the end of a page today during a session, and had to fiddle around in the menu to get tl the screen where I can add pages. It kind of made me lose my concentration on what my client was saying. It would be great if there was an "add new page" button visible for direct and instant access.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Markhypnosis: After LectureNotes went full screen, there is no direct way to get it back to window mode. I have not (yet) found a way to do that without adding the Samsung SDK to the app (which I do not like to do). However, if you started LectureNotes in window mode and you made it full-screen, you can get back to window mode by clicking on the `home´ icon in the system bar (so that LectureNotes iconizes and you get back to the launcher screen) and starting it again from the `multi window panel´ in window mode. This will bring you back where you iconized LectureNotes (an open notebook remains open), just in a window again.

In the hand menu, you can append a single page and multiple pages and insert a single page after the current page (in the cutter menu, you can also `divide a page´, if you do that at the very end of a page, it is effectively like inserting a page after the current page). But I understand that you wish to insert multiple pages, is this correct?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] walidbang:
Hey acadoid.

1. I love ur app

Havent used normal paper since 8 months. The best app so far.

2. Is it possible to add Hyperlinks?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@walidbang: Many thanks for your kind comments. You can add keywords that contain a hyperlink, if you display the notebook index, clicking on the `keyword´ issues a view intent. LectureNotes understands `file://´, `http://´ and `https://´.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
@acadoid and everyone else interested...Samsung's 4.1.2 ROM has MANY significant multi-window improvements. One of those being, I have the window button to the right of the menu button when in full screen in LectureNotes. This is something Samsung implemented in 4.1.2. ANY multiwindow compatible app will get the button in the action bar or a floating button in the lower right.

Also, there are now modifications to allow all apps to be multiwindow compatible, and an android app to allow selection which apps should be available in the multiwindow launcher. I'm running RedemptionRom v3.1 on my N8013 and it's well worth it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] bmperrea:
Custom Notebook and Folder Covers

Acadoid - This app is what I have been dreaming about. I would not have purchased a tablet without it.

I would request the option to make an image the cover of my notebook, or even to be able to draw the cover as a page of its own and see a small view of it as what it currently the "cover". I commonly import textbooks (pdfview is wonderful) and would like to put the actual book's cover image as the :cover" for easier distinguish-ability of my books. Also - I could then make my folders look more like file folders. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@bmperrea: Many thanks for your kind comments. LectureNotes presently allows to display the first notebook page on the notebook cover (so that you could place the book cover on the first notebook page, if you wish), there is a corresponding toggle in the `notebooks board appearance´ setup in the app's display settings. To allow for drawing and/or writing on the notebook cover is on my agenda.

@JamMasterClay: I did not know that, my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 runs Android 4.1.1.