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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jasonchewy91:
Hi, I realize I'm unable to use swype in SwiftKey Flow in lecture notes keyboard function. I'm unable to fully utilise SwiftKey 's auto correction features when typing too, the top suggestions bar doesn't appear. I face this problem with other keyboards too and in other apps too like Polaris and s note. I really want to find an app which can let me type many words using SwiftKey, but lecture notes is not allowing me to. Are these problems a keyboard app compatibility problem or the app itself? Would it be possible to allow full compatibility of lecturenotes with more keyboards? Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Styling

This app really rocks! I bought it yesterday and have been playing with it all day to explore all possibilities. The response from the developer in this forum is amazing. There are 2 things I haven't seen yet that might be nice additions (sorry if I overlooked the possibities):

1. The possibility to have more themes besides the current white and black,

2. A map oriented view, like S-Note. On the left side the maps stucture and on the right side the notebooks.

Big compliments for the app!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@krmurphy: LectureNotes is bitmap-based, not vector- or object-based, so an imported image is not kept as a distinct object which can be later moved or resized. However, you can select it with the cutter tool, cut it and resize/move it, as pointed out by Axel_.

@Jasonchewy91: LectureNotes has no bias or preference concerning soft keyboards, in fact it does not even know whether you are using a soft keyboard or a hardware one, it only sees key down and key up events. In this sense, an app cannot be compatible or not compatible with a certain soft keyboard. If your soft keyboard does not behave as you think it should, I suggest to report this problem to the developer of the soft keyboard.

@gertgertgert: Many thanks for your kind comments. 1. What kind of themes do you have in mind? Colors are largely a matter of taste, so it will be difficult to provide more colorful themes that suit users in all aspects. 2. Are you referring to a kind of tree-like representation of the notebooks board? If so, select `ultracompact´ in the notebooks board appearance´ and enable `display as tree´.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] brohymn722:
Indifference Curves

Hey Acadoid,

I am in taking a lot of economics classes and make a lot of graphs. I use the tools you provided to make linear lines for my models but I was wondering about the possibility of adding an indifference curve tool? At the moment i draw my indifference curves by hand and it makes my nice graph tables ugly. I understand your busy but it might be a useful tool that other people would find useful. Thank you!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Style

@gertgertgert: Many thanks for your kind comments. 1. What kind of themes do you have in mind? Colors are largely a matter of taste, so it will be difficult to provide more colorful themes that suit users in all aspects. 2. Are you referring to a kind of tree-like representation of the notebooks board? If so, select `ultracompact´ in the notebooks board appearance´ and enable `display as tree´.[/QUOTE]

Thank you for your quick reply...

1. You are absolutely right, it's all a matter of taste. Personally I would like it very much if I could make a choice between some greyshades (lightgrey theme, darkgrey theme etc.). But it would be the best if the color of the main components (menu, menutext, backboard) was free of choice. Then it would be suitable for every user.

2. The tree look was indeed what I ment. But for the eye it would be nicer if you could represent an 'icon style' instead of just text.

I like zooming on the notebook board very much. You can resize the icons as small or large as you wish. It's a pity that the text on the folder or notebook also resizes (when you like smaller icons), it gets unreadable pretty fast. About 70% is my favourite but the text is hardly readable then. Is it possible to just resize the icon and keep the size of the text the same?

Your work is highly appreciated.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

I don't study economics but engineering and use a lot of graphs as well, usually really messy ones to describe signals and stuff. Those are hard to plot using some kind of software but for almost every other input the equation given to the graph into WolframAlpha and make a screenshot of the graph that you insert probably will be the easiest way to go to get nice and accurate graphs. For those graphs you don't have nor can get an equation without too much effort, another program like SNote with its shape recognizer might work. But for those I personally would prefer the WolframAlpha method using values that make some sense and make the scale of the axis yourself.

Good luck!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
2 questions regarding the text layer:

-If I write something and then I decide I want the text to be smaller or in serif instead of sans, how can I change it? Cause when I select the text, the native android bar with the options to copy, cut, paste, select all, covers the toolbar of LN...

-I can't get SwiftKey text predictions to work on LN text layer... SwiftKey predictions aren't supposed to work on fields like URL bars and login forms for obvious reasons, but it's behaving the same way in LN... On other apps it works ok (like when I'm writing this post). Could it be something in LN's code or configurations that makes SwiftKey behave this way?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jasonchewy91:
Thanks for the reply. Could you please include an option to fix and choose the font size of texts? Currently the default size is too big and the smaller option is very inflexible and buggy in that it changes back to normal size after changing the screen orientation. Thank you!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@gertgertgert: How should a tree-like appearance with icons look like?

@Cocax: 1. If you long-click on the text, you bring up the cut, copy, and paste tools. To select text for style change, use the keyboard cursor keys while keeping the shift key pressed. 2. I am not sure whether this is connected, but I had to disable the Android spell-checker because of a bug in Android (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41971), as this bug caused LectureNotes to crash occasionally and it looked as if the bug was in LectureNotes (the dialog says `Unfortunately, LectureNotes has crashed.´ even though it should actually say `Unfortunately, there is a bug in Android.´).

@Jasonchewy91: You can adjust the default properties of the text layer in the app's handling settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jasonchewy91:
Thanks for the reply got it!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
That works, but it's necessary to use a soft keyboard different form the default one (i.e. hacker keyboard).

I think that, for GNote 10.1 users it'd be better to have some other solution to be used with the default Samsung keyboard, which doesn't have cursor keys or shift/alt keys.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Tree

@gertgertgert: How should a tree-like appearance with icons look like?

Kind of like the list view in S Note. On the left side the available folders / maps and on the right side the subfolders and notebooks (eventually icons from notebook pages shown) in the selected folder. It's ideal for quick navigating through available folders. For the folder and notebook icons a style like the current shortcuts on the desktop (title under the icon) is prefferable, otherwise the text on the icon might not be readable with smaller icons. I really hope you understand my lousy explanation ;)

Any ideas/plans of eventually making more color themes available?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] quadratimkreis:
Agreed. A text input box (somewhat like photoshop) would be perfect. It would allow users to create discrete units of text that could be manipulated and moved independently from one another.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: I uploaded v2.1.3 into Google Play in which there is an indication when you type text outside the visible area.

@sphere314: Which alternative solution do you suggest?

@gertgertgert: To (optionally) place the notebook/folder title below the icon for small icons is a good idea, I noted it down. Let me think a moment about the tree arrangement that you suggest.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
I also would appreciate the tree arrangement on the main page. Already an excellent app of course!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
Not easy to think about one...

As a user I'd expect that, after selecting part of the text in LN's text layer I could be able not only to cut/copy it, but also to change its formatting options.

But I'm also aware that the normal text selection just triggers the default android menu for just cut/copy it.

So... there should maybe be a proprietary LN's selection tool (like the cutter) to operate on the text, equivalent to using the shift+cursor key on the Hacker's Keyboard.

But I don't really know how complex would be implementing such a thing...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] opimpao:
Finger as eraser

I would like to know if there is any way to enable a feature that is available on Papyrus, finger eraser. I have found this feature very useful and would love to see it in lecture notes and it would complete it for me.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sphere314; To reimplement the cut, copy, and paste functionality would be quite some work, and even doing that would still leave the problem unsolved how to display cut, copy, and paste functionality and keyboard menu at the same time. One might use a double-tap (instead of a long-click) to start selection for style changes. Let me think a moment about that.

@opimpao: Erasing by finger instead of scrolling is not (yet) available.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Does anyone know how to set the zoom and pan modes to be able to zoom in at any point of the page when I want do draw something but not have the problem of the page "floating around" when I rest my palm on the screen and writing without zoom active? It's quite hard to explain, but the best settings so far involve "align pages upper left corner to the screens upper left corner" under handling and then two fingers mode everywhere at input. This however, makes me unable to zoom in the right hand side of the page, but if I un click the corner setting the page is floating around like crazy. Click/un click the zoom and pan option in the action bar doesn't help either, the page is still moving horizontally.

So basically, the paper should lay nice and still when I write with no zoom but I still want to be able to zoom in at any part of the paper.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
I liked the new feature that when the stylus is near the top or the bottom of the page the page scrolls automatically. However, when I move the stylus to the selection bar to select items like pen, eraser, settings, etc, the page keeps on scrolling. I guess it may be easier to use if the scrolling stops when the stylus is on the selection bar to select items.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] 299792458:
I had this too......make sure you dont have 1 finger scrolling enabled. I enable two finger zooming then set the minimum distance between the two points to be something wide enuff where my hand wont accidentally trigger it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

That seems to be the answer, thanks a lot! The thing is, one finger anything was disabled the whole time but I obviously hadn't set the minimum distance between the fingers large enough. But I see now that the biggest problem must have been me testing out the settings with the finger mode still enabled, when I have the pen mode it's working like a charm!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Senrir:
Feature request: ( If possible :fingers-crossed: )

Ability to have 2 Notes open. Like this:

Its really useful in classes where the teacher goes really slow and you can multitask, where you can do homework on the other note.

OR ... ability to change notes quickly (like one button which will show the previously opened note and vice versa)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] chuckjones:
Too much.

A couple things on Lecture Notes.

The developer's attentiveness to features is affecting the overall UX and speed of the app as of maybe 5 updates ago.

There is too much being squeezed into it in my opinion. It's starting to reflect a bad agile app, with little reflection on UX or weight to the usefulness of updates.

I'd prefer larger items like saving on dropbox or drive (instead of FolderSync) so I can sync my 10.1 and note 2... not distance between pinch and zoom or first page preview on folder lists (that make the note crawl).

I've had to turn off auto updates so that the app won't be shut down and updated while I'm not using it.

Maybe he can release a stripped down version of it that'll have just the core functionality I had 6 months ago - when a main draw for me was the speed.

JMO that will be shot down shortly.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tririver: You are right, there was a problem at the upper screen part, I uploaded v2.1.4 that fixes that.

@Axel_: Your device occasionally reports your palms as two or more fingers to LectureNotes, but I understand that you solved the problem using the minimal distance for two fingers gestures, as suggested by 299792458.

@Senrir: I have this on my to-do-list, but there are many parts in LectureNotes which make the simplifying assumption that only one notebook is open, to change that will be quite some work. Note the list of recently opened notebooks in the menu at the app's launcher icon which allows to quickly change notebooks.

@chuckjones: Interesting point, you are the very first user that requests less features, after several thousand emails and forum comments asking for more features. I do not think that LectureNotes has significantly slowed down in recent updates. In the vast majority of cases of reported slow response, the `enforce hardware/GPU rendering´ has been intentionally or erroneously switched on in the device system settings; on the majority of devices, this slows LectureNotes down a lot, please verify that this option is not enabled.

I agree, the `auto update´ toggle in the Google Play app is entirely useless, not just for LectureNotes. The Google Play app is very rude when performing an update and just kills the app if running, instead of closing it. I strongly recommend to disable that, in particular for LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
While we're on the topic of the two finger scroll, I've noticed that if you start scrolling with two fingers and lift one up you can keep scrolling with the other. This means if my hand if on the screen and it registers as two fingers (which I have fairly far apart in settings) as I lift it up it will scroll with even the smallest area being touched. Is it possible to have it one scroll while detecting two fingers, and stop as soon as it stops detecting one or both? Does this make sense?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] chuckjones:
Yes, I disable it.

My perspective is a friendly one based on running a team of developers, hoping to shed some different perspective for you. I feel like you've reached critical mass. You're paying too much attention to everyone IMO. The UX is starting to clearly reflect it - so many options jammed into menus. Trying to explore them is dizzying. I'd listen to your gut more than the emails.

Don't get me wrong. It's not like it's drastically slowed down, it's just slightly noticeable, but not intolerable or warranting a desire to rate it a 4 instead of 5 star app.

I use this thing all day, everyday. It makes my Note 10.1 useful, and drove me to get the Note 2. It's a killer app... you're dedication shows. Of any app that I've ever used going back to the late 90's and the Newton Message Pad - this is probably the most useful utility I've ever owned. I would spend $30 on it without hesitation.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Just a thing I've noticed today when I was about to create an notebook for a class, is there any way to save the paper pattern without using a script as some kind of "favorite paper pattern"? It's not a really big deal, but when you have set the size etc just right it would be useful to get that every time you create a new one.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] psx2pal:
@acadoid

I know programs, to remove the password protection, but i want this on android ;).

Ok i see the probem with cryptography.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
I think the Android intent is only for creating new notes. I found this thread that looks like what LectureNotes is purports to do is in the recently updated version of Evernote for Android.

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/29122-intent-to-append-to-or-edit-a-specific-note/

I'm no developer but wonder if maybe the option for exporting to Evernote should include a "new note" vs. "update note" that selects the proper method and maybe the current intent that is being used will always create a new note instead of edit existing notes.

The sync option in LectureNotes I discussed then would use the update intent to send updates pages to Evernote keeping the same ID as the original note upon notebook close or regular intervals so that the note is updated with the new content.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: It seems that I misunderstood the Evernote documentation. As soon as the `update note´ is part of the documentation, I will add this to LectureNotes (and choosing `notebook UUID´ will then cause an update).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sparkyxda:
PDF Import problem with Astro

Not sure if this is a LectureNotes or PDFView problem but it only happens using Astro File Manager

When I choose to import a pdf as a notebook or a page to LectureNotes it seems like PDFView never gets started. Instead a small black message box appears with the text "PDF Import canceled"

Not a great problem, I just installed another manager. It may help troubleshoot if someone has the same problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sparkyxda: I received several reports concerning problems with the Astro file manager. I am not sure what goes wrong (I cannot reproduce the problem on my devices), but it seems that the file manager sends back a `cancel´ to LectureNotes instead of a `OK´ when you selected a file. If this assumptions is correct, there is nothing I can do, I am sorry.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
acadoid - A couple of questions, please.

1. If the default install and notebook file locations haven't been altered, where would the notebook files be found using root explorer, es file explorer, or a strong? What directory would I drill down into?

2. Tried restoring my notebooks from two different backups, on two different devices, but it only restores 6 of about 20 folders. Any ideas? My back ups are getting progressively larger, and each one states "complete" once finished backing up.

Thanks.

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After reviewing the zip files with winrar, all of the folders, files, and notes are in the backups. And yet they won't restore. Very puzzling. Your help with this is appreciated.

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Found the default directories, now just need the mystery of why the restore won't work solved. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Another puzzler. I have three notebooks whose names end in "y". Each of the folders have been renamed by LN to include "_" after the name. The underscore cannot be deleted nor can the folder be renamed if the name still ends with "y". Any ideas?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@toenail_flicker: The default app directory depends on the device, it is displayed on the help page in the `Storage´ section.

No idea, this is very mysterious. Is it possible that your SD card is (nearly) full? Have you tried to unZIP the backup outside Android? I just created a couple of notebooks ending on `y´ on my device and renamed them several times, and I did not notice any problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
As I mentioned, I unzipped the BU and could see all the folders, but restore doesn't work on any device. At least I can manually load the folders, though a bit of a pain. Thought the issue was just with may HTC phone, but same issue with my Note.

As for the issue with y, I can create a new folder with y at the end of the name, just can't rename those that have the "y_" at the end of the name. When I open the zip I can see two files- my original file which is empty, and a second file ending in "y_" with my notes inside. The original empty file doesn't show on notebooks board, only in the backup.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] janka88:
Hey, i wanted to say thank you for the great app and maybe i have a tip concerning astro filemanager: i need to hold my finger down on the pdf for a short time, just clicking is too short.

Best regards
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ugotproblemz:
Great app! Just updated recently and the s pen functions works great (one click into eraser)!!!

Just wondering, are u gonna implement syncing in the future to drop box or other cloud storage???

THANKS! Great job!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
See backup notebooks. Cloud is already there.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@toenail_flicker: Very strange problem indeed. Have you tried to rename the directories using a file manager? Be careful not to run LectureNotes while doing that. Sometimes Android file systems seem to have strange problem, for instance it seems not possible on some devices to have a directory with a name ending with a space. There is nothing that forbids that, but it just does not work. This caused me a lot of headache, as some soft keyboards with word auto-completion add a space at the end (which is now removed by LectureNotes).

@janka88: Very helpful observation (even though a single click should actually be sufficient for selection, shouldn't it?).

@ugotproblemz: You can place your app directory in a folder that gets automatically synced with your cloud service of choice, this will also automatically sync between devices.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] janka88:
Yeah, it should be, but as long as it does not work its a workaround ;) (or is it a 'feature' by astro? Didn't read the doc..)

I have question: is it possible to modify drawn things later, like in some vector based programs, or is the approach a completely different one (read something about PNGs, so the pages are just images?)? I'm searching for a program for my lectures, but sometimes i need to draw very exact things, graphs or coordinate systems or so, so it might be useful to edit the lines. But don't worry, so fare lectureNotes is the best program for this case i guess ;)

Another thing: Is it possible to insert blank pages between 2 pages?

Best regards!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@janka88: LectureNotes uses a bitmap-based approach, it does not keep track of lines etc., and hence you cannot edit them, I am sorry.

There are menu items in the hand menu to insert a page before or after the present page, as well as at the end. Larger page rearrangements are better done in notebook overview.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] janka88:
Ah okay i see. Thanks :)

By the way, can you reproduce the 'glitches' at your Note 1ß.1 or is it possibly fixed in newer Versions of the Note? Hopefully it's not a hardware issue :(