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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
to be honest, yea i do need more then 18 pencils...

the palette loading is a good thing but it's too slow to do while writing in a lecture...

perhaps adding a palette switcher button could do the trick as well
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kumabjorn:
Is it somehow possible to make a setting so that when you use pen input a finger (or two if needed) touch automatically initiate panning? Two fingers would be for zooming.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: OK, let me think a moment about your suggestion.

In which field of study does one need more than 18 different pencils when taking notes in a lecture?

[MENTION=4215264]Kumabjorn[/MENTION]: Yes, if you enable `use stylus (hardware detection)´ in the app's input settings, you can enable one or two fingers scrolling in the same settings at the bottom.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
a field of study which requires me to draw a lot of sketches of different machinery parts...

the reason i need so many pencils is that for each color i need at least 3 different sizes which means i can only have 6 colors (not including markers...)

maybe my request is too personal and i'll fully understand it if you think it's not necessary, it's your app after all :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] nesx87:
I have a galaxy note pro. I heard that this is the best app for note taking. However i dont seem to get how to optimise the settings to get the fastest and smoothest pen writing. Other apps seem to be smoother out of the box even of they are clearly more simplistic
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kumabjorn:
How difficult would it be to implement a search function?

I assume, but without any knowledge, that searching the text layer would be fairly straight forward and probably available from some "free" Google sponsored library. Hope I didn't make anyone spit out their coffee.

But what about handwriting? I'm not asking for an implementation off handwriting recognition ala OneNote, but would it be possible to search for similar graphic patterns? Let's say I know that somewhere in my notes I write down "agricultural policies for the northern domains", could I enter that again and some fuzzy logic search engine would be able to find a similar pattern of strokes in the notes?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
I have GNP as well and writing is pretty smooth (no lag or funny artifacts). Below is the link to my settings backup file. You should be able to copy it to your LN folder and restore it in Menu -> Settings.

The drawing tools are extremely laggy though (especially the ones that align to grid).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnmuflb3azuoq44/settings.xml

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Actually, I might have a use for more than 18 as well. Especially if there was an option to merge the toolbox into another line or two of icons on the top/side/bottom. There's plenty of space for extra toolbars on a 12.2 inch screen.

Right now I'm using 9 colors of pens and the same 9 colors of highlighters (transparent and thicker than pens).

If at least 27 places were available, I'd probably have the "highlighters" in two different thicknesses, a thinner one for coloring the insides of smaller figures, a thick one for larger areas.

If there were 24 places I'd just add three more colors. I sometimes use colors to indicate the progress of something (ie. red was drawn before orange was drawn before yellow...). Sometimes there's more than nine steps and I run out of colors.

Yes, I take notes like a five-year-old girl. I used to be one a few decades ago, so that's perfectly ok ;)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3129608]nesx87[/MENTION]: The world of Android is very diverse (and user wishes are even more so), but the default settings should work fine on most devices. Dependent on what you refer to as `not smooth´, try the pressure filter (in case of strange `tails´ that some devices with S-pen display) or the Savitzky–Golay filter (to smooth the lines), the latter maybe in conjunction with `discard coordinates between Android events´.

[MENTION=4215264]Kumabjorn[/MENTION]: The text layer can be searched using the corresponding item in the main menu. LectureNotes also supports global search via Android's search widget (which however has essentially been disabled in Android 4.4).

To search for handwriting essentially requires a handwriting-to-text conversion.

Note that you can attach keywords to notebook pages, from which LectureNotes automatically creates a table of contents and an index (either for an individual notebook, for all notebooks in a folder, or for the whole notebooks board) that can be searched.

[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION] & Tintinnuntius: OK, let me think a moment about how to incorporate more custom pencils. The problem is mainly the custom pencils in the pencil menu and the custom pencil settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] nesx87:
Just bought ! I think it will be a good experience. Does this app have any highlighters?

Edit. Found it. Brilliant. How are these custom pencils backed up?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] anakinsheem:
Multiwindow

I am loving this app so far however I have one thing I'm trying to do more efficiently. I have lecture notes and a pdf viewer open using multiwindows. I want to copy something from the pdf using the s-pen and paste it into lecture notes. When I do this using easy clip and choose lecturenotes. It closes out of multiwindow and restarts lecturenotes. I notice you can important from non standard clipboards in Lecturenotes.

Is there a way to save something to the Samsung clipboard using Easy Clip without actually sharing it to an app? In the manual it states "If you do nothing it will be copied to the clipboard" after using the spen to draw around a portion of the screen. However I see no way of doing nothing, as I'm forced to share it to an app.

Simply put I want to copy something from the multiwindow screen while running lecturenotes and paste it without having to restart lecturenotes?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3129608]nesx87[/MENTION]: The custom pencils properties are part of the app settings.

[MENTION=5896481]anakinsheem[/MENTION]: Actually, even if LectureNotes restarts, the image import should go into the open notebook (at least if the corresponding toggle in the app's import settings is enabled).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] bbjr:
Lags when using a large pdf file

[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION] In the past, I have been downloading the power points for a specific class as separate notebooks within a single folder for that specific class. This worked fairly well as I would have a different notebook for each day of lecture. The problem with that method is that it would take too much time to open and close each notebook when studying (Realistically, the time it took was not more than 5-10 seconds each time, but when studying this is enough time to let the mind get distracted and I would like to be as efficient as possible).

To remedy this problem, I am going to try to keep a single continuous notebook in lecturenotes for each class (more similar to traditional pen and paper note taking); however, there are two problems that I can not remedy while utilizing this method:

1) I can not figure out how to complete a bulk import of multiple pages to the end of an existing notebook

-and-

2) Large notebooks (I am currently experimenting with a notebook that contains 675 pages of imported ppt slides) tend to create a large amount of lag anytime the notebook is opened and/or indexed. I am assuming this is due to the size of the file, but I would like to find a way to decrease this lag since my studies will require multiple notebooks of this size and larger.

Any tips?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5562877]bbjr[/MENTION]: 1. To import multiple pages of a PDF file at once, 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) and select `Import PDF as new pages´ in the main menu; new pages will be appended. An alternative is to open (or to share) the PDF file and select LectureNotes in the list of viewer (or receiver) apps, then LectureNotes will ask you how you wish to import the PDF file.

2. LectureNotes uses many individual files to stores your notes, avoiding a single large file (which would make syncing your notes a pain). However, when you open the notebook, LectureNotes checks for notebook integrity, which takes longer for notebooks with more pages.

How about a compromise, having neither a notebook per single lecture (resulting in many small notebooks) nor a notebook for all lectures of a single class (resulting in one large notebook), but instead having a notebook for several lectures of a single class, for instance within a week (resulting in several medium sized notebooks)?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Red314:
After rooting my Note and installing xposed framework and a few modules, the s pen stopped working while using lecture notes. The spen works when touching the navigation bar, and all the commands on the top, such as choosing pen, eraser, adding pages etc. But when i try to write on a page it just doens't work.

I'm not sure the rooting part is the problem, since i haven't used lecturenotes in a while and i just happened to use it again after rooting. Do you know what the problem might be?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5469513]Red314[/MENTION]: Please double-check that `use stylus (hardware detection)´ is still enabled in LectureNotes' input settings.

When you change to `hand´ mode, can you scroll using the S-pen?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Red314:
The hardware detection is checked. Switching between the imput modes makes no difference. I can use neither my finger or the spen to write or scroll. It's as if i didn't have the ability to interact with the notebook, but only with the bars on top. The pencil toolbox does not work either.

edit: Disabling the swipeback xposed module solved the problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5469513]Red314[/MENTION]: Glad to hear that the problem is solved.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] bbjr:
1) Thanks for the explanation, I see now.

2) I am going to try out the one notebook method for a little while to see if I can deal with the lag, if it is not acceptable using that method your suggested compromise should work well.

Thanks again for your continued support on the best app available (IMO).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Hey acadoid,

So the blank recordings thing has never went away but I've thought of something you could implement that lets me know that it is currently in a bugged state... Can you possibly make the recording icon show voice sensitivity (if no sound is being recorded, it will be null. It will basically show graphically sound being picked up). I saw it on the iPad lecture taking apps and it would be a good feature to implement visually regardless.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: LectureNotes uses the Android media recorder to record audio. This is somewhat like a black box with a few controllers on the outside. If the resulting audio file is null, something inside this black box went wrong, but it is difficult to say where exactly inside the black box it went wrong. I could add a kind of `recording level indicator´ based on information that the Android media recorder provides, but I am not sure whether it will help concerning your problem: Depending on where inside the black box the problem occurs, the information that the Android media recorder provides might indicate non-zero recording levels whereas the resulting audio file might still be null.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] arch0:
Hi acadoid, I'm wondering if there is a setting to change the direction of scroll -- ie, scroll pages sideways as opposed to downward (so next page would be attached to the right of current page as opposed to below).

I can get to this by just changing the different page widths or tablet orientation also, but just wondering if there was another way.

Thanks for your help, and love the app!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5938460]arch0[/MENTION]: The scrolling direction is determined by choosing `fit width´ (scrolling is vertical) or `fit height´ (scrolling is horizontal).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Hi Acadoid,

Can you expand the functionality of the keyboard typing? I have a keyboard dock now for my Note 10.1 and looking at my friends iPad notability app makes me wonder why Android does not have an app of that nature yet. The closest is Lecture Notes but the typing function in this app is very limited. Can you add in drawing text boxes or just simply allowing us to select the keyboard tool and then tapping a place to type? That would allow for use of the stylus and keyboard together to create a more fluid note taking experience.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: Besides the text layer which works essentially like a text editor or word processor and has no free placement, there is a text drawing tool that allows free placement of the text. 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 Themes and Apps] arch0:
Hey acadoid,

Wondering if it's possible to import a pdf (that includes text) into the text layer or in some other way that keeps the pdf text searchable. Might be a great feature to add if that's doable.

Thanks again!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5938460]arch0[/MENTION]: That is not easy within LectureNotes current framework.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] arch0:
OK, 10-4 and it was really more of a wishlist item (since my intent is to replace paper notebooks, which can't do that either).

Also had another question/feature suggestion: is it possible to move the input zone from the bottom to the top? It would be great when notetaking as it would allow me to write at a bigger font, record in a smaller font, and still hold my tablet as a notepad.

The more I look into the app the more impressed I am with all of the different features. Thanks again for the quick replies acadoid!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5938460]arch0[/MENTION]: I am not sure whether I understand. How would moving the input zone to the top (and placing the display part that is currently above the input zone then below the input zone) help?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] arch0:
In my case it would give my writing hand support as if I'm writing at the top of the tablet or notebook, as opposed to the bottom. Would help greatly during meetings where I'm taking quick notes, and the tablet isn't placed on a table.

Right now I've expanded the input zone to max to be able to write in the middle of the page in portrait mode, but deal with the occasional palm writing.

All the fun of writing at the top of the page all the time
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5938460]arch0[/MENTION]: OK, I see (you are probably left handed, aren't you?), I noted your suggestion down. I anyway plan to allow to place the input zone to the right and to the left (for languages which are written vertically instead of horizontally).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ben749:
Hi there, thanks again for your wonderful app.

I'm wondering if some days a new tool shall appear : the highlighter

( having two modes : 1) swapping current strokes color or 2) swapping background color ( usin a sub layer ? ) )

Regards :) :laugh:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4698406]ben749[/MENTION]: Many thanks for your kind comments.

Do understand it correctly that you propose a custom pencil that inverts existing color?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ben749:
Yep, precisely, you're also good at guessing :)

I had this Idea becuz I use a lot windows journal at work .. and it has "kind of" this feature .. ( but will never be as performant a lecture notes .. damn it )

A windows-plateform portage, somedays ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4698406]ben749[/MENTION]: Interesting idea, I noted it down. What does this function do if there is nothing at a given location? Invert the paper color?

There are no plans to port LectureNotes to Windows, I am sorry.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
spen sensitivity after 4.4 update

hi,

so i just updated my note to 4.4.2... everything seems to work fine except for the spen in lecturenotes...

for some reason, the sensitivity of the spen is not what it used to be before the update and i miss a lot of input strokes...

i disabled the pressure filter and it did help a little but i'm still missing a lot of the strokes...

anyone else experienced such an issue?

thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mineblaster:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]: thank you for the great app!

Some suggestions/questions:

1. Is it possible to have a sidebar that shows the notebook hierarchy to make it easy to switch between notebooks?

2. Is it possible to titled pages/sections within a notebook; i.e., how OneNote does it? Right now, it's difficult to move around a notebook. I am working around it by creating a folder for the subject and different notebooks for the different topics, but it's a little slow/takes a lot of steps - you click the button to go back to the folder, causing the system to first write all changes and close the current notebook, then you have to search for the appropriate topic (notebook), causing the system to spend a little time opening the book. Also, I end up with a lot of notebooks that are just a couple of pages each. It would be nice if the process got streamlined.

3. Is it possible to override the template for a particular page in a notebook? When I'm taking meeting notes, for example, sometimes the information lends itself to one kind of format but occasionally to a different format. It would be nice to be able to use the same notebook for all meeting notes.

4. Related to templates: is it possible to save custom templates? If I customize templates, I can see them as long as the notebook I'm using them on is there, but if I delete the notebook, the template no longer shows up and I have to recreate it from scratch.

5. Also, it would be nice if there was an option to see a filtered list of "favorited" templates. Right now, when you go to load the template screen, it takes a noticeable amount of time because all the javascript has to be read. I find that I use the same four or five templates over and over again but have to wait for all the templates to load before I can pick the one I want.

6. For the text drawing tool - do we currently have/can you add an option to adjust the line height?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: Your description sounds as if the problem is caused by Android, not by LectureNotes.

[MENTION=5295824]mineblaster[/MENTION]: Many thanks, I am glad to hear that.

1. There is a list of recently opened notebooks in the menu at the app's launcher icon. A hierarchical list of notebooks is an interesting idea, I noted it down.

2. You can type title, section heading etc. into the text layer, there is a `find in text layer´ menu item in the notebook content view's main menu. Since v2.5.4, there is also a notebooks board search (which searches text layer, keywords, etc.), select `find on notebooks board´ in the notebooks board's main menu for that.

Alternatively, attach title, section headings etc. as keywords to pages, LectureNotes can create an index and a table of contents from that, either for a single notebook, for all notebooks within a folder, or for all notebooks on the notebooks board. The index is searchable and the keywords are clickable.

There is an item `go to page´ in the `hand´ menu. The loading in notebook overview is asynchronous since v2.5.4, which makes it much more usable to move in a notebook.

You can store each section in a separate notebook, but I guess that it is more convenient to have related material in one notebook.

3. You can use a custom paper pattern and have a condition on the page number (there is such example on the app's help page). I understand that this is not particularly user-friendly, to improve concerning this is on my agenda.

4. You can share the code and use this to save it to file, upload it to a cloud service or similar.

5. The loading in JavaScript paper pattern overview is asynchronous since v2.5.4, so there is no waiting anymore. A list of favorite custom paper pattern is an interesting idea, I noted it down. Note that you can also import code, including code that you have previously shared (see 4).

6. The line height is determined by the font-size and dynamical adjusts in case of sub- or superscripts etc.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
i'm sure it is... just wondering if i'm the only one
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gnoteuser2013:
Hi, thank you again for your work on LectureNotes.

I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I'm not much a fan of the new icon. It gives the impression that our notes are an oversized, unorganized, stuffed together mess, which is quite the opposite of what LectureNotes helps its users accomplish. In the end, its really not a big deal, but if you are interested, I recommend some cleaner looking styles for the icon.

For example, browsing through Shutterstock I found the some inspirational pieces:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-169...stration.html?src=piJJ0KZRcCGu8x6T57rzLA-7-78

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-100...stration.html?src=piJJ0KZRcCGu8x6T57rzLA-5-96

I think there should also be a pen included with the icon picture. And likewise for LectureRecordings a microphone.

Just my two cents!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5184200]gnoteuser2013[/MENTION]: So far, feedback concerning the new app icons has been positive to enthusiastic.

Despite that you do not like the actual realization, I trust that you agree that the new icons are at least aesthetically superior to the old ones.

One can certainly argue what a good app icon is supposed to show. Many app icons display an abstract image, which can be very natural if well done. Many app icons are a kind of ironic reference to the app purpose, or even display what you do not do, or do not do anymore, when you use the app, and these are the ones that I personally like the most. I would not like to comment on app icons of other independent software developers and name them as examples, so let me use Google's app icons as examples: The Google Mail app icon displays a paper envelope with a paper letter inside; however, the Google Mail app is not to send paper letters, but to go beyond paper letters and send emails. The Google Maps app icon displays a partially folded paper map; however, the Google Map apps is not to use paper maps, but to go beyond paper maps and use electronic maps.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pnuker:
Stylus

Can anybody recommend a good stylus to use for the note 12.2? The tiny one that comes with the note is too small for me. I picked up this one from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006WAPM78/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

but it has a pretty substantial offset that's been driving me crazy. Yes, lecturenotes does a good job of correcting this via the settings, but whenever I use other apps the problem remains, so I have to constantly switch back and forth... Also, I don't like the stiff plastic feel of it. It moves too fast. I'd rather have something with a bit more friction so it mimics the feel of a pen.

Any suggestions? I've been looking at the bamboo line.