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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
Loving this app the more I use it, its getting a few hours minimum use a day. One suggestion that would help me (and no doubt others) . The ability to name layers (like in photoshop) . Just a thought when using this great app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gavboy:
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Hi,

Well done on the app. I have just spent about 4 hours going through this thread. Learnt a lot!

I do have one query/request. I'm guessing it is probably too complicated but 'don't ask, don't get'.

I had one of the early tablet PCs and used Microsoft One Note. There is a feature on One Note that I thought was excellent, and I've not seen it replicated on any other tablet app. You can insert tags across your various notes and then search for those tags. The way I used this was to tag any 'To Do's arising from my notes. I could then do a search on the 'T Do' tag and it would show all my to dos from across all my notes. It allowed you to tick off the To Dos either within the note or via the search.

Any chance at all of this being implemented ( or something similar?)

Keep up the good work!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION]: To allow to name layers is on my to-do-list.

[MENTION=245060]gavboy[/MENTION]: You can attach keywords to notebook pages (use `Index page X´ in the main menu), LectureNotes automatically creates from that a table of contents and an index, either for the notebook (notebook index) or for the whole notebooks board (notebooks board index). You can use these keywords also to easily tag pages in notebook overview (select `tag pages´ in the index), for instance to export them to PDF etc.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], would you perhaps share your to do list with us, so we are not requesting items already on your list. Also it would be nice to see the direction of where this great app I s going.

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Couple of suggestions after using LectureNotes this morning in a meeting.

1. The ability to print direct from LN without having to export to PDF first, I use google cloud print & print share. So some integration with thouse would be great.

2. Store the date created for the note, so we can use it in the footers etc.

3. Some way of creating headers and footers with easy to use controls. Like MS word, so we can set the margins, then have field info, page details selectble, with alignment options.

4. More of a question than request, are we able to have A3 pages for notes, I dont mind scrolling as it will not actually fit my Samsung galaxy note 10.1 screen, but when j co Ltd e to print would be good.

Keep up the great work, I love using your app. The more I do use it the more I like it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION]: I do not mind if users suggests things that are already on my to-do-list. Quite on the contrary, the number of times I receive a certain request gives me some idea about the demand for it.

1. The only alternative format to communicate with a printer would be PostScript, but this would not save any time.

2. To keep the creation date (and also the last modification date in some smarter way) is on my to-do-list. What I presently undecided about is how to handle older notebooks for which the creation date was not kept. Let the user set once a creation date manually?

3. You can create headers and footers using custom paper pattern (or image background). To create them using a simple click-and-type is probably best assigned to PDF export, isn't it?

4. LectureNotes does not `think´ in physical lengths, it only knows about pixels. Hence, for LectureNotes, there is no difference between A4 and A3, as both have the same aspect ratio.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] drdoombot:
Thanks for your response. I figured out how to get back my old version back (had a Titanium Backup file stored on my computer).

My next question is: Are you planning to restore the old softness values in a future update? As happy as I am with v2.3, I don't want to miss out on new features coming up in future versions just because the softness value is wonky! As I mentioned earlier, there seems to be a drastic jump in softness when stepping up from 0.06 to 0.07 (pre-2.3.6 LN, 0.55 was less soft than 0.07 is now!).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
Thanks for your reply.

1. Ok if its not going to be quicker, then I would not bothered.

2. I would go with letting the user create the date on old ones.

3. Ok, could we have that as options for PDF exports.

4. So not sure how would I get a A3 PDF out of lecturenotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pdaaalex:
I see this more usefull other way. I hold a meeting and everytime I do it, I insert the current date, and index the page (to be able to come back), then I write several pages.

The next day I have to do it again...

I would see this as when you modify the notebook, add (or not) something with the date. Also, as this might be not usefull for some, it might be optional (settings) and thus would not damage older notebooks. If the datestapm was to be added later, I would imput the user for a creation date (older than today) and apply that to all the notebook, and on the following modifications, it would work as normal.

Also, this is a huge idea (to me it is vital that it indexes the page), and I would love to see it done.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4346221]drdoombot[/MENTION]: I just learned that some devices have problems drawing very short line segments, the `forget´ anti-aliasing in this case (drawing very short line segments came as a side-effect of the new softness). I slightly adjusted the drawing machinery for the next update to resolve that. The update will be available in the next days, please check whether this resolves your troubles with the new softness definition.

[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION] & pdaaalex: Thanks for your feedback.

[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION]: 4. The PDF that LectureNotes produces is A4 (or US letter), but A4 or A3 PDF do not differ as long as you view them on a computer screen (only the zoom is different), and you can easily print an A4 PDF on an A3 printer, just choose `fit to paper´ or however this is called in your PDF viewer.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] andromeda_nevel:
Best app ever!

I love this app soooo much on my Note 10.1. I have been using S-Note in the beginning when I just had the tablet, but whenever I wanted to write something quickly I would still take a piece of paper because S-Note never felt like paper to me. But now with LectureNotes it feels like paper, I can write on it like paper (S-Note did not have nice pens) but I can also quickly copy and paste something into my notes.

I'm a postdoc at an university and my workflow includes reading scientific PDF papers (in ezPDF), copying interesting pieces of text to LectureNotes and making more notes, also at meetings. Then I will index the notes. I used to have real paper notebook to keeps notes but I would always lose track of where I put annotations from a particular meeting.

This app really makes my tablet a part of my workflow and so useful! Thank you for that and don't stop the good work. I even bought the other two additional plug-ins, not that I need them (at least right now) but just to support you!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
This may be an easy fix for someone, but my gallery is now showing all my lecturenotes folders and actual notebooks , see attached. It did not do privesley. How can I stop this?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3423580]andromeda_nevel[/MENTION]: Glad to hear that.

[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION]: Which gallery app are you using? LectureNotes places `.nomedia´ files in all notebook and folder directories to avoid that the files get displayed in gallery apps. It does not place a `.nomedia´ file in the app directory itself, otherwise clipboard and sharing would not work, so that you might see your last selection and shared material in the gallery app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
Thanks for your quick reply, I use QuickPick, see attached, ones in red are note book inside sub folders and are showing. I am sure that they never did beforehand.

I will also check my Gallery app and let you know.

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Same on default gallery app and photo desk app. Sure that they never appeared before.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5345164]big_w[/MENTION]: Which app directory do you use for LectureNotes? According to the posted image, the images are located at sdcard0/cloudagent/cache/root/LectureNotes/. If this is not your app directory, then some app is copying the images without copying the `.nomedia´ files.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MAO2200:
Hello Acadoid, every time I go back to ask you the same question ... whether and when to move on to the vector ... I hope so because you are phenomenal as a developer, you listen to your customers and you are very fast!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] aomumu:
Restore settings not working

Hi,

I backed up my settings to settings.xml in preparation for a complete wipe, having spent months tweaking to my liking, however I cannot ge tit to restore. It finds the file but doesn't alter anything as a result of it...

Any ideas???
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1040579]MAO2200[/MENTION]: Not so quickly, I am sorry.

[MENTION=2177940]aomumu[/MENTION]: I am sorry to hear about the difficulties. I am pretty sure that backup and restore of the settings works, there are several LectureNotes' user that do that more than once a week. The procedure is as follows: (1) `Backup settings´ in the app, this produces a file `settings.xml´ in the app directory. (2) Copy the file `settings.xml´ to a save place (it is advisable to double-check whether the file is OK). (3) Wipe the device or similar. (4) Reinstall LectureNotes; set the app directory in case you use a custom app directory. (5) Copy the file `settings.xml´ to the app directory. (6) `Restore settings´ in the app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MAO2200:
I just know that we're already thinking about or working, thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Would it be possible to add some kind of small miniature of the page with a rectangle of what part is on the screen now in a corner of the page so that one could see where they are writing compared to the other stuff at the screen? I've seen it in some other drawing apps, mostly PC based though.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2505694]Axel_[/MENTION]: I plan to add a kind of overview on the side (thumbnail images of pages), to display the current view window on the thumbnail of the active page could be added.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Great! Since I usually don't switch between the pages while writing I would prefer to have the ability to show the active page only though. But of course all is better than none!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] big_w:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION] thanks for your help, looked into this as my default lecturenotes folder is extsdcard\lecturenotes\ so was slightly confused at first. Turns out that something not sure what has copied all my lecturenotes files except the .nomedia files. Think its dropsync as that is set to copy all to my Dropbox account. I need to check now whats on my Dropbox account, as if the .nomedia files are not there then I am not sure if I could restore my lecturenotes should something happen. Do you know how I can get dropsync to copy them if its not.

Also what is cloudagent ? It had 1.67gb of data in it. So I deleted it and all my duplicated files dissappear: :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] leojab:
acadoid: Is it possible you can add an icon in the top menu bar for rotation. An option to force rotate Lecturenotes notebook to portrait and landscape by pressing the button and keep it that way. I sometimes take some notes protrait and maybe landscape depending whether i take it on lap or des :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4401951]leojab[/MENTION]: There is an option `notebook content relative orientation´ in the app's display settings that rotates the notebook relative to the device orientation. Is it this what you have in mind?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pluginalong:
I just wanted to report that while performing a reboot does fix shortcuts for Todoist, it does not for LN. In this particular case they were both updated at the same time, and unfortunately all of my LN shortcuts are still incorrect (ie, back to the default red and default text of "LectureNotes"). I'm bummed as I was hoping the reboot would work for LN too. :(
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] leojab:
Dear acadoid, I currently use that option but when I bent or change seat position that notes go to another orientation. What I was suggesting is to freeze the rotation to a particular mode (Portrait/Landscape) and then keep it same regardless of the phone orientation.

Basically, this being a menu item at the top of the note page along with drawing or pen icon. If i press the icon once it will toggle to portrait and STAYS and if i press it once more, it will toggle to landscape and STAYS regardless of the phone orientation. May one more press, can disable the LectureNotes orientation and default to phone auto orientation mode.

Hope am clear here.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5235189]pluginalong[/MENTION]: That is bad news, it seems that LectureNotes' shortcuts miss something. I will have another look into this.

[MENTION=4401951]leojab[/MENTION]: I misunderstood your original suggestion. LectureNotes allows you also to arrest the display orientation, it is also in the app's display settings. If you choose, for instance, `portrait´, then LectureNotes will remain in portrait orientation independent of the device orientation. Note that this is somewhat redundant, as most devices allow to block `auto-rotate´ via the device settings, for instance the Note 10.1 has that in the popup menu in the lower right corner, the Nexus have that in the pulldown menu in the upper right corner, etc.

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[MENTION=5235189]pluginalong[/MENTION]: Do I see it correctly that you created the shortcuts for todoist via the `widget´ tab in the device settings?

Note that there are two types of shortcuts, one type can be created dynamically and one type is static. When you create a shortcut for a notebook in LectureNotes, the first type has to be used (as the number of notebooks is neither fixed nor known at compile time). LectureNotes allows supports the second type (there is a `1x1´ icon in the list of widgets), but this cannot be used for notebooks.

It seems that only the first type causes the problem that you report.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pluginalong:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION], Yes, I think you are correct. I believe I would have created the Todoist shortcut via their widget (I'm not sure there is any other way to create it). What you are saying regarding two types of shortcuts makes sense, and explains the differences I'm seeing. It will be interesting to see if my shortcut for Papyrus is fixed by rebooting (I'll have to wait for an app update to test), as it is a shortcut that creates a new note for a specific notebook, and it is named after the notebook (so it may be the dynamic type of shortcut, like what LN uses).

By the way, what is the 1x1 LN widget for anyway? All it seems to do for me is just open LN, which seems no different than just adding the LN app to a Home screen.

Thanks again for your efforts on all this! I appreciate it a lot! :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5235189]pluginalong[/MENTION]: The 1x1 widget is just an app shortcut, I added that so that LectureNotes shows up in the list of apps with shortcuts.

Note that LectureNotes supports widgets for notebooks, so that you can use a notebook widget instead of a notebook shortcut (place the widget, then long-click on the notebook and select `Set notebook as widget´). The advantage is that the cover shown in the widget updates if you change the cover (shortcuts do not change), the disadvantage is that it is 2x2 at minimum. In principle, one could reduce 2x2 to 1x1, the problem is that then one cannot distinguish it in the list of widgets from the already existing 1x1 widget (the app shortcut).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pluginalong:
That makes sense. Thanks!

Thanks! Yeah, I've experimented a little with the 2x2 widget. The main thing is it is too big to be practical for me. Is it possible to leave it at 2x2 in the Widget screen (to distinguish it from the 1x1 app shortcut), but be re-sizable down to 1x1 in actual use?

A few other things that make the 2x2 widget less preferable for me:

It does not display the Notebook title underneath it (the way a shortcut does). But it might not be too hard to add an additional option for that. I imagine there's not been much need for it though at 2x2 size--it really becomes more pertinent for 1x1.

On my Note 8 I cannot add the 2x2 widget to my bottom dock. I don't know if that is because of the 2x2 size, or because it is a widget. In my case I only have one notebook shortcut in my dock, so I could achieve the same functionality as a shortcut (but without the shortcut resetting) if there were settings to set a Notebook that LN defaults to opening into (from the regular LN icon) and a nice bonus would be if I could also change the color that is given to the regular LN icon (so that I could match the color that I associate with my particular Notebook).

By the way, in Widget Setup, what does the Size setting do? I'm not aware of what it changes.

Thanks! :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5235189]pluginalong[/MENTION]: The `1x1´ and `2x2´ indicate the minimal size (in the former case the only size as well). Reducing the minimal size to `1x1´ for the widget would result in identical names.

1. To display the name below the cover inside the widget could be added, good idea. The widget is actually to display page content, not a notebook cover (hence a larger size makes sense), and clicking on the widget opens the notebook on the assigned page.

2. For a single (but assignable) notebook, such function could be added, good idea.

The size in the widget setup controls the size of the bitmap that is used to display the widget. You do not see (much) difference on a 2x2 widget, but you will see an effect for larger widgets (in particular if page content is displayed instead of a cover).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
I have two more suggestions for this great app:

1. When cutting and pasting things in the same notebook, clicking the green arrow to confirm usually moves the selection a bit, making it impossible to paste it exactly where intended. Would it be possible to make the area occupied by the green arrow separate from the areas that allow the movement of the selection. For example, by memorizing the position of the selection each time it is dropped down and sits still for more than a few ms, then depositing the selection at those coordinates instead of the ones received at the moment the green arrow is clicked.

2. Imporing images with the option of changing white background to transparent.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pluginalong:
That makes sense. I was wondering if that might be the case. Too bad though.

Cool, I'm glad you like the ideas. :) Though #1 is less important if there is no 1x1 widget (which I understand you're not likely to do). Bug #2 would still be nice, particularly if it includes being able to "also change the color that is given to the regular LN icon (so that I could match the color that I associate with my particular Notebook)".

Cool, thanks for the explanation! Yeah, I've not tried it at larger sizes, and have only been displaying the cover (as I've been trying to simulate the shortcuts, though again, I think it is just too large for me to end up using the way I want to). But I bet that functionality is very helpful if displaying it larger and displaying page content. :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sphere314: I am puzzled, one can definitely not copy an image to the Android system clipboard (there are many statements in this direction, see for instance http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10856899/copy-picture-to-clipboard).

I tried to copy an image from the web browser to the clipboard. Curiously, the menu item `Copy image´ exists only on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, but neither on my Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet nor on my Nexus 7. In the latter two cases, I can only view or save the image. When I choose `Copy image´ on my Note 10.1, it indeed claims that it copied the image to the clipboard. Whatever it does, I am quite confident that it does not copy it to the Android system clipboard. It seems that, once more, Samsung cooks its own soup here and its apps save images at a certain location and check this location upon later paste. I will try to find whether this is documented somewhere, and if so, I will be glad to add this to LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] FlamingGoat:
Is it possible to attach files to notes or create links to them ? I'm talking about various files such as PowerPoint presentations. To be able to open a file, via an external program of course, would be wonderful.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
Thanks acadoid

Your last post shed some light on my misunderstanding about LN's "paste from clipboard" option.

It might well be that the image copying/pasting to/from the clipboard is something developed in samsung TouchWiz rather than a common feature available in the most recent versions of the Android OS.

In any case I think it's well worth's investigating as this feature could be very helpful in our productivity (and not only in LN).

At the moment I can say that the image copy/paste works with images copied from the browser and pasted in Polaris, but maybe also from/to some other apps.

However the way it's implemented now is not much efficient for a more general usage since to access the Samsung TW "special" clipboard it's necessary to have the keyboard out.

That's natural for pasting text in a text box (where the keyboard naturally pops out) but not for pasting some image in some image edior or some apps designed to receive images, unless they are designed with a specific "paste from clipoard" menu option.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Magnesus:
Ha, Google should buy that company and add stylus to their Nexus line. (I was replying to the comment that it's probably one company that makes both S Notes and Thinkpad note taking application)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@FlamingGoat: You can attach a keyword to a page starting with `file://´, `http://´ or `https://´, these will show up in the index, and clicking on it will start an external app (am appropriate viewer or a web browser).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] salmonsushi:
I really like the ability to customise whatever I want in Lecture notes. So far I am enjoying my purchase. However, I am having some issues with the ink itself.. The images should explain what happens

Does anyone know why or have any resolution?

Moreover, one tiny suggestion, it would be great if we can customise number of rows in customer pencil toolbox.. I only need one row at medium size, and the rest are just wasting space. Alternatively if we can put it at the top right, that would be greatly appreciated. thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Quick request please. I have the eraser on the largest size possible, but it still takes a lot of erasing to eliminate an entire line when you write big like I do. Any chance of giving us a nice, thick, one swipe eraser size? Thank you.

Still the best note app out there. Love it and use it every day.