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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Canguy247:
Cloud Syncing

I can live without LectureNotes dealing with cloud storage, but it would really help if one small change was made. If I have a note which has been synced accross devices, it is very difficult to keep it properly up to date. Here is an example.

I have a note on my tablet which I change and it gets saved locally. The sync does not happen automatically because that would destroy battery life. That means it could be an hour before the sync occurs.

If I then open that same note on my phone for viewing, it could would have a newer time stamp when saved. This makes it very difficult to decide what to do with conflicts.

I can see 2 things which would help this.

1. Do not save notebooks which have not been changed (only viewed). This would prevent a lot of these occurances.

2. Add the ability for LectureNotes to tell 3rd party sync apps (FolderSync) to do a sync update. That way it can be done when the app is opened, and you would not have to deal with that can of worms.

These are just my thoughts. What do you think?

Sean
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Canguy247: 1. The notebook pages are not written if you do not perform any changes in a notebook; the only file that gets written is notebook.xml, which contains scrolling position.

2. I do not think that such API exists.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Canguy247:
Thanks for the quick response.

1. Oh! That would explain why that file was giving me problems. Thanks.

2. That seems like a big oversight on their part.

And thanks again for the great app!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hygradeb:
Hi

Just an idea for a wiget update 'unless its there and I not done it right' is there a way to have a widget for folders.

I do know the widget can do the 1st page of a book , but it would be nice to have a folder obe also.

I.e I have a folder setup for notes on jobs. In the fokder are different notebook on doing say rewiring homes.

Instead if me having a whole windows of different jobs I can have all under one widget.

This is just me trying to save space.

I do know I can make a folder and add the short cuts to it.

But it cannot be resize and you loose part if the txt..

Also I am still having the pdf problem I stated before. And have not found a round it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@hygradeb: Interesting idea, what should be display in a folder widget? The respective first pages of the notebooks in this folder? Or rather a notebooks board `en miniature´, with the possibility to open folders and notebooks?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hygradeb:
I would like to be able to have a notebook board in miniature with no limit to the amount of wigets on the screen in the same colour as the folder a person has set.

With the possibility to open notebooks.

I am sure someone may want more option if possible I.e the 1st page.

And of course it would be nice to adjust the widget size.

If its not to hard you could use the air view option for either both the folder widget or if not possible then just the notebook when you open up the folder widget.

I just notice something strange with XDA the date posted for my reply is 12 April but its only the 11th.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Robdyx:
Hey acadoid! After a week trying the new text features, I have some ideas to improve it a bit:

1. add a setting to change text alignment (right/centered/left) I like adding the date at the beguinning of the classes and I add it on the right, but I can't properly adjust it to the right margin.

2. I use SwiftKey as main keyboard. For some reason, it underlines the last written word, and when I add the date, the input is 12/4/

2013

, which is pretty annoying. Could you add an option to add only timestamp and allow positioning it? Another way to fix it could be adding the date and a space, which would also work when writting something else after the date.

Some time ago you said the next target would be the drawing tools, so just in case you are working on it, here go some notes:

1. changing between oval (diagonal axis) and circle (center + radius) is a bit tedious, maybe a new 'shift' button could be useful in the drawing tools panel.

2. This shift button could also work for new features:

- Rectangle <> Square/fixed proportion

- Lines <> Fixed angles (horizontal, 30º, 45º, vertical...)

- Text <> Timestamp

Hope you like these ideas, thank you for keeping this up!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
I've had the disappearing dialog problem a few times. Will try rebooting now. Also, when I try to import a document into a new notebook using the "all pages" option the first page is missing. The imported file just begins with page 2.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Tintinnuntius: I just double-checked but I cannot reproduce the problem, import PDF as new notebook selecting `all pages´ works as intended, all pages get imported including the first one. Is there anything specific about the first page of your PDF file? How many pages does it have?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
15 pages. This particular one was a paper from arxiv.org. I've just now generated a 2-page pdf at pdfmyurl.com and again only one page was imported.

Finally I've used PDF Builder to add an empty page at the beginning of the paper thinking that that one will get deleted and I'll get exactly the file I want. Yet in that case all 17 pages were imported including the blank first page

Maybe there's a conflict with another pdf app? Here's what I have that deals with pdfs: ezPDF Reader, PDF Builder (nE), PDFPrint, PDFView, PrinterShare.

I use the Root Browser Lite to navigate to the app (also offered are Dropbox and AndroZip Pro but I get the error message about local files if I try using either of those).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hygradeb:
I only have pdf viewer and adobe and as I stated I have the same type of problems with pdf imports
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
OK, I've figured it out. I use Tasker to switch to manual brightness when I open Lecture notes and back to auto upon exiting (rather, when the app is in the background). So, when I try to import a pdf, the focus switches to PDFView to "process the pages" and the brightness changes to auto. But at the very moment the focus goes back to Lecture notes and the app stars "reading the pages", the brightness gets switched back to manual. The resulting pdf is missing the first page. If I disable this profile in Tasker, the pdfs import perfectly with all pages present. I've tried about two dozen times to get the bug on camera and I could never reproduce it since I had the display brightness set to manual to max it out. The moment I put the camera away and went back to my standard brightness settings, there it was. I've since tried it several times with auto brightness and Tasker off and I got no bug either. It's just that particular Tasker profile with the brightness switched at that exact moment that causes problems. The fix is now obvious :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Tintinnuntius: Glad to hear that the problem is not with LectureNotes/PDFView.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mmcnulty:
Zoomed Input

So, I've been using the zoomed input mode, or at least trying to. It's very useful when I want to use multiwindow mode. That way I dont have top be zoomed in to a particular part of the page and constantly moving the screen around to see what I have already written or continue on a line, etc.

However, I have run into a few issues when doing this. For starters, I dont know if it's something Im accidentally doing, or a glitch, but my the box that I place to set the location where my input shows up keeps expanding to be completely zoomed out and I have to rezoom in back in to get the sizing I want again.

Also, the buttons on the top, bottom and sides of the input box itself always seem to be in my way. I ended up shrinking them as much as possible and setting their movements to the smallest increments allowed. Otherwise I constantly hit the lower one when trying to write, and it moves my inputs.

Lastly, I'd love to be able to move the input zone itself. Right now I just have it set to be as big as possible, because I want to write higher on the screen. It would be great if I were able to move it so that it was just midway up the screen, or wherever. It doesnt need to extend from the bottom all the way up. It would work great if could make it thin, but just have it placed higher up.

Maybe options do exist already for addressing these concerns. Either way, this was just my thoughts on zoomed input. Regardless of the above, it still works well for multiwindow mode.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@mmcnulty: The `cursor´ should only expand or shrink when you hit the corresponding button around the input zone. In which occasion does the expand/shrink occur?

To optionally hide the input zone control buttons altogether is on my to-do-list.

To allow to move the input zone is technically a bit involved, as the present implementation assumes that the input zone fills a certain fraction at the bottom of the display. However, your suggestion is to move the input zone up, but so that it still covers the full width, is this correct?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mmcnulty:
The cursor (the zone indicating where you are zoomed and the input is showing up) seems to expand when I have it placed on the far left to start a new line. I have the auto move feature turned on. Ive been meaningto adjust it, but how it is currently set, when I am on the far left and make a mark, it actually moves the cursor to the left for its auto move. I'm not certain, but I think after that happens and I go to move it, the cursor expands. I've attached a screenshot of my settings for the input zone. Alot of that was just me trying to get rid of/minimize the buttons and the erroneous movement when I hit them by accident.

As for moving the input zone itself, yes, that is what I am suggesting/hoping for. I have my input zones set to max size currently, but this is only so that I can write higher on the screen, not because I actually need the zone to be that big. I would like to be able to move the input zone so that I could write higher up on the screen. Since it does not use a ctive stylus detection then, I recognize that I might then need a safe zone, or whatever it is called that rejects inputs, below where I have the input zone so it does not register my palm.

Really it just comes down to, when Im using multiwindows and the input zone in landscape mode, I want to write higher on the screen. Obviously I can always just do it in portrait mode and have lecture notes be the top screen, but even this has a drawback in that then what I am trying to watch/read/take notes from is below my hand and I cant read and write at the same time. (And I still keep hitting the movement buttons by accident, the lower one in particular).

So, that was a bit long, but I hope that it conveys my thoughts on it, and I hope even more that any of that can be implemented in Lecture Notes. Either way, it's a great app. Indispensable really.

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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@mmcnulty: I managed to reproduce the problem, the input box left side can get a negative horizontal coordinate when using the auto-movement, and touching the input zone in this state causes it to expand (when you press on the `move to the right´ button before touching it so that the horizontal coordinate gets positive, no expansion occurs). Many thanks for your report, I will fix this for the next update.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
When watching some of all those lectures avaliable at youtube (like Khan academy) where they switch color of then pen often to make the equations and plots easier to read it got me that some of them seems to switch colors instantly by tapping the keyboard when they use on of those PC drawing boards. My question is therefore: would it be possible to add a shortcut feature where I could connect a small bluetooth keyboard to the tablet and set the buttons to switch pen, activate drawing tool, maybe zoom and pan the page and so on? Since most people only use one hand to write you can easily have the keyboard beside the tablet and have the other hand maneuvering it while drawing with the other. I think those with a regular kapacitive pen will appreciate it even more since they will get a easy way of activating the eraser.

My apologies if it isn't too clear what I mean but I'll be happy to explain it further if needed!

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_: Interesting idea, I noted it down. The shortcuts could be made adjustable, I guess you think of single letters, not CTRL or ALT combinations, right?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tritran18518:
I have a suggestion
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Yes, single letters would be the easiest I think and customizable of course would be preferable. However, many keyboards got at least the same 3x10 matrix layout that your toolbox does so setting Q for the narrow black pen, W for narrow red and so on would be good enough for me if customizable for some reason doesn't work. As always, it's of course important that such a feature doesn't slow down the app since the lack of lag is one of the best thing with it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-K...qid=1366087322&sr=1-16&keywords=Mini+keyboard

This is the type of keyboard I'm thinking of using, and since I think SwiftKey is food enough for tying and it appears even if you have a BT Keyboard this one will be LectureNotes only.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tritran18518: Interesting suggestion. I guess it should better be displayed only transiently when actually scrolling or zooming (such as the current page and zoom level gets displayed transiently when scrolling or zooming)? How to handle the case in which two pages are visible (this can happen despite zoom)?

@Axel_: To handle the keys will not cause delay.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Canguy247:
Clipboard

Any chance you will be adding a paste from clipboard option? It would be awesome if I could paste images.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] kotschi:
Just wanted to say thank you for this great app, ~3 Euro is a steal :good:

I'm using it every day for writing notes und annotating imported pdfs because the experience is so much better than in any pdf app available on the play store. My most used app after the browser!

And then one question: Is there maybe even more touchwiz support planned, e.g. dragging over screenshots in dual view mode? I think samsung released a sdk to build support for those features though I think it might be too much work and would be only usable on samsung devices :crying:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Canguy247: Everything that you cut or copy in LectureNotes goes to the Android system clipboard, and when you paste in LectureNotes, the material is taken from the Android system clipboard. Unfortunately, Samsung apps do not use the Android system clipboard for images, they use their own proprietary protocol. What should work, however, is to share images to LectureNotes.

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@kotschi: I do not like the idea to include code into LectureNotes that I cannot see in source (in fact, there would be much smarter ways to provide extra functionality without requiring developers to include an SDK into an app).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
It should be said, if you haven't noticed this already, that when taking a screenshot using your pen you can select LectureNotes in the list of programs and it will appear in your notebook as if you have used the drag/drop method.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] layercake87:
hey, nice app and definitly better than s-note. but i also have some complains:

the writing with the pen is sometimes strange. it often adds an extra line when i stop writing and raise the pen which is really annoying. (i uploaded a picture for understanding^^)

another point is that it would really be nice if we could copy and paste pictures from the web or any app without cutting them out.

third point is the zoom bar. since i write lefthanded i often accidently active the zoombar and cant write and if i use two finger zoome my palm is recognized as two fingers and it also scrolls. so it would be nice if there is a option to put the zoom bar on the right side. (i know there is a option to change zoom and scrool bar positions but i'd like to use both)

4th point: when i change custom pencil settings i cant move the bar. instead i have to click the "+" or "-" like 100 times to make it the way i want. takes a lot of time ^^

5th point: i cant add pdf data which is protected by a password :(

6th point: i couldnt find an option to rotate only one! imported pdf which is quite annoying since i have my own notes and imported pdfs. when i switch the pdfs are in the right position and my own notes not and vice versa.

7th point: it would be good if the imported pdfs are directly zoomed in a way that they fit in the width and every page is allocated under another.

7.1. : imported pdf format is often changed so that i have to scroll horizontally which is not good for working.

8th point: i would like to have a possibility to draw a line or form which will be automatically corrected like in s-note (f.e. if i want to draw a graph, to circle something, triangle ) or at least that if i draw a line almost parallel to the paper pattern that it fits my line to the pattern-line.

i think that its for now and maybe some of this were already mentionend but i think this is also a good summary :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] NoBody20013:
Greatest Note App EVER! Thank you! - already bought the full version. :highfive:

I also miss the ability to rotate only one or all Pages. (is there an option for all pages?).

It happens often, after importing a landscape PDF, that all pages are 180°, upside down. I dont kno how to turn them around.

it would be nice if there would be an option under the "Hand" Button oder under the menu...

a second thing is that i cant find the option to import more than one page into an existing Notebook from within it. (when it is already open)

hope you can provide this features?

Thank you! - you are the man!!!! :good:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tritran18518:
+ 1 for the first one.

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Have you tried to play with "import PDF setting" in setting menu ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] layercake87:
Thank you [MENTION=3989882]tritan[/MENTION] !!!

Now i can use pdfs in lecturenotes :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3379223]layercake87[/MENTION]: - The strange tails are due to hardware, enabling the pressure filter with a threshold of 5% or so should avoid them.

- To access the web would require to add a `access internet´ permission to LectureNotes, which would violate my minimal permissions policy. This is anyway not needed, just share the image from your favorite web browser and select LectureNotes as recipient.

- Wouldn't both bars being at the same side be difficult to use?

- There was a minor issue that could cause the problem that you described, I actually hoped that the present version v2.2.1 doesn't suffer from this. Could you please check which version you are using (select `About LectureNotes´ in any of the main menus and scroll somewhat down to the change log)?

- It is pretty straightforward to add a dialog when starting the app or when opening a notebook and require a PIN/password 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 notes indirectly. A password protection makes only sense if the notebook pages are encrypted. Without encryption, password protection is more a kind of `child protection´, if at all. However, encryption comes with several drawbacks when done in an app (slowing down reading and writing notebook pages from SD card, etc); if you are concerned with your privacy, I think that a much better approach is to encrypt the whole SD card.

- There is a toggle `auto-rotate´ in the app's PDF import settings. With this enabled, LectureNotes rotates the import PDF pages if this makes it fit better on the page (meaning they can be scaled larger). Disable that toggle and no rotation will occur.

- When you import multiple PDF pages at once, the imported material is scaled with in the margins set in the PDF import setup. Or are you referring to single page import?

- LectureNotes is not going to interpret what you write or draw anytime soon.

[MENTION=1063318]NoBody20013[/MENTION]: Many thanks for your kind comments.

- To rotate all pages of an existing notebook is on my agenda. This is somewhat more complicated than it seems, for instance in case the notebook contains recordings.

- To import multiple pages of a PDF file, 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 file as new pages´ in the main menu. 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. The resolution and margins can be be adjusted in the app's import settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] layercake87:
hey, many thanks for the information :)

it's alright with the pdf (rotation and align, found that options and it works quite good :) ).

the password thing is because of the scripts from my university which are password protected ^^
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3379223]layercake87[/MENTION]: Sorry, I did not read your comment carefully, I understood that you suggest to add password protection to notebooks.

When you try to import a PDF that is password protected, PDFView should prompt you to insert the password. Doesn't this work for you? Alternatively, use a tool such as pdftk to convert the PDF to a new PDF without password.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] cormel5:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION] - I have this same issue. Where do you change this setting? I can't seem to find it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] masterv1:
Could you make some other pencil toolbox designs , please ?

e.g. one with two rows horicontal and the others vertical beneath

l made a picture of it
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
Menu -> Settings -> Input (on the left) -> Filter input setup (bottom right, might have to scroll down)

I've just tried the suggested 5% and it works great :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1439036]masterv1[/MENTION]: This could be done. For simplicity, however, I would rather prefer a version which is the present one rotated by 90 degrees, meaning a three column (instead of three rows) layout.

Just curiosity: Whats is the problem with a horizontal arrangement?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] nickhimself:
Is there a way to force LN to use Gallery as the default image import app? I don't know why I'd ever want to use anything else over Gallery, but I ONLY need Gallery to open.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] masterv1:
The problem is, that the horizontal is in my writing field or in the area of automatic hover scroll with 2% at the upper/lower border.

I thought, if we had it vertical, we could put it to the left/right side.

Another reason for it is I'm not writing near the border at this sides because of perforater after printing.

Thanks in advance.