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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] skadebo:
Thanks for the reply.

Also, where can we report bugs? Currently, if I tap on the drawing icon, it does not get highlighted (although it works). But now if I want to switch back to pen input, tapping on the pen icon brings up the menu (whereas before it would simply switch back to the pen from the drawing tool).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Yes, acadoid already added multiwindow support. See related posts several pages back.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] akxak:
Well, there is imho no difference between settings to restore after a factory reset/crash or a transfer to another device.

And of course, a mail client, a launcher has many settings which I would like to use on another device when switching or when reinstalling.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JamMasterClay: Yes, I added multi window support to LectureNotes, but it requires a device with JB. I cannot test it on my device (still runs ICS), so that it is difficult to add for instance a button to toggle between full screen and window mode. I will do that as soon as my Galaxy Note 10.1 gets JB.

@skadebo: You can report bugs to me by email or in this thread. However, what you report is not a bug, the drawing tools menu icon is not supposed to be highlighted (even though I could add this), the toggle is in the individual menu items. If you select a drawing tool via menu item, the menu item gets a tag. To disable a drawing tool, select the corresponding menu item again. It is the same as in the pencil toolbox: A click on a drawing tool actives it, another click on the drawing deactivates it. However, I could highlight the drawing tool menu icon whenever a drawing tool is active.

@akxak: There is, for instance absolute paths that you can set as app directoty, the SD card is not on the same place on different devices, for instance /mnt/sdcard or /storage/sdcard, etc.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] akxak:
I do not see a real problem, check the existance of the path on reimport and set it only if the path exists.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
@acadoid

Is there any smidgen of hope that we will have pin/password-protected notebooks or folders in the future? I know you gave reasons why not... but is there any hope? I am not looking for super security, but something simple enough to do the job. This is the only thing keeping me from using LN 100% of the time.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] skadebo:
Cool, thanks. I could have sworn that it didn't work that way before the latest update but I might be mistaken.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@akxak: No real problem, but I need to be careful about these issues. I just haven't sufficiently checked the code to open this feature for users.

@Jonphinguyen7: I can add password or PIN request for notebooks, but this will only be a fake without encryption of the notebook pages. Your notebook pages will even continue to show up the image gallery of your device.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
This is the only thing I don't like about LN. If I'm showing someone something in my gallery, on any of my devices, they can also read my notes, whether private or innocuous.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
I'll take fake! As far as the gallery thing goes... I haven't noticed that. I only need it for little things like diaries or birthday surprises and stuff. This would be amazing!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Duckylover13:
Is there any way to get rid of my notes in gallery?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Not that I know of. I've been using LN for a while and my notes are in every gallery on every device.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
This issue of notes being shown in the gallery should be a fairly easy fix. The way I see it, there are two approaches that could be taken.

1, LectureNotes could use a vector based system rather than rasterized images. This would probably require a complete re-write of the app from the ground up, but would be much better going forward. Vector images have many benefits, including being able to zoom in and maintain precision, being able to print any sizes, etc. If the drawings were vector based, they also wouldn't be viewable in any of the standard android image viewing apps, AFAIK. It would be especially more secure if LectureNotes used a proprietary vector format. In that case the only way to open the images would be to copy the files to a different device with the LectureNotes app that isn't pin/password secured. Although I think this would be a majorly beneficial upgrade, it's a lot to ask of acadoid.

2, Either the LectureNotes folder could be hidden, or a .nomedia file could be added to each folder containing the images. I think this would require fairly little modification to the app, however in terms of security this would still be relatively weak because although image galleries would ignore the images, any file browser could still open the images.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] fbrn:
Just wanted to say thanks for a great app that I use every day. One question. Is it possible to make a widget that takes you directly to a particular notebook? I have a general journal where a keep a daily log of important events. Like phone calls with customers. And it would be awesome if I could go straight to that book from the home screen. If not possible I totally understand. I am extremely happy with my purchase of your program.

And if this has been mentioned before I apologize.

Update. Tririver Thanks so much for helping with that. Works perfectly and really helps.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
In the notebook board screen, long click the notebook then a menu come out, and there is "create shortcut" in it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
I'm less concerned with security and more with privacy. Just my needs.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Nefariouss:
Nice. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jchammerpants:
Is LectureNotes rather limited on adding typed text, or am I missing something?

I found the menu tool to get a pop-up box and add one typed line at a time (because the tool doesn't auto-wrap at the page margin). Is that it?

JC
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Yes, that's it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jchammerpants:
Thanks.

Lol-- I was just coming back to this post to indicate I had seen you and others raise the same question in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1860868&page=9

JC
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] RehaCk:
Maybe its interesting for someone here:

i´ve asked the developer for a sync between different devices and here is the answer (nice workaround!):

"To sync between devices is not easy to add, there are too many cloud services around.

What you can do is to use the sync functionality of the app of your favorite cloud service and

put the LectureNotes' app directory at a place that gets synced with the

cloud service, which will then lead to syncing between devices.

Best regards,

Markus"

though i havent tested it yet!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tommyschw:
I have thought about doing this by changing my Notebook locations to my dropbox location, has anyone changed the lecture notes directory yet?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
i have my notes saved in a non default location.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tommyschw:
What do I need to do to move all of my notebooks in Lecture Notes over to a Dropbox folder?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
you can use a syncing program like dropsync, or similar to sync the folder with drop box.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] vanillanesquik:
I was wondering if any users have suggested a left hand mode. My friends and I use this app daily, one of them asked if I could reach out to the developer and suggest that this mode be implemented. He often hits the red icon in the top left, causing the app to exit out of the current notebook. This has become very frustrating for him.

Thank you so much for this wonderful app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
i believe you can turn off that functionality in one of the settings.

go to settings>menu and click "Disable app's launcher icon"
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@vanillanesquik: There are a couple of adjustments that might help left handers, for instance to disable the back key or moving the launcher icon to the right upper corner for disabled action bar. For a complete list, please have a look on the app's help page (choose `Help´ in any of the main menus and search for `left handers´).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] vanillanesquik:
Thanks I will pass this information on to my friend. Is there an ETA when the button on the SPen may be implemented? I am not sure how in-depth this implementation is.

Thanks agian
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@vanillanesquik: I am still waiting for my Galaxy Note 10.1 device to arrive. Difficult to estimate how long it will take to find a work-around.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
hey acadoid,

Quick question. do you know how apps make the bar at the bottom go black? I noticed sketchbook pro does that. it takes one press to make the home/menu icons appear and the another press to use one the the icons. I just think it would be an option that would be cool. It doesn't hide the bar, but at least makes it less prone to clicking random buttons on it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@ratindahat: Android allows what is called a `low profile´ mode for the lower bar (the system bar). However, even though the icons are dimmed or shrunk to a dot, they should still be active (at least this was the behavior for Android 3.1 on my Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, I have not tried that again after the upgrade to Android 4.0), so that this would not help concerning erroneously hitting them. Which Android version are you using? I do not have my tablet at hand at the moment, but I will try whether the behavior of the `low profile´ mode changed in Android 4. If so, I will add this to LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
@ acadoid: i just checked and you were correct about low profile mode.Even though it only shows the little dots, they still work as they would normally.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@ratindahat: I can add this to LectureNotes, but I would not find it too helpful, as the point is not that the icons disturb visually (as they might do when watching a movie or similar) but its rather the underlying function that one would like to disable.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
@acadoid: i agree it is useless for lecture notes to hide the buttons if they still work.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
Does the number of pages in a notebook affect performance of LectureNotes at all? Is there any reason to limit the number of pages in a notebook other than organizational purposes?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Personally I don't have the need for a password protected notebook. But according to the discussion, would it be better if the files be saved in a gzipped folder. Zip algorithm could have password security built in. We don't have to go into private format of vector graphics.

For example, we could have an option: to save notebook in folder or zip file, and in case of zip file, a further option of encryption or not.

Also personally opinion, I feel very happy with bitmap format. Vector format means almost a complete rewritten with different pros and cons thus looks another app (or an app with two backends). And in case a vector based app or backend is added, I would vote for some open vector graphics format instead of private format, for the notes to be as portable as possible. I think we should separate privacy and data format in any case.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Agreed. What I meant to add was that keeping the notebooks out of the gallery is all I really need. Beyond that, I'm good with whatever.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tsward:
I'm glad people have already brought up vector graphics here. I'll be using my Note 10.1 (soon as FedEx recovers from Black Friday) to take notes throughout grad school and I was worried that the ~10MB file size per page would add up just a bit too quickly. There are some apps out there that can save .svg files, but they aren't anywhere near this level of customization. Erasing is also much better using a raster-based approach.

Right now I'm struggling to decide between the overall best user experience using LectureNotes versus scalability and more efficient storage (for my particular application).

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to testing your app, Acadoid.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Why ~10MB file per page? I set the bitmap resolution to be the same as the Note 10.1 display resolution, and the file size is ~100KB per page. The default resolution is a bit higher, but the file size is still about 100~200KB per page as I remember.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Please give exact instructions as to setting resolution in LN. I missed that setting. Thanks.

FWIW, I didn't set anything and my page sizes vary between 100KB and >.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
When creating a new notebook, there is section "Paper size". You could either input, or click the "?" mark, then there are options like A4, letter, etc. Personally I use 800*1132 (I only use portrait orientation, and this paper resolution is just enough).

After creation of notebook, I guess the paper size and resolution is fixed and cannot be changed.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tririver: To keep your notes permanently in a ZIP folder, password protected or not, will be ways too slow.

@fbrn: You can create a shortcut icon, as pointed out by tririver, a widget displaying the page is on my agenda.

As pointed out by JamMasterClay, a `.nomedia´ in the respective notebook folder will keep out the notebook pages from gallery, but this will not prevent anyone from opening the files directly.

UPDATE: After the next update, LectureNotes will automatically create `.nomedia´ in each notebook, so that notebook pages will not appear in galleries anymore.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tsward:
That's great to hear. As I mentioned, I don't yet have my Note 10.1. I was operating off a bad assumption and forgot that acadoid was talking about importing PDFs when he said this in another thread:

I'm still going to miss the crisp lines from vector graphics, but I think LN is the best overall app for my purposes. Thanks tririver.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
What does S-Note use? I notice the way the pen writes much smoother and more 'defined' in S-Note.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Dead_Rabbit:
It's funny but I don't have the gallery problem... I don't know why, but my pages doesn't appear in my gallery...

I use android 4.1
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tsward:
I was wondering this yesterday. I remember a proprietary format being mentioned in one of the reviews I read, but from what I can find, JPG, PNG, PDF, etc are the export options for S Note. Unless Samsung got very inventive in their application, I highly doubt that it's vector-based. I've seen an Adobe plugin for windows that allowed vector graphics editing and erasing, but it was buggy ($40 application a professor of mine purchased). The easiest way to erase with vector graphics is to delete an entire element.

In a raster image, erasing is basically a matter of resetting the pixel value. With vector graphics it requires rewriting the original element to reflect changes (ie. a spline fit must be recalculated if the curve is shortened). I'm not an expert on creating this software, but I did a substantial bit of programming to parse .svg files as an undergrad project. I believe there are libraries out there for android-based vector graphics, so you may not have to be an expert.

I can't comment on 'smoothness' of writing since I don't yet have the tablet. However, I have seen reviews on Youtube and LN appears every bit as smooth as S Note. I'm looking forward to testing them all out, and fortunately I'll have the Christmas break to choose the best app for me.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Dead_Rabbit: Did you set a custom app directory outside the main SD card? The media server scans only the main SD card, if not told otherwise.

In any case, the next update will create `.nomedia´ in all notebook's directories and thus notebook pages will no longer show up in the gallery.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
When you get your note you will see what I am referring to. It's the way the pen writes on the notes you create. On S-Note it writes beautifully, but on LN it's not as beautiful I guess. I might have to do with the Samsung S-Pen SDK.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Dead_Rabbit:
I didn't change anything... It's strange...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Noxey:
One thing I would love to see implemented is adding an option to pre-load multiple custom pens to the button so that pressing the button multiple times (or multiple ways) will cycle through them.

I'd personally love to be writing in black, press the button to switch to blue ink, and to hold down the button for a few tenths of a second to change to red.

Currently I can only use the spen button to set my pencil to black and not back to the previous color.

If this is already implemented please let me know!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
I just use the pencil toolbox. The toolbox doesn't take too much place and one can attach an autohide button to it (the button is a bit too large though). Then every pencil type is just one click away and do not distract your attention.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] asdfuogh:
I actually like that it's not vector based (then wouldn't it be the same as the other note apps in the store minus the speedy as hell dev?).

As for the grad school guy, I'm in the same boat! I've been taking notes in class using my Note and LectureNotes, except my resolution has been a nice 1280 x 1810. My files are about ~150kb per page and I've been DropSyncing them online. It really doesn't take that much storage (I am a physics grad) as far as I can tell in the last two-ish weeks.

EDIT:

Didn't want to double-post:

@acadroid, would it be possible to implement a longer toolbox for custom pencils or something? I actually like to doodle (or just draw and sketch) in LectureNotes as well, but I find myself wanting to keep certain colors there more often.. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Noxey: I could add this, but isn't that a bit overload for a stylus button? To toggle between multiple colors, the pencil toolbox seems more appropriate, as suggested by tririver.

@asdfuogh: What do you refer to by `longer toolbox for custom pencils´? More custom pencils?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Noxey:
Some may see it as unnecessary. I however would use utilities quite a lot. I do use the tool box now but I find it cumbersome to constantly click on it. I organize all my notes with titles in blue and subject in black. It would make things easier to just tap the button. I bought an spen with an eraser so I didn't ever need to interact with menu bars.

this may just be me though.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Magnesus:
I prefer bitmap approach. For vectors the CPUs in tablets are a little too slow and vectors tend to misshape written text unless you use a lot of points (which slows everything down). Lecture notes is excelent in the way the text looks - with all mistakes visible just like on paper. :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] asdfuogh:
Yeah, more custom pencils basically. Also, anyone know how to go to different layers like the pop ups keep saying?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
Make sure the layer button is activated in the settings menu. Then, once you go into a notebook, press the layer button and it will allow yuo to add or edit layers.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] asdfuogh:
=O! ****! Niceeee!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] grimloktt:
Once in Lecture Notes, how do I start Lecture Recording? I bought it last night and couldn't easily figure out how to use it.

Thnx!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Make sure the recording icon shows on the toolbar, select it, and rock. Very easy. :cool:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@grimloktt: You can either enable and use the microphone icon, as pointed out by toenail_flicker, or you can use the item `Start recording´/´Stop recording´ in the menu at the app's launcher icon. In case you have enough space in the action bar for another menu icon, the former has the advantage that an active recording is easily seen by a blinking microphone.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] grimloktt:
OK. I found the setting and added it to toolbar. Gtg. Thnx!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@wakarou90: I just uploaded v1.18 into Google Play in which there is the possibility of backup and restore the settings into a file. There are some security measures taken upon restoring the settings from file, but finally I decided not to be too restrictive, so that you can restore settings of one device on another. Nevertheless, handle with care.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
@acadoid

You are the man! :)

I really believe this is the best writing app available, and its developing is really spectacular!

Anyway I've a question about the new "Zoomed input area" added in v. 1.18.

Even after reading the new version's "About" and "Help" I don't understand what's its purpose and how to use it. I'm sorry if I missed something already said in the previous posts.

Can you (or someone who's in the know) explain it with some more details?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sphere314: Many thanks for your kind comments. The zoomed input area is for users with passive stylus, not for users with active stylus such as the S-pen. Passive stylus cannot be distinguished from fingers by the device, so palm rejection is an issue. Furthermore, coordinate resolution is lower, so that you need to write larger. The zoomed input area allows to see the whole page with a kind of input cursor, you write into the input zone at the bottom of the display, and your writing is scaled down and inserted at the cursors position.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
Thanks acadoid.

So, if I understand it correctly, I shouldn't worry about this new feature as my GNote 10.1 has an "active" stylus? And I cannot even make some trial with it because the GNote isn't supposed to use it?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] HasC:
You can mess around with it for curiosity like I did to see how it works. You will have to uncheck pen input to enable the functionality and you will probably also need to add a pause before the writing transfers as the default scrolls too quickly. If we did not have the active stylus, this is definitely a must have feature.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Excellent. Thank you!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] intijk:
Yes , it would be better with a more faster S pen
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sphere314: Right, you are in the lucky position of not needing this. You can try it, nevertheless, by disabling `use stylus´ and enabling `provide input zone´, as pointed out by HasC (the delay time before scrolling can be adjusted in the input zone setup).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
Thanks. I've made some trial.

That's a very interesting alternative input method probably very useful for smartphones or tablets without an active pen.

As you already said (and now I know), fortunately, GNote's users won't need it much, even if, with some tweaking in the settings, I could imagine it could force people like me to take tidier notes, with equally spaced lines and words...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
Just purchased lecturenotes recording! Would be great to have a recording set to a specific page. It would make life so much easier, but nevertheless it is still awesome!