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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_: LectureNotes is not going to interpret what you write or draw anytime soon, I am sorry.

@Cocax: Custom drawing tools will allow for that, and I am presently working on their realization.

@Jonphinguyen7: You can import such icons as images.

@maccra: You use a Samsung device and change the font in the system settings, right? It seems that Samsung just replaces the Android standard sans serif font by the one that you choose. When you select `sans serif´ in the text layer setup as default font family (or using the item in the keyboard menu), LectureNotes requests the Android standard sans serif font from the Android system. If LectureNotes gets something different then requested, I do not see what can be done.

When you change the default font family, style, color, or size, you change this for all notebooks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] maccra:
@acadoid: Yes I have the Galaxy Note 10.1 and right, I did change the font in the system settings. OK, thanks for the explanation, I thought maybe I was missing some setting in LN to set the LN font as fixed. Looks like I am stuck with keeping the system font as standard sans serif, because I don't really want to write in LN with rosemary, Choco coco, cool jazz fonts etc. If you ever think it is practical that LN have its own set of fonts independent from the system, that would be nice.

Thanks. Great App. use it every day.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Jonphinguyen7:
@acadoid Understandable. But, integration is better than 3rd party. Love the app and response keep up the good work! Or, take a vacation. You deserve it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] atatistcheff:
I just want to say that this application is amazing. The depths of the configuration options are really dizzying. I have been using this for a couple of weeks on my new galaxy note 10.1. And I just went through all the notebook settings today since now I have some idea of my preferences. All I can say is Wow what a great application!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@atatistcheff: Many thanks for your kind comments.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] klau1:
I would like to buy this app, but I really need Floating notepad like in S-Notes.

Very helpful when you're watching math Youtube videos and working on problems at the same time.

If the floating notepad can have transparency, eraser, and be resizeable, I would buy it already.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

It has, you just have to press the little arrow in the middle of the system bar, select floating windows or whatever the English name for it is and then use it just like usual. Way better than the SNote mini imo since you can use all features in the app, write over the whole screen and write in your existing notes. You can easily adjust the window size too, just another plus! The only thing it doesn't support as far as i know is transparency, but that might not even be supported in Android.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] klau1:
Transparency is possible.

An example on the PlayStore is Floating paint. It creates floating notes, and are resizable.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@klau1: LectureNotes can run in a window (as pointed out by Axel_) on Samsung devices running Android 4.1 or later (in the last minor update, Sasmung was even so kind to add automatically a `windowize´ icon in the action bar). Transparency is an interesting idea, but I guess to add this will be a bit involved.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Brownster:
Where exactly is the Dropbox Sync-able folder?

I have been trying to figure out how to create files in a folder on my Asus Transformer Infinity that will sync to Dropbox. Could someone help with the steps to do that?

I have just started working on my PhD... LectureNotes has become the center piece of my educational experience. I am able to create all my files and organize them, highlight, take notes, and so much more! Thanks!

Now to find the way to sync to my Dropbox... ;)

Jim
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Brownster: Many thanks for your kind comments. I think that most users use DropSync or FolderSync to sync with their DropBox account.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Sure!

Go to settings and storage, select where you want your notes to be saved by default. Install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync and select what folder to sync against Dropbox. Profit!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
What's the best way to get them to sync in a readable format? When I was syncing it was separating all the layers into tons of different files. Should I set the folder to be synced as the destination folder for PDFs then just export to PDF each time I finidh?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@GETCASHMONEY: You can set a PDF directory (so that all exported PDF go there) and only sync that. To export all touched notebooks to PDF, select `Export notebooks board to PDF´ in the main menu.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
That's perfect. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ben749:
cursor - arrow ?

Hi, I've reinstalled my ICS on my galaxy note 1 ( aokp milestone 6 )

Strange thing, I've got a cursor : arrow, which displays while hoovering with the pen ..

second part is : can't really sketch anything while my palm or part of a finger touches the screen

does anyone got an idea to solve my issues ?

:cowboy:

regards
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rewrew:
Acadoid,

I have a suggestion that shouldn't be too hard to implement: a way to change the color of what's written.

Sometimes when you are you fast you can't change the color of the pencil. It would be great if there was a way to change it when you have some more time.

Thanks!!

Enviado desde mi GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] asdfuogh:
Is it possible to make Lecture Notes automatically turn notebooks into PDFs every night or so? Sometimes I forget to do that, so when I want to view the notebooks as PDFs on my computer, I have to wait until my tablet finishes turning stuff into PDFs, then dropsync it. Very awesome though! This is super useful for my classes (1st year phd here as well).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@ben749: LectureNotes can display a hover (setup is in the app's input settings), but I guess that you see the hover that the Android system displays.

Your Galaxy Note 1 comes with an S-pen, doesn't it? In this case, enable `use stylus (hardware detection)´ in the app's input settings and your finger/palm should not cause any problem.

@rewrew: You can do that be selecting with the cutter and click on the color basket in the left lower corner. This brings up a dialog in which you should choose the `non-zero alpha, keep alpha´ option.

@asdfuogh: In principle, the PDF creation could be done in the background, but not when your device sleeps. You can export all touched notebooks to PDF by selecting `Export notebooks board to PDF´.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
Would you consider adding a feature that automatically turns your touched note board to PDF at the specified time interval? That would be a nice feature in the absense of drop box integration. So far the method you told me works but it would be nice if it was automatically done daily.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
I found a problem using my spen, near the edge of screen i start loosing precision, i was thinking and maybe there is a solution but depends on acadoid kindness one more time.

Under settings\shift input setup if we can change the offset only in a specific area of the screen we could solve the lack of precision problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

I have that problem as well, and unfortunately I don't think that there's any you can do about it really. Many of those who use their tablet for graphical drawing and other precision stuff have these kind of problems as well and their explanation is that the problems is due to lack of isolation of the wires around the battery. The explanation for that theory is that it seems to be worse while charging, and since it's considerably worse on some items it's probably not because of software problems.

By the way, when I'm adding a new page while at the very bottom of the page in landscape mode I have to scroll all the way up on the new page. This is when I'm writing on the second last page in a bit zoomed out to have the page in a good size and in the center of the screen. I feel like there's some setting I didn't get right, anyone that has an idea?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
I have the same problem and question.

It seems that when a new page is inserted the viewing\drawing position in the new page becomes the same as it was in the old page before the insertion command (that is, mostly, the end of the page).

I think acadoid gave an explanation for this in some past post (I'm not sure).

Anyway it's rather unnatural to have to scroll up any time a new page is inserted.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: A position dependent shift would be possible, but I guess quite complicated to adjust in practice. If you enable `allow free page floating´, you can move away the notebook page from the display boundary.

@Axel_ & sphere314: Are you adding a page using the `page forward´ icon? This icon advances the focus by one page, and if there is no page available, it adds a page prior to advancing. To append a page and get the focus at the top of the newly added page, use the `plus´ icon.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Actually I tried both and got the same result, however I always have one more page in my document when writing in landscape mode to get it centered and are therefore adding another page than the one I'm actually uses next. Is there any better way to set the app to show the page in the center of the page, a bit zoomed out?

Speaking of handling, I use the screenshot with SPen function all the time by minimizing LectureNotes and open the pdf or page I want to take a screenshot to. But when I return to LectureNotes it says "select the notebook you want to insert the image in" or something similar and since I'm having some notebooks on the board it takes some time to pick the right one. Would it be possible for the app to remember what notebook I worked in last time? Just like it's already doing with the page number.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_: Maybe I misunderstood the problem. Is your device or your notebook in landscape? Or both? There is an option `allow free page floating´ which allows to move the page freely, does this help?

In the procedure that you describe, LectureNotes gets restarted, this is why you are on the notebooks board. LectureNotes remembers the last opened notebooks, there is a list in the menu at the app's launcher icon (you might need to enable the app's launcher icon and the menu at this icon in the menu settings).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

The device only, I'm writing with the device in landscape and the notes are in portrait mode. The free page floating setting did help a bit, I don't have to add one extra page but it still doesn't get to the very top when adding a new page either with the plus or the right hand side arrow.

I see! That's a pretty good trick though, it's much simpler to get into that menu than to select the right textbook. I would still love the opinion of having the app remembering what book you used last, sometimes I'm switching forth and back to another app and it would be really helpful. Restarting the app is never the way I use to get back to the board, and still getting out of the notebook manually those few times would be much easier.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_; Are you using `fit height´ with zoom in the arrangement that you describe? LectureNotes preserves the vertical offset (or the horizontal offset for `fit width´) when using the `plus´ or `page forward´ icon, I guess that this is disturbing you. I think for the latter this makes sense, whereas for the former one might argue, it is probably better to set the vertical offset (or the horizontal offset for `fit width´) to 0.

Let me think a moment about the automatic reopening of a notebook. The problem is that there are also scenarios in which one would not like to automatically reopen the previous notebook.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

I did use fit height since I was using it in portrait mode before and hadn't a thought of changing it, but fit width was much better and solved the "problem" right away. Thank you once again!

For the automatic reopening, wouldn't it be possible to have it working the way it does atm as default and have some setting under "Handling" to remember what notebook you were using? But of course, there might be an issue I haven't thought about.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
If you want to make it easy to open the previous notebook, add a section to the notebook board that always displays the last notebook. Not in a menu or anything something along with the other notebooks but distinguishable.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Great idea! The ability to sort the notebooks after "last edited" might be a good feature as well? If it's not already possible, that is.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JamMasterClay: Interesting idea, I noted it down.

@Axel_: You can sort by date instead of name, but this is only within a folder, not for the whole notebooks board.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
@acadoid, how hard would it be to add an option to LectureNotes so that when the S-Pen is removed the tool automatically switches to pen mode, and when inserted it switches to hand mode? Or better yet, let the user select a default tool for pen inserted and pen removed.

Apparently Samsung released the SDK for the S-Pen, so it's possible to detect the state by third party apps. The app here allows the keyboard to change depending on the pen state: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/app-review-switch-keyboards-for-your-s-pen-xda-developer-tv/

I don't know if that app requires root to detect pen status or to switch keyboards, but there are already root options in LectureNotes so I'm sure that wouldn't be an issue for you.

I thought about requesting this when I first got my Note 10.1, but I assumed it wouldn't be possible until I saw the SPenBoard Switcher app. I'm sure many Note users would find it extremely helpful.

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
How realistic it is to implement some internal calibration tool, as it is done for example in "LayerPaint" app? LN is the only app I use for taking notes, and the in-app calibration would have been more than enough.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
@acadoid

First I love LectureNotes. It's an amazing and indispensable app for me. I do think the notebook board needs more sorting functionality though. I've mentioned it before and see it here again though. As LectureNotes matures and we all have more and more notes that will become indispensable I think. An option like sorting by last modified (last modified by notebook or if a folder using date of last modifies notebook within and replicate sort for each level.) You could also add collapsible groupings based on last modified (today, last week, last month, older). I still think an ability to manually drag and drop to order folders/notebooks like icons would be great. Lastly if these are too complex even allowing us to give folders/notebooks weights and sorting by weight would be helpful. Currently sort by date seems to just sort by date creation which just isn't all that helpful.

Again LectureNotes is awesome. I think this is an important featured though that would positively impact almost every user and make LectureNotes that much better.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] plebianJay:
Hi there, just have to say Lecture Notes is awesome, and I use it more and more every day.

I have one thought/request that I feel would be useful, and am curious if anyone else agrees?

Would it be possible to leave the opacity and softness sliders unlocked when switching the custom pencils to use pressure sensitivity? I can see the softness and opacity working the same as it does with the fixed width pencil , but with variable line width based on pressure. Adding an option for pressure to control opacity as well would also be cool, but not as vital.

This would allow more of a "sketchy" tool, without really adding any kind of fancy art brushes or anything. ( which are probably better left to the full fledged art apps)

Keep up the great work on this app! It's one of the quickest note taking apps I've used. My apologies if this has already been asked for, I scanned the thread, but didn't find anything.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JamMasterClay: Interesting idea, but as far as I know, this information can only be obtained using the Samsung SDK, and I do not like to include code into LectureNotes which I cannot see in source. It is unclear to me why Samsung doesn't provide an interface than can be used via Java reflection (as HTC did in Android 3 concerning their stylus), this would be much easier and cleaner.

@Gargantuanian: What do you wish to calibrate?

@jeggen: Interesting ideas. To construct lists of notebooks that have been modified within a certain period can be done. Actually, I plan to add user-defined sorting and drag-and-drop, but user-defined weights and sorting by them could be another (simpler) approach.

@plebianJay: That several combinations of pencil features are presently not allowed is due to the fact that, so far, I have not found a sufficient fast algorithm to implement them. The Android drawing machinery is not particular advanced and does not have methods to draw paths with varying width or soft boundaries built-in. Standard algorithms to draw a path with both varying width and soft boundaries are too slow when coded in Java.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] plebianJay:
acadoid, thanks for the quick reply! You seriously rock!

Is hard boundary, variable line width and transparency doable, or is that slow as well? The soft edge lines aren't that important, I'm really more interested in getting alpha. The transparency could be a fixed alpha value that doesn't change with pressure, and is only additive when a new stroke is started, like the current custom pencil, but with pressure based line thickness. I really like the feel of the standard pencil behavior, but often find myself wishing I could make it semi-transparent.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
@ acadoid : I meant the s-pen calibration within LN. The program I mentioned (LayerPaint) seems to do exactly that. As the others noticed, the lack of precision next to the borders of the screen makes it really hard to write anything close to the borders.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Magnesus:
Callibration won't help with the border problem, S-Pen behaves very non-linear there.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@plebianJay: Unfortunately, the problematic part is finite alpha.

@Gargantuanian: LectureNotes supports offsets which are equal everywhere on the display. In principle, one could have offsets which depends on the coordinates, but I agree with Magnesus that to determine the necessary data is not trivial (at least I do not have a good idea how to do that). In fact, other parameters might actually be more important than the coordinates, for instance the orientation between S-pen and display surface. Are you using a protection case for your device (it seems that some of them contain magnets which mess up the S-pen detection)?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Gargantuanian:
@acadoid and @ Magnesus: I am not using any case etc. The issue is really the S-pen, and it drives me crazy and somehow spoils the entire experience, although I realize I can simply write slightly off the borders. So, to describe the issue with my galaxy note 10.1 in more details: closer to the border if I try to draw close to each other horizontal lines, there are some regions that the straight line turns into some kind of tan(x) -like function. At first I thought there is a problem with my Spen so I bought another one, which has the same issue. Then I thought there might be a problem with my screen, so I tried the Spen from my Note II, which surprizingly is a lot more accurate than the native Spen of 10.1 note, and not only close to the borders, but also everywhere: The lines seems to be more precise however small I write it. I do not understand how and why this happens. But still, it seems something is wrong close to the borders, I can never have the precision that I get in the main area of the screen. I should perhaps try using another 10.1 note in some store and verify that the issue is general . Reading a bit in the boards about Lenovo 230t, people seem to complain about the same thing , although it seems it has internal calibration. (Off-topic: anyone could compare the galaxy note 10.1 and lenovo 230t when it comes to using s-pen?)

The horizontal and vertical offsets, which depend on the coordinates perhaps is the solution, if the implementation is not too hard. In fact I tried it, and with some modification writing close to the borders becomes quite nice.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mmcnulty:
Rotation

Hi, Ive got a quick question for anyone regarding lecture notes and this seems like as good a place as any for it.

When I import a pdf how can I rotate all the pages? I see I can set the orientation in settings, but this rotates all my notebooks. Is there another tool or function im overlooking here?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Gargantuanian: The problem is how LectureNotes should determine the coordinate dependent offsets? What protocol should be applied? One thing that I thought of is to draw lines on the screen and ask the user to draw a line along the shown line using the S-pen and a plastic ruler. But even doing that repeatedly, it is not trivial to calculate the coordinate depend offsets from the data of time-dependent coordinates.

@mmcnulty: LectureNotes imports PDF pages in their `native´ orientation, only if you enable `auto-rotate´ it checks whether the PDF page fits better (i.e., can be scaled larger) after a 90 degrees orientation.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
Just to report that the same exact thing happens to me, with both the native Spen and the "Spen with eraser"... If I really need to write close to the border, I do what acadoid already sugested: enable free page floating. Otherwise, I just avoid writing there. But obviously it would be better if someone found a solution...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
FWIW, I previously owned a Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet (which uses N-Trig vs the S-Pen which is Wacom) anyone who does graphics design will know the difference in quality, Wacom is the "Kleenex" of graphics tablets. Even still, both devices - which use similar but different technologies - have major issues when writing near the edges. I'll check my 6 year old Wacom Tabletop when I get home, but I think is also suffered from the same. I believe it has to do with the fact that there is a slight gap between the pen tip on the glass, and the digitizer below. The cause of this is that the angle your writing at will drastically change where the input will be registered. I think it has trouble with these calculations when close to the edges because it is only sensing half of the area around the tip.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] bmperrea:
More pencil width options

I really like the amount of writing I can do with .5, but it prints too light. I would really like to be able to make a pencil with a width somewhere between .5 and .75.

Well done, and thanks.