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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] naruto.ninjakid:
Here !

I picked upa surface pro pen

http://www.ebay.com/itm/231284620773?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

and the samsung pen

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009QW3SGQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Does LectureNotes have the ability for when you draw like a line or circle it will perfect it. So i can draw graphs with straight lines ? [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION]
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4674761]naruto.ninjakid[/MENTION]: LectureNotes does not interpret what you write or draw, so it does neither replace an approximate straight line by a perfect straight line nor replace an approximate circle by a perfect circle. However, it provides drawing tools, simple standard drawing tools (line, circle etc.) and custom drawing tools coded in JavaScript. There are numerous examples of custom drawing tools included, ranging from arrows to coordinate systems. The point of coding in JavaScript is that you can create your own tools, there is a thread on this subject (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2610695) where users post code they developed.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] pnuker:
Cool, I'll look into those. I was looking into the surface pro pen before, but when I tested it on my note 10 at best buy it didn't work at all. Something about an incompatibility in the magnetic technology used. The one you linked to must be different then.

So you're not experiencing any offset with those? I can manage to get by writing continuously with it, but my main issue is when I try to go back and add/overlap things - it's hard to pinpoint where I need to place the pen. For example, when I'm creating graphs and need to put in a specific point, it's very unpredictable...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] naruto.ninjakid:
I haven't got the surface pro pen yet. I ordered the note pro 12.2 but it didn't come yet I also got the Samsung one which works perfectly with the note 2 I tried it on. Will see About the surface pen supposedly it works.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
New functionality

Hello Acadoid,

I'm a long time a big fan of Lecturenotes. It's by far my most used app on my Notepro. It seems that this forum is not very busy anymore, understandable because a lot of functional requests are implemented. Every saturday I'm looking forward to a new Lecturenotes release. Any new functionality we can look forward to? (shortterm and/or midterm)

Grt.

Gert
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kumabjorn:
It works, flawlessly.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5076672]gertgertgert[/MENTION]: The next update will come with more localizations (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and French, the largest user proportions after English, German, and Korean) and will allow to use LectureNotes for presentations via a secondary display.

What will come after that is difficult to say, there are a large number of user suggestions on my to-do-list...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tincmulc:
Can you make the saving of notebooks multithreaded? Since the pages are each a separate unit, you could make them save in parallel (I'm guessing the bitmap to PNG is the slow operation here). Since most note tablets are quad core, there is an opportunity for a speed boost.

I will also explain why this bothers me as it is now: I have note 10.1 2014 and I'm using rather huge 2560x3623 pages. The problem is that if I modify more than a few pages between one "writing notebook files" it takes a very long time to save them. Saving one page is not really that bad, but the more they pile up the longer the wait. Using more cores would likely reduce the time increase for multiple changed pages saves.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1738252]tincmulc[/MENTION]: Android's Bitmap class is unfortunately not entirely thread-safe. Besides that, the limiting factor on most devices is access to the file system.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tincmulc:
Since I don't know how you designed the app I might be wrong, but isn't each page a separate instance of the same class/data structure? Do you have any data shared between pages? Seeing per page PNG's in the data folder suggest there is no connection between pages. I will state again: I'm not talking about threading the export to PNG of a single page, but using a new thread for each changed page. If right now the data structures aren't set up for that kind of parallel export, how hard would it be to change them?

I did some more testing and the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition is absolutely not storage limited in this workload. In the end it writes about a megabyte worth of data per page(fully used pages, on average it's closer to 500kB per page) in the span of 3 or more seconds, and the write is sequential.

I'm sorry if it looks like I'm attacking you, but I'm just not convinced that this is something so easily dismissed.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=1738252]tincmulc[/MENTION]: I understood that you suggest to write each bitmap in a separate thread (and not a single bitmap in a multi-threaded way).

Yes, each bitmap is an instance of the Bitmap class, but this does not help in this case.

The Android Bitmap class is not a pure Java class but uses quite a lot of native code, and there are a couple of further complications (for instance the actual bitmap data is not stored on the Java heap).

In fact, default multi-threading in Android is generally constrained to the UI thread and a background (work) thread, so even if one initiates multiple background threads, they will get executed one after the one. One can overwrite this constraint, but this is very likely to fail in this case.

Have you ever wondered why images etc. appear sequentially in Android apps?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tincmulc:
In most android apps images appear sequentially because the image loading is storage or network limited. Loading 4 images at a time will probably be worse than loading one at a time from an SD card. When the processor time is a small fraction of the total loading time, there is little point in bothering with multithreading.

Correct me if I'm wrong but thread safe means that more than one thread can access the same data. There should be none of that here as there are separate bitmaps going in to separate PNGs There is no need for the threads to communicate with each other or access each others' data.

I didn't have the normal android UI threading in mind. I was thinking about ThreadPoolExecutor (described here) which should provide you with a simple way to give it a lot of work (all the changed pages) and it will automatically use the right number of threads to execute the tasks.

Anyway, I just wanted to bring this to proper attention and I hope you will play with this some more if you have time. I understand that there are probably way better suggestions on your to do list than this, but I still hope to see the line ** up to 400% faster saving of notebooks on multi core devices ** in the changelog someday :p
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MarlinFF:
Hi acadoid,

Why is my lecturenotes folder full of png with the name selection now? I have 10 alone from the last day.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=3121787]MarlinFF[/MENTION]: Since v2.5.5 of August 30, LectureNotes keeps older selections in files `selection_*.png´ to allow to access them via the `paste from non-standard clipboard´ item in the `cutter´ menu; previously, only the last selection could be accessed. Now, you can, for instance, copy a few items in one notebook, change to another notebook, and paste them one by one; previously, you had to change notebooks for every operation.

Whenever a new selection is added or you access older selections via the `paste from non-standard clipboard´, LectureNotes deletes files that are older than 24h.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
I've purchased LecturePresentations this morning to try them out on Note Pro 12.2. I love the fact that the second display only shows the presentation and hides the status bar, notifications, etc. Sadly, it suffers from the same lag and stuttering as LectureVideos on this device. If I simply connect the tablet to the projector and try to write, it works fine, but as soon as the presentation mode is on, it lags and stutters, so it's not usable if you wish to write stuff down during the presentation. Why is this happening on such a high-end device while everything works on the old Note 10?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4226212]Tintinnuntius[/MENTION]: The Note Pro 12.2 comes in several versions (Wifi, LTE, etc.), which one do you use?

The display content has to be drawn off-screen for both LectureVideos and LecturePresentations . Most current devices are quite fast in drawing on-screen, but off-screen drawing capabilities significantly differ between devices., and some devices are surprisingly slow when drawing off-screen. During my tests, I observed on some devices differences in drawing duration on-screen and off-screen by a factor of 10 or more.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
I have a Wifi-only version P900 (purchased in UK), stock and not rooted. Let me know if you need more details like os version, kernel version, etc.

Is this something you can potentially fix in your apps or is this something that Samsung messed up and that can (but never will) only be fixed in a future sistem update?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4226212]Tintinnuntius[/MENTION]: I am afraid that this is nothing that can be fixed in an app, at least if one does not want to replace usage of Android standard classes by own classes. Whether this can be fixed by an Android update is difficult to say, it might also be due to hardware design (this is why I asked for the device variant that you use), in which case own classes would not help either.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Solyomszem:
Importing PDF pages into existing notebook

Hi [MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION],

I've not been using LN for the last few updates simply due to the lack of lectures in my last few months time... :)

Last wekk as I opend LN and tried to import the PDF received from my lecturer I was suprised that I was not able to batch import all the pages to my notebook. (I might have not found the adequate settings....)

-I could import the PDF with all pages to a New notebook.

-I could only import a PDF page-by-page and isnert it to the actual notebook. (There was no option in the menu for importing PDF pages, only to import PDF.)

Did I miss something? (I was trying to start the import process from within LN.)

Thanks in advance,

Solyomszem
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=897087]Solyomszem[/MENTION]: To import multiple pages of a PDF file at once, open your notebook in notebook overview (either directly from the notebooks board by a long-click and selecting `Notebook overview´ in the popup menu, or by opening the notebook normally and selecting `Notebook overview´ in the main menu) and select `Import PDF as new pages´ in the main menu. 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.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Solyomszem:
You are my hero! [emoji1] It just works.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rasayan:
Hello, Many times I import a picture from pdf and other sources and then place it lets say in top left corner. Afterward when I want to move the same picture, I have to use the cutter mode to select the region precisely and then move to some other location on the page. Is it not possible to select the image and move it simply like in Snote. Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=4349352]rasayan[/MENTION]: LectureNotes is bitmap-based, not object-based, so LectureNotes does not keep track of imported material as independent objects. If you want to move imported material, you need to use the `cutter´ tool.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gerberman:
Hi,

Is there a way to disable the quick drawing tool edit (double clicking on a custom tool on the tool panel)

I saw there's a way to disable the quick pen edit but I couldn't find anything for the tools...

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] rasayan:
Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2534331]gerberman[/MENTION]: The double-click cannot be disabled for both custom pencils and custom drawing tools; the option for the custom drawing pencils defines whether the full custom pencil settings or the quick custom pencil settings get started. I slightly changed the handling concerning double-click on a custom drawing tool in the latest update v2.6.1 (you need now to double-click on the same custom drawing tool) which should avoid erroneously change to the custom drawing tool settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mirb:
Pencil linked to a specific layer?

Is it possible to have a pencil linked to a layer?

For instance, if I'm using custom pencil #1 everything written with that pen will automatically be added to layer X without the need to manually change the active layer to X. This feature would really help me during project meetings.

Sorry if this issue has already been addressed before, the thread has become quite massive ;)

Thanks for a completely awesome app! :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2015564]mirb[/MENTION]: No, that is currently not possible, but it is an interesting idea.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] fixfox2:
Sync between devices

When will Sync between Devices be implemented properly in-app?

It is such critical (missing?) feature.

Google drive and Dropbox are some of the popular cloud storage solutions.

I've been waiting for this feature since the original galaxy tab was released.

I have always had "lecture notes" installed on my devices (note 10.1 2014, note 3, and note 4) but am forced to used the slower SNote due to this missing feature.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=2827084]fixfox2[/MENTION]: Even though LectureNotes usage of many individual files to store notebook pages is ideal for syncing your notes, LectureNotes does not directly sync devices. But this can easily be achieved by syncing LectureNotes' app directory on each device with a cloud service, in this way, you automatically sync the devices. A large fraction of LectureNotes users has in fact multiple devices and does syncing in this way.

LectureNotes allows you to set its app directory (the place where it stores your notebooks) to any place on your SD card, so that you can set it to a place that gets automatically synced with your cloud account. If you do not yet use such automatic syncing, you can set it up specifically for the LectureNotes app directory.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] fixfox2:
What I mean is a setting (in settings perhaps) to make use of the existing (popular) cloud storage solutions.

I suspect very few users will go to the trouble of implementing a complex syncing setup.

Guess I'll have to keep using SNote till this gets incorporated.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Tintinnuntius:
You can use the free version of Dropsync. No complicated setup necessary, it allows you to sync the LectureNotes folder on each device with a specified folder on Dropbox. You can also choose how frequently you want to sync. I imagine any potential in-app solution would work exactly the same way.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] BclingergFJ:
Why reinvent the wheel.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] fixfox2:
Just tried your suggestion and it works well.

Thanks
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Crop and rotate image

Hi Acadoid,

I noticed some strange behaviour you might want to fix in a future release, it is only a minor issue though. I use the silentcamera app for taking pictures on my NotePro. I set the option to automatically rotate the image counter clock wise during import, that works fine. But when I also set to automatically crop the imported image it doesn't rotate anymore....

+1 btw for linking a pencil to a layer suggestion from mirb

Keep up the great work!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5076672]gertgertgert[/MENTION]: It might be difficult to see as the page and the imported material is grayed, but the initial rotation is initially done even if the crop-editor is started automatically. The problem is that leaving the crop editor (independent whether it got started automatically or manually) resets the rotation to 0, so that effectively the initial rotation is discarded. One might not reset the rotation to 0 when leaving the crop editor, let me think about it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] eirikeh:
Onenote sync

Hi there!

I have been using LecturNotes since I first bought the N7000 a few months after its release (I'm now mainly using my N8010). However I am now using the OneNote app quite frequently as well. This is due to the organizing features it has (at least in the PC version) and the ability to edit and view seamlessly between devices. There is however a lot of features lacking (to many to count) when using OneNote. That is why I am now asking if there is a way to kind of replace the OneNote app on my android device with LectureNotes? In other words what I need is a two-way sync between OneNote and LectureNotes in order to get the best of both worlds.

I have been trying to search around, and have yet to find a proper sollution. My best guess would be that the structure of the app is inherently to different to make it work. Anyway, Thanks for an awesome app! Hope you can make it even better by offering a solution to this!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] oberbrunner:
Can the screen stay on when LectureNotes is active?

Is there any way to prevent the screen from sleeping when LectureNotes is the active app? Or at least when it's charging and active? It would be so great not to have to wake up the device all the time while taking notes in meetings. And yes, I get that it would suck down the battery life, that's OK. :)

I'm on an original Galaxy Note 10.1, stock.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=699880]oberbrunner[/MENTION]: There is an option `keep screen on´ in the app's display settings; if this option is enabled, LectureNotes prevents the device from sleeping while being active.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] eirikeh:
You could use the app setting as mentioned above, or you could do as me and set the system setting for dimming the screen. I have set mine to 5 minutes. Usually if I haven't used the device by then I'm not gonna use it in a while anyway. But I do off course realize this isn't what you ask for, I just wanted to add it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5076672]gertgertgert[/MENTION]: I just uploaded v2.6.3 into the app stores. This version (re)sets the angle to the initial angle when you leave the crop editor.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
Thx for the quick respons and fix! Keep up the great work!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Kirrrr:
Using subj under WIndows

For those who interested in using LectureNotes under Windows. Did you try BlueStacks?

I tried it on my ThinkPad X201 Tablet and it was pretty good. Obviously the stylus works just as finger (but Thinkpad itself is doing good finger/stylus recognition) so no stylus button functions are available. Rasterizing has some issues too — picture looks blurred even if all dimentions are pixel-to-pixel (virtual screen, window size, computer screen). BUT! It opens notes, it draws lines. It works almost like on real android tablet.

BTW: Another one hope is Chrome ARChon Runtime which allows to run Android APKs under Chrome but that project is pretty crude yet.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Abudabilibre:
One question:

Anybody with one-time drawing tools issues?

After last update, my one-time D.T. stopped working. I´ve checked this on settings and everything seems right to me but It´s not working anymore.

Greetings
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5768527]Abudabilibre[/MENTION]: Have you double-checked that `disable one-time drawing tool´ is not enabled (ticked) in the `tool´ menu? This item allows to temporarily disable the one-time drawing tool function.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Abudabilibre:
Ops! :silly: I missed that.

You're right. That was the problem.

thanks again!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ene23:
Notebook Overview

Greetings!

First of all, I'm overly impressed with Lecture Notes since I got my Note 10.1 and am using it solely for lecture and university purposes. It is simply great. The usefulness of the various settings and personalisation is beyond measure.

Therefore, I only come here for a very small gimmick, I suppose. I find myself using the "Notebook Overview" (the one which shows the content of a given notebook, i.e. an overview of all the pages within the notebook. German title used, for reference, for this is "Notizbuch-Übersicht") feature quite often and it would be very useful if this feature could be linked to a hidable menu icon like all the other features. I'm sorry if this is already integrated, I could not find anything related. Is this, by any chance, doable?

Kind regards,

Tom
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6266408]ene23[/MENTION]: Many thanks for your kind comments.

When you select `Go to page´ in the `hand´ menu, LectureNotes allows you to select the target page by thumbnail. Is it this what you have in mind?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ene23:
Not entirely.. I tried to illustrate the point I'm talking about with a picture, I hope this helps.

Go to page is useful as to see what is on the page I'm going to, but does not give me context-sensitive information about that page, i.e. what comes next and what's been previous to that. The overview does fit my needs in that regard. Ultimately, it may sound stupid, but a button which results in the "Notizbuch-Übersucht" directly put in the menu would increase (my) usability compared to the one where I must click the Setting - Button prior to that.. essentially it's two clicks vs. one click, but yea, I'd go for one click if I could.. :D

I hope that I could kill any remaining uncertainty.

Kind regards,

Tom
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=6266408]ene23[/MENTION]: As you probably imagine, I receive a lot of such `one click´ suggestions. In principle, I am open to such kind of suggestions (for instance, the `input zone´ got a `one click´ hide/show icon), but I also need to keep general usability in mind. What I consider is to optionally display a kind of `overview´ with page thumbnails at the left side (as many PDF viewer apps allow to do) in notebook content view. This would save the hassle to move to notebook overview and back.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ene23:
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]@acadoid

I like the idea of it and understand the point of general usability. I'm in no terrible need for my suggested thing, it was just a little point I find myself encountering quite a lot whilst using Lecture Notes. No big deal at all.

Looking forward to it!

Kind regards,

Tom
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] dragon005:
[MENTION=4619147]acadoid[/MENTION] , hi i have some suggestions for lecturenotes , please consider them :

1- combine multiple notes into one

2- change color and pattern per page (very useful when trying to add papers to imported pdf , i don't want the paper pattern to appear in the background of the imported pages)

3- add a print feature to print notes on wireless printers or on cloud printers .

and thank you for your great work .
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
[MENTION=5637234]dragon005[/MENTION]: Many thanks, I am glad to hear that you like the app.

1. You can combine two notebooks by copying all pages of the first notebook to the clipboard in notebook overview and paste them into the second notebook in notebook overview.

2. That is on my agenda.

3. Share the notebook's PDF to the printer app of your wireless or cloud printer.