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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] psx2pal:
Hey, i have a feature request.

At first, I would love you for this feature :D. We can print with android (DocumentShare and so on). But this tools kann only print a side to a paperpage. But my scripts have normally 300 until 500 sides. So it would be nice to have an option, to save 2 oder 4 sides on a page, when you export your notebook to pdf. So i don't must print 300-500 paperpages or use my PC to build a pdf with more sides on a page..

If i had the sourcode, i would implement it :D, but it's your program :).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] splotz:
@psx2pal

Can you make a Printer App with this feature for PDF?

I would buy it.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@psx2pal: I agree with splotz that such feature is better placed in a printer app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Instead of renaming, I moved the files from the y_ folder back to the one I created originally. It worked fine. Very weird Issue. Love LN. Thanks for your help.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sphere314:
I can see chuckjones points and was thinking something similar myself.

Even if the frequent updates are not causing, at least for me, any problem in the app's overall performance (as hinted) they might be a little confusing and hard to follow...

There's an updated version of LN about more or less every 2/3 days.

When I receive the update notification I check the "what's new" tab of the LN page in GooglePlay. Very often I see no changes with respect to the same info reported for the previous version. I can then see more detailed info in the "about" option of the app.

Anyway, many updates are often for very minor changes made upon some user's requests.

It gives the impression that the developer is (somewhat) wasting much time following the specific needs of some users (to satisfy his customers' needs) rather than working on streamlining the general and most important features into some overall design, with some of the requests filtered, accepted and integrated in the general project.

Having said that, I greatly appreciate acadoid's attention to user's requests and his willingness to satisfy all. That's rather unique and awesome, and that's a good point on LN's success.

Also for that I think that LN is probably the best app at the moment for taking notes and its possibility of customization is huge.

But also its "settings menu" is becoming huge and can be considered too much rich and confusing for new potential customers that would just need a note taking app with a good workflow and some simple and focused options for its settings and customization.

So, I'd suggest acadoid to limit new versions to, say, one per week (unless to fix some possible bugs), taking some more time to weight and judge new requests, integrating them into the overall "utopian" model of the "perfect note taking app"

(just my two cents....)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] chuckjones:
I feel connected to this thing because I breathe it... it's wierd. A mild update is noticeable, but few of the updates have made a dent in my workflow. I'd rather you work on other high quality apps we can buy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
X2

What makes this application, a particular application is how the developer behaves!

That said and speaking against me. I think the focus of future development should be THE great additions like making the program vector based (with amazing lecture recorder integration) or add text boxes like in word.

To decide which new major additions we want, acadoid could do polls.

But i agree, this is an amazing app just like it is! :highfive:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
I just got a Bluetooth keyboard and test it with lecture notes. There are two comments. Both of them are minor and not important for me. Just let you know:

1) The control + b, i, u does not work for me. I first press shift and select words, then press control + b, i, u. Just the b, i, u characters jumping onto the screen, instead of the desired behavior.

This may have something to do with the Samsung keyboard (here I mean the virtual keyboard I select). I noticed if I change to the "google android keyboard", control + b, i, u work for me. However, I also tried control + keys in Emacs for android. Emacs accepts the control + b, i, u commands for Samsung keyboard as well. Thus this may not be completely a virtual keyboard issue.

2) An issue about input method. I use Chinese pinyin input (the Samsung default one). There is no problem if I input the pinyin and then select the character by touching on it. However, in the pc-way, we typically select the character by number, or space bar for the first candidate. However, in LN, the space bar will insert a space directly, instead being used by the input method.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
The technical issues first:

@JamMasterClay: To allow scrolling to continue with one finger after starting it with two fingers is intentionally, as it eases handling. When you lift one of the two fingers, zooming is immediately stopped, and one could of course also stop scrolling.

@Axel_: You can use an existing notebook as template for a new one, this copies all parameters including JavaScript code.

@tririver: 1. It might be that the ctrl-b/i/u are caught by the Android system before LectureNotes sees them. Have you tried to use alt or meta instead of ctrl? 2. LectureNotes does not directly interact with a soft or hardware keyboard, it only `sees´ a stream of key down and up events provided by the Android system.

Now the non-technical issues:

Many thanks for your comments and opinions.

I see chuckjones' points: updates are supposed to enhance workflow, not to break it; UI should remain fast, slim, and consistent; settings should remain managable.

For the first point, no one is forced to accept an update, you can remain with a given version if you are happy with it, or update less frequently. The fact that the `what's new´ section in Google Play didn't change for a new update is usually due to the delayed update of these sections.

Even though you might have gotten the opposite impression, I am actually quite picky concerning suggestions that make it into LectureNotes. I do not mind to add features that are maybe less critical but do not effect the overall response of the app (to display the first page on the notebooks board was mentioned as an example), but I am quite reluctant concerning the core functionality. I need to be convinced that a given suggestion and its implementation will fit into the UI, and I do turn down suggestions that do not fit according to my opinion (I make the effort to explain why I turn down a suggestion, though). This is the reason why it took quite long until the input zone (not relevant for users with a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, but quite critical for users with passive stylus) and the text layer was added, despite of hundreds of emails that I received, as I felt that the implementations that I was trying did not fit. And this is also the reason why the planned improvements of the text drawing tool will take some more time to come, as I am still not satisfied with my present realization. For the same reason, I do not like the idea of polls concerning new or revised features (even though I am a deeply democratic person), as I will likely feel obligated to follow them.

I might be wrong, but I think the main reason for the admittedly complex settings is not that LectureNotes has too many functions, but rather that I do not like the idea of imposing default values of a given functionality without the possibility to adjust them. I agree that the settings can be scary for a new users, but I try to give meaningful default values, so that with the exception of the input settings, no user is forced to deal with the settings.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Thanks a lot for your reply. It's funny that when Samsung virtual keyboard is selected, the alt+b/i/u, but not ctrl works on the hardware keyboard. When the android virtual keyboard is selected, the ctrl (but not alt) works. It should be because of special keyboard settings. This is already good enough for me.

I guess Emacs for android just tried harder on those issues because key combinations are crucial for Emacs.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] chuckjones:
I like this idea too, a poll. I'd go further, let people suggest and vote on features to incorporate. I like the vector idea... for me cloud integration is huge - just to throw it out there again :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
Some users will probably be annoyed with me asking, but could you add an option (probably a checkbox in the two finger gesture setup) to disable this behavior? I have the distance such that I have to use my pointer finger and pinky finger to scroll, so I can't make it any further. Resting my hand on the screen sometimes still registers as two fingers though...it's no a problem when it's resting there because it isn't moving so much, but when I lift it the page moves all over, even though the distance is no longer enough to register as two fingers. I have to make sure to pick my hand straight up from the page, which isn't exactly natural. This minor behavior is the only real thing that keeps writing from being as natural as on paper.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tririver: I guess that emacs does not use the Android edit text class (as LectureNotes does) but implements things from scratch.

@chuckjones: Cloud service integration is not going to come anytime soon, I am sorry. Starting this will put me in a rat race that I have no chance to win, there are simply too many cloud services around and I will not be able to keep track with security updates, interface changes, etc.

@JamMasterClay: Yes, this could be done, but I am not sure whether it is going to solve the problem. If your palm gets detected as two fingers with sufficient distance to start scrolling, it will continue to be detected as two fingers, won't it?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
It only happens when I lift my hand, so the touch input should be less than the two finger distance. It may move it ever so slightly when I first begin lifting, but once the distance is less than the two finger distance the movement would stop. Currently after my hand is resting on the screen, even the slightest touch will move the page. When my hand is resting on the screen it's close enough that it detects the S-Pen so even if it detects the hand as two fingers it won't scroll. When lifting my hand the S-Pen goes out of range, but because it had detected my hand as two fingers even the slightest amount of my hand touching as i lift it will move the page. I can't say for sure if it will solve it, but I'm fairly confident it will. If it doesn't solve it completely it will certainly be an improvement. Thank you for considering the idea :good:
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

This isn't so much a question about LectureNotes itself but about the handling. I'm having problems with my palm and arm trigger the Android taskbar at the left corner. This is really annoying since the next penstroke doesn't register.

Anyone who has a solution for this? My tablet isn't rooted by the way.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@JamMasterClay: Are you sure that you do not have `allow one finger scrolling´ enabled? With this option enabled, the minimal distance for two fingers scrolling does not help.

@Axel_: The system bar is a constant source of annoyance for many LectureNotes users. There is unfortunately no solution for this problem for non-rooted devices. LectureNotes allows you to rotate the notebook content relative to the device orientation (`notebook content relative orientation´ in the app's display settings), effectively placing the system bar (and the action bar) at the side.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] quadratimkreis:
Quoting to support dropbox integration. I don't feel the slowdown, however.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Interesting! I can't really see why the action bar should be on the side as well since it's already close to too narrow with the system bar. If it's blocking the upper part of the page ain't such a big deal since it's easy to scroll down when you reach the end. Scrolling sideways while writing isn't very practical though.

But after all maybe the easiest way is to learn not to rest the palm at the system bar when writing the lower part of the page though.

Another thing, is there any simple way of center the page after scrolling and zooming? I have it set to fit height so it won't float away vertically but horizontally I have to adjust it manually, maybe not the biggest of problems but it would be handy sometimes.

Thanks again for your support, I've recommended your app to all my classmates that run Android on their tablets and those who have tablets made by a fruit company seems really jealous :D
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
Under settings > input > gestures, only two finger scrolling and two finger zoom are checked.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] chuckjones:
You may want to try out FileSync to handle the pushing and pulling of files to and from a cloud provider. Been doing it for a week, works well enough. I have issues with version control with multiple devices accessing it, but that's not a Lecture Notes issue.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_: The location of the action and system bar is fixed, the former is at the top of the display and the latter is at the bottom. The only thing that LectureNotes can do is rotate the notebook content by 90 degrees.

@JamMasterClay: OK, then the problem is not causes by single finger scrolling.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
Is there any way to automatically save the notebooks as a PDF every time I exit? If you won't integrate with drop box I want to be able to use drop sync, be able to exit out when I'm done taking notes and have it uploaded to the cloud immediately. Or is the best bet to just hit export to PDF each time?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] malimal:
Sorry if posted already, but can you sync notebooks between devices I.e. note 2 and note 10.1?

If so what is the best way ?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
DropSync has been working pretty well for me.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] malimal:
yeah that could be a solution. I am using DataSync to keep my games saves in sync. Maybe that would work as well.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
I use DataSync a lot, but the big problem with it is that selecting the app doesn't sync the actual files needed for the notebooks, only the settings. You could do it under the files section, but then it needs to be a scheduled sync. With DropSync it monitors the Dropbox folder and only syncs when there's an update, keeping both devices in sync.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] malimal:
Thanks for the clarification.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] maccra:
Has anyone else have this issue. If you change the Android system font, then the Lecture Notes default font charges automatically also. I would like to change the Android system font anyway I would like but without changing default font in Lecture Notes. Does anyone know how to do this?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] gertgertgert:
some ideas

Hello acadoid, keep up the great work. Your quick responses in the forum and quick delivering of extra functionality is highly appreciated. That's one of the main reasons I became a big big fan of LN.

In terms of functionality I already dropped or like to drop some ideas:

1. Color themes (personally it would be enough for me if it was possible to change the color of the (standard very white or very black) notebook board

2. The tree oriented iconview like the list view in S Note. Folders on the left, subfolders and notebooks on the right,

3. The possibility to add links to files and webpages directly in a notebook (represented by a small icon), when you double click on it the file or link will be opened. Probably difficult to implement but I would like it very much,

4. Vector based approach (I can imagine that will be a huge change in code).

Any chance to become more or less available in a future release? (I'm curious what's on your todo list).

Keep up the great work!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@GETCASHMONEY: You can export all touched notebooks to PDF on the notebooks board, select `Export notebooks boards to PDF´ (there is also a variant for a folder only).

@maccra: What do you refer to by `LectureNotes' default font´? The font used for menus and dialog boxes? The font used in the text layer? The font used in the text drawing tool?

@gertgertgert: 2 and 3 will be added at some point, 1 not so soon, 4 not in the foreseeable future.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
When I activate "fit height" with A4 pages, I normally can see almost 3 pages at the same time, but if I have 2 layers I can only see 2 pages at the most (sometimes it just shows one) and with 3 layers only one page is visible at a time. Is there anyway to fix this without merging the layers?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] maccra:
@acadoid. I am referring to the text layer font and the text drawing tool font. The font for the menus and dialog boxes has changed also but I am not too concerned about them, actually that is what I want to see when I change the Android system font. However I would have thought that the LN fonts be fixed and can only be changed from within the App.

If that is the way Android should work then I can adapt and change my system font back. I was just wondering if there is some setting I may have missed.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Cocax: LectureNotes uses a cache of four slots, so that you can see four pages of one layer, two pages of two layers, and one page of three layers simultaneously.

@maccra: You can choose the default font family, style, color, and size in the text layer setup. However, from what you describe it seems that you replace the sans serif typeface (which is the default default) by something different.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

A couple of questions that have come up during the last weeks heavily use of the app:

The text layer function doesn't seem to support SwiftKeys excellent auto correct system (the bar above the keyboard) but when using the regular text tool it does. Is there any way to set either of the apps to make it work on the layer as well?

Some of my professors make some true art on the blackboards (that usually are green and blue, but anyway) and I use to take a picture of them and add to my notes. Taking a picture using the camera and insert works pretty great but since all the size or resolution settings in the camera is alot "higher" (instead of say 640x480 I would prefer 640 wide and 200 high) than the boards I usually insert the picture after which I cut the part I want and delete the rest. This however is quite time consuming and I wonder if there's any better way?

If it's not too hard to implement I would love the option to select what part of the picture I wanted to insert just like you're able to in many android apps like select wallpaper etc!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] hoopi18:
The developer answers questions concerning this app in a thread: > Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet > Thinkpad Tablet Themes and Apps > LectureNotes app
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Axel_: I had to disable the Android spell checker in the text layer, as there is a bug in Android (see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41971) that causes a crash. What is particular annoying about this crash is that the upcoming dialog box claims that `LectureNotes has crashed´, which is wrong, it should correctly state that `Android has crashed´. As a side-effect, the auto-correction seems to get disabled as well.

To allow to process the imported material beyond rotating and mirroring is on my to-do-list.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] walidbang:
AW: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Hey. Will it be possible to add arrows? And formula just like in snote :)?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@walidbang: I receive a lot of requests concerning new or improved drawing tools. What I will do soon is to add an JavaScript interface similar to the custom paper pattern interface so that everyone can define her/his own drawing tools.

What do you refer to by `formula just like in snote´? Handwriting recognition?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

That's right, handwriting recognition for mathematical formulas and expressions including integrals, partials, sub and superscript and square root with the expression inside the actual sign. Really useful, but must me really hard to implement.

Some kind of mathematical keyboard would be another way of doing basically the same thing, buttons for square signs etc as well as a button that gives you a fraction line. Basically just like the MS Office equation input plugin works now. Particularly helpful would this be to all the users that don't have an SPen, I think such a feature would make it possible to use even such a tablet to take notes in math classes and there you have a hell of a market now that so many schools and students got tablets.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
@acadoid Some time ago I asked about the possibility of having the option to make custom and/or standard pencils write only in strictly horizontal or vertical lines. I believe at the time you said that that would be possible when you improved the drawing tools. I don't know if it will be possible to do that with the JavaScript interface, but nevertheless I think it would be more useful (at least to me) to have that be an option of the pencils themselves instead of a drawing tool... It would make highlighting and underlining more neat and clean and more similar to the writing and underlining pdf annotators do (ezpdf and the like).

As always, I have no idea if this would be too complex to achieve, or even if it would be possible at all (or if you think it would be worth adding), so I would like to hear your thoughts on this :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] maccra:
@acadoid: All I did was change the Android default font (from Default to Rosemary) under the Android settings, and that changed the LN default font. I did not replace any default font in LN. I just had thought that the LN default font would not change if you change the System font, but I guess that it an intended behaviour, so people can write in any font they download and install on the system.

I noticed also, that when I changed the android default font, that the text layer font changed even in documents which I had written a few days earlier. So documents I had written in default font where now rosemary font. I found that a bit annoying. This did not happen in the text box font, but I assume that doesn’t happen because it is bitmap image instead of real font which is changeable.

I suppose I have 2 wishes for your consideration

1.	To be able to keep the LN default font the same irrespective of the Android system default.

2.	That documents which have already been written in one font, that the font does not change if you change the android system font.

By the way this is a great app and would recommend it to everyone. I use it daily for work and study, so please take my comments at constructive criticism in the sense of highlighting unusual behaviour or improvements and not criticism that the app does not work properly.