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[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
I'm trying to organize my notebooks by class, but it isn't working right... I'm numbering them in the notebooks name, but instead of it being sorted like:

"1 - Class 1

2 - Class 2

3 - Class 3

...

10 - Class 10

11 - Class 11

...

20 - Class 20"

it sorts like:

"1 - Class 1

10 - Class 10

11 - Class 11

...

2 - Class 2

20 - Class 20

...

3 - Class 3

..."

Any way to change this?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
I will try it ;)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] ratindahat:
try putting a zero (0) infront of the single digit numbers.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] abmicyau:
Not sure if this has been mentioned/asked already, but is there a way to paste images from the web that have been copied to the clipboard? Every time i do this it just pastes something i previously selected from the cutter tool, so there seems to be two 'clipboards'...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
I've had this problem as well, and think that the easiest way to insert am object from the web is by push the button, make a loop around it after which you press the LectureNotes icon when you are at the desired page you want to insert it on. It will then transfer to the app without getting to the clipboard first.

This might not be what you've asked for, but it's at least a quick fix to insert pictures into LectureNotes.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sublimerocks13:
Is there a way to add typed text anywhere, say in the middle of the page? If I try to add text it always puts it in the top left corner.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Multiple spaces and new lines is unfortunately the only way, besides from using the other text tool of course.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Cocax: Sorting is alphabetically (or by date, if you enable that), and `Class 10´ is alphabetically before `Class 2´. To avoid that, use a leading zero `Class 02´ as pointed out by ratindahat.

@abmicyau: Samsung apps cook their own soup concerning the clipboard, whereas LectureNotes expects images on the Android system clipboard. Besides the possibility described by Axel_, try to share the image, LectureNotes will show up as recipient.

@sublimerocks13: The text drawing tool allows free placement; it is presently not as powerful as the text layer (no formating, etc.) but I plan to improve in this respect soon.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
Not working with alt and meta keys neither.

I have tested it with my girlfriend generic bt keyboard (chinese one lol) and still not working, But with soft keyboard (hackers keyboard) it works, maybe control key in hardware keyboards only work with letters, can u make the shortcut like ctrl p (to increase) ctrl L (to decrease)?

Thanks in advance ;)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] krmurphy:
Text box - If this app had text boxes with formatting It would be close to perfect for me.

Lecturenotes takes some gettinv used to and I kept cominv back to try if buf I rely on a lot of typex text and only a little handwriting. Beinv able to format parts of a paragraph and text boxes woulc be great.

Amazed at how quickly this app develops and I will be leaving S Note and Papyrus soon and paying fof the full version.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: Why p and l? This does not look like much like a standard shortcut, does it?

@krmurphy: Many thanks for your kind comments. The text layer works essentially like a text editor or word processor and does not allow for free text placement. To revise the text drawing tool along the lines that you suggest is on my agenda. The next update v2.1 will allow mirroring and free rotation of selected and imported material and scrolling with finger in keyboard mode. Afterwards, there are two bigger things at the top of my to-do-list, custom drawing tools using JavaScript and improving the text drawing tool.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
Hi,

Yes i know, but i think problem is in using ctrl and none letters keys, that shortcut is nice because those two are free (IUXBCV are not) and i think the position is intuitive, they are one above the other near the keys that are not letters :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] FlamingGoat:
Just one minor bug, if indeed it can be called that. When I come to the end of a page writing text with the new feature, it doesn't automatically wrap or write onto a new page. The text sort of continues but isn't actually associated with a new page even if I create one - I have to select the text which is "flowing under" the new page, cut it and then paste it into the new one. ie when typing the text is visible, but if you move pages it then vanishes as the field sort of goes into the background. Sorry for the awful description!

Also, I had previously asked about the possibility of attachments and found that I could add a link in the page index. But would it ever be possible to have a clickable hyperlink to a file or url in the page contents itself? I realise this might not be possible with the design of the app but it would be amazing to have.

Finally, might it be possible to add some sort of intent so that I could use a file explorer to choose the file I want in the index, rather than having to type out a long path which is extremely slow and awkward ?

Other than that this is brilliant! I had been an snote fan but I don't use it at all now, and it's pretty much even replaced Onenote for me, something I never thought would happen :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Concerning a number of discussions about text positioning, etc: Would it be possible to improve the text layer into a SVG vector format layer? From the examples in SVG formatting:

http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_examples.asp

Simple text properties and positioning should be easy to implement. It seems more powerful (and maybe also actually easier, considering you already have xml parser in your app) than using a text file plus a style file. (It should also be easy to add a converter for the existing text layer users.)

In the future, other vector graphics features may be added on this layer consistently as well, if there is need.

There are also open source SVG libraries on android, e.g. http://code.google.com/p/svg-android/ (this is just random google. I am not sure if it is the best or the licence is compatible.)

I think if this were possible, it opens lots of possibilities of improving LN: For example, for drawing tools, one can modify the drawing afterwards. And Bezier curves are super great things to expect.

Previously I have been trying to avoid this direction of suggestions because LN is a bitmap based app. But as long as the text layer is added, it appears to me there is no reason to restrict the app onto bitmap + text layer (with text properties). Bitmap + SVG would be much more powerful.

Of course, this suggestion may be too ambitious. In this case, just replace every above sentence into "your app is already super great" before reading them :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Cocax:
Yup, adding a 0 first did the trick :)

I have another suggestion. I was playing With a friend's Ipad the other day and she used an app"similar"to Lecture Notes (but not as good :P). I don't remember the name of the app, sadly, but it had an interesting feature: on the left side,it had a sidebar with thumbnails of the pages where you could scroll, click on a page and be taken to that page, similar to Adobe Reader. And you could toggle the sidebar on or off.

I Know that we have the scrollbar, but with documents with a lot of pages it becomes difficult to quickly and accurately move between pages, even with your recent addition of the page numbers showing. And the notebook overview is great, but during a class with the teacher talking fast,is not really feasible to go into the menu, click the overview and choose the page we want while the teacher continues the lecture...

It would be awesome if somewhere in the future you could add a sidebar for page navigation that we could toggle on and off. It's not something essential, but I think it would be a nice addition :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@FlamingGoat: Not really a bug, the text in the text layer is page-wise and can extend beyond the page bottom and hence beyond what is presently visible on the page given the default font size and style and size and size adjustments. The point is that you can change font size and style and the text becomes visible.

To have clickable URLs in the text layer is on my agenda.

@tririver: To add vector- or object-based features is not trivial, using existing libraries or not. I am not excluding such features for all times, but not in the near future.

@Cocax: Such optional side-bar (a bit like notebook overview in a side-bar) is on my agenda.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] tririver:
Sorry for the too ambitious comment then. I am not a programmer thus tends to overlook the difficulties.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
Regarding the shortcut issue maybe u can make it available not by default, and let ctrl + e ctrl - by default :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@tririver: Nothing to apologize for.

@Yahiko: I plan to allow user-defined shortcuts, so that everyone can set her/his own ones.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] boristhebad:
Just wanted to jump on the bandwagon and say thank you for this amazing app. I was on the fence about getting a Galaxy Note 10.1, as I had been doing so much with OneNote, but my attempts to use Win8 on a tablet were terrible. Seeing your fast development speed and all of the helpful hints here sold me on the Note (Samsung should give you a cut of all of the sales due to your program!).

Can't wait to play more with the software, but will just jump on a few prior thoughts to say that vector graphics and preserving PDF elements (e.g. text) would make this program about the only thing one would need. (I'd happily pay extra for the PDF features! Your way of handling s-pen input is so much better than ezPDF and all of the others, just need to have it know that the PDF text is still text at the end!)

Thanks for everything!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@boristhebad: Many thanks for your kind comments. I am not excluding vector-based features (or native support of PDF) for all times, but not in the near future, I am sorry.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] slickt10:
First of all, THANKS :good:

This app blows away S-Note!

There is 3 things that I still miss and prevent me from using this app solely and tossing S-Note completely. Namely:

Ability to drag captured screen snippets to lecture notes

Lock a note book (Like a journal)

Minimize button to allow for easy switching between full screen mode and windowed

Item #1 is the most breaking in my workflow, since I often want to clip something from the screen and drag it into my notes. Currently S-Note is the only one that works with the dragging feature.

Also, items 1 and 3 are particularly aimed at the Samsung Note devices. BTW, really appreciated you enabling multiwindow for this app.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@slickt10: Many thanks for your kind comments.

1. Samsung apps do not properly support the Android system clipboard for images, they use their own proprietary clipboard. However, you can share images to LectureNotes (it registers as image receiver) and open images using LectureNotes (it registers as image viewer).

2. Since LectureNotes is based on standard file formats (which other apps can read as well), this would require encrypting the files, with a lot of problems that come with that.

3. I have not found (yet) a way to add such function without including the Samsung SDK into the app (which I do not like to do). One way around is to iconize LectureNotes and restart it from the multi window bar. This brings you back exactly where you have been (notebook remains open etc.), just inside a window.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
Does anyone here use the Cornell note taking system? If so do you have a template you could share?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
The easiest way to do the first thing you're asking for is to simply make a "lasso" around what you want to insert and press the LectureNotes icon that appears among others. The next time you open LectureNotes, the image will appear at the page selected. Maybe this is what acadoid was trying to explain, if so my apologies.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: I do not have a custom paper pattern for that at hand, but it can certainly be made. You refer to a layout as in http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/enreadtp/Cornell.html (a random Google pick), right? I guess there should be horizontal lines in the `note-taking´ area? Should there be lines in the `cue´ and `summary´ area as well or should these areas remain plain?

Update: I posted a first version at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1936617 (post #42).

@Axel_: This is another possibility, thanks for pointing it out.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Mirkokkk:
Acadoid when you think to update your app with free rotation of selections? It would be very useful for tomorrow exam :D:)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Mirkokkk: I just uploaded v2.1 into Google Play in which there is mirroring and free rotation of cut, copied, and imported material. I also improved the text layer, most importantly you can scroll now with finger and stylus in keyboard mode.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
@acadoid - this is awesome. Thank you.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sandresimon:
Hi there,

First of all, big thanks for this wonderful app. I am just scratching the surface of all the capabilities of the software!

I do have a small problem : when I try to import a PDF as a new notebook I only have the choice of importing the PDF from my dropbox account, but I cannot chose a PDF with the file explorer. Is this normal?

Thanks a lot for your help!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@sandresimon: Many thanks for your kind comments. To select a local file, you need to install a file manager app for file selection. At the moment, the DropBox app is the only app on your device that had registered with the Android system as `file selector´.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sandresimon:
Well that was fast!

That was indead the problem... I was using the stock file explorer, never thought I needed another one.

Thanks a lot for your quick feedback and again great job

Envoyé depuis mon GT-N8010
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] mannyvzla:
The more I use this app the more I like it. I use it on my daily work flow at the office and I have one suggestion.: the would you consider having a sort of "inbox" the book where you can take your notes right away and then when you're done copy them to the proper book? This is because Sometimes I need to take my notes all of sudden and waste a few seconds looking within my books hierarchy. Just an idea, but the app is perfect as if

Enviado desde mi GT-N8010 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] toenail_flicker:
Acadoid had me create a notebook, and then a link to that notebook on my desktop. Everything quick starts there and is later moved. Has worked well.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] goosechen:
Just bought the app and liking it so far. But it would be perfect if it allow me to add some simple shape in it, like square, circle and straight lines etc. Because I do draw a lot of process flow charts when taking notes.

Anyway, the app is great and I feel pretty safe to put my money in it since the development seems to be going quite fast.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] GETCASHMONEY:
I believe you can do that in the pencil toolbox. Try hitting the pencil icon, go to open toolbox, and its on the far right.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@goosechen: You can access the drawing tools either via the pencil toolbox (as pointed out by GETCASHMONEY) or via the drawing tools menu (you need to enable this menu in the app's menu settings, it is disabled by default).
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: I just uploaded v2.1.1 into Google Play in which the text layer shortcuts can be adjusted.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
TY ;)

The shortcuts are working flawlessly.

There is an issue, i don't know if it was like this before or not. Maybe is the way it is, but for example we can continuously write in the same page with the programme not changing to the next page.

I don't test it extensively, and maybe it is a feature and not an issue. hehe
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] goosechen:
@GETCASHMONEY and acadoid,

Great, thanks for the tips! Now this app is officially my No.1 app for note taking.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] claytonjn:
@acadoid, I was just taking notes in class and one feature that would have been a huge help is being able to add a page after the current page. (So, if for example you are on page 12 of 17 and you want to insert a blank page after 12)

Also, it would be very beneficial if the lasso tool automatically shrunk the selection down to areas where there are actual pixels. When I'm trying to move something close to the edge of the page I have to get as close to the writing as possible so that there's not a lot of blank area in the selection that prevents the actual writing from moving close to the edge. This is a lot more frustrating and time consuming than simply drawing a quick circle around something and moving it. Does this make sense? Alternatively, you could set it up so that things can be moved past the edge of the page and anything extending beyond the page is cropped.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: Everything in LectureNotes is page-wise, you cannot write or draw across page boundaries.

@JamMasterClay: You can insert a page before and after the current page (as well at the very end) using the items in the hand menu.

What you suggest should already work when boundary is only a page boundary, not the display boundary. When you often work close to the display boundary, try to enable `allow free page floating´, this will allow to move the page away from the display boundary and what you suggest should work.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
Yes, i know...

The "problem" is, when i select text layer, i can continously write in same page without the programme creates automatically the second one.

If i select pen input again i cant see the things i write that are without normal page boundaries, but if i select text layer and i move down with arrows i can see everything i wrote before.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] yoda16:
I am having a problem where after using LectureNotes for a while I can't use my finger as input anywhere. S-Pen works fine. Even after exiting app. Have to restart tablet. I am on CyanogenMod 10.1 not sure if that has anything to do with it. I can try to restore default ROM but wanted to see if any bode else ran in to this problem.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@Yahiko: Would it help to indicate the bottom of the visible area, so that you see when you start to write below it?

@yoda16: This is a quite curious problem. LectureNotes does certainly not alter any system settings (a normal app cannot do that), it just uses the information provided by the system in the event handling process to distinguish input by finger from input by stylus.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
@Acadoid - I've been very impressed by the custom page thread and there are some pretty impressive options there. I have no problem using these custom codes but some of my less tech-savvy friends have a hard time understanding it. Yet I know they would love to use it in LectureNotes. Any plans to bake into LN some of these custom pages you've done? Or any way to create a custom page catalog within LN? So I could edit my page styles and then instead of adding custom pages per notebook I could select a custom page that comes from a shared catalog of sorts within the app?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] sublimerocks13:
What made me buy the note 10.1 in the first place is watching my professor use his slate pc in class to write our notes. On paper, its impossible to keep up with him. He is always copying and pasting and quickly erasing which is something that cant be done on paper. The other day I noticed something in the program he uses that I find amazing. If he had crossed something out, he could touch the eraser to the line and it would remove ONLY that line. The writing underneath would look perfect still. Maybe something like this will come some day?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
I think so, but isnt it preferable to change to the next page automatically when visible area comes to an end? Or cant be done?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: Well, the major point of adding the JavaScript interface was to avoid to add these pattern to the app code. I plan to add import and export of JavaScript code very soon, but to provide a kind of gallery is an interesting idea, I noted it down. What I did in one of the recent updates (I do not know whether anyone noted that) is to display the custom paper pattern in the new notebook and notebook settings dialogs.

@Yahiko: One can detect whether you are moving outside the visible area when writing. However, you can also move lines out of the visible area by inserting something in the middle. This can also be detected, but what should be done then?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] jeggen:
@acadoid - I do understand not wanting to include these in the app code and it certainly provides tons of flexibility. The value add to the gallery idea too is that, probably like many people, I use the same type of paper in multiple notebooks. That would give me one place to manage paper settings. Potentially I could even tweak a paper setting and have it update multiple notebooks. I think import/export code would be helpful too. I think people feel more confident importing a file than copy/pasting code even though both are in reality just as easy.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Yahiko:
Maybe u can add the option to when the visible area ends, text jumps to the next page or creates a new page if there is none, but as an option and not default. The only bad thing on writing in non visible area is when u convert to pdf, non visible area is not converted.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] brohymn722:
@ acadoid : I just wanted to say I love the lecture notes apps. It has totally changed the way I do notes and homework for school. It has impressed quite a few people who have seen me use it. Keep up the good work and keep those updates coming!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] acadoid:
@jeggen: Note that when you use an existing notebook as template for a new one (click on `Use template´ for that), the custom pattern JavaScript code gets copied as well. Hence, you could get your custom paper pattern gallery by creating a set of dummy notebooks, for instance in a special folder, and create new notebooks by using these as templates.

@Yahiko: OK, let me think about that for a moment.

@brohymn722: Many thanks for your kind comments.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] krmurphy:
Keep finding interesting features with this app, but a problem with one thing. If say I imported an image, sized and placed it, I can find no way to select and re-position. Same for text boxes and drawings. Am I missing something basic?
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Axel_:
Sv: LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Yes you are, the cutting tools. It has the symbol of a knife in the action bar and are in the forms of rectangle and freehand.