So I noticed on my note 3 that S-Notes is way better than it was on the Galaxy note 10.1 and Galaxy Note II. There are more useful templates and more useful features (mainly, syncing with more services like dropbox and evernote).
As people get more experience, can anyone tell me which service they prefer? I'm split because I prefer LectureNotes for its power and the Cornell Note-taking template. But the S-note app is better integrated into touchwiz and has more powerful options now with automatic evernote and dropbox syncing.
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
demz92 said:
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For that purpose I think EzPdf is way better than S-Note, at least if you want to make a workflow of annotated pdf's.
demz92 said:
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
dteg said:
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yea, i've heard but im not sure what the widget looks like, the looks of the s note's widget looks pretty nice, like something i'd dedicated a whole home screen to
demz92 said:
yea, i've heard but im not sure what the widget looks like, the looks of the s note's widget looks pretty nice, like something i'd dedicated a whole home screen to
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i've never used the widget before, but i'm going to fix that right now and fill you in.
ok:
i'm just assuming here but still; i'm gonna assume that S-note has a widget where if placed on a homescreen you can simply type in without opening the app itself. lecturenotes from the few tests i just made can't do that. you can either have a "widget" (really an app icon) that can open to a particular page that you specify or you can have one that just opens lecturenotes, i see nothing that would allow you to edit without opening the app itself. definitely not something worth dedicating a homescreen to....
dteg said:
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
Han Solo 1 said:
Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can use the pen to highlight or underline, but no sticky notes. You can however create a text box and write in any notes, but that's as close as you can get.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
dteg said:
You can use the pen to highlight or underline, but no sticky notes. You can however create a text box and write in any notes, but that's as close as you can get.
Sent from my HTC One using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How do you highlight?
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
I got frustrated with S Note and ditched it. I'm using Lecture notes now and really like it. The main thing that killed S Note for me was the way the notes were organized. Felt very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I wish they had left the UI for browsing folders and notebooks the same. Or maybe I just had too much trouble transferring my old notes into it.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew how to quickly expend a single page in lecture notes. I know I can go into the settings and change it that way, but I'd like to be able to do it on the fly and on a page by page basis instead of a global modification of the page length.
ChrisNee1988 said:
How do you highlight?
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'd imagine you just select the marker tip with whatever color, then change the opacity between 10% and 40%. Whatever you're comfortable with. At least that's how I had done it in the old 10.1 model.
ChrisNee1988 said:
How do you highlight?
Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
gina nailed it, on how to highlight.
gina$zanboti said:
I got frustrated with S Note and ditched it. I'm using Lecture notes now and really like it. The main thing that killed S Note for me was the way the notes were organized. Felt very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I wish they had left the UI for browsing folders and notebooks the same. Or maybe I just had too much trouble transferring my old notes into it.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew how to quickly expend a single page in lecture notes. I know I can go into the settings and change it that way, but I'd like to be able to do it on the fly and on a page by page basis instead of a global modification of the page length.
I'd imagine you just select the marker tip with whatever color, then change the opacity between 10% and 40%. Whatever you're comfortable with. At least that's how I had done it in the old 10.1 model.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
to expend a page? you wanna know how to quickly use up a page? don't understand what you're asking but i'll cover a few bases.
to quickly add a page click the "+" on the top right or if you're using a keyboard just press the down arrow.
to delete a page you click onto the page and open menu and delete it from there. deleting isn't as simple as adding unfortunately..
@ChrisNee1988: There is no built-in highlighter, as tastes concerning highlighters differ widely. As described by gina$zanboti, you can make one of the custom pencils to act as a highlighter, choose your favorite color and width, an intermediate alpha, and enable `draws behind other colors´. To quickly change to the highlighter, you can show the pencil toolbox (select `Show pencil toolbox´ in the `pencil´ menu, can be moved around by click-and-hold and setup in the app's tools settings; a single click on a pencil sets the pencil and a double-click on a custom pencil brings up the custom pencil settings) or assign it to your stylus button (in case your stylus has a button).
@gina$zanboti: I am not entirely sure whether I understand correctly. LectureNotes' pages have a fixed size.
Does LectureNotes have handwriting to text conversion? I have been using MyScript Notes Mobile which does do this but it begins to get laggy after 2-3 pages in terms of the screen delay from writing to on screen. When I used LN, it's near instant which is awesome and I really like it overall but converting to text is really big as I export QC scripts a lot.
My problem with snote is that importing removes searchable test which is a big no-no for me. Otherwise I'd probably use it. I am using it for free hand notes and like it for that.
@TheBigSaxon: There is no handwriting recognition in LectureNotes, but there are several soft keyboards that provide this functionality (meaning that you write with stylus and the keyboard app does as if you typed it).
tstsubi the
So, if your main storage for notes is Evernote, what is recommended as the front end for capture of notes, including handwriting recognition. Don't want to get locked into s note or lecture notes for the actual storage - just looking for advice on the best way to recognise handwriting, capture info etc, and sync seemlessly into Evernote.
any thoughts?
Is there any way in S Note to do a vertical page to imitate a sheet of paper like lecture notes can?
ChrisNee1988 said:
Is there any way in S Note to do a vertical page to imitate a sheet of paper like lecture notes can?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, there is a portrait template of ruled paper. Or you can use the default landscape ruled paper template, and then just rotate the tablet into portrait mode and it should rotate the page as well.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk
Here is my 2 cents in using snotes and others working with pdfs
Things I like about snote:
Keeps the use of pressure sensitivity. This is something very special about our spens and I like the feel. I want to keep it when I'm writing.
This might sound stupid but this makes the writing feel the most realistic and not so machine like.
Once I'm in the editing mode I stay in the editing mode. Unlike ezpdf and lecturenotes where I have to hit the pen to start writing again and hand/back to scroll. I found this really annoying. For people annotating it may not be an issue but if you're actually taking notes and such it's a pain.
All the other special tricks with spen work in snotes well because it was made for it.
Negatives:
It has to import pdfs...This was the worst. It can't just open it as a pdf and start editing. Probably creating image type files. Not sure how lecturenotes imports pdfs because it's not available for the trial version. I imported a 200+ page pdf and it took longer than expected but now that
I have an expected time frame I may be able to deal with it.
Since it's not keeping the integrity of the pdf it can screw up some things while importing.
I'm a math guy and it screwed up a few notations here and there.
Scrolling...call me lazy but continuous scrolling is beautiful. Although I didn't like the fact that you can't be in between pages in ezpdf. While scrolling and you let go the page will automatically place itself so you see either the previous page or next page on the screen (depending on how far you let the split go past the screen).
Snote's scrolling is swipe or hit arrow right at bottom of screen. Swipe right is too slow. Animations are nice but unnecessary when turning the page. I usually like keeping the writing area in the middle of the screen. Also a reason why I want to be able to put the bottom of the page in the middle. But my hand being in the middle i think its annoying to go down to hit the right arrow. Just me being an annoying *****.
Hope this helps someone out there. =)
Edit: realized I was missing the add on to import pdfs for lecturenotes.
With short use it has a lot that I wanted. Now I dont know what I should use...
Edit 2 played with settings and im purchasing it now
@aznxkpx88: There is no need to alternate between `pencil´ and `hand´ mode in LectureNotes: You can scroll/zoom outside the `hand´ mode if you enable `allow two fingers scrolling/zooming´ in the app's input settings. Since you seem to use an S-pen (in which case you should enable `use stylus (hardware detection)´), you can also enable `allow one finger scrolling´ and scroll with one finger.
The constrain on the maximal number of pages per notebook in the trial version applies also to PDF imports.
Related
Although I do appreciate the functionality already in HTC Notes, I have been spoiled by Microsoft OneNote for many years.
Below are some of the features available in OneNote that I would like to see in HTC Notes version 2.0.
• Ability to expand the space between handwritten notes to add more handwritten notes.
• Ability to create color-coded tabs to notebooks. (sub notebooks)
• Ability to select handwritten notes to cut, copy, and paste.
• OCR for searching directly within HTC Notes. (aside from EverNote)
• The ability to add standard shapes to notes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, arrows, and stars)
• Different note page templates (to do list, meeting agenda, calendar and legal pad)
• Ability to snip pictures from other applications and paste them into notes.
• Ability to add active hyperlinks
• Put the pen options in a smaller horizontal toolbar. (The semi-circle takes up a lot of screen real estate.)
Non-OneNote features
Ability to send note to DropBox.
Ability to integrate with OneNote.
What additional features would you like to see in HTC Notes?
Must say... great Idea.
I agree that the Notes app is lacking quite a few features.
Some of ur features seem to be common sense on a notes app.
kind of disapointed they are not included... however I still think that HTC has the best Note taking app implementation on Android as of yet.
I would like it if they made it so the lower button on the pen made the pen act like a finger
KuriKai said:
I would like it if they made it so the lower button on the pen made the pen act like a finger
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
I also thought that I must be perfect when you can switch between pen and finger mode for the pen self. Then we can use the pen in all(!) applications like a mouse for marks and so forth...
They should let you choose if you want a note that only accepts pen input. I often find that I trigger the keyboard when I don't want it and you could avoid this if it just never came up - kind of like when you're annotating a page in the Reader.
I'm also using OneNote, and used EverNote before. Actually I prefer OneNote over EverNote.
My wishlist:
Ability to disable keyboard
Rich text editing on the device (I can create on the desktop and view from the device but I can't make text bold, italic, underlined or change font size on the device).
Ability to make images bigger or smaller, or crop them inside Notes app.
Zoom in and zoom out features
Ability to retain formatting when copied text from Android browser.
I also share these wishes:
• Ability to select handwritten notes to cut, copy, and paste.
• OCR for searching directly within HTC Notes. (aside from EverNote)
• The ability to add standard shapes to notes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, arrows, and stars)
• Different note page templates (to do list, meeting agenda, calendar and legal pad)
• Ability to add active hyperlinks
• Ability to integrate with OneNote.
• Ability to snip pictures from other applications and paste them into notes.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can send images and text from Android browser to HTC Notes by using "Share" feature. For example, long press on an image, tap "Share" and tap "Notes". The problem is, the text loses all the formatting, making tables etc. unreadable.
I am glad so many other folks would like to see HTC Notes developed further.
The "snip" function that I was referring to was the ability to circle an image or text and copy and paste it to notes.
Another awesome app would be a Snag-it for android. I use that tool several times a day.
HTC Flyer / Tapatalk
anyway we can get HTC to find out about what we think might make it better?
^^ DOnt think so
Does Flyer have "Pen" to text?
Can we use the pen to send SMS?
I would like to combine more scribbles in one note. Currently it always takes a snapshot and I can save it as new note, but a popup menu allowing me to attach the snapshot to an existing note would be perfect.....
I'd like to see the spiral graphic go away, because it's just not helpful. I'd also like to be able to scroll infinity on the horizontal axis for unruly diagrams and tables.
Some kind of markdown-style structured text formatting would also be nice. Not WYSIWYG, just smart wiki-ish text parsing.?
I can probably post something to HTC support with a link to this discussion
They might listen if they find out that there is a group out there interested in using a "HTC Notes Premium". I would pay for more functionality.
HTC Flyer / Tapatalk
kkinder said:
Some kind of markdown-style structured text formatting would also be nice. Not WYSIWYG, just smart wiki-ish text parsing.?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree.
Another point is, there is no list view of notes. Also, everyday I use evernote, I wish I could zoom in and zoom out on notes.
I also wish there was an easy way to "unhighlight" highlighted text.
About the Spiral graphic
I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
And I really need to resize the pictures. They are just too small if you have scribbled words on them.
Free the pen
This isnt necessarily a wish list for notes app but for the pen in general. Free it! by that i mean add an option to disable the scribble mode when touching the screen in any app that doesnt support the pen. with this option it would allow the pen to work as any normal capacitive stylus.
I like the notes app, but im looking forward to some of the handwriting to text apps that are coming to android soon and these would make the pen complete.
jazymonkey said:
I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
And I really need to resize the pictures. They are just too small if you have scribbled words on them.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
best tip !
jazymonkey said:
I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
By the way, keeping your finger on the right side of the screen works for left-handed folks.
HTC Flyer / Tapatalk
I think there is a bug in HTC notes preventing rich text notes that are created on desktop to be found when searched on the Flyer. This is really annoying!
Anybody experiencing the same?
I wish you could be able to flip the page in between notes like the reader app.
Color code notes is a good idea someone already mentioned.
Ability to scroll page to the right with double finger scroll
Pen to ocr would be amazing
Be able to edit a screenshot after you save it.
Be able to change the resolution of a screenshot. (bigger)
Annotate a whole html page instead of only parts from it.
Be able to make a notebook sync or unsync after setting it.
I've been using my Evo View for as much as possible now that I have the scribe pen. But the built in reader app, the only one I've found that actually uses the highlighter button to highlight books, kind of sucks.
Can any one suggest an alternative app for reading and highlighting EPUBs with the scribe pen? I know apps like Aldiko and Kobo allow for sideloading and highlighting, but I want to actually use the pen to highlight, not select and then click a highlight button, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Unfortunately, no app will be able to intergrate with the pen the way the stock apps do until HTC releases the source code. I wish there were alternatives.
Brought to you by tapatalk on my HTC Flyer.
Yeah that kinda stinks. I wish the margins in HTC's reader app weren't so huge. It might actually be tolerable if I could adjust them.
well I guess I've gotten used to highlighting with the stock reader app. But the only color that it highlights in is a sky teal blue color. any way to change this?
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out, but I found it. You have to tap on the highlight with your finger, and it will give you a menu, and you can change the color. There are only four preset colors though. Maybe HTC could have made it a bit harder to figure out how to use.
devator22 said:
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out, but I found it. You have to tap on the highlight with your finger, and it will give you a menu, and you can change the color. There are only four preset colors though. Maybe HTC could have made it a bit harder to figure out how to use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the reply. Ill thank you on both posts. Any chance you figured out how to decrease the margin size? The margins are huge on the default Reader app....
devator22 said:
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure it out, but I found it. You have to tap on the highlight with your finger, and it will give you a menu, and you can change the color. There are only four preset colors though. Maybe HTC could have made it a bit harder to figure out how to use.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wow I just messed with this and it is so counter intuitive. It works though! Thanks again.
Native reader app on flyer is useless. I can't even go back after I view remark. Also no ontap translation. Shame on HTC.
Wondering how I could add notes to the side of a PDF. As in the area on the PDF itself is cluttered and full so adding notes directly on it isn't possible (attached a screenshot to show what I mean). Would love to be able to add an area to the side of each page to add notes (so push the actual page over to the left and have the right area for notes)
So any app capable of this? or anyway to add some extra blank area to the right of all my PDF pages which would allow me to put freewriting and text boxs on it?
Try sign my pad from the Market. I believe it has what you're looking for.
grneyez said:
Try sign my pad from the Market. I believe it has what you're looking for.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hmmmm, not sure if it fits the bill. Looking at it in market seems to only be for signing pdfs and not so much note taking/annotating.
I have the program, it does allow you to add text/notes to the PDF.
grneyez said:
I have the program, it does allow you to add text/notes to the PDF.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting. Do you have ezpdf? are the annotating options similar to what you could find there?
No I dont have ezpdf so I cant compare the two, sorry.
No prob, thanks for the suggestion.
Just downloaded it for a test run and doesnt seem like its a viable option. Even importing and organizing my pdfs would be a huge pain and it keeps a portrait sized view even in landscape mode, along with other things.
Sorry it didn't work out for you.
hah i'm a med student too... i know exactly waht you're looking for. re-print the pdf's in adobe from your computer.
on adobe acrobat x for pc:
open up pdf in adobe (or any other pdf viewer i guess)
print to adobe pdf
under page handling, page scaling: multiple pages per sheet
select 1 by 1 or 1 by 2, etc whatever you want for margins. this should give you a margin on each side of each slide. play around with these features to get what you want, if possible.
there should also be an option to print the notes lines to the right of the slide when you print. either that or it's a powerpoint feature.
as for actual note-taking on the TFP, try ez pdf or repligo reader. the sticky notes work if all else fails, but text boxes should work on the sides there.
if only the pdf apps had callout boxes... :\
nhshah7 said:
hah i'm a med student too... i know exactly waht you're looking for. re-print the pdf's in adobe from your computer.
on adobe acrobat x for pc:
open up pdf in adobe (or any other pdf viewer i guess)
print to adobe pdf
under page handling, page scaling: multiple pages per sheet
select 1 by 1 or 1 by 2, etc whatever you want for margins. this should give you a margin on each side of each slide. play around with these features to get what you want, if possible.
there should also be an option to print the notes lines to the right of the slide when you print. either that or it's a powerpoint feature.
as for actual note-taking on the TFP, try ez pdf or repligo reader. the sticky notes work if all else fails, but text boxes should work on the sides there.
if only the pdf apps had callout boxes... :\
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Awesome thanks! this looks very promising.
I am using expdf for notes (or at least plan to at this point) but I have found my text boxes and free hand annotations won't show outside the pdf's "image". If in your way I can basically extend the right side of the image as a blank area that would be amazing! The stickies look like they will work but it would definitely be nice to be able to read the notes while still able to see the slide.
Going to give this a shot and report back soon.
edit. looks like I need to get adobe acrobat x since I only have adobe reader. Will give this a shot tomorrow. I am assuming standard is fine for this task?
I use stickies with repligo reader. I find it to be much faster, ezpdf lags on page turns while repligo is super smooth.
Sent from my Galaxy S2
So playing around with it I think I found an even better way to do it.
Instead of doing the multiple page option what I did was put page scaling to None
Then unchecked auto-rotate and center
then went into page setup and changed the paper from letter to legal.
This puts the image competely on the left hand side with a large margin on the right hand side for notes (although I could see sometimes wanting margins on both sides for maybe taking notes and putting arrows to things in the slide, but just check auto-rotate and center and then you will have 2 smaller margins on each side, with little space on top)
So this way is pretty sweet because it gives you the large margin on the right side for notes, plus the aspect ratio is basically the same as the primes screen!
But there is a bit of an oddity with this process right now. When I saved it, it saved and all my slides were upside down. They were in the right order but all were upside down for some reason. Figure this should be able to be fixed somehow (tried rotating the page in adobe acrobat and then "printing" but that didn't work, guessing there's something I need to change in the printer settings). And even if not you can rotate 180 degrees in ezpdf easily enough (which puts the margin on the left side, not a big deal).
Thanks again for the heads up, this is really going to help taking notes on this thing!
edit. if there is some way to ungray that margins box in my first attached pic, then could maybe even modify it some more.
ravizzle said:
I use stickies with repligo reader. I find it to be much faster, ezpdf lags on page turns while repligo is super smooth.
Sent from my Galaxy S2
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would prefer to not use stickies if at all possible just because it would be nice to see my notes right beside the slides as opposed to only being able to see one or the other, just like if I was doing it by hand.
I checked out repligo and while it does seem faster then expdf and it doesn't seem to have a good way to organize a bunch of different classes lecture notes within it. Also the toolbar to select either a free note or text box etc keeps hiding itself and I don't see a setting ot keep it up (and even then have to go through a pull down menu to select one).
Mantano reader
BongoBong said:
Wondering how I could add notes to the side of a PDF. As in the area on the PDF itself is cluttered and full so adding notes directly on it isn't possible (attached a screenshot to show what I mean). Would love to be able to add an area to the side of each page to add notes (so push the actual page over to the left and have the right area for notes)
So any app capable of this? or anyway to add some extra blank area to the right of all my PDF pages which would allow me to put freewriting and text boxs on it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I would recommend mantano reader free, it allows heaps of options, i specifically use the highlight option, which you can then add a sticky to... Give it a go and see if you can use it
Oo, thought i couldnt add pics, anyway... here you are
This reader is really not laggy at ALL! which is great for my large texts...
bman2309 said:
I would recommend mantano reader free, it allows heaps of options, i specifically use the highlight option, which you can then add a sticky to... Give it a go and see if you can use it
Oo, thought i couldnt add pics, anyway... here you are
This reader is really not laggy at ALL! which is great for my large texts...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks I will check it out. Ezpdf really isn't that bad for lagging (although haven't opened up any super big pdf's on it yet), and it is really nice and easy for highlighting, sticky notes, text boxes, free hand and everything like that which is awesome. But ill check out mantano and see how that one stacks up!
BongoBong said:
edit. if there is some way to ungray that margins box in my first attached pic, then could maybe even modify it some more.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
try manually increasing margins?
nhshah7 said:
try manually increasing margins?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Its grayed out and not letting me manually change them. Not sure how to ungray them so I can do that, or if there's any other place to do it.
Would be nice to use that, but really just changing the page size to legal and pushing the image over to the side looks like it will be just fine for me. Gives a good sized blank space to the right for any notes
BongoBong said:
Its grayed out and not letting me manually change them. Not sure how to ungray them so I can do that, or if there's any other place to do it.
Would be nice to use that, but really just changing the page size to legal and pushing the image over to the side looks like it will be just fine for me. Gives a good sized blank space to the right for any notes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
nhshah7 said:
oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The only custom size option is somehting like "post script custom size" option and it somehow doesn't allow me to choose any sizes or margins which is weird.
Just figured this out. Download foxit reader and under print, select Custom Scale and print to like 75%. #Win.
The toolbar got a refreshed look, and text rendering seems faster when zooming in/out.
Also got the OLD s-note pen/colour palette as an annotation tool now,
but it craps out half the time, and its processing time is slowwwwww.....
But it shows that the devs are "noticing" the samsung note line up, so maybe we'll get better optimization for this tab soon !
I dunno forum rules about "advertising",
but its on sale for $0.99 right now, which i think is a great pick up ~
Yeah, i just bought it, been looking for a replacement for adobe reader for a while now. This might be the one..
Sent from my SM-P605 using xda app-developers app
I've used EZpdf for quite some time now. I use it extensively When reading pdfs, annotating and studying. Really like the "new" interface. I've moved onto to using more and more Epubs but when I need to read pdfs this is the one I rely on.
Just a hint for ezPDF
Maybe you know this already, but:
ezPDF has three drawing modes: Freehand, Drawing, and Drawing (SPen).
Of these, I find that freehand works best. But, it is not so easy to set pen width.
The method I use is this: first draw something. (click on icon in toolbar, draw, click on left arrow to confirm the annotation).
Then select it, click properties, and set the thickness (I use 1.0). This will also set the thickness for future annotations.
(You can also edit the toolbar by clicking on the 'x', and choosing edit.)
Ever since I've switched to Android I've always wondered if there was an app that could offer the same writing experience the iPad apps had. Papyrus was one of them, however with this screen resolution I don't enjoy it anymore.
And then I spotted this gem.
INKredible has by far the best note taking experience this tablet can offer.
The devs have just begun porting their ios app (notes plus) to Android, therefore there're not a lot of features baked into the app yet.
The app has matured pretty well over the past 1.5 years, as expected
So be sure to show your support too the devs, as it may help in speeding up this process
Download the app, make some in app purchases and make this app even greater :good:
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viettran.INKredible&hl=nl
I'd like to know your note taking experience with this app and how it compares to other note taking apps.
If you know an equally good(or better) one be sure to tell us aswell.
Comparable app(s):
-FiiNote (mentioned by crypta: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61466857&postcount=14)
turn-offs
slow rendering
the only pen worthwhile is the pencil pen (under paint mode) but it's not resizeable)
-S Note
Key features that have been successfully added since I posted this thread:
-Touch with finger to erase (s-pen only mode)
-Enable shape detection
-Page zoom lock (helps with accidental zooms while writing)
-PDF import support (can't be imported in an exiting notebook; in app purchase)
-Folder management
-Black paper background
-Misc. performance improvements
-(last edited 25-03-2016)
Wish list:
-Optimize the scrolling/zooming animations under Samsung ROMs, they are really jagged and jarring.
-An intuitive way to compare pages of the same/different notebook(s). Maybe a split-screen within the app.
-The ability to import pdf's within an existing notebook.
-Writing near the left and right edges triggers the app's gestures, make it ignore these gestures when using the s-pen.
-The 'Touch with finger to erase (s-pen only mode)' feature requires a tap to activate, this feels inefficient and unnecessary.
-(last edited 25-03-2016)
I just tried it. Its got very nice hand writing rendering, better than Papyrus and LectureNotes and on par with S-Notes. Very clean intetface. S-pen button works too (you hear that Papyrus!!!) But I dont like how you can't disable finger writing all together like Papyrus. No text input or means to cut and paste from within your notes AFAIK.
I havent been able to find any kind import functionality either which pretty much ruins it for me.
Its a great start though. I hope they continue to improve it.
Here ya go
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viettran.INKredible
Sent from my SM-P600 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
sam2c said:
I just tried it. Its got very nice hand writing rendering, better than Papyrus and LectureNotes and on par with S-Notes. Very clean intetface. S-pen button works too (you hear that Papyrus!!!) But I dont like how you can't disable finger writing all together like Papyrus. No text input or means to cut and paste from within your notes AFAIK.
I havent been able to find any kind import functionality either which pretty much ruins it for me.
Its a great start though. I hope they continue to improve it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Features wise its very minimalistic (I think they're trying to perfect the writing xp first), however that won't be the case for long.
I didn't realise that the spen button had a function within inkcredible , did you disable the default button action via the GMD s-pen app?
I don't really agree with it being an par with snotes, its more like the other way around.
Snotes has a decent note taking experience, if you compare it with a blackboard writing style then its without opactity variances but with thickness variances (also there are no thickness drops if you set the stroke thickness to 10 or 11). Plus ,in my opninion, INKredible feels and appears more natural.
The moment we get some more features I'll be uninstalling snotes and papyrus
-V
Vasishtha said:
Features wise its very minimalistic (I think they're trying to perfect the writing xp first), however that won't be the case for long.
I didn't realise that the spen button had a function within inkcredible , did you disable the default button action via the GMD s-pen app?
I don't really agree with it being an par with snotes, its more like the other way around.
Snotes has a decent note taking experience, if you compare it with a blackboard writing style then its without opactity variances but with thickness variances (also there are no thickness drops if you set the stroke thickness to 10 or 11). Plus ,in my opninion, INKredible feels and appears more natural.
The moment we get some more features I'll be uninstalling snotes and papyrus
-V
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just disabled air commands. If I press the stylus button while hovering, it switches back and fours between eraser and pen. Very nice feature. I don't understand why Papyrus devs are so adament about Samsung being at fault for their lack of s-pen button support. Both Lecturenotes and now Inkredible support it now, even without GMD!
sam2c said:
I just disabled air commands. If I press the stylus button while hovering, it switches back and fours between eraser and pen. Very nice feature. I don't understand why Papyrus devs are so adament about Samsung being at fault for their lack of s-pen button support. Both Lecturenotes and now Inkredible support it now, even without GMD!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh I'll check that out, thanks for the tip!
With inkredible its also possible to draw a circle around a portion of text and drag and drop it to somewhere else or do some other action too the selected portion .
Vasishtha said:
Oh I'll check that out, thanks for the tip!
With inkredible its also possible to draw a circle around a portion of text and drag and drop it to somewhere else or do some other action too the selected portion .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Great tip! Didn't know i can do that.
big potential. some delay in rendering. no possibility to maintain colors and transparency switching between different tools. could be a very interesting tool
Inviato dal mio SM-P605 utilizzando Tapatalk
It's great app - but it kinda doesn't recognice S Pen button for me
Could it be because I'm using Android Lollipop?
KOTYAR said:
It's great app - but it kinda doesn't recognice S Pen button for me
Could it be because I'm using Android Lollipop?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, it has something to do with the samsung spen SDK not being present in cm12...though I could be wrong.
Checkout https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.android.sdk.spen30 .
It may have been updated for android 5.0. But the last time I checked it was for kitkat only.
Spen SDK is not required to recognise spent button presses. This functionality is built into android since android 4.0.
KOTYAR said:
It's great app - but it kinda doesn't recognice S Pen button for me
Could it be because I'm using Android Lollipop?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have note 3 (official lollipop) and note 2014 (kitkat). the spen button switch is not working on inkredible on the note 3.
It is possible because of lollipop.
Dear friends!
I'm really appreciate for your supporting and help our small app's recognized by many more potential users. We've been working hard to make the app more useful and add features to make it works as your main note-taker app, Just hope that day coming soon.
Anyway new version is just waiting the translations and will land on the Play store in a few days.
What’s new in 1.6
- Support "Insert Image" feature
- Apply new S Pen SDK -> solve issue with Lollipop on Samsung device
- Introduce “App Settings”
- Improve selection gesture
- Many bugs fixed & improvements
- Allow rotating, grouping, lock/unlock aspect ratio, ... objects
- Allow zoom out to minimum 90%
Thank you again for your supporting
Looked at it briefly and sorry to say this, but e.g. FIINotes is far superior - at least from the productive point of View.
crypta said:
Looked at it briefly and sorry to say this, but e.g. FIINotes is far superior - at least from the productive point of View.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's no denying it from that point of view, I've tried using it today and I can safely say that the writing experience is a dissapointment.
The mode I tried for hadwriting is called paintmode. The second brush was the most promising, however I couldn't set the thickness of it. And I don't like that standard faded thickness.
Also INKredible pens have more smoothening applied to them.
For me its pointless arguing about features until the writing experience of both apps is at an acceptable level; I didn't switch over from paper only to have a bad writing experience on a glass surface.
Compared to paper, digital writing is 'infinitely' more productive(featured). So why pick an app over another app just because it has more features (if the latter has a better writing experience).
infinite+10(features) is still infinite
copncop said:
I'm really appreciate for your supporting and help our small app's recognized by many more potential users. We've been working hard to make the app more useful and add features to make it works as your main note-taker app, Just hope that day coming soon.
Anyway new version is just waiting the translations and will land on the Play store in a few days.
What’s new in 1.6
- Support "Insert Image" feature
- Apply new S Pen SDK -> solve issue with Lollipop on Samsung device
- Introduce “App Settings”
- Improve selection gesture
- Many bugs fixed & improvements
- Allow rotating, grouping, lock/unlock aspect ratio, ... objects
- Allow zoom out to minimum 90%
Thank you again for your supporting
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you for letting us know
Do you know when we'll be getting the import pdf feature?
And thats the point. The writing experience is like on glas ...on every glas surface . I dont care the looks, I need work done and Information saved.
crypta said:
And thats the point. The writing experience is like on glas ...on every glas surface . I dont care the looks, I need work done and Information saved.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I enjoy wrting on glass more then on paper nowadays, I found myself writing in a more neater way because I always correct sloppy writing due to my OCD.
So now I write more neater because of that. Also I now enjoy the low friction of glass more then the friction of paper...strangely
If I'm making smooth handwriting motions, I don't want to see jankey/jittery graphics on my glass, it just hurts my brain. That hurting trows all the features out of the window.
Vasishtha said:
Thank you for letting us know
Do you know when we'll be getting the import pdf feature?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't know exactly the time, but we're working hard to make the app more better and add new features soon
---------- Post added at 09:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 AM ----------
crypta said:
And thats the point. The writing experience is like on glas ...on every glas surface . I dont care the looks, I need work done and Information saved.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I know our weakness is about limit features, and we will continue develop missing feature to make the app more productive
My script makes some dope spen apps as well.
They have a calculator, spen keypad and notepad which all are dope as anything.
I have to say that Google handwriting keypad is by far the best ever made it even out matches Samsung and my script keypads.
Sent from my SM-P600 using Tapatalk