I like S note's Selection of pens, also writing in lecture notes lookes jagged and pixelated. I also appreciate the transform tool in S note
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The new S Note is a great improvement, but I am still using Lecture Notes, mostly because it can use the SD card.
How can it use the SD card? I write a lot of notes and I tried figuring out how to save to external SD or to export in Lecture Notes format (if I export to PDF it doesn't look that great), but couldn't figure it out.
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Can you make the resolution higher in notebook setup in order to get rid of the jagged look? It's a concern of mine as well. I just don't have the Note with me at the moment to try it out.
I just tried increasing the resolution of the paper, it makes it look even more jagged
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Also is there a way to convert handwriting to text in lecturenotes?
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
While this is true, it gets annoying when you actually press your hand on the screen to write. Because it's 1 finger scroll and your palm is recognized as a finger input it scrolls instead of writes.
@chrisnee you are probably zoomed in way too close if it appears pixelated.
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But the lines from the ruled paper are too small to write on in portrait.
You can increase the size of the lines and the space between them when you set up the notebook. I forget what it's called, but it's the one that has the percentage next to it.
I don't have mine with me to see.
@Han Solo 1: You can set LectureNotes' app directory in the app's storage settings. Note that it requires an app restart for a change to take effect and that existing notebooks will not be copied to the new location. To transfer the notebooks, backup the notebooks board at the old location and restore the notebooks board from the backup at the new location.
@ChrisNee1988: The jagged tails are a problem on many Samsung devices. Enable the pressure filter in the filter setup with a threshold of 5% to 10% in the app's input settings (whether you enable `enforce lifting´ or not is a matter of taste, most users disable that), this should resolve the problem.
@ChrisNee1988 & dteg: If you click at the `?` aside `paper size´, LectureNotes gives recommendations concerning paper width and height, dependent on device orientation.
@ChrisNee1988 & Han Solo 1: The distance between lines can be adjusted in the notebook settings (or directly when creating a new notebook). If you click on the `?´ aside `paper pattern´, LectureNotes gives recommendations concerning the scale (for instance, if you wish to have rued paper with 10mm distance if you print the notebook on A4).
Note that there are numerous more paper pattern, so-called custom paper pattern, coded in JavaScript. To see them, click on `custom´ as paper pattern, this brings up the JavaScript editor. Then, select `use template´ in the main menu, this brings up an overview of the examples. To select one, click on it, this copies the code into the editor. Click on `back´ and confirm to use it for the notebook.
Lecture notes is a great app even better than s notes. However it feels very complicated to learn and use since I'm coming from s note. How do you make the pressure sensitivity of s note the same in lecture notes?
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Go to Settings - Handling - and select Use Pressure sensitive standard pencils. Theres some settings that you can tweak, i'm still playing around with them.
Thank you Chris.
Is it me or does lecture notes feel laggy when I write? Especially in multi window.
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Portrait - no zoom, it looks ok, still quite a bit worse than how handwriting looks in S Notes. But the lines from the ruled paper are too small to write on in portrait.
Landscape - some zoom, hand writing looks passable when using the included s pen but sometimes it still gets wavy and jagged. When using the surface pen (maybe its more sensative), it looks terrible.
Point is handwriting doesn't look nearly as nice and smooth as it does on S Note.
Acadoid, is there any way to use a custom image as a notebook cover, or are we only able to use the solid color/first page image?
@Han Solo 1: You can set LectureNotes' app directory in the app's storage settings. Note that it requires an app restart for a change to take effect and that existing notebooks will not be copied to the new location. To transfer the notebooks, backup the notebooks board at the old location and restore the notebooks board from the backup at the new location.
@ChrisNee1988: The jagged tails are a problem on many Samsung devices. Enable the pressure filter in the filter setup with a threshold of 5% to 10% in the app's input settings (whether you enable `enforce lifting´ or not is a matter of taste, most users disable that), this should resolve the problem.
@ChrisNee1988 & dteg: If you click at the `?` aside `paper size´, LectureNotes gives recommendations concerning paper width and height, dependent on device orientation.
@ChrisNee1988 & Han Solo 1: The distance between lines can be adjusted in the notebook settings (or directly when creating a new notebook). If you click on the `?´ aside `paper pattern´, LectureNotes gives recommendations concerning the scale (for instance, if you wish to have rued paper with 10mm distance if you print the notebook on A4).
Note that there are numerous more paper pattern, so-called custom paper pattern, coded in JavaScript. To see them, click on `custom´ as paper pattern, this brings up the JavaScript editor. Then, select `use template´ in the main menu, this brings up an overview of the examples. To select one, click on it, this copies the code into the editor. Click on `back´ and confirm to use it for the notebook.