[App] Quill - handwritten notes

[lrk]

Hi everyone, I installed ICS (RocketRom 1.5) on my Galaxy Note yesterday, and the first thing I did was try out Quill! It's great. The pen works flawlessly, including pressure sensitivity. The only thing that I could not get to work was the "two finger scroll" and "double tap while writing". Both options (and Pen Input Mode) are disabled.
This makes it very hard to use quill on the relatively small screen of the Galaxy Note.

I read that ICS has an integrated pen api, and it seems to work with Quill, because otherwise pressure sensitivity wouldn't work...Volker, can you activate these options, when ICS tells Quill that a pen is present?

Thanks for the great work!!

 

[Volker1]

Hi everyone, I installed ICS (RocketRom 1.5) on my Galaxy Note yesterday, and the first thing I did was try out Quill! It's great. The pen works flawlessly, including pressure sensitivity. The only thing that I could not get to work was the "two finger scroll" and "double tap while writing". Both options (and Pen Input Mode) are disabled.

Looks like RocketRom is not reporting that a stylus is available. I do use the ICS stylus api when available. I'll add a way to force enable the stylus for all rom cookers out there

 

[edguayo]

Multiple tagging request

Hi Volker,

I love this app, handwritten notes is the reason why I bought the Lenovo TPT and your app gives meaning to this device. I have a request regarding page tagging:

I've noticed that you can only tag one page at a time. So I'd like an option, maybe at the notebook overview, where I can select multiple pages and tag them all at the same time, say with "class march 5" tag.

The reason is I'm planning to use the app at college. I'm taking 2 courses, for each I'll have 1 different notebook. But I would like to keep the pages separated according to the week (lesson). With this I could filter out the pages lets say from class five and the export them to Evernote (with the name of that tag) in PDF.

Looking forward to hearing your comments

Thanks a lot.


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[lrk]

Looks like RocketRom is not reporting that a stylus is available. I do use the ICS stylus api when available. I'll add a way to force enable the stylus for all rom cookers out there

Thanks a lot! I actually think that the pen is recognized:
- In the app LectureNotes Free, if you go to the bottom of the Help screen, there is a test wether a hadware pen is present. For me it says the pen input is registered with "sec_e-pen", while finger touch is "sec_touchscreen"
- The touchscreen test *#*#2664#*#* registers pressure (so does Quill!)
- Photoshop Touch registers the pen, they even have a hovering cursor (which is awesome!)
- The Android 4 API Demo "Touch Paint" (can't post a links yet ) registers the pen and even the pen button.

I hope this helps, keep up the good work. (I can't wait to have the big Galaxy Note 10.1 with Quill. If only I had something like that 10 years ago... )

 

[HecaThePeca]

Hi everyone, I installed ICS (RocketRom 1.5) on my Galaxy Note yesterday, and the first thing I did was try out Quill! It's great. The pen works flawlessly, including pressure sensitivity. The only thing that I could not get to work was the "two finger scroll" and "double tap while writing". Both options (and Pen Input Mode) are disabled.
This makes it very hard to use quill on the relatively small screen of the Galaxy Note.

I read that ICS has an integrated pen api, and it seems to work with Quill, because otherwise pressure sensitivity wouldn't work...Volker, can you activate these options, when ICS tells Quill that a pen is present?

Thanks for the great work!!

Hi Irk, how's RocketRom working for you? Do phone calls work right etc.?

Can't...resist...the urge...to...install...preliminary ICS version...

 

[catki]

I really love Quill - Volker saved a few trees writing this app Pen Input is really fast on my Thinkpad Tablet, and the use of presure sensitive input makes it fun to write

Only feature I'm missing so far is a way to move pages between notepads. It would be a help for me, if I could move my pages between different books.

 

[lrk]

Hi Irk, how's RocketRom working for you? Do phone calls work right etc.?

Can't...resist...the urge...to...install...preliminary ICS version...

It's working fine for me, but I haven't really be able to test it thoroughly...I'm abroad, so I don't make phone calls. But text messages work well, and everything else that I use is ok as well...sometimes it acts up a little (force closes some things) but that's not a bother for me.

 

[Volker1]

Thanks a lot! I actually think that the pen is recognized: [...]

Sounds like the pen works correctly but Samsung forgot to report the android.hardware.touchscreen.pen system feature. In any case, I ordered a GN and will make sure that Quill supports it properly.

 

[Darius]

Really looking forward to this app working on the Galaxy Note, shame I can't buy it currently through the android market while on the 0.49p offer.

 

[HecaThePeca]

A few suggestions

Hi! I have a few more suggestions:

1) Add space! Quite often one just needs to add writing in a page full of text, so it's importanto to be able to insert empty space by moving parts of text down. Page size would prolly need to be increased...
2) User determined save folder. So I could save the notebooks in a dropbox folder for easy syncing!

Also, please take a look at Jarnal, Xournal or Gournal source codes if you haven't done that already. They are Java apps (I think), so should have some resemblance to Android apps (?). Specifically the insert space -thing can probably be found in Jarnal sources...

Also, I really suggest you would team up with the developer(s) of e.g. LectureNotes, Antipaper Notes etc. The number of tablets with active digitizers (n-trig or wacom) is only going to go up, and it won't be long until most university/college/high school students all have tablets (which will NOT be iPads, since a stylus and affordability is a must). Stay competitive agains the big developers!

Anyway, good luck!

 

[whod]

I second the idea of inserting empty space.
What could also work is the ability to set our own custom dimensions for the page.
There could be a mode where you start with a paper that fits to the screen and every time u drag the screen, the dimensions of the page change to include that space.
This sort of feature would be amazing for hand-drawn mindmaps.

 

[-Neos-]

No doubt, the best available notes app! I bought my TPT only a few days ago and i already downloaded this app...
But i really miss the import of Pictures or the lasso copy/cut/paste-function like it is in the stock App of the TPT...
These two funktions would make the students life much more easier

 

[pdaipio]

Your requested features are all available in »LectureNotes«.

 

[toenail_flicker]

Too bad there's no pressure sensitivity in Lecture Notes.

 

[rangercaptain]

Or PDF export.

 

[pdaipio]

LectureNotes offers PDF export and as far as I know pressure sensivity is on the programmer's agenda.

But I guess we should not discuss this in the Quill's thread.

 

[moppinitup]

Quill on Motorola Xoom

Hey does anyone use this app for the Motorola Xoom? If so how do you like it and what kind of stylus do you use? Im looking into buying a tablet mainly to take notes on for college and I know the Xoom is a little more affordable than the Thinkpad and some of the other tablets.

Thank you

 

[newtonc]

I need a note taking app that records the sound while i`m writing,, just like onenote does on windows. Does anyone know of an app that does that?

If the app can sync the recording and what i`m writing, even better.

 

[ndorf]

Quill on Sprint HTC EVO View (Sprint version of HTC Flyer)

Works fine on the View as expected. Excellent piece of software; thank you for developing it! Must not select the Lenovo Pen....leave the pen detection setting on Auto

Wish list (listed in order of perceived importance)

#1 A paper-type choice with rule lines spaced vertically farther apart so that it scales well with the 7" screen. Very hard to write small enough to stay within lines on 7" tablet screen

#2 Hierarchical filing of notebooks. Call them folders, binders, shelves, whatever. A place to save notebooks that are related some way on the same view. That will save lots of scrolling as one starts to accumulate many notebooks. Of course the other option is to export everything to PDF and save in the file system, but that's a one-way street with respect to adding more notes

#3 A "Quadrant" option (toggle on/off) for 7" tablets held in portrait view: Q1 top-left, Q2 top-right, Q3 bottom-left, Q4 bottom right. With a toolbar tool to advance easily forward or back between quadrants. The idea being that while writing in any one quadrant, handwriting would be scaled such that when the document page is saved and viewed on a larger screen (PC for example), everything written fits nicely on an 8 1/2 x 11" page.

#4 The straight line tool is very nice; how does one move the object once it is created? perhaps a point and select tool? How can one draw a rectangle and connect and line the ends of the line. You're onto something big here. Maybe pre-made objects with circles, lines (with arrow points), triangles, rectangles. All in due time I suppose.

 

[HecaThePeca]

Hey does anyone use this app for the Motorola Xoom? If so how do you like it and what kind of stylus do you use? Im looking into buying a tablet mainly to take notes on for college and I know the Xoom is a little more affordable than the Thinkpad and some of the other tablets.

Thank you

You need a tablet with an active digitizer. Currently these include Lenovo Thinkpad, HTC Flyer, HTC Jetstream (all n-trig) and Samsung Galaxy Note (wacom) (which is technically a phone). I have a Galaxy Note, and I'm eagerly waiting for the upcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet!

Don't expect to be able to write accurately with capacitive styli!