LectureNotes app

[AlexGodbehere]

I understand that, i'm merely making suggestions. I greatly appreciate the time you've spent on this app.

I mean importing multiple PDFs to multiple notebooks. All of my notes are on Dropbox as separate PDFs, and i'd be nice to get all of these into LectureNotes in one go.

By better notebook organisation, I'm mainly referring to folders. For each of my modules we have multiple notes for multiple topics. Not nagging, just saying it would be nice thats all. I'm an app developer myself and I understand the pressure, i'm just merely suggesting improvements to help your app be the best it can possibly be

 

[acadoid]

@flash5000: I don't think that LectureNotes could do the sync better than other apps.
@AlexGodbehere: Sorry, I do not understand, LectureNotes allows to organize notebooks into folders.

 

[realityinabox]

Circuit symbols?

First off, I just wanted to say that I LOVE this app. Note taking has become a breeze, and my shoulders are glad to not have to lug around so many extra notebooks.

I do have a feature request though. I am an Electrical Engineering student and find myself wishing that I had access to custom circuit symbols for drawing schematics. When taking notes, I find that I spend way too much time trying to copy down a schematic and way too little time listening to what the prof is actually saying.

I do have some coding experience (C and Python), is this something that I could attempt myself as a plugin for the app? I haven't done any android development, but I have all summer before I need to start drawing schematics during lecture, so I figured I could maybe take a crack at it. Any tips on where to start?

 

[seb7o]

I mean importing multiple PDFs to multiple notebooks. All of my notes are on Dropbox as separate PDFs, and i'd be nice to get all of these into LectureNotes in one go.

+1 for this. Example: 10 PDFs in a Folder an the SD-card (for example a synced dropbpxfolder). With lecturenotes using the file-explorer of my choice, mark all of these 10 PDF files, import them all in 10 different notebooks (named like the PDFs name), when its finished, the option to change the names of the folders.
The import takes a long time, (I think its because of the converting into pictures).

@acadoid:
I told you about the difficulty to rapidly change to another app, when in lecturenotes (because the system bar is hided and for my sake this needs to be so), a good solution may be to add a menu item "minimize lecturenotes" or "hide lecturenotes". so whatsapp, calendar or whatever app can be started/resumed and also the system-bar would is re-available, so resuming lecturenotes is easy done. A less faster but maybe easyer way to implement that, would be to add the menu button to "hide/unhide" the system-bar (like the option in the main-preferences), but because of the superuser-popup, I dont know if there will be some bad side-effects.

some last questions: (im sorry )
*Is it possible to insert a PDF with multiple pages between two existing pages of a notebook? (I did find the possibility to add 1 page of a PDF into a notebook.)
*Is it possible to merge notebooks?

thanks in advance and keep the good work up!

 

[acadoid]

@realityinabox: I plan to add a JavaScript interface for custom drawing tools (similar to the interface for custom paper pattern), this will allow to code circuit elements as drawing tool.
@seb7o: The problem with your proposal is that there is no (at least to my knowledge) way ask a file manager app to mark or select multiple files.

I am not sure whether an app can minimize itself, never saw an API call for that. Hide/show system bar by button is on my to-do-list.

Imported multiple pages are always appended; what you can do is to rearrange pages in notebook overview afterwards by click-and-drag.

There is no dedicated function to merge two notebooks. What you can do is to copy the pages of one notebook to the second. To do that, open the source notebook in notebook overview, click on the tag to activate tag mode and on the pages to be copied to tag them (or select `Tag all pages´ in this menu), and select `Copy tagged pages to clipboard´ in the main menu. Close the source notebook and open the target notebook in notebook overview and select `Paste pages from clipboard´ in the main menu.

 

[seb7o]

What you can do is to copy the pages of one notebook to the second. To do that, open the source notebook in notebook overview, click on the tag to activate tag mode and on the pages to be copied to tag them (or select `Tag all pages´ in this menu), and select `Copy tagged pages to clipboard´ in the main menu. Close the source notebook and open the target notebook in notebook overview and select `Paste pages from clipboard´ in the main menu.

thanks for this, really usefull!

The problem with your proposal is that there is no (at least to my knowledge) way ask a file manager app to mark or select multiple files.

I know two that I use:
"Root Explorer (File Manager)" from "Speed Software" (not free)
"ES Datei Explorer" from "ES APP Group" (maybe the english name defers) (free)

btw: the ES file explorer is so nice, you can even look up files that are in the network, like on your windows 7 pc etc.

 

[acadoid]

@seb7o: Most file managers allow to select multiple files, for instance to copy or to move them. However, I was referring to file selection service, and this is defined only for a single entity (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_GET_CONTENT). The only solution would be not to use this intent service and to add the file selector function to LectureNotes.

 

[haris163]

@realityinabox: I plan to add a JavaScript interface for custom drawing tools (similar to the interface for custom paper pattern), this will allow to code circuit elements as drawing tool.

I have been out the loop and I might have missed some developments, my suggestion/wish is an LN repository for the custom papers and drawing tools. The repository that I have in mind should have picture of the custom element, a sentence or two saying what it is, and an easy way to load it to LN.

I know that I should be able to figure out the custom editing in LN, but I just do not have the time among other things that I have to figure out in a daily basis. A repository will help people like me to load custom elements to LN and make LN even more popular with all those customizations that are going to be made available.

 

[stbxxl]

I have a question regarding text entry. I typically use the text drawing tool via the pencil toolbox. Entering text, time stamps etc. works just fine. However, I can't figure out how to move, scale, and rotate the text before insertion. The help file stats to "long-click" in order to do so. But I'm not sure where or what I should long-click. I would appreciate advice what I'm doing wrong.

 

[flash5000]

I have a question regarding text entry. I typically use the text drawing tool via the pencil toolbox. Entering text, time stamps etc. works just fine. However, I can't figure out how to move, scale, and rotate the text before insertion. The help file stats to "long-click" in order to do so. But I'm not sure where or what I should long-click. I would appreciate advice what I'm doing wrong.

Afaik you need to long-click on the green symbol. But I always struggle, too, with this part of the text tool, and would appreciate to see this improved in future releases...

 

[stbxxl]

Afaik you need to long-click on the green symbol. But I always struggle, too, with this part of the text tool, and would appreciate to see this improved in future releases...

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work for me at all.

 

[flash5000]

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work for me at all.

Hm, then try the font/style button, or double-tap. I once managed to move/resize/etc, but cannot remember how exactly...

 

[acadoid]

@stbxxl & flash5000: Long-click is correct, and if it gets erroneously understood as short-click: Click on `undo´ to undo the insertion, click on the cutter to activate cutter mode, click again to get the cutter menu, and select `Paste from clipboard´ in this menu, this will bring back the text box, now allowing for movement, rotation, and scaling.

 

[flash5000]

@stbxxl & flash5000: Long-click is correct, and if it gets erroneously understood as short-click: Click on `undo´ to undo the insertion, click on the cutter to activate cutter mode, click again to get the cutter menu, and select `Paste from clipboard´ in this menu, this will bring back the text box, now allowing for movement, rotation, and scaling.

Thanks for the explanation!

But this is not very intuitive, I guess you support me on this.
Maybe you could add a fourth button in order to activate the move/resize/... mode?

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[stbxxl]

@stbxxl & flash5000: Long-click is correct, and if it gets erroneously understood as short-click: Click on `undo´ to undo the insertion, click on the cutter to activate cutter mode, click again to get the cutter menu, and select `Paste from clipboard´ in this menu, this will bring back the text box, now allowing for movement, rotation, and scaling.

Long click never works for me. So I always have to use the cutter tool (which works just fine). Perhaps you could consider another way to do this which would not require this extra step?

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Maybe you could add a fourth button in order to activate the move/resize/... mode?

+1

 

[acadoid]

@flash5000 & stbxxl: I was thinking to use the fourth corner to allow resizing of the text box during text input (in case the size is too large or too small). One possibility could be to optionally exchange the meaning of click and long-click, so that a click brings up move/rotate/scale and a long-click directly inserts.

 

[flash5000]

@flash5000 & stbxxl: I was thinking to use the fourth corner to allow resizing of the text box during text input (in case the size is too large or too small). One possibility could be to optionally exchange the meaning of click and long-click, so that a click brings up move/rotate/scale and a long-click directly inserts.

I appreciate your efforts and support your way of handling it - this is exactly what's needed!

At the moment, I usually make notes by handwriting because the text tool is not very easy to handle while taking 'live' notes. However, my notes could be clearly more legible by typing instead

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[stbxxl]

One possibility could be to optionally exchange the meaning of click and long-click, so that a click brings up move/rotate/scale and a long-click directly inserts.

That would be my vote. Typically I use the text tool to add a date and headline for a new note for adding it to the notebook's index. So having the ability to quickly move around the text would be nice.

 

[Doering]

Very nice app and great support via this thread!

Is there any possibility to crop an image I insert by camera or file explorer? If not, this would be a feature I miss...

Regards

 

[acadoid]

@Doering: Cropping before insertion is not (yet) available. You can insert the image, cut/copy the relevant part, delete the rest, and paste the cut/copy part, though.