LectureNotes app

[nickzeff]

@acadoid, I have noticed an annoying bug and I'm not sure if LectureNotes is to blame.

I have a Galaxy Note 8.0 and use LectureNotes with the option which overrides the lock screen (not sure if this is relevant, but it might be).

Every once in a while, the display goes dark, almost as if I have pressed the lock button on the side of the tablet.

When I press a button to bring up the display again, touch input to the screen no longer works. I cannot use my fingers to zoom or indeed use any other apps. The Android status bar is missing the clock and a few other things.

However the stylus does work as an input device, so I can use this temporarily, but it's an inconvenience not to be able to use the normal touch input.

After a while, something must restart, because suddenly the clock comes back and I can use my fingers to navigate again.

The only reason I raise it here, is because this only seems to happen when I am using Lecturenotes. Having said that, I spend around 80% of my time on the tablet using LectureNotes, so it might not be your app.

My instinct is that some system service or app is erroring somewhere.

I was just wondering if you or any other readers of this thread have come across this problem? Is there any way I can collect the contents of a log to confirm if it is LectureNotes doing this?

Cheers

 

[acadoid]

@nickzeff: This problem occurred on the Note 10.1 when you had Samsung's AirView enabled, but did not occur anymore after you disabled that. I guess it will be the same on your Note 8.0. The point seems to be S-pen usage, it occurs in other apps as well when you use the S-pen, not just in LectureNotes.

 

[pgibby081965]

How to correct typed text?

Hi. I'm loving this app. Tried many others but this one is the best so far! Anyway, I've entered some typed text in a small text box, put some handwriting on the page too. I've noticed a spelling mistake in the typed text and I want to change it but can't figure out how to do this - can anyone tell me how to do this please? Thanks a bunch!!

Phil

 

[acadoid]

@pgibby081965: LectureNotes is bitmap-based, not object-based. Both approaches come with pros and cons. When you use the text drawing tool, the text gets drawn into the working layer and cannot be altered afterwards (besides being deleted and retyped, of course). Note that the text layer allows to alter typed text, it is an object-based addition to the bitmap-based approach. To add more such object-based additions (for instance for the text drawing tool) is on my agenda.

 

[IguanaBikeRider]

Gallery

Hi,

In my galaxy note 3, when I go to my gallery (photos), several "photos" from Lectures Nectures are visible, like for instance the boards and some pages! There is any option to don´t see this in my gallery! I already use the function hide photos. But then also lectures notes is not capable to see it!

Thanks

 

[acadoid]

@IguanaBikeRider: You should not see actual notebook pages in your gallery (otherwise your gallery app or your media scanner is ignoring the `.nomedia´ files that LectureNotes places in notebook and folder directories). However, you might see cut or copied material from notebook pages, imported PDF pages, etc. These images cannot be hidden, as otherwise to paste LectureNotes' material in other apps and related functionality would not work.

 

[IguanaBikeRider]

@IguanaBikeRider: You should not see actual notebook pages in your gallery (otherwise your gallery app or your media scanner is ignoring the `.nomedia´ files that LectureNotes places in notebook and folder directories). However, you might see cut or copied material from notebook pages, imported PDF pages, etc. These images cannot be hidden, as otherwise to paste LectureNotes' material in other apps and related functionality would not work.

Probably you are right, but can you tell me where I am able to find the files you are talking about? The ".nomedia" files because I dont find it anywhere!

 

[IguanaBikeRider]

I found the no media files your are talking about. But somehow. My gallery is ignoring them... any sugestions?

 

[August113]

Galaxy note 10.1 (2014). Lag in LN while in split screen mode

Dear developers,

I just purchased my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, 2014 edition and am impressed, overall, with the performance. I am beginning the school semester very soon however and need to decide on my best option for note taking. Lecture Notes appears to be far superior to Snote, but there are a couple of deal breakers, in my opinion. The biggest one is that there is unbearable lag with pen input when in split-view (multi-window) mode. This feature seems to be a critical one for me and I would imagine for others as well. This is not a problem in Snote.

The second issue is that you cannot place the text cursor anywhere on the page when typing notes with a keyboard. Rather, the entire page becomes the "text box" and you need to manoeuvre around with the enter key and space bar.

Are there any plans to fix these issues and is the problem well understood?

Thanks,
August.

 

[Kumabjorn]

You can move and resize the text box to your heart's content, it just started in the uppermost left corner.

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[acadoid]

@August113: 1. The reason for this lag is not clear. From LectureNotes' perspective, it does not make any difference in response time whether it runs in full screen mode or in a window, hence it is very difficult to see why it should be slower in the latter case. My guess is rather that there is a delay in sending the touch events (the stylus coordinates). There was initially a similar issue on Nexus 10 devices, the system sent the input events with a delay of 250ms or so, causing the writing to lag behind the stylus. If my guess is correct, there is nothing that can be done in LectureNotes.

2. You can either adjust the text layer margins, as described by Kumabjorn, or use the text drawing tool which allows free placement of the text. The text drawing tool can be accessed either via 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) or via the drawing tools menu (you need to enable this menu in the app's menu settings).

 

[PapaAlfa]

window mode margins

Hi acadoid!

First of all thanks a lot for the app. It's totally awesome!

The only thing is annoying me - when in window mode there are always some margins where i cannot write anything, means the line is just interrupted on some distance from the actual window border. All sides but the upper one are affected. I use a samsung note 10.1 (n8000). While in the full mode it's ok. Maybe there is some setting to avoid this?

It also whould be great to have an option to preserve a zoom value when switching to the window mode and back.

Thanks again for the great app! :good:

 

[August113]

@August113: 1. The reason for this lag is not clear. From LectureNotes' perspective, it does not make any difference in response time whether it runs in full screen mode or in a window, hence it is very difficult to see why it should be slower in the latter case. My guess is rather that there is a delay in sending the touch events (the stylus coordinates). There was initially a similar issue on Nexus 10 devices, the system sent the input events with a delay of 250ms or so, causing the writing to lag behind the stylus. If my guess is correct, there is nothing that can be done in LectureNotes.

2. You can either adjust the text layer margins, as described by Kumabjorn, or use the text drawing tool which allows free placement of the text. The text drawing tool can be accessed either via 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) or via the drawing tools menu (you need to enable this menu in the app's menu settings).

Thanks for the response. Is it possible then that Samsung will solve this issue with an update? I wonder why their own snote app does not experience that delay.

By the way, did you receive a note 10.1 2014? Would you mind giving your opinion on the device and what its prospects are going forward? I am thinking about "rooting" it, or changing the "launcher", but I have never done that before, so I don't know if it is advisable. As I said before, I am impressed with the device generally, but there seem to be a number of things that detract.

Thanks,
August.

 

[acadoid]

@PapaAlfa: LectureNotes ignores input at the lower and right boundary when running in window mode. The reason for that is that the system also sends input events when you resize the window (which is of course not a particularly smart thing to do); if LectureNotes did not ignore input in this small area, every window resizing would result in lines drawn on the notebook page. If it is important to write until the very boundary, note the option `free floating pages´; if this option is enabled, the notebook page can be moved away from the window boundary.
@August113: Good point, but Samsung apps might have a kind of `privileged´ channel. Have you tested that also with other handwriting or drawing apps? On my old Galaxy Note 10.1, there is no difference in response time between full screen and window mode.

I had ordered a 2014 Galaxy Note 10.1, but the order was cancelled, and I have not yet ordered again.

 

[PapaAlfa]

@PapaAlfa: LectureNotes ignores input at the lower and right boundary when running in window mode. The reason for that is that the system also sends input events when you resize the window (which is of course not a particularly smart thing to do); if LectureNotes did not ignore input in this small area, every window resizing would result in lines drawn on the notebook page. If it is important to write until the very boundary, note the option `free floating pages´; if this option is enabled, the notebook page can be moved away from the window boundary.

Thanks a lot for the quick feedback! Actually the point is not to write until the very boundary of a page, it's to write until the boundary of a window, otherwise it's counter intuitive, it's a feeling like when your pen stops writing when is broken or out of ink, drives a bit wild you know and please understand me correctly but this works just fine in Papyrus. here is an illustration:

 

[acadoid]

@PapaAlfa: Well, if the page boundary is not at the window boundary, you could scroll the page previous to writing, couldn't you?

I guess that also other apps ignore input if you start close to the window boundary, don't they? Or does window resizing cause input on the page?

One could modify the applied rule in such a way that only input is ignored if it starts in the boundary area, not if you start outside the boundary area and enter it afterwards.

EDIT: I modify the applied rule as described above, the next version v2.4 will allow to write/draw until the boundary.

 

[PapaAlfa]

EDIT: I modify the applied rule as described above, the next version v2.4 will allow to write/draw until the boundary.

That's amazing! Thanks a lot! Looking forward to get 2.4

 

[Spark14]

Hey acadoid, first of all seriously well done on this app. I've managed to pretty much completely move from pen and paper to my Note 8.0 with LectureNotes in college. All's going well thus far! Your app is very, very well put together.

I'm a student in Electrical Engineering and I was recently considering the dilemma of making "nice" circuits to put in my notes. My first idea was to build a drag'n'drop interface to build circuits or perhaps to attempt to create something like S-Note's formula/graph recognition, but for circuits and to export them as images. Then the more obvious option occurred to me to create some kind of a plugin for LectureNotes itself since that is the app I'd be using either way and doing it in-app would be much quicker/easier.

I decided to Google to see was there some kind of plug-in interface for LectureNotes and came across this thread - and found a post of someone in a surprisingly similar situation to my own from April of last year. You said in response that you planned to add a JavaScript interface for custom shapes.

Did this feature ever come to fruition? Is it still in the works or has it been dropped? I thought I'd check before starting to attempt making a fully fledged circuit builder, haha :laugh:

Aside from that, LectureNotes is absolutely fantastic so thank you! Also, having read through the thread I have to say well done for sticking with the project and being so involved with the community. It's refreshing to see someone so dedicated ^^

 

[acadoid]

@Spark14: Many thanks for your kind comments. Custom drawing tools will come with the next update v2.4 in a few days.

 

[Spark14]

@Spark14: Many thanks for your kind comments. Custom drawing tools will come with the next update v2.4 in a few days.

@acadoid: You're welcome! Oh wow, that's great to hear! Thank you, I'll be looking forward to it :good: