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Hi all,
I had an idea for a better keyboard for the streak, but I can't find any step-by-step walkthroughs for making android keyboards. If there's one available, let me know and I should be able to tackle this.
If not, I think the streak needs a split keyboard. Imagine the left half of the keyboard on the left third of the screen, the right half on the right third, and a big numpad/d-pad in the middle third. When I'm typing in landscape mode, I know I'd appreciate minimizing my thumbs' reach.
Any takers? Or good keyboard making tutorials?
-- David Z
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I thought the same thing when i first got my streak.
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Great Idea!
If someone does make one you should add settings so you can control where the DPAD is, so you could make it like the original Dell Keyboard too!
I'm guessing you've not tried swype then?
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While we're on the subject of thumb reach, might I suggest a portrait keyboard with more keys on the left/right side, so you don't constantly mis-type those O's and P's as a leftie (for example), when using the streak one-handed?
I was thinking of a real multitouch keyboard.
First, you have the standard qwerty keyboard, with shift, enter en dpad buttons. A tab button would be cool too.
Second, if you tap and hold the keyboard (anywhere) and slide it to the left, on the right side it will reveal the nummeric keys, where you can input your numbers. Releasing the keyboard and it'll slide back in position. Slidng the other way around, gives other keys.
I'm dreaming of such a keyboard a long time now.
Someone?
Radddogg said:
I'm guessing you've not tried swype then?
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I'm guessing you blatantly did not read the OP's idea then?
Zelman said:
I think the streak needs a split keyboard. Imagine the left half of the keyboard on the left third of the screen, the right half on the right third, and a big numpad/d-pad in the middle third. When I'm typing in landscape mode, I know I'd appreciate minimizing my thumbs' reach.
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If somebody makes this, I will personally buy them a drink
I love the Streak, but my thumbs don't...
Hi guys- I don't know of any tutorials, but basically you need to create a custom IME (that's the term used by Android SDK). There is an android SDK example for creating an IME I believe. Also, here is the source code for a Latin keyboard IME someone made:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME.git;a=summary
+1 to the initial idea.
Myself and my office mate were just discussing UI's and both of us agreed that a split keyboard option would make the streak far more ergonomically friendly and probably speed up typing.
BTW, for mocked up examples of what we are talking about see:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/google-tablet-1.jpg
http://wp.appadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/4309481995_5bc3276d61_o.png
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/ss_dialkeys_horiz_520.jpg
I would really love to see a keyboard like this!
Dell's 1.6 stock keyboard makes good use of the additional space instead of just making the buttons ridiculously large, but it really should be symmetric.
With smartphones getting larger and tablets on the rise it's high time for new keyboards, so I think not only the Streak would benefit from it!
All thumbs up for the idea!
Here's an idea: find a developer and start up a kickstart for this... Perhaps we could post this to the general android development forum.
Basic Version
Hey all,
Here's a basic version. It's just a slightly modified version of the soft keyboard that comes with the SDK. It's only usable it in landscape mode, unless you have really small fingers.
Any thoughts/ideas/feedback? Basic changes may be within my ability. A lot of the programming is way over my head, so if anyone wants the source to do some fancy stuff, let me know.
Zelman
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Hey all,
Here's a basic version. It's just a slightly modified version of the soft keyboard that comes with the SDK. It's only usable it in landscape mode, unless you have really small fingers.
Any thoughts/ideas/feedback? Basic changes may be within my ability. A lot of the programming is way over my head, so if anyone wants the source to do some fancy stuff, let me know.
Zelman
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Nice work will give it a try
Works fine i would just prefer the buttons to be a bit bigger about double the size infact and would like the numbers on the end and not in the middle and the numbers a different colour but thats me other than that a great start thanks
Awesome! Some color / shading might help to distinguish between the letters and numbers and more easily find keys. May be its something you adjust to but i find myself having to search for letters.
Two other layout thoughts. 1) maybe stretching out the spacebar a bit. since thats a frequently pressed key it'd be nice to have it by the other letters and closer to the thumbs., 2) rearranging the numpad to have the zero at the bottom center as with a typical dialer numpad. This would require splitting the spacebar into two segments.
Just my 2 cents.
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Awesome! Some color / shading might help to distinguish between the letters and numbers and more easily find keys. May be its something you adjust to but i find myself having to search for letters.
Two other layout thoughts. 1) maybe stretching out the spacebar a bit. since thats a frequently pressed key it'd be nice to have it by the other letters and closer to the thumbs., 2) rearranging the numpad to have the zero at the bottom center as with a typical dialer numpad. This would require splitting the spacebar into two segments.
Just my 2 cents.
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Can't get color to work, yet. Good idea on the spacebar(s). Check this version out.
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Here's the current state of things (as of the build above). I'm going to look more into changing the color of the number keys, but I don't think it's really as necessary with this layout. Any and all suggestions are welcomed, and I will let you know what I can/can't/will/won't do.
Also, anyone with android programming experience who can tell me things like, "What are the image format requirements for icons like the one on the delete key?" please let me know if you can offer expertise.
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Can't get color to work, yet. Good idea on the spacebar(s). Check this version out.
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hi thanks alot for the keyboard, its amazing, only 1 bug/error or maybe its just me, as i type a text, after every fullstop, it automatically changes to capital which is good, but it doesnt change back to small case letters after the first letter has been typed, for example if i type this and then stop. IT CONTINUES LIKE THIS. hope u understand? plz help cause otherwise this keyboard would be perfect for me
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hi thanks alot for the keyboard, its amazing, only 1 bug/error or maybe its just me, as i type a text, after every fullstop, it automatically changes to capital which is good, but it doesnt change back to small case letters after the first letter has been typed, for example if i type this and then stop. IT CONTINUES LIKE THIS. hope u understand? plz help cause otherwise this keyboard would be perfect for me
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I have definitely seen the same issue. I will take a look at the source, but if anyone has the SDK and has a good eye for troubleshooting code, feel free to post hints.
I was going to toss this on page 22 of working apps, but thought someone who wanted to improve their reading experience may want a separate thread. I apologize if it is not the right place. So, those of you who rooted their nookcolor, what is your best ebook reader (you do still read on it, right)?
I have 3.
Moon+Reader
BN (the one it ships with)
I still like this a lot, but it needs to support customized font color and brightness
Kindle
Some of amazon's books are still cheaper. Now we have the best of both worlds.
I love Moon+For the books it opens (does not handle all drm well)
Moon+Reader works well. The free version works wonderfully. I am having issues with paid apps right now, but as soon as that's resolved, I will posted about the paid version.
-Excellent fonts (can use any font, color and background combination actually)
-Can read many formats including epub
-Custom brightness down to 0
-Wonderful page turn effect
-It can even read some b&n purchased books, but not all.
The purchased version supports multitouch.
Have fun,
Leko
Moon+Reader in Market? can't find
please post. thx.
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please post. thx.
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Look for "Moon+" and you should find it.
Aldiko works well too.
There's a free version and a paid version - Aldiko Premium (well worth the $)
I'm using that for my epubs instead of the B&N reader.
Here is a link if you do not have the market up and running.
HTML:
moonreader.zip
Aldiko is good too.
~Leko
P.S. Sorry for the HTML box. I am posting this from dolphin on my Nook.
Aldiko Premium for me.
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Nobody uses FBReader?
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Nobody uses FBReader?
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Ya know, I get tired of answering the same thread multiple times, so I missed this one I guess...
I exclusively use FBReader. I don't like the stock reader, it's extremely slow on my own epubs, and not enough options, such as grey on black for night reading.
FBReader has all the options I need, and it's fast, flexible. If he'd put a mechanism to sync into it, nothing could touch it IMO. It's not pretty like Aldiko but who cares, I don't stare at book covers, I read.
New update on aldiko seems to make it better with more functionality. It now can read any ePub and PDF off the sd card. This includes drm.
Not sure what extra features the premium gives? Anyone know
I like the Kindle apps ability to change the background color to sepia and adjust the font size. the stock B&N reader really needs that feature. What I'd really like to see is an app come along that would actually use a scan (or alternate between 2 or 3) real scans of book paper as a background and overlay the text over that. I think that would be cool. even a light 4 level gray fractal noise pattern would be interesting, and i think maybe easier to read.
Or maybe I'm just nuts...
- Will.
So, I just checked out Aldiko again (used it on my Eris and was not impressed; that was an old version though). It is really nice. I got it to own BN drm content. You need to use your name and cc# (the whole number) as the login and password respectively.
Then, you are in.
I think the paid and free are the same but you support the Dev with the paid.
Moon+ has better note taking features (full annotation and export)
But for nook books, Aldiko is amazing.
It's dictionary feature is nice too.
~Leko
Aldiko is it for me!
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I like the Kindle apps ability to change the background color to sepia and adjust the font size. the stock B&N reader really needs that feature. What I'd really like to see is an app come along that would actually use a scan (or alternate between 2 or 3) real scans of book paper as a background and overlay the text over that. I think that would be cool. even a light 4 level gray fractal noise pattern would be interesting, and i think maybe easier to read.
Or maybe I'm just nuts...
- Will.
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Didn't RTFM did you? The stock reader has different colors, fonts, spacing, etc. Tap the middle of the screen.
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Didn't RTFM did you? The stock reader has different colors, fonts, spacing, etc. Tap the middle of the screen.
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Fonts and spacing yes. Colors, IMHO, no. The buttons are there, but they are all a version of black and white. Kindle's sepia is truly sepia. It is kind of like annotationsBN says they're there, and they are. Until you want to get them off. BN's reader is good, but all the above suit my needs better at the moment.
~Leko
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Fonts and spacing yes. Colors, IMHO, no. The buttons are there, but they are all a version of black and white. Kindle's sepia is truly sepia. It is kind of like annotationsBN says they're there, and they are. Until you want to get them off. BN's reader is good, but all the above suit my needs better at the moment.
~Leko
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I was responding to the guy saying the B&N reader had no options Has FEW options, but does have some.
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So, I just checked out Aldiko again (used it on my Eris and was not impressed; that was an old version though). It is really nice. I got it to own BN drm content. You need to use your name and cc# (the whole number) as the login and password respectively.
Then, you are in.
I think the paid and free are the same but you support the Dev with the paid.
Moon+ has better note taking features (full annotation and export)
But for nook books, Aldiko is amazing.
It's dictionary feature is nice too.
~Leko
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Where did you enter the info for BN - I see no screen for this - only for Adobe DRM. The dev for Aldiko also states that it will NOT read BN DRM'd books?
Sorry the sentence was a bit run on perhaps, but I meant specifically the background-to-sepia that the Kindle has. I'd actually like more color selections, but thats just me. probably.
- Will.
In order to open BN docs,
-Download a book.
-open aldiko.
-go to the home button top left on the screen.
-click on sdcard and navigate to the book.
-open the book.
-it will ask for login and password.
-your login is the name on the card.
-your password is the full credit card # on your account.
Click go or whatever (I forgot the button), and the book will open. You should only have to do this once.
Have fun.
~Leko
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I was responding to the guy saying the B&N reader had no options Has FEW options, but does have some.
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Khaytsus,
I see. Sorry about that. I wish it had more. If it did, I probably would not have rooted. For me, this is first and foremost a reading device. Though, I love all the other things I have going too. If they added better options today, I am not sure I would go back.
The version of aldiko I downloaded from the market did not have highlighting. Is that correct? Also, the text selection using long press and slide was very choppy and imprecise. Selecting text is much smoother on moon+ plus highlighting is a breeze.
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.
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Try sign my pad from the Market. I believe it has what you're looking for.
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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.
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I have the program, it does allow you to add text/notes to the PDF.
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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... :\
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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... :\
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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.
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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.
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I use stickies with repligo reader. I find it to be much faster, ezpdf lags on page turns while repligo is super smooth.
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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
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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!
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edit. if there is some way to ungray that margins box in my first attached pic, then could maybe even modify it some more.
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try manually increasing margins?
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try manually increasing margins?
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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
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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
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oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
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oh, now i see what you mean. it's probably because of the paper layout you chose. try making a custom one...
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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.
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
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For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
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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.
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For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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....
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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.
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Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
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Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
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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.
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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.
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How do you highlight?
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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.
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How do you highlight?
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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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.
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..
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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.)