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Although I do appreciate the functionality already in HTC Notes, I have been spoiled by Microsoft OneNote for many years.
Below are some of the features available in OneNote that I would like to see in HTC Notes version 2.0.
• Ability to expand the space between handwritten notes to add more handwritten notes.
• Ability to create color-coded tabs to notebooks. (sub notebooks)
• Ability to select handwritten notes to cut, copy, and paste.
• OCR for searching directly within HTC Notes. (aside from EverNote)
• The ability to add standard shapes to notes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, arrows, and stars)
• Different note page templates (to do list, meeting agenda, calendar and legal pad)
• Ability to snip pictures from other applications and paste them into notes.
• Ability to add active hyperlinks
• Put the pen options in a smaller horizontal toolbar. (The semi-circle takes up a lot of screen real estate.)
Non-OneNote features
Ability to send note to DropBox.
Ability to integrate with OneNote.
What additional features would you like to see in HTC Notes?
Must say... great Idea.
I agree that the Notes app is lacking quite a few features.
Some of ur features seem to be common sense on a notes app.
kind of disapointed they are not included... however I still think that HTC has the best Note taking app implementation on Android as of yet.
I would like it if they made it so the lower button on the pen made the pen act like a finger
KuriKai said:
I would like it if they made it so the lower button on the pen made the pen act like a finger
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I also thought that I must be perfect when you can switch between pen and finger mode for the pen self. Then we can use the pen in all(!) applications like a mouse for marks and so forth...
They should let you choose if you want a note that only accepts pen input. I often find that I trigger the keyboard when I don't want it and you could avoid this if it just never came up - kind of like when you're annotating a page in the Reader.
I'm also using OneNote, and used EverNote before. Actually I prefer OneNote over EverNote.
My wishlist:
Ability to disable keyboard
Rich text editing on the device (I can create on the desktop and view from the device but I can't make text bold, italic, underlined or change font size on the device).
Ability to make images bigger or smaller, or crop them inside Notes app.
Zoom in and zoom out features
Ability to retain formatting when copied text from Android browser.
I also share these wishes:
• Ability to select handwritten notes to cut, copy, and paste.
• OCR for searching directly within HTC Notes. (aside from EverNote)
• The ability to add standard shapes to notes (circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, arrows, and stars)
• Different note page templates (to do list, meeting agenda, calendar and legal pad)
• Ability to add active hyperlinks
• Ability to integrate with OneNote.
• Ability to snip pictures from other applications and paste them into notes.
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You can send images and text from Android browser to HTC Notes by using "Share" feature. For example, long press on an image, tap "Share" and tap "Notes". The problem is, the text loses all the formatting, making tables etc. unreadable.
I am glad so many other folks would like to see HTC Notes developed further.
The "snip" function that I was referring to was the ability to circle an image or text and copy and paste it to notes.
Another awesome app would be a Snag-it for android. I use that tool several times a day.
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anyway we can get HTC to find out about what we think might make it better?
^^ DOnt think so
Does Flyer have "Pen" to text?
Can we use the pen to send SMS?
I would like to combine more scribbles in one note. Currently it always takes a snapshot and I can save it as new note, but a popup menu allowing me to attach the snapshot to an existing note would be perfect.....
I'd like to see the spiral graphic go away, because it's just not helpful. I'd also like to be able to scroll infinity on the horizontal axis for unruly diagrams and tables.
Some kind of markdown-style structured text formatting would also be nice. Not WYSIWYG, just smart wiki-ish text parsing.?
I can probably post something to HTC support with a link to this discussion
They might listen if they find out that there is a group out there interested in using a "HTC Notes Premium". I would pay for more functionality.
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kkinder said:
Some kind of markdown-style structured text formatting would also be nice. Not WYSIWYG, just smart wiki-ish text parsing.?
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I agree.
Another point is, there is no list view of notes. Also, everyday I use evernote, I wish I could zoom in and zoom out on notes.
I also wish there was an easy way to "unhighlight" highlighted text.
About the Spiral graphic
I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
And I really need to resize the pictures. They are just too small if you have scribbled words on them.
Free the pen
This isnt necessarily a wish list for notes app but for the pen in general. Free it! by that i mean add an option to disable the scribble mode when touching the screen in any app that doesnt support the pen. with this option it would allow the pen to work as any normal capacitive stylus.
I like the notes app, but im looking forward to some of the handwriting to text apps that are coming to android soon and these would make the pen complete.
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I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
And I really need to resize the pictures. They are just too small if you have scribbled words on them.
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best tip !
jazymonkey said:
I think the spiral graphic is helpful
If you hold it, it actually disable all other input, except the pen, making it only pen usable.
wouldn't want that taken away
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By the way, keeping your finger on the right side of the screen works for left-handed folks.
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I think there is a bug in HTC notes preventing rich text notes that are created on desktop to be found when searched on the Flyer. This is really annoying!
Anybody experiencing the same?
I wish you could be able to flip the page in between notes like the reader app.
Color code notes is a good idea someone already mentioned.
Ability to scroll page to the right with double finger scroll
Pen to ocr would be amazing
Be able to edit a screenshot after you save it.
Be able to change the resolution of a screenshot. (bigger)
Annotate a whole html page instead of only parts from it.
Be able to make a notebook sync or unsync after setting it.
anyone else get the white overlay/watermark while trying to draw on a picture? and if so how do i disable it?
This is because you aren't actually drawing on the picture. If you notice the animation flips the picture over. This is a rather gimmicky feature that resembles turning over a hard copy of a photo where you right on the back, like the occasion etc.
To actually draw on the image you would need a photo editing program, or a cheap way of doing so would be to open up your photo in fullscreen, take a screenshot of it by using the S Pen, hold the button and tap the screen then hold it until it flashes a screenshot, then draw on this screenshot.
After that you'll have to get some suggestions on apps to use to just straight up draw on the image.
Another way to do it is to open SNote and add the picture as a background image.
verizon removed the "samsung apps" app from the phone. however, you can search for the apk file for samsung's "photo editor" (which SHOULD have been included on the phone in the first place). it's not the best photo editing software, but it does allow very easy cuting and inserting (from clipboard) type of editing on photos. i downloaded it the other night and it works real well for what writing on pics, cutting pieces out of pics, or even cut and paste type of photo editing (like cutting my head out of a pic and putting it on Mr. T's body.....not that i did that or anything). no root needed to just load the apk. fyi....i don't believe our device is actually listed as a supported device, but i can verify that it works just fine.
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I use sketchbook mobile. Theres also photoshop mobile I havent used. I think photoshop mobile is more the effects/filters side and sketch book has brushes, colors ,flow, opacity, and allows you to load pictures. You can draw directly on the picture or make layers and export as a. Jpeg .png or .psd.
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I use sketchbook mobile. Theres also photoshop mobile I havent used. I think photoshop mobile is more the effects/filters side and sketch book has brushes, colors ,flow, opacity, and allows you to load pictures. You can draw directly on the picture or make layers and export as a. Jpeg .png or .psd.
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Photoshop Touch is annoying (mostly because it's hard to find anything). In order to save something, you have to save it as a project then save the project as an image.
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So then what app was Lebron James kid using in the Note 2 commercial when they where drawing a red afro on his pic
bigliquid530 said:
So then what app was Lebron James kid using in the Note 2 commercial when they where drawing a red afro on his pic
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Could've been done with photo editor, or the screenshot method in the 2nd post. I hate that commercial
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Could've been done with photo editor, or the screenshot method in the 2nd post. I hate that commercial
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lol
Well since they showed the kid doing it I thought it would be pretty easy to do, doubt the kid went thru all thos esteps especially at the breakfast table:laugh:
Camera ace and hello color pencil are 2 free and easy programs that allow you to draw on pictures. Camera ace has some great s pen features.
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Camera ace and hello color pencil are 2 free and easy programs that allow you to draw on pictures. Camera ace has some great s pen features.
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Gonna have to check those out
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Well since they showed the kid doing it I thought it would be pretty easy to do, doubt the kid went thru all thos esteps especially at the breakfast table:laugh:
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Have you tried photo editor? Is dumb simple, its also included in beans ROM. Shout out to beanstown106 for an awesome ROM!
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Been using Skitch from evernote and it's been great! thought i'd share.
bigliquid530 said:
So then what app was Lebron James kid using in the Note 2 commercial when they where drawing a red afro on his pic
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If it was any variant besides verizon, he was likely using the samsung photo editor, which, again, SHOULD have been on our phone.
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1: App Picker Classic
I don't know about you guys but most of the time when I open a link, I use one app. As such I select it as my default app because having to select the app, press just once and then pressing ok to the message about removing default app status is a pain. But often times I want to use a different app to open it.for example opening a url in browser or pop up browser.
So this app just makes it so you only have to press the app once to open the link with it. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.anyro.picker
2: Disk Usage
Having two storage devices, with a fairly overpopulated filing system, can be pretty hard to manage. Even with a large sd card, it can get full pretty quick. Especially when you're downloading big files and doing nandroid backups.
This app graphically lays out your entire file system by size so you can easily see which directories and which files are hogging your storage capacity and exactly where they are all at the same time. A really easy to use and a convenient tool. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
3: Helium (previously carbon)
Whether you're a crack flasher or you just want to play it safe, making backups is a good idea. With helium you can backup up the state of your apps. For example your sms's, a particular apps settings or log in info, to name a few. This is an invaluable tool you should always have in your app drawer. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
I also recommend getting the premium version to support the dev and for the features
4: Swipe pad
Multitasking can be a bit cumbersome on devices with a screen smaller than that of a computer. I mean among the smallest laptops are laptops under 13" and there are some who argue those are too small to be manageable. Yes our phone is huge relative to other phones, but relative to a computer it's tiny.
I don't know about you guys but I use a small collection of apps frequently, and I have some apps which I want immediate access to. Fortunately there are developers with answers, and the product delivers.
Swipe pad is the solution. It allows you to map apps to little slots on a grid that is available when swiping from a desired edge of the screen. Simply lift your finger from the app you're touching and it gets launched. But it's not only for apps. I'll let you discover the rest, but being able to add nova launcher activities is just awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
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I don't know about you guys but most of the time when I open a link, I use one app. As such I select it as my default app because having to select the app, press just once and then pressing ok to the message about removing default app status is a pain. But often times I want to use a different app to open it.for example opening a url in browser or pop up browser.
So this app just makes it so you only have to press the app once to open the link with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.anyro.picker
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Thanks for the heads up...going to try it today. I definitely find times where I don't want to use the default app and this saves clicking the "just once" every time.
thank you for this
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thank you for this
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This was da hits.
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
demz92 said:
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....
dteg said:
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?
Han Solo 1 said:
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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How do you highlight?
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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).
tstsubi the
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.
Dear All,
I'm looking for a specific workflow but haven't been lucky so far. It's quite important to me - if I don't find a solution, I would sell the Note 10.1 again...
One big thinkg I'd like to do with the Note is to read scientific PDFs (e.g. Nature, Science,...) and highlight text in them. For a smooth procedure, I would like to have the following functionality:
- Highlight text with the pen (and pen only! Not with the fingers)
- Move, Zoom, etc with fingers (and not with pen)
Both functions should work at the same time without the need to switch anything.
This functionality is present e.g. in S-Note when you choose "Pen only" (I think that's how it is called). Then you can write on the screen only with the pen, while the fingers will zoom etc. No interference between these two functions. However, AFAIK S-Note cannot handle PDFs...
The edited pdf's are in a could (Dropbox) and need to be saved there as well, so that I can open them on my PC and have the highlighting I did on the Note...
I there any PDF viewer/editor which has such a function? I've had a look at quite a few but found nothing...
Doesn't need to be a free app.
Many thanks in advance &
Kind Regards,
Andre
P.S. To make myself even clearer: In all PDF apps I tested so far the workflow is the following: (1) Use fingers to zoom, turn page, etc. (2) To highlight, go to menu, select highlighting pen, then select text. This often goes awkward if you place the balm of your hand too early on the screen because then everything between the hand and the pen is highlighted... Depending on the App, the highlighting mode stays on or it turns itself off after one highlighting procedure. (3) Turn highlighting off, (4) zoom, move page,... (5) turn highlighting on again... This is too tedious. I would like to use it as if you have a physical sheet of paper and a highlighter pen.
EZ PDF Reader. Hold your pen on the text. it will select it. drag to where you want to highlight, then select highlight.
I haven't seen an app that does specifically what you're asking. I do use EZ Pdf reader pro and think its an awesome program.
H does have the option to select the highlighter then drag the screen. It also has the setting where you select highlighter, drag what you are highlighting, then when you're done, it goes back to the standard way of operating. Also 1 think it has 2 finger dragging / zooming, meaning you could have the persistent highlighter selected and just use 2 fingers to drag and scroll.
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Have you looked at Lecture Notes?
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Thanks for all the tips, I'll have a look at them.
One more question:
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I do use EZ Pdf reader pro and think its an awesome program.
H does have the option to select the highlighter then drag the screen.
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Is "H" referring to some App or is it a mis-identified handwritten "It"?
Kind Regards,
Andre
andre_xs said:
Thanks for all the tips, I'll have a look at them.
One more question:
Is "H" referring to some App or is it a mis-identified handwritten "It"?
Kind Regards,
Andre
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Ok, with EZ pdf reader it works a little bit like what I'm looking for:
When reading pdf, you can continuously turn the marker on (Highlighter with subscript "c"). By using two fingers, you can scroll on the page.
However:
- You can't change the page. For this, first exit highlighting mode.
- One finger still selects. Thus, when I put my hand on the screen for writing and the pen is still too high, then it will mark everything between the hand and the pen. In addition, it happened to me a few times that when I intended to scroll with two fingers, it just selected all text between the two fingers.
- you can't zoom in highlighting mode.
Thus, unfortunately, EZ reader doesn't work for me.
S-Note can import pdfs, but will convert it to pure image based format (and blows up file size).
Kind Regards,
Andre
iAnnotate is another worth trying and one I use for reading per articles
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate
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andre_xs said:
Dear All,
I'm looking for a specific workflow but haven't been lucky so far. It's quite important to me - if I don't find a solution, I would sell the Note 10.1 again...
One big thinkg I'd like to do with the Note is to read scientific PDFs (e.g. Nature, Science,...) and highlight text in them. For a smooth procedure, I would like to have the following functionality:
- Highlight text with the pen (and pen only! Not with the fingers)
- Move, Zoom, etc with fingers (and not with pen)
Both functions should work at the same time without the need to switch anything.
This functionality is present e.g. in S-Note when you choose "Pen only" (I think that's how it is called). Then you can write on the screen only with the pen, while the fingers will zoom etc. No interference between these two functions. However, AFAIK S-Note cannot handle PDFs...
The edited pdf's are in a could (Dropbox) and need to be saved there as well, so that I can open them on my PC and have the highlighting I did on the Note...
I there any PDF viewer/editor which has such a function? I've had a look at quite a few but found nothing...
Doesn't need to be a free app.
Many thanks in advance &
Kind Regards,
Andre
P.S. To make myself even clearer: In all PDF apps I tested so far the workflow is the following: (1) Use fingers to zoom, turn page, etc. (2) To highlight, go to menu, select highlighting pen, then select text. This often goes awkward if you place the balm of your hand too early on the screen because then everything between the hand and the pen is highlighted... Depending on the App, the highlighting mode stays on or it turns itself off after one highlighting procedure. (3) Turn highlighting off, (4) zoom, move page,... (5) turn highlighting on again... This is too tedious. I would like to use it as if you have a physical sheet of paper and a highlighter pen.
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Hi Andre! The functionality you describe is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I didn't find anything and I have tried a lot of apps! It seems that S-pen users are such a small group that it is not worthy to optimize apps for, at least not well (looking at you EZPDF)
I ended up using Adobe Reader, because it is by far the fastest (at scrolling as well as saving annotations). Freehand writing is however quite laggy and it has a rather basic feature set. Don't understand the hype around EZPDF, for me it is very slow and laggy.
I have been looking for a good spen pdf reader with the same workflow as you described. I get annoyed when I have to click through many dialogs in UI's. For the moment I have settled on using lecture notes for all pdf editing. I dont need to export the notebooks into pdfs that often so it works for me.
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moabizzi said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cerience.reader.app
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Thank you!
Repligo seems quite good
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vu3 said:
Thank you!
Repligo seems quite good
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Reading and annotating notes for a while on pdfs with that, still havent found a better replacement
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Andre,
I've been looking for the same thing. Try Mantano Reader Premium. You can highlight text and associate notes with the highlight. All of these are conveniently displayed in a side panel. These are saved as a separate xml file, which can used as you choose later. The reader has a superb search function that displays results as a linked list. The program also allows cropped page display to maximize screen space, which I find to be great for technical publications.
Chris
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Try papyrus. I think it is the best
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robereto said:
Try papyrus. I think it is the best
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This is my go-to app as well. After getting the PDF import feature for half price I made the switch and it is fantastic for uni. Doesn't have advanced PDF like features such as highlighting text and indexing those highlights etc.. but for a pen based note taking app it is great. Imports PDFs very quickly and the PDFs that are exported have all the original typed text still selectable... unlike S-Note and some others.
This is a pdf imported and edited.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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My two favourites are currently also ezPDF and papyrus.
Papyrus is great, because there are no dialogs, nothing to click. Just write with the pen, erase with finger move/zoom with two fingers.
Very intuitive, very smooth. The main annoying thing is going between pages. No page up/down button, and no continuous pages.
You can leave the pen in highlight mode, and documents are auto-exported to dropbox. So, almost all you wanted.
ezPDF these days is great. You only have to click the pen button, and then you can freely zoom, move around the page with the fingers, and
paint with the pen. Pretty smooth, though not as smooth as papyrus. Here moving between pages is great. The only annoyance is that you
have to click the annotate button once, and you have to be a bit careful with continuous page mode, because each annotation belongs to one page, so you can lose stuff if you write between pages,
ghostwheel said:
My two favourites are currently also ezPDF and papyrus.
Papyrus is great, because there are no dialogs, nothing to click. Just write with the pen, erase with finger move/zoom with two fingers.
Very intuitive, very smooth. The main annoying thing is going between pages. No page up/down button, and no continuous pages.
You can leave the pen in highlight mode, and documents are auto-exported to dropbox. So, almost all you wanted.
ezPDF these days is great. You only have to click the pen button, and then you can freely zoom, move around the page with the fingers, and
paint with the pen. Pretty smooth, though not as smooth as papyrus. Here moving between pages is great. The only annoyance is that you
have to click the annotate button once, and you have to be a bit careful with continuous page mode, because each annotation belongs to one page, so you can lose stuff if you write between pages,
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Hey guys!
I have been looking for a program to do exactly the same thing that you describe. For now I just settled on Lecturenotes, although the very slow importing and huge file size is always bothering me. And especially if the lecturers change files or just talk about some pages of a long pdf it is not really worth importing 100+ pages.
So I checked out the ezPDF but somehow I can't get it to work properly. If I select annotate, all i can do is draw lines with both my fingers and the pen, not scroll or zoom or anything. I checked all the settings, but maybe I missed something. Did you select some special option to make it work?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cerience.reader.app
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Thank u dear
Lecture Notes is the best app for me on Note! I tested many apps for spen and this is the best one. when you change some settings, you can write like in snote. In this app are soooooo much features i never will miss. Give it a try! For pdf import you need the "PDF VIEW" App.
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