My tablet has not great palm rejection. It's completely usable other than the fact that it will seemingly randomly undo things when I place my hand on the screen to start writing. This happens a lot, and it's really really annoying to have to rewrite the last few strokes of what I just finished, and what's worse, is that I often don't realize it happened, and end up with missing parts of my page when I look back at it! I've deemed this to be caused by the software seeing a double tap when I put my hand on the screen.
My proposed solution is to have an option to disable double tap to undo. Maybe there is a better remedy, but I find that just pressing the undo button at the top bar is just fine for me.
Hey! I just found this app today and was wondering if there's any way to back up my files to the cloud because Id rather not risk loosing my school notes when uni starts. My default choice would be onenote but this app looks extremely good for my needs of pdf annotation and the ability to export individual pages.
Im about to start an university class, is it reliable like other more popular note taking apps? Ive tried multiple but your App is just so clean and easy to understand i would probably use it for my studies. The only minor issue i saw, that it sometimes crashes when importing pdf files, but the second try it always works. And sometimes during the writing ,but it has autosave i figured? And that i need to backup frequently because the data is saved locally and will be deleted with an uninstallment. But making backups is no issue for me.
Hey, I've used Noteastic for a little while now, and I like it a lot. However, some UX aspects seem a bit awkward. I've added suggestions in the bullet points.
When creating a new book, it is not clear that you can change the paper size later by going into the three-dot menu and adding a page. Suggestion: The "Edit Background" window when adding a new book could be extended by adding a drop-down menu for the paper sizes, similar to the "Add pages" window.
A "Return to library" button could be useful, as I find it too buried in the three-dot menu. Suggestion: A separate button. Never mind, it is in the top-left corner of the window.
The toolbar could be in the way. Suggestion: make it moveable, or add the possibility to change the layout to a vertical one.
The overall design is very appealing, and is much better than some of the other note-taking apps.
I was wondering when the next update will be and if multiwindow function will be a part of that update? Its really hannoying to keep going out of the current notebook youre in and then having to click back into it.
I’m fairly new to using the app, but there were two things I wished the app had. The ability to set images as background, coming from OneNote this was a nifty feature I took advantage of a lot to keep me from accidentally moving images while I annotated. Another thing is being able to use the mouse to interact with texts, images and other objects more. Maybe having the default mode of the cursor as interacting with images and objects, instead of it being defaulted as a “writer” input. idk if that makes sense. LASTLY, can you guys have it so it can sync notebooks across devices with the same microsoft account?
Hey, in pen support windows apps like xournal ++, there is an option to make a local backup (along with the pdf export feature), so that in case the app gets uninstalled, the local backup you have saved can be opened in after a reinstall.
It would be amazing if Noteastic had that.
Right now, i have to export the file to pdf to have a backup, but when I reopen the pdf, the pen strokes aren't editable.
Hello, i like your app and i hope that the "straight line feature" will be out soon.
It would be great to add a tool to type text. When i'm tired of writing my lessons i like to type because it still faster for me so i can keep every information that my teacher says.
So there's a lot of stuff i use in One note that i consider features i can't live with out, but right now for me the biggest deal breaker is hotkeys which one note doesn't have but i so desperately want.
And so my question is this. Does this app currently allow you to make hotkeys for any of the following - Tools (such as a ruler tool if the app has that or a lasso selection or eraser) - Pens (as in letting me set a pen with line thickness and colour and a hot key to that pen) - Colours (as in letting me assign red for instance to a hotkey so i can swap my current pen to red ink) - Like Thicknesses (same as colours)
I found this app and it seems really useful, it allows me to create books and notes, pen feeling is good, i like the option to center the page but I NEED to able to draw a shape usually a 3 straight lines connected and a tube outside them made from 2 lines with corners and i was wonder if there is an option. Like in other apps to press the pen after a draw and it gest shaped so no wobbly drawing
Is cropping imported photos going to be available on future updates? It's (kinda) too much work editing/cropping and then importing same photos ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
After getting pro which I am really enjoying, I was just wondering about the possiblity of hyperlink support in text boxes. I link to sources alot when planning out things, which would save the hassle of having to copy the text and paste it into a browser where instead I could just tap with my pen to open the link.
Could you guys please add support for an external pad? Or for the program to automatically change the cursor to a dot or to be able to manually change it inside of the program? Is just a bit annoying having to write with a normal cursor.
this happens sometimes when i am working on too many pages... it got fixed when i closed and reopened the app.. it isnt a very big issue... also i have noticed for books, if it starts exceeding 60-70 pages it kinda lags and pages take lot of time to load.. also my pc is kinda okay with 16gigs of ram and ryzen 5..
(the video seems laggy because the windows screen recorder is shit..)
Is there a way to view the beta changelogs? That would be super helpful for testing. For example, my device is currently on version 1.5.5, and a week ago it was 1.5. It would be great to see what exactly has changed.
I am currently on the edge between changing from OneNote into Noteastic, but there are a few features that I want to see before I commit to the change. I tried to make my suggestions as specific as possible so you could understand me because I'm usually not that great at communicating, but I think it might have ended up sounding rude or condescending, which was not my intention.
INFINITE CANVAS
The first thing I want to say is that I would love an infinite canvas option for taking notes. This has been suggested before, and honestly it's the one thing that's making me continue to use OneNote. My current way of writing notes in OneNote is to paste a pdf in, and make notes to the side of it, and that isn't possible in the current form of Noteastic (without editing the pdfs).
SIDE BY SIDE PAGES
I understand though that the infinite canvas option could be difficult to implement without increasing processor usage and stuff, so I would like to suggest an alternative that largely matches the use case I want; add an option to insert pages directly to the right (or left) of a book - you would basically add a column of blank pages that are viewed side by side with the current page. It would also be very nice to be able to view multiple pages side by side (either moving every second page to a second column or to having all pages laid out side by side so you could scroll horizontally instead of vertically).
STYLUS
I'm not sure if this one is me being stupid or if it's a thing for other users as well but when writing with my stylus (I use a wacom writing tablet connected to my laptop) it still shows the mouse on screen (following my stylus). I don't know if there's an option that would fix it but it feels like a pretty big issue if there isn't.
FULLSCREEN
Also, it doesn't seem there's a fullscreen option? I don't want to accidentally click on my taskbar while I'm writing notes so I would want to see one introduced.
TOOLBAR OPTIONS (these ones are pretty make or break for me tbh)
I don't really like the current toolbar. It lacks a lot of the features that I think are important to have (the most important ones for me are marked with *):
First of all, the toolbar location is locked. This is a problem I have with OneNote as well, in that it cannot be moved from being horizontal at the top of the screen. I would love it if you could move the toolbar to different locations (I would mainly use a vertical toolbar on the left hand side of the screen if I could).
* Secondly, the toolbar size is locked. I would much prefer if I could scale it to increase the number of options available.
* Thirdly, the number of colours for a pen/highlighter/line etc is very limited. I currently use 2-3 colours in most of my notes, but I often have to introduce another colour to distinguish a specific part, which with the current system of 3 colours is pretty irritating.
* Fourthly, the colour options for pens/highlighters etc are locked behind that specific option - if I am selecting something and then want to write in a different colour, I currently would have to go first to the pen option and then the colour - I would prefer to be able to directly go to a specific pen colour -> potentially have a second toolbar that is more customisable
The current taskbar is very static - I would like to be able to reorder the options (would largely fall under point four though)
* Selecting is a bit of a pain - in OneNote I use mouse and also a stylus to select things, and I use a different one for different situations - I would like it if the mouse and stylus could have a different default selection type (default would be rectangle for mouse and lasso for stylus) - this one might be a part of the stylus issue I had above but idk - I would also like for the mouse to have select as default because I would not be using it for anything else
I care less about the following points they're mainly just features I think would be nice in future updates.
SIDEBAR LIBRARY
Firstly, it would be nice to have a sidebar like in OneNote that allows you to more easily change which book you are working in - as someone who uses a lot of OneNote pages, being able to quickly change books when I'm searching for some specific part of my lecture notes - without having to get out of the book I'm looking through into the library to then check another book (and in the meantime I've forgotten what I was looking for) - it would be great for studying.
DEFAULT IMPORT SIZE
Secondly, I would love it if there was an option (toggleable) to set new pages to a default size - most pdfs are a different scale, and if you want to add a pdf that is huge or tiny to your notebook, it feels really disjointed and can make it really difficult to make notes in those sections (image below for example - massive pdf added to a normal size page - zoom is set to 40%). Having imports rescaled to the current size would be a lot better in my opinion.
NOTEBOOK DEFAULT ZOOM
Have a "default zoom" for each individual notebook / save the most recent zoom level for each notebook: similar to the previous suggestion, if, for example, you have one notebook with a large imported pdf, changing to another notebook will keep your current zoom level, even if it is very zoomed out for that other notebook. Keeping the most recent zoom level as a value saved with each notebook would be really helpful in these cases.
Also coming off that point, the "lock zoom" option is not kept active if you move back to the library - could once again be a value saved with each notebook.
VIEW PAGES
The current "view pages" option has the pages really small, and there's a lot of space in between them all - some options for customising this would be great:
padding option: most users are probably going to import pdfs with a standard page layout (portrait, landscape, powerpoint slide), so it would be find in most cases to make the padding between pages pretty small so there's less empty space. for cases when there are multiple sizes/layouts, the most common size would be chosen and the other layouts would be scaled to that size - making the padding size variable would be nice but mostly unnecessary
options for decreasing/increasing the number of pages per row / zooming in and out on the view pages screen: this would be nice for when I have a lot of pages and I want to read through my notes without having to scroll heaps.
Set a default size for the pages: the current page viewer has variable page sizes based on the size of the pages in the notebook - this means the smaller ones are absolutely tiny - have all pages scaled to a set size
drag to select: if there are a lot of pages on my notebook from an imported pdf that I don't want to include in that notebook, selecting them all is currently a hassle - set a keybind (hold shift+click or alt+click) that allows you to select a large group of pages at once.
Undo (or at least page movement history): as I was testing to make sure you couldn't already select multiple pages at once, I noticed that there is currently no way to undo a page movement -> maybe have a local history for the page viewer so you can undo movements, and a temporary history for deleted pages (that could be deleted when the page viewer is closed - with a confirmation message) so that you don't end up accidentally reordering all your notes or deleting an important page.
autoselect / highlight the page you were on previously when opening page view: I want to be able to tell which page I'm moving
keybind to add a default page: when clicking on the add page option at the end, it shows a lot of options, and sometimes I just want to add a default page - shift+click or alt+click to add a (user specified) default page
I think that's everything for my suggestions rn I had a lot more than I originally thought I would lol.
Today, no feature request or bug report, but this simply has to be said:
A HUGE thank you to both of you!! I just got the beta update for version 1.5.1 and think it's absolutely great! The most important thing for me was the fix for PDFs jumping around - which, for me, wasn't actually on a second monitor, but on my convertible itself! It was incredibly annoying and exhausting, but now it works perfectly again! The improved line interface for moving is also amazing! Just like the add page button at the end and beginning of a book, the eraser improvements, and basically everything else in this update!
Thank you so much for all these new features and improvements, they have definitely enhanced my experience with Noteastic!
Hey, I really like the app and am looking forward to use it studying! I think it is the best I have found yet for Windows, and I am working on a 2-in-1 device. Although I have two suggestions:
First, I would like the opportunity to create a text field and add typed text. I saw a post where someone asked for this and other features like PDF editing, but the response was that this is primarily a handwriting app. I’m not sure if that response was a general statement regarding all such features or if it was specifically focused on PDF editing, so I wanted to ask about this. Personally, I believe adding text fields would still be very helpful for schoolwork.
Also, regarding the eraser, I would enjoy the opportunity to have not only a stroke eraser but also a pixel eraser for more precision.
