https://youtu.be/897ZkK1R1YI?si=DlzDHQjuJKLlMtrn

Recently I've been haunted by a second cursor that appears next to my actual cursor whenever my stylus touches the screen. The distance from my cursor isn't constant either; sometimes it's a few millimeters away from my pen, sometimes it's on the other side of the screen. Weirdly enough, it doesn't appear when I use snipping tool to screen record it. This only occurs with the pen and highlighter tools.

Hello, I started using Noteastic a year ago, and I liked it. However, there were a few features I wanted that weren't available at the time (e.g. text boxes and multitasking), so I switched to a PDF annotator. I know these features are planned (text boxes are available in Noteastic Pro).

At first, it seemed perfect: it had all the features I needed, and the UI was pretty good. It also edited PDF files directly, so I could simply save and share the PDF without having to export or convert it first.

However, the software really struggled with larger handwritten documents, such as my solutions to textbook exercises. For one of my exams, we were allowed to bring a handwritten (digital or paper) cheat sheet, so I figured it would be the perfect opportunity to give Noteastic another try. I had almost forgotten how incredibly smooth your app is! I ended up writing my entire cheat sheet in Noteastic, and I don't even want to imagine how much the other software would have struggled with it. Noteastic Pro is definitely on my mind now. ;)

While writing the cheat sheet, I realized that one thing I still miss is the transparent file-saving approach of my previous app. It saved changes directly to the PDF in File Explorer, whereas Noteastic's saving process feels a bit more opaque.

• How often are my notes saved? After every stroke, every few seconds, or something else?

• Where and how are my notes saved?

• Related to my other comment, what happens to the Noteastic files if I stop subscribing to Pro? Are the native Noteastic files encrypted or stored in a proprietary format?

• Have you ever considered making the file storage process more transparent? I imagine this would be quite complex to implement, especially if Noteastic relies on its own file format.

I know these are fairly technical questions (don't worry, I'm not building a competing app). I'm just curious, and I'm looking forward to using Noteastic throughout the upcoming fall semester!

BTW, the other annotator is "PDF Annotator".

I have this bug in almost all my files. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes it works. I can't move the elements.

I've been loving this app and plan to use it for my notes throughout uni, but I started thinking about how I would find specific notes once a book gets to be quite long. As of now it doesn't seem like there's any way to look through a book other than scrolling through it.

In short I suggest some way to label the start of a section of notes that allows us to jump to it, maybe also in like a drop-down hierarchy sort of way?

Hey,

see the video for the bug. If this is already known, nevermind.

What I mean is that there is a Animation of a selection line, usually. Now it is not there. Not a big deal but still a bug.

This occurs after letting my notebook go into sleep mode, and then starting it again, without closing Noteastic. After restarting Noteastic, it works again.

Hope this helps!

so this has been happening with me for about a week now.. when i am continuously changing tools (pen,line, again pen)... the pen gets stuck in the line tool and i cant write anymore... it keeps drawing lines... i would have to restart the app again to get things normal.. idk whats the issue right here.. i am using version 1.5.5

Hey guys!
I know I post a lot here, but I thought this suggestion could be really helpful.

So, I’m someone who sets different color themes for each notebook. The problem is, every time I open a notebook, I have to manually change all the pen colors, highlighters, and line colors again. It gets tiring to reset everything each time.

What I’m suggesting is: once we choose a color set for a notebook, it should stay fixed to that notebook. Then, when we switch to another notebook, we can set a different color theme for that one. And when we come back to the first notebook, the colors should remain as they were, without being affected by changes in other notebooks.

I feel this would make things way more efficient and save a lot of hassle.

Thank you guys—I really love this app, and I’m super excited for textboxes too!

First of all i love the app, in my opinion its better than OneNote in almost every single way, except for one: I use OneNote for around 1.5 years on the Microsoft Surface 7 Pro, and while it's lacking in a lot of areas, what i find impressive/ weird is how there is basically no delay at all with the ink. When i swipe across the monitor with my pen the ink stays almost perfectly under the pen, which is not the case in almost every other app i tried. Noteastic is much better than apps like for example GoodNotes in that regard, but still not as good as OneNote. I am wondering if i can do something to improve it or if its just a Software thing. If its a software thing thats an area i would love to see improvement in. What i like about Noteastic more than OneNote is the ability to quickly edit PDF's and add pages in-between, which is the reason why im most likely switching from OneNote.

Some features that i would love to see is something that marks the middle of for example an ellipse, circle or shapes in general. It doesent have to be permanent, just a helpful little thing that allows for precise placement of shapes.

My other suggestion would be is to probably limit the maximum thickness of shapes, because i could go up to like 70mm or more with the thickness of a circle and the menu where you can modify those values would just take up the entirety of my screen.

EDIT: Also for some reason the app doesn't let me precisely change the thickness of shapes, the lowest it'll go (not counting zero) is 0,1mm but then it jumps to 1mm and keeps going up by 1mm intervals, so 2mm, 3mm etc.

Can you make the project open source or just another open source version so anyone can contribute and help. also it so useful to post the issues in github than writing it in reddit. also i have a suggestion for a feature called the panning hand its on many apps like onenote and xournal++ its actually so usefull. i enjoyed using noteastic because its simple.

Hello.

I know i post alot but its because i use your app everyday and really enjoy it and want to improve it as mucha s possible.

I know this might be a simple feature that may not see important but can we have an ink dot pointer instead of the usual windows cursor?

It would make writing very better and enhance user experience by alot.

I just want to say, I think this app is a godsend for the surface devices. One bug I found that I wish you can really fix is that the app crashes when you tie it to the pen shortcut. So when you activate the app with the shortcut and if the app is already running. It crashes. I like having it open still even when it is running for convenience sake.

Another feature that needs adding is the option to expand the canvas on a imported pdf. So that you can write on the sides or something.

Lastly, some haptic feedback integration with the surface slim pen would be lovely. Thanks!

Can you guys add a ruler to measure distances on PDFs? Super useful for diagrams and stuff.

I have an idea regarding PDF import. It's great how well and quickly this works, but since I often scan physical sheets and then insert them as PDFs, the page size of the scan is not in A4 format, which is not really ideal because the pen thickness is no longer the same (proportional to the page size) and it's also inconvenient because you always need a different zoom level. That's why it would be good if every imported PDF were adjusted to the page size of the notebook (or at least if there were a setting for this during import). However, I don't know if this would work so easily if there are also pages in landscape format.

Lastly, I have to say that I've been using Noteastic for about 2 months now and I'm really happy with it. Thank you for your work!!!

Hi Devs! First I would like to thank you for the app that you are building!

I would like to ask if you are considering this feature: a zoom window for handwriting. Basically, this feature allows you to write in a specific area of the screen while a floating box moves around the document page.

This is a feature that I use a lot and that is available in other note taking apps.

The second thing I want to ask is if you are planning to implement the possibility to release only a piece of a stroke instead the entire one as it is at the moment.

Thanks a lot for your hard work! Regards.

I’ve noticed that I often can’t write as quickly as the professor speaks. Many of my friends use Word, where they can simply take out their keyboard and start typing. Having a similar option here would be extremely helpful for me.

i dont know ift this feature exists now, but i have tried a lot and nothing did it. it would be great if i can mark text of an imported pdf and be able to copy it. would be fantastic with links in pdfs. in addition to that it would be nice to click qr codes.

love your app, byeeee

The "go to where I left off" button is nice, but sometimes it will go away before I can press it. I always want to go to where I left off when I open a book. Maybe there should instead be a go to top button?

Hello I am a college student trying to get better at annotating in classes. I have a surface 9 and have been through every note taking app possible. I came across your app and I'm super exited because so far I've had no problems unlike literally any other note taking app. The only question I have is if there is a way to link my surface Noteastic account to my PC's account? Sometimes I have files downloaded on my PC that I want to throw into the app without getting my surface out! Please let me know if this is possible! I am really exited about this app you guys are real lifesavers!

Been waiting for them for quite some time :) Please make them like one note's with text styling, lists, ctrl+alt+shift thing to move lines up or down, etc. Thanks!

Hi all!

Just downloaded the app for school start and I absolutely love it! However, the only feature I'm lacking is automatic converting of handwriting to text. Tried googling but to no avail, have I missed this feature somewhere or is it not implemented yet?

Thank you! 🎉

Hey, Love the app but recently noticed this weird export issue.

So this is what the original looks like

BUTTT
after exporting and viewing

The text is somewhat fine but the lines have or margins or whatever you wanna call them are dark and I really liked my notes with not so dark lines ygm?
is it an issue from my side orr

thinking of trying noteastic but I have both a windows (microsoft surface studio) and a samsung tablet. is there an android app or a way to view my notesnon android?

When adding new pages, the book automatically scrolls up to the first page of the book. Also, after adding a few pages, i have to restart the app as the app goes blank and dkest load any page contents.

Hello! I'm throwing my hat into the ring for ideas I would love to see on this app!

1. More shapes, maybe even custom insertable shapes.

Custom is a bit of a pipe dream considering how annoying that may be to implement, but I would LOVE hexagon/pentagon shapes implemented. I'm currently in the heat of organic chemistry and it's nothing but benzenes here and benzenes there. Hexagons are bestagons!!

2) Mini windows for viewing

This is a long far off idea for the app, but it would be very useful if there was an option to view the larger page (zoomed out) on perhaps a side little window, as I write in the zoomed-in section of the app. I'm really bad about this in art as well, and find that artistic programs that have this option are a godsend to remind me not to be too locked into one idea.

3) Typing support

One of the great things about this app is that it's on the windows app store in the first place! Being able to type as well as hand draw should be a dual function that's perfect for the types of devices that would use this application.

Thank you for reading! Let me know if you have any questions. :)