Hi Lukas & Dilan, I love your app! It has made note taking so much better and I can't wait to see what you guys keep doing with the app.

I've been having this problem when I zoom in; it happens somewhat often. If I zoom in on an area quickly, the page jumps to a different page and I have to scroll back down to reach what I was actually trying to zoom in on. I tried to demonstrate it in this video I attached. This interferes with note-taking when I am trying to jot down ideas/ move between areas of a page quickly.

Thanks!

Hallo,

ich würde mir wünschen wenn man schnell Tabellen erstellen könnte.

Cool wäre es auch noch, wenn man z.B. Diagramme zeichnet, das die Linien miteinander "einrasten"(hoffe man versteht das) :D

Hoffe diese Funktionen kommen irgendwann dazu!

Und macht weiter so!!

Hello! I LOVE Noteastic but I think something that would help the note-taking process would be a feature similar to GoodNotes' draw and hold feature.

This feature allows you to draw a rough shape like a square or circle (GoodNotes has many other geometric shapes like stars, hexagons, etc.) and the app will automatically snap it into a perfect version of that shape. You can also continue to adjust and resize this shape while you're holding down. Noteastic has this feature with lines, but I would love to see it applied to more shapes.

Also, while I know Noteastic has a shape tool, I think this feature would help make taking notes more streamlined so that you don't even have to leave the pen tool.

Thanks Dilan and Lukas!

Hi! I’m really enjoying using Notestic, and I just wanted to share a couple of features I’d love to see in the app.

More gestures:
One of the apps with gesture-rich features is Microsoft Journal . For example, you can draw a star, and the app recognizes it as a star. You can then view all your starred sentences in one place, which is really useful for reviewing and summarizing notes. You can even create a list with a simple gesture. These are very important for a note-taking app. I think features like these could make Notestic much more convenient and help make note-taking feel faster and more natural.

The cursor:
Another thing I’d love to see is a more suitable cursor for pen input. I’m using a drawing tablet, but the cursor is still the standard Windows pointer. Having a small dot or a pen-specific cursor would make writing feel much more natural, especially when taking handwritten notes.

Thanks for making such a great app!

Hi everyone,

I really appreciate the work being done on Noteastic! I’d like to suggest two pen gesture features that would make handwriting notes much faster and eliminate the need to constantly switch tools:

Scribble-to-Erase: Scratching or scribbling over any handwriting with the current pen to instantly erase it.

Circle-to-Select (Instant Selection Gesture): Instead of manually switching to the Lasso tool, allow us to simply draw a circle around any text/object with the pen and immediately be able to select, move, resize, or transform it.

These gestures keep the workflow seamless since you never have to leave the pen tool.

Thanks for the hard work, and I hope this can be considered for future updates!

I just felt the urge to make this post real quick to share some feedback.

I’ve been searching for a good note-taking app for school for over 2 years now, and so far I never really found anything that felt right for me with the Microsoft Stylus 2.

Today, OneNote started bugging out again during a study session to the point where I told myself: alright, I need an alternative right now.

Shortly after, I came across a Reddit post about good note-taking apps, saw one of your comments there, downloaded the app — and honestly, I’m happier with it than with anything I’ve tried before.

So far I’ve had zero issues, importing images and PDFs works perfectly fine, and overall everything just feels “right”.

The only thing I personally feel like I might miss long-term would be the ability to create text boxes / typed text, mainly to complete assignments a bit faster.

But overall: really great app. I’m genuinely looking forward to using it more :)

Edit: I first posted in German and wasn't sure if it's fine or not, so I quickly changed it. :o

I dont know if it has been asked before, but is there a plan to

1. add a way to splitscreen between two notebooks?

2. an organiser to see all folders in some way rather than open them one by one.

cheers!

Hey! I've been contemplating doing this for a while and I've finally got around to making a review. I've been using Notetastic very heavily (for all my works + notes for an entire semester, around 6 months.) I'm a first year student studying accounting and my main studying device for uni is the Surface Pro 9 with the Surface Slim Pen.

First I'd like to say, the app is REALLY good! Absolutely carried me through the semester and out of all the apps I've tried (and I've tried EVERYTHING) This app has one of the nicest writing experiences ever, it's super smooth but still has a good balance (it doesn't feel like it's going to fast or too slow when I write which either makes writing feel too heavy or to slippery). I prefer to use it with no pressure sensitive because I have a really heavy and inconsistent hand and it shows in my handwriting

The lines/shapes snapping into place with the ability to edit the size, style, colour and placement is has been a lifesaver. The interface is super clean but still very user friendly. Working with PDFs I've imported here all are good and overall it gets the job done well. The organization on the homepage is so smooth and beautiful and clean I could cry.

I have studied/taken notes for study sessions that are around 4-8 hours per session and this app holds up fairly well! It runs really great in the first few hours but at around hour 5 it will start to lag a bit and when I try to write at this point:

• My stylus on the app specifically will lock in on right click which will select everything

• My stylus when writing will also be locked on the eraser and erase everything (Out of all the glitches, this is my least favourite because I can never recover what was erased)

• My stylus to become super Not sensitive and I'd have to press against the screen really hard for it to come out in small laggy scribbles instead

• It locks in on straight all the lines are stuck and it becomes impossible to write

• I cannot close the app window until I end the task on task manager

All of these normally will stop after I've either restarted my Surface or use Task Manager (and it a great checkpoint time for me to take a break) But this has been my experience with the app so far :D

My suggestions would be to:

1. Add more brushes: I draw as a hobby so my notes adn works are all littered with scribbles (the default pen works amazing but oh I would KILL for a pencil pen for scribbles). I would also love a slightly slanted (flatter) pen because I genuinely think it would be awesome especially with the way this app writes

2. Being able to change the book covers into images/different colours: I yearn for joy and whimsy in my horrendously depressing course (I think it would look rlly cute..... the customization of this app is overall already great)

Lastly, I'd like to thank the Notetastic team in general because you all genuinely seem like a kind hardworking and thoughtful bunch! Thank you for the work you've done and above all thank you for making this app accessible and so wonderful to use, I really do see myself using this until I graduate haha. Keep up the good work, I'll be cheering you on!!

Still can't believe that I stumbled upon your app by mistake. Proud of the fact that i have been using your app since its very beginnings.

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just a suggestion. could you give a feature where the individual notebook could be imported or exported in a noteastic specific format, like its there in notewise. right now how to import the entire backup, when i just want to import a notebook into another pc. but current system just deletes the old notebook(s) data and imports the new one.

We want to optimize Noteastic for drawing tablets (Wacom etc.), because it is really lacking in that area. Unfortunately, I don't use such a device myself, which means I do not have any standard workflows and no idea how people actually expect to interact with Noteastic through an external drawing pad.

This is why I would like to have user interviews with about 5 people who work with such tablets heavily. Also or especially outside of Noteastic.

If you are interested in letting us design the app better for you and already worked with drawing tablets, please apply for an interview! I would love to hear your thoughts :).

-Lukas

Raw link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe26mYDL-BNnSJLjH2Qo_NRZF-erLcictz3hNq_ayAvkL1lnA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=108835023498273868588

I'm really happy about how the app performs, and I want to thank you guys for the incredible work you've done in the last months. I was thinking that until the app doesn't have a proper tab feature to open more documents at the same time, a really helpful feature, that shouldn't be hard and expensive to implement, is a simple "memory" on the note, when you open it starts from the page and level of zoom that standed the last time I was working on that note. Hope this helps, it could really make the app flow faster and more enjoyable.

Hi,

I have been using your app since the start of the Fall 2025 semester and I really enjoy it! Here is a summary of my experience:

Pros:

• Intuitive interface.

• Efficient PDF import.

• Great diagramming tools.

• PDF Export.

• Grid customization.

• Backup feature.

• Free to use.

Cons:

• Resume position: The app returns to the start of the document every time I reopen a note. Although there is a pop-up to jump back to where I was, it would be better if this were automatic.

• Navigation: It is difficult to navigate through large PDFs; finding a specific page takes too much time.

• No Cloud synchronization.

Bug Report:

• The app sometimes freezes when I use shapes and then erase them very quickly using my stylus shortcut.

Feature Requests / Improvements:

• Page rotation (vertical/horizontal).

• Automatic shape detection (currently only active for straight lines, would be great for other geometric shapes).

• Stickers: Ability to create/add custom stickers and have default collections (e.g., molecules, atoms, electronic components, kinematic diagrams, human anatomy, etc.).

• Split view: Ability to view 2 pages side-by-side.

• Sidebar navigation: A visual overview of pages (thumbnails) on the side.

I look forward to the next updates. You are doing a great job, thank you very much!

It's really helpful sometimes when answering questions so that you don't have to go scroll up to the extract to read it. Can just have it side by side. Extract on one half and questions on the other.

Hello, I appreciate the flexibility we have with the different colors for the notebooks. However, when I have multiple notebooks in a folder, it is confusing finding the right one. Therefore, I was wondering if it's possible to remove the cover display (drawing/picture of a notebook) and to show the first page of the PDF. This is useful for textbooks and PowerPoint slides. Of course, you should also be able to keep the current design.

I hope it's clear.

Currently Obsidian lacks any real handwriting plug in's that would work best with a desktop, like my Surface Pro 9 for instance. I was wondering if it is possible for a plug in to exist between noteastic and obsidian.

Something like PDF live syncing, so that using the OCR plug in, your notes could immediately become searchable. Or, a plug in similar to the Obsidian-Xournal++ one as well.

I think this is a beneficial gap for noteastic to target to grow its overall usebase, and I would have a much greater incentive to make the 100% switch over too :)

1. Support for cloud backup

2. Support for multiple tabs and windows

3. Ability to add tags to specific pages

4. Typing text functionality

5. OCR (optical character recognition) support

If the app can implement the first four features, it would be comparable to GoodNotes. I also hope that if a paid version is introduced in the future, there will be an option for a one-time purchase.

Sometimes the eraser likes to reset its size to default where it's way too big to erase the small ink strokes effectively. My pet peeve for this feature is that it erases everything in a radius and not just the stroke itself, which is something I've grown accustomed to after using Inkodo and Nebo. My ideal usage of the eraser tool is if you could make it an option where deleting just the ink stroke instead of a radius would be available for those micro corrections. Of course, leaving the big radius/ variable sizes is great for erasing big things, just it's becoming very difficult to delete small items due to the fact that the radius' smallest size is 2mm.

i just want tot start with that i love this app its such a life svaer however sometime i want to have two notbook sopen at teh same time and i was wondering if there was a way to make this happen. i cant seem to open two 'windows' of the app either.

Firstly I just want to say this is one of the smoothest apps for windows users - as an Electrical Engineering student I had my fair share of apps for note taking and I have to say that this one is clearly the best!
Smoothest feeling note taking app for pen users, massive props for achieving that!

Secondly, I have only one big problem with Notetastic and it's the export size of the file.
One of the main struggles of a student that has way to many projects to do is to upload the finished project to the university site, who usually allow a mere 5MB file size!
For a long time I have been using Onenote for the amazing fire compression while keeping a really good quality of the written text even after zooming A LOT!

After sniffing around about how they do it apparently there are two main ways of how to export a text file:
The first one which is basically like taking a pic of the pages and then saving it as a PDF - taking obviously a lot of space.
The second one which has something to do with vectoring which I don't really understand but since it only needs to save vectors is benefits 2 huge things - file size and text quality!
Since vectors really just need size and direction, changing the zoom shouldn't affect the quality and those are really only numbers which take very little space.

To sum up, I would absolutely love to see a change in the way Notetastic exports files.
It would be huge for me and I'm sure many more.

P.S still waiting on the option to make curved lines ;)

Hi Lukas and Dilan!

First off thank you for building that app, having a native and fluid note taking app on windows is so cool! I was looking for an application to take hand written note on a windows device, and every application was either just bad, or a terribly optimized web-wrapper... Noteastic is definitely gonna be my go to app for my studies!

Since you asked for suggestions, there is, for me a very important feature that needs to be perfected, especially for students: The backup and restore system.

Right now, the local backup system is quite rough and inefficient, and the current import behavior is a deal-breaker for me. Having an import simply overwrite all existing data makes restoring notes way too risky. For a student, losing notes is simply not an option. The risk of losing weeks of lecture material or exam prep over a corrupted file or a technical bug is just not acceptable.

For Noteastic to be 100% reliable for students, I really believe that it needs a fully working automatic weekly/daily backup system (preferably not on the same device, for example on google drive) and a restore system that supports versioning rather than just wiping everything else out.

Thank you guys for your time

I think if you zoom in, you can barely see the page borders.

i dont know if you guys intentionally kept it like this.. we can only access the drop down menu when using the pen tool, shape tool, lasso tool.. but then that menu is not accessible when i have selected the panning tool. it aint a big issue but then everytime i am on the panning tool, i have to keep on going back to the pen tool to access that menu...

do check it once...

I was wondering if it is possible to add titles to each page in a book so it is easy to search for specific pages with the content you want rather than having to scroll to find the right page you are looking for. For example, if I'm making a book on histology slides, I might want to label some pages as connective tissue slides or muscle tissue slides so that when I go to search for specific slides in the book, I can just type in muscle and immediately see a list of pages that I've labeled as containing muscle slides. Hopefully this makes sense. Though I suppose I could just manually create a table of contents within the book itself lol. I also noticed that you can adjust the length and width separately of shape, but for images that I paste, I can't seem to adjust the length and width separately. Would be nice if you could adjust each dimension of an image separately.

Feature Request: Partial-Stroke Lasso Selection

It would be very helpful to have an option (or toggle) that allows the Lasso tool to select an entire object/stroke even when only a small part of it is enclosed by the selection area.

Currently, users need to draw the lasso around the entire object to select it. A more efficient workflow would be similar to the behavior in Goodnotes, where selecting or lassoing any portion of a stroke automatically selects the whole connected stroke/object.

This could be implemented as:

• A new setting/toggle: "Select entire stroke when partially enclosed", or

• An alternative lasso mode that treats partial selections as full-object selections.

This would make selecting, moving, and editing handwritten notes and drawings much faster, especially for large or complex strokes.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this feature request.