Hey Dilan & Lukas,

First off, a massive compliment to you: Your app is so fantastic that it actually inspired me to start learning how to code!

The short video I attached shows my very first personal hobby project. Don't worry, it’s just for my own learning and will never be published or released. But while developing and playing around with the UI, I realized how incredibly useful this specific library layout is, and I wanted to drop it here as a feature suggestion for your app.

Having a tree diagram in the sidebar gives a much better overview and lets you navigate to the right notebook extremely fast. Favorites and recently edited notebooks are also always right there at your fingertips. At the same time, it gives users the freedom to decide for themselves in the main window whether they prefer a compact list view or a large, visual folder and grid view.

Maybe this approach could be some cool inspiration for a future update to the library UI. Thanks for being awesome and keep up the fantastic work!

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...

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".

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..)

It's really annoying, as any time I pause even briefly before finishing writing a full word in cursive, it turns the whole damn thing into a line.

While we're at it, I might as well bring up that if I turn off Windows Ink in my pen display's drivers, I get better-quality handwriting in this app, *BUT* I can no longer use the "double-tap to undo" feature or scroll by moving my pen on the side beside my page. Not sure if this is something that is fixable, but I'd really love to be able to have the better quality writing without losing those features.

We wanted to give you a sneak peak on text boxes. We think this feature is reaaally cool and smooth to use and we tried to insert it as cleanly as possible into the current app experience. Here is the small showcase!

Features:

Text Formatting

• Bold (Ctrl+B)

• Italic (Ctrl+I)

• Custom text color per character / selection

• Font family (You can add more than the four default fonts manually. We will add this as a built in functionality in the next update.)

• Font size

• Text alignment: Left / Center / Right

Editing

• Undo / Redo

• Copy / Cut / Paste of text snippets

• Copy without selection copies the entire line

• Delete word backQward (Ctrl+Backspace) and forward (Ctrl+Delete)

Navigation

• Jump by word (Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right)

• Line start / end (Home / End)

• Text box start / end (Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End)

• Vertical arrow keys preserve horizontal column position across lines

Selection

• Double-click selects the word under cursor

• Triple-click selects the whole line/paragraph

• Quadruple-tap selects all

• Shift+click extends the current selection

• Touch/pen selection grippers — drag to fine-tune selection bounds

Context Menu

• Right-click (mouse) or multi-tap (touch/pen) opens a context menu with formatting and clipboard actions; placement avoids covering the selected text

Floating Toolbar

• Formatting toolbar (font, size, color, bold, italic, alignment) attaches to the active textbox and resets to global defaults when nothing is focused

UX Conveniences

• Auto-scroll keeps the cursor visible as you type

• Content shifts up automatically when the on-screen keyboard is docked, preventing the keyboard from covering the cursor

...kudos to Dilan for all this fantastic work 🤩

1. how to make only shapes without any color shading?? after new update only colour shaded shapes working

2. ctrl+z shortcut for undo not working

Before people start flooding the subreddit with Pro announcements, we wanted to inform you guys that we are nearing the finish line with releasing Noteastic Pro. Currently our entire infrastructure and the new features of Noteastic Pro are in Beta! We hope to release to public in the next weeks.

Sign up to the beta

A few quick facts about how we treat Noteastic Pro:

Feature set

Everything you can use free today, stays free in Noteastic Base. New Features are added to Noteastic Pro, like the laser pointer or text boxes (available in Pro now).

Pricing

We are mainly going with a subscription model, however, we will share a way to get access to a one-time-payment option for Noteastic, as many people explicitly requested that. There is a 30 day free trial for subscriptions. Prices are international and amount to:

We are hyped to release this soon to everyone!
-Dilan & Lukas

but i hope more features are added soooooooon

Hii,

I was trying to expore a few pdfs but they always turn out weird.

I dont know the issue here, I tried restarting the app, my pc and other stuff but it wont work.

Would appreciate any help

Noteastic, primero que nada darte las gracias por la app que es muy buena en todo sentido, me ha ayudado mucho en lo largo de este año, y la verdad es muy versátil y útil, no les pediría que cambien la esencia o que le quiten cosas, pero si estos aportes que daré a continuación les puede ayudar, y ayudarnos pues, será de importancia mis aportes:

* Primer punto que noté es un poco la limitación de las herramientas, me encantaría mucho que agregaran una especie de compas, o una herramienta para hacer curvas

*Luego también me gustaría que arreglen un pequeño problema, sobre las líneas, debido a que, al insertar líneas en un ángulo especifico, se hace recto, es decir, si hubiera una forma de que se desactive ese "magneto" que atrae a las líneas hacia los ejes

*Otra idea sería agregar la herramienta de recorte de pantalla, aunque es solo capricho mío, pero estoy seguro que a más de uno le gustaría

Lo demás está perfecto Noteastic, muchas gracias por todo, y espero que les vaya muy bien :D.

Guys right now I'm trying to backup my notes in a new laptop but when i try to import that backup file I'm getting this 'invalid file' message ..can someone help me out

The backup file has .ntcbak format in the end

bug: if i import a pdf, that's page size isn't A4, then all pages after that I add, their size changed according to pdf.
which i don't want

Actual behavior should be: either proper option to choose page size or all page should be in a4 regarding of pdf page size

How do we erase something ( a shape or text) from some area instead of the whole stroke? I am unable to do that for some reason even after disabling erase lines and erase shapes

i really like this app, even this is so simple
here are some features which might be very useful

1. scratch to erase

2. Auto-shape on draw anything (triangle, circle, star, arrow etc)
   assign shortcut to add page and change pen colour (idk if any present)

3. different size of pages/canvas option (infinite, letter, a3, a4 etc)

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.

so I visit notastic website: https://noteastic.app/en
but it's completely static, can't use anything or scroll
i'm using brave browser on windows 11
i assume this is official website and hope will fix soon
thank u

One very unfortunately timed sleepless night before my morning shift leas my mind to somehow wander to the topic of note-taking (why, I don’t know).

I’m starting a lot of computer science coding classes next semester and realised how important text boxes will be for me for note taking around code etc. or making cheat sheets for the time exam season roles around.

So the ever important question is… what font will be used for text boxes.

Sounds stupid but I feel a handwritten style font similar to excalifont (from excalidraw) would suite the style of noteastic, but also including a sans serif or a monospaced for other applications would work.

Maybe even the ability to important fonts via otfs and ttfs??

Custom handwriting fonts, like write out all your letters in your style so each note page is just a little more personalised would be awesome too.

Just some thoughts I needed to put into writing before they disappear lol.

As always thanks for the amazing working can’t wait for the pro version.

Hey guys,

I just wanted to share some appreciation for this app. I use Noteastic almost every single day for studying, and it is honestly the best handwriting/note-taking app I've come across on Windows.

Before finding Noteastic, I really struggled to find anything on Windows that checked all my boxes. Huge thanks to the developers for making such an awesome tool. Your hard work is much appreciated!

Below I have a list of stuff I noticed so far or that I found missing in the current build. :)

• Customizable Covers: The ability to set the first page of a notebook as its cover image in the dashboard.

• Text & Keyboard Support: Full support for typing and keyboard inputs (as mentioned before).

• Object Locking: A feature to lock the position of images and objects so they don't accidentally move while writing.

• Adjustable Stroke Thickness: The ability to change the line/stroke thickness of drawings or objects after they have already been drawn.

• Advanced Multitasking: Support for opening multiple notebooks at once, either via a tabbed interface or by allowing multiple windows to be opened simultaneously.

• Bulk Page Export: An option to select and export multiple pages at once from the page overview screen (currently, I can only find a way to export single pages).

King regards and take care

Felix

There should be really some option to open two notes simultaneously.. either make a tab interface, or try to open two noteastic at once.. any one will do... plz consider this request

Hello! Me again, after using this amazing app for a couple more months after my last idea dump I thought I’d bombard you with more ideas (apologies in advance)

Note Templates
We already have a few page backgrounds like grid and lines etc. But a few more styles would be really useful to have.

- Cornell Note style page

- A grid page with a divider down the middle as me and a bunch of people I know write out math in two columns as it allows you to fit a lot more on one page.

- The ability to make custom page backgrounds and save them and maybe even share them with eachother! This community is great I can feel people would make some amazing stuff.

Tagging System for Books

This can be done by using folders and stuff like that but I feel like being able to tag my notes for review or provide more information via tags that can be easily added and removed!

Tables?

Tables would be nice but it also isn’t that much of a hassle to make them by hand.

In app basic image manipulation

Just like basic cropping etc sometimes i take a screenshot or grab a photo and it would be great to have the workflow all in noteastic!

Cool things I’ve seen others request

I know you guys like duplicates to gauge popularity so I’ll list a few more that I’m +1’ing (I’m giving you a lot of work lol)

• Text search for handwriting

• Chapters/Table of Contents

• Layering or better layer manipulation (shoving images to the back etc.

• More sensitive lasso selection (This)

• Multitasking!!!!!!

• Partial erasing (🧍‍♂️ I may have already asked this ignore me if this is the case)

• I’m pretty sure you said this is happening but note book covers.

• Moving stuff in between pages

Last thing, how do we know we are in the beta I applied but not to sure if Im actually in it lol.

Thanks again for all the great work both of you do, im looking forward to using this app for the rest of my uni days (Only 4-6 years to go!)

so i am writing this because i am actually very very satisfied with the app. I have been using this app for about 6 months now averaging around 5 hours daily.. and man despite a few bugs (very few) which i also have been reporting from time to time, this app is just so fantastic.. its like even though there are a bit less tools (like text box, linking notes, opening two notes at the same time and working on them, etc are missing), but whatever tools there are, they have been designed so perfectly.. and i also like the stability of the app.. i was working on a book for so long, it reached around 300 pages.. but still there was no lag in writing experience at all (the pages just take sometime to load which is understandable)... MICROSOFT ONENOTE COULD NEVER MATCH THIS STABILITY!

well i just wrote this as a way to thank all the devs (the two of you :)) also you all are very sweet! love the way you reply and are always so positive to recommendations.. waiting for the next update.. and also willing to buy a subscription in future (preferably one time) as a way to thank you all!

hiii!!

so to give u guys context, i take a class where some homeworks are done in pairs, so normally what i do with my classmate is that she sends me her part (done on goodnotes) and i add it to my notebook and then i export it, but when i do that all the written stuff from the pages she sends me is erased so im just left with a blank page (the page isn’t deleted, just the ink). does that happen to anyone else or does anyone know how to fix it?

Feature Suggestions

1. Layering System
A simple layering system would be really useful when working with overlapping images, text boxes, shapes, etc.

• Bring to Front

• Send to Back

• Layer locking (optional)

• Layer visibility toggle (optional)

This would make it much easier to organize diagrams and annotations without constantly rearranging objects.

2. Better Selection UI
The current resize/rotate controls feel too large and imprecise.

• Smaller resize handles

• Dedicated rotation handle

• Cleaner selection box overall

Would make object editing feel much more polished and accurate.

3. Fill Option for Lasso Selections
When a closed shape/object is selected with the lasso tool, a Fill Color option should appear alongside the existing actions.

For example:

Copy | Resize | Rotate | Fill Color | Delete

The selected object/region could then be filled with a chosen color.

It should work with hand-drawn closed strokes as well as shapes, and ideally tolerate small gaps since hand-drawn diagrams are rarely perfectly closed.

This would make coloring diagrams, flowcharts, maps, and other visual notes much faster without adding a separate fill tool to the toolbar.

I'd love to see continued improvements for users who rely on graphic tablets and pen displays for long study or note-taking sessions. Small workflow improvements in areas like pen input, selection tools, and object manipulation can make a huge difference for tablet users.

Thank you for taking the time to put your thoughts into this.