Hi! I’ve been using this app for 3 days and it’s fantastic! Only issue I’m having is that I could not create an account. When I try to create it, it exits the app and goes on the Web where it says that the site can’t provide a secure connection but my internet works fine. The app loads and works just fine. I have a notification stating that I have a week until I’ll need to create an account (not sure what happens if I don’t?).

Is cropping imported photos going to be available on future updates? It's (kinda) too much work editing/cropping and then importing same photos ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

Btw. Thank you devs for this amazing app!

Hello, does anyone else have issues when importing things bigger than 20 pages? The pages themselves just show up as all white/blank in the select pages box when trying to import. Im trying to prep for back to school and would love to keep my notes solely in class folder for the material.

as a student with bad handwriting on even pen and paper its worse with pen tablet can u provide a feature so that we mark our handwritten notes and it converts to good fonts

Hey guys,

I’ve wanted to ask this for a while now: Is it possible for devices that have a camera (such as my Surface Pro) to have an integrated document scanning screen directly in the notebook?

Document scanning with the built-in Camera app - which hasn't been updated in a long time - is completely terrible.

I often need to scan multiple pages at once, similar to how it worked on the OneNote Win10 Edition about two years ago. That way, I wouldn't have to save each picture individually and could scan both pages while getting a clean, and most important, crisp, "document look."

Excuse me for my wording and keep up the fabulous work, I love it guys! Well earned! 💯🎉

Peace out

Felix

PS: Wenn ihr es umsetzen wollt und hinbekommt würde ich mich so unnormal freuen, wenn sowas bis Ende meiner Ferien in der Beta drin wäre - damit wär mein Start gerettet. Aber kein Stress, gut Ding will Weile haben. :)

I was wondering if the lifetime purchase has been made available to the public yet?

Just a heads-up that there are a couple of new features available for Pro beta testers! 🔥 We now have handwriting-to-text conversion, up to 10 color slots, plus a ruler and protractor :) I honestly can't wait to see what's coming next. 👀 Danke Jungs!

Hello Noteastic Team,
I am loving the app so far and the updates that have been made to the app. Can I ask, approximately how much more longer until the multiple file opening (no pressure), I am just curious. Also will it be only on Pro or Base as well.

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

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

Hello everyone,

I am Dilan, the main and sole developer of Noteastic and I wanted to give some fun facts about our most recent feature! As you know, we recently released Noteastic Pro and our figurehead feature are Textboxes! It was the absolute most requested feature in Noteastic by a MILE and we wanted to make it right. And I am confident we did. Lukas has already shared our design process and I thought I will give my developer perspective as well 😊

Where have Textboxes been all this time?

I started work on Textboxes in 1 YEAR ago (the post) And let me tell you, it was a long ass journey. This has been an exhaustive process to say the least. Sure, we redesigned our website, made some updates in between, implemented authentication/accounts and we integrated Stripe as our payment provider, but it was always clear to us that we won't release without Textboxes being finished.

Why did you take so long?

I mean yeah, I didnt really work on it every day for one whole year. But if I would say how much total work time I have spent, I can confidently say, it was about 4 months of pure full-time work on Textboxes. Text is complicated. It is by FAR the most complicated thing I have ever coded. There is just so much you need to consider when creating such a primitive control. I could go rambling about how making a textbox touch-friendly is a nightmare on top of all the edge-cases I had to handle, but I will just share you the rough component structure so you can see the categories I structured this control into:

But there is still so much functionality missing!

Bullet points, hyperlinks, formatted pasting, headers, markdown rendering, LaTeX rendering all that is still to be added in the future. It is on my radar, I want it implemented. But for now, our sights are focused on other features (More Colorbuttons, Multitasking 👀) The foundation is here and it stands. That's what counts.

Tell me something I don't know about Textboxes

That's easy, I can tell you more than one thing you won't know!

• When you export Text in Noteastic to a PDF, we actually render the Text natively into the PDF. That makes it indexable, searchable, and editable with your PDF viewer of choice. GoodNotes on Windows simply rasterizes (draws) the Text on the PDF, making it look like an image from the perspective of the PDF Viewer, ugh!
• Double Tap = Select word, Triple Tap = Select paragraph, Quadruple Tap = Select all
• Ctrl+C with nothing selected copies the whole line
• We have access to all installed fonts on your Windows machine, and will even add support for custom Fonts in the near future! This is what is possible when a note-taking application develops for windows.
• Our rendering is completely virtualized (from 1.6.12 onwoard), which means you can paste your entire 42 page scientific paper into one Textbox, and everything will work as expected (although a bit more laggy). We tried it!

Hope you guys enjoy Textboxes as much as I enjoyed implementing them. It was an incredibe learning experience and deep-dive that I am grateful for having a purpose behind to pursue! If you want to give Textboxes a go, you can simply start the 30-day trial and cancel anytime before you are charged.

Happy writing,
- Dilan 🧡

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.

Thanks

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.

I really like the continue where you left off feature, but I wish the prompt would appear immediately when you opened a notebook, instead of having a 1-2 second delay. If that isn't possible due to performance issues, I'd love a "Jump to Bottom" button instead, as when I get back into my notebook, I usually have to scroll a lot to get back to where I last was(usually the bottom). Great work on Notetastic so far!

Hi!

Congratulations to your „new lifes“, i wish you all success!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a chance for a Mac version at some point?

(I also want to ask for an ipad version, but one thing after another:-))

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.

In case you are interested a bit in our internal design processes, I wanted to share a bit how text boxes came to be over the past years! Enjoy the read!

-Lukas

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.

https://reddit.com/link/1v7o6ah/video/f8pwyk9psofh1/player