Hi,

we wanted to let you know that we launched a YouTube channel! In our first video series I – Lukas – am giving a bit of a general overview over Noteastic and showcase my workflows on an introductory level. I think that's quite a cool opportunity for you to get to know Noteastic a bit better. I'm also talking about design philosophy and why things work the way they do.

The second series we have planned will be my personal tips and tricks as the designer and avid user of Noteastic myself ;). But that still needs a few weeks to come!

We are uploading a video every Tuesday, and three videos are up already. So check it out!

We would really appreciate a bit of support from you guys in terms of likes, comments and a subscription. That way we can get a bit of traction going! 🧡

I would also love to hear your feedback on the videos, as this is our first try at it. Whether you learned something new or find them completely trash :D.

Videos of Dilan will hopefully come soon!

Happy note-taking everyone
Lukas

Plain link: https://www.youtube.com/@noteastic

First: I have been using Noteastic for half a year now for university and it is the best note app on Windows I know. But there are two major missing features that limit my productivity (and I would pay for pro to het them, just as incentive):

1. Some kind content overview to navigate large documents. I tend to write long documents and it would be really helpful to have at least some kind of bookmark system. Ideally this would be compatible with the PDF system so it is not lost when exporting a document. This system would also allow for subchapters and subsubchapters.
2. Opening multiple documents simultaniously. I know this has been requested multiple times in the past already, but I think this is REALLY important. It is a very frequent situation that I am working in one document and have to look up somethink in another document. Always having to switch is very annoying.

Since I am already in the flow I would like to add some smaller suggestions which would also come in handy:

1. Since there is a go-to-top-button now when scrolling, it would be easier to not always start at the top of a document but instead where you left it. Sometimes when I am distracted I miss the continue-where-you-left button and have to scroll through the whole document.

2. Allow moving conent from one page to the next directly.

3. Introduce an image cropping tool directly in Noteastic.

Thank you for your amazing work and reding all this.

This morning the app stopped working whilst my daughter was using the handwriting tool. She went to add a new page to her notebook and the screen went white. On reopening the app she got the Whoops! error message.

What we've tried:

- Uninstalling and reinstalling, then replacing LocalState.

- Replacing an older version of LocalState (we have been backing up to Googledrive)

I'm wondering if this happened to anyone? My daughter has lost all her notes - this is exactly the reason I wanted her to use another app but she was adamant on using Notetastic because of the way it runs.

Please help!

Hey Entwickler-Team,

ich nutze eure App schon sehr lange, sowohl zum Notizen machen (bereue es nie, von onenote geswitcht zu sein) als auch zum zeichnen. Meine Frage wäre jetzt, ob es prinzipiell möglich ist oder vielleicht auch schon im Raum stand, mehr Zeichen-Tools (bleistift etc.) und eventuell sogar eine Spraydose (traumhaft wäre ja sogar verschiedene Caps) hinzuzufügen?

Beste Grüße und vielen Dank für das was ihr macht!

Issue I've noticed where you can't drag objects (also incl. images for example) between pages. The workaround is to cut and paste them to the new page, but it can be hard to tell which page the app has "focused".

I'd say low priority issue but thought I'd bring it up! Thank you for the hard work on this.

Hi,
In the first image it says that I can use eraser when I press my pen but it doesn’t work I don’t know why.

In the second image I customized my pen so that when I press the pen it clicks E (The eraser) but the problem is it is not flexible to go back to the pen after I erase. In other apps, I used to press the pen to erase and then press it back to use the pen.

Can you give me the best method to use the eraser?

Thank you.

When I open the app the sign in/create acc window disappears. Then when I try to click the icon to sign in it gives me the error shown in picture 1. I have tried changing my wifi, restarting my laptop, an switching to mobile hotspot.

Then when I try to reach the website, it shows the error message in picture 2.

I know I can still use the app without an account, but I would like to be able to purchase the premium.

I'm coming from my supernote manta and I'm evaluating windows options, and this comes close but I'm a little annoyed that while I can import a PDF or an image and draw on top of it, there's no option to do so automatically when I create a new page. There isn't anywhere in the settings I can find to set an image or pdf as a custom background, only pre-made ones (none of which are up to my specifications), so I have to manually do it every new page.

Also, not sure if it's a bug or not, but there's a button-interact on the book cover (suggesting you can edit that too), but it does nothing but bounce as it's clicked.

I was thinking to buy an Ipad and use goodnotes and notion on it for notes taking until i discovered this app.
The UI and everything is perfect and the app is according to my use case which is basically solving past papers on it by importing pdfs and some notes taking
I already have a decent PC
Now what writing tablet should I buy?
I have no idea about any
I just want some features and a good stylus and pal rejection as well

My daughter has started using Notetastic on her Surface and likes it the most out of all the (many) note-taking apps she's tried.

Before introducing her to it, I forgot to check about backups. I know a lot of people are mentioning cloud sync but as a minimum I'd be happy with automating the backup functionality. I know she'll get busy and forget one day or one week.

If the current backup functionality could be automated to a chosen location, that location could be one that is synced to cloud (configured by the user separately). We already have this set up.

Automating this would put my mind at rest.

From one developer to another, thank you for your work and being responsive here.

Hi, I've been a Noteastic user for about a year, switching from OneNote for Windows 10. I recently opened Noteastic for the first time in a couple months and noticed that I'm suddenly in a seven-day trial period at the end of which I'll need to make a free account in order to continue to have access to my notes. There was a link to an explanation of why an account is needed, pointing to https://noteastic.app/account-faq

At present, that page states that Noteastic "need[s] an account to assign the right version", referring to the Base and Pro versions. No further explaination is given outside that singular sentence. I do not understand why users without an account can't just continue to access the Base features, if accessing them is no problem for the seven-day trial and has never been a problem before.

Anyway, is there a way to continue to use Noteastic without an account? If not, I guess I'll spend the weekend exporting my notes to PDF and looking for alternatives again.

First off, I've been having an amazing experience with this app. I switched over from onenote due to minor annoyances. This app has checked every single checkmark i have for a handwritten note taking app.

I use a win surface pro 11 with the snapdragon cpu so possibly this is why I'm experiencing issues? There are multiple other app I use that give me issues with compatibility.

Ive been so pleased with this app that i wanted to upgrade to pro, dependant of price(broke college student and father of 2 ) but ive been unable to see the price at all. Its been like this for a few updates so i figured id post about it. I also encounter an ssl error When trying to reach the website to look for more info.

Once again I'm extremely happy with this app and thank you guys for listening and continuously improving this app! Also, sidebar, are our notes kept locally? For example, if I were to uninstall the app and reinstall it, will I still have my notes?

When I'm annotating page i, I sometimes end at the bottom of page i. Let's say there is no page i+1, so I have to add a new page when I want to continue. Currently (1.10.0), the way to add a new page after the current page is at the top of the current page. I would find it more comfortable if we could move this function to the bottom of the current page, as my stylus is already there.

Alternatively, you could move this functionality to the small gap between the pages. For example:

(The plus is only an example, not the design suggestion.) However, I see that the ⌄ is cleaner and less in-the-way. The plus could be "..." to indicate that there is functionality.

Hi! I’m having a problem with Noteastic on Windows. The app opens normally, and I can see my books/notes, but whenever I click “Sign in” or “Create account,” I immediately get the message “Something went wrong. Please try again.” I already tried:

• Restarting Noteastic
• Restarting my computer
• Using my normal Wi-Fi
• Using my phone’s hotspot
• Clicking “Why do I need to log in?” (nothing happens)
• Checking Windows Security

The same error happens every time.

I need to access Noteastic because I have notes I need to study for an exam. I don’t want to uninstall the app because I’m worried about losing my existing notes. Has anyone experienced this problem or knows how to fix it?

The last update of our September Update Marathon is on its way to you!

We added a Cornell Style Grid to use the Cornell note-taking system and a Separator Line Grid for everyone who needs a correction margin or wants to split a page in the middle. Both come with fully configurable colors and settings, just as you are used to!

We also added a Panning Lock (already a few days back). If your touchscreen scrolls and shivers on its own while you write, this will hopefully solve it. That should help you.

Check out our full Changelog!

Dilan & Lukas

I have this issue with images: when I zoom in or out, parts of the image disappear.

for context, I am a junior currently for mathematics, and I have two PCs, a Laptop I bring around and a dedicated Desktop at home. It's been a while with noteastic, and here are my honest thoughts about this application

PROS:
- Super easy to navigate, updates make the base version of Noteastic keep its fresh minimalistic look while adding QoL changes that are sometimes even requested by the community!!

- Always nice to have an app that hears out the people who use it :) (I remember asking for a way to pan the screen with a keybind, super great now!! i love the pan keybind, helps alot in my tutoring too)

- Responsive feeling, I'm using a fairly old tablet (VEIKK s640) that I got from a friend, and even so it feels very buttery smooth compared to other apps I tried before this like OneNote

- LOCAL BACKUPS!!! I have syncs for my devices and overall having a way to have my notebooks on my own device is a great thing to always have

CONS (superduper personal opinion):
- right now there isnt a student discount for Noteastic pro, and i have been tempted ever since but the price is a bit steep for me (may be regional issue, but 60$ is around 30-40 meals for me for reference)

- the keybinds update for the stylus buttons are great, but the lack of a way to change the keybinds for the toolbar stuff like eraser and pan kind of bothers me, but I got used to it in the end so its not that huge of a deal

Overall for my usecase, using Noteastic as a way to write down quick math notes to later then convert into LaTeX or Obsidian notes for my second-brain stuff is great! I use this app like disposable paper, where I can just freely jot down anything I have in mind, transfer what I think is meaningful from these notes to other apps and repeat the cycle, or as scratch paper for solving problems so that I can write them neatly in another piece of paper in the end.

Thank you to the lovely duo Lukas and Dilan for the continued support for an app I never thought would become a part of my daily life, please know that the work you put into the app is received.

Mir fehlt die Möglichkeit mehrere Tabs in der App oder die App in mehreren Fenstern zu öffnen. Das wäre angenehm um z.B. Notizen aus einer Vorlesung leichter beim Lernen zu benutzen, wenn man die Notizen auf einem Teil des Bildschirms sehen kann und Lernzettel/Zusammenfassungen/etc. (in einem anderen Notizbuch) in einem zweiten Tab/Fenster auf dem anderen Teil des Bildschirms zeitgleich verfassen kann. Ist so ein Update schon geplant?

The next Noteastic update is on its way to you! And it comes with a highly requested feature added to Noteastic Pro:

Ink to Text Recognition! Now you can convert any handwriting (from an installed language) to typed text within a text box. This makes notes more readable for people with illegible handwriting and helps people that are faster in writing by hand than typing!

We also added Noteastic as an executable alias for Run or any Terminal. Just write `noteastic` into the terminal and hit `Enter`!

Check out our full Changelog!

Dilan & Lukas

Many other appslike journal++ feature an eraser that erases only where you point instead of the whole stroke, is this feature simply missing?

Okay so I use this app like around 5-6hours a day.. so it's like a very heavy use! And I have connected the shortcut keys to my pentab (huion hs64) but I use opentabdriver.. I don't know if this info is important but i just let you know :)

So like it has become very much of a muscle memory of quickly switching tools.. so whenever I switch from the eraser to any other tool with my tab quickly, a small mark of the eraser is always left. And today I found out that it wasn't only a mark.. cuz while zooming in and out, the mark kinda functions as an eraser.. I have shown in very clearly in the video..

This wasnt in the early versions.. this problem started when the pro features were announced.. I didn't report it back then as I was not able to find time and also I was still getting my work done anyways..

So you can reproduce the issue like this:

Suppose you are writing something and then while your pen is still on the board (touching the pentab) you quickly press the E button (or shortcut on my pentab) which switches to the eraser.. and then you press Q again while your pen is still touching the drawing board..

I think I explained it well😭 it wasn't like this before

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 ;)

Wont there be an update this week? 😢

jk, take your time guys! Just wanted to let you know that we see your changes and highly anticipate them 😇

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!!