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App for engineering classes

First of all, tomorrow I'm getting my N8010 so, hello people!
Now, I'm an engineering student and I want to use my new toy for my classes, so I need an app which does this:
S-Pen compatible, of course (why would I want a note if not?)
As many pencils/erasers and so on for handwritting.
Geometrical figures for drawing (very basic, of course) line, circle/ellipse, rectangle and if possible, other regular polygons.
*NOW THE IMPORTANT PART* I get many PDFs with wording, I need to crop the text/images from the pdf and paste it in a blank page so I can write over that, it is the most important feature I need, I know many apps achieve the other requirements.
Last, if I could export all this as printable A4 format, I'd be in love with it.
I don't mind if it's free (don't count on it) or have to pay. Any suggestions?

I am by NO MEANS an expert using it... but.... Lecture Notes does all of that. And a whole lot more!!!

I bought this tablet mostly for that use as well, and here's my thoughts:
SNote is great, or at least was great for almost everything I needed. It recognize almost any geometrical shape that you draw and "tight em' up" for you as well as equations. This means that making good looking flowcharts, graphs and equations with everything from triple integrals to DEs very easy. I absolutely love the ability to look it up at WolframAlpha to get accurate graphs etc and paste them into your notes. I'm sure you have tested this already, at least that was the first thing I did once my tablet arrived.
However, since the last upgrade to JellyBean I and many with me feels that SNote isn't working good enough to be useful because of all the bugs in it (I've started a thread about this in the apps section here). Therefore, I will be using LectureNotes instead when school starts next week. By far the best note taking app imo, and the fact that the actual developer have he's own thread where he helps you on a daily basis and you can give inputs about what functionalities you would like to have is of course a huge plus! The more I use LectureNotes, the more I like it actually. And even though SNote doesn't work properly I've discovered you can use those functions, take a screenshot and insert into LectureNotes. This of course applies to every application like a PDF reader as well if you don't like to have the full PDF inserted (LectureNotes does this to). The easiest way to do this is by pushing the pens button, make a "loop" around what you want to insert and then press the LectureNotes symbol that shows below.
At the moment SNote does have support for circles/ovals, lines and rectangles but the developer is working on a way to make your own figures like arrows and stuff. You insert those symbols like you do in MS Paint. You can type text as well if needed, there is however not any way of fast typing equations but to handwrite them. Speaking of which, I feel the handwriting to be much more accurate at LectureNotes for some reason, yet another plus.
The other way in those classes you get perfect PDFs and the professor hardly writes anything on the blackboard I'll be using ezPDF to annotate directly in the PDF. I've not yet tried this to much though so time will tell how well it works.
And by the way, both apps are like 3 bucks each at play and LectureNotes have a trial version with all features but limited page numbers etc, so you can try it before buying it.
Hope this helps! And no I ain't got dyslexia, I'm just a swede
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Thank you both so much, will test it asap (delivering services are getting slow as hell in Spain)
And no worries Axel, I find myself strugling everyday to write in English as good as I can

Papyrus is magical, vector based so everything is scalable. Not to mention if you root your device and revert to a stock android build (like CM10) and remove the default S-Pen features you can use the side button as an eraser/selection tool.
I'm studying engineering as well and this has worked perfectly for me

For the pdf writing, check out ezpdf. I just got it and imported my books to it. It works wonders. You have no limits to what you can do. Although I do not know if you can add geometrical figures.
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doode2011 said:
For the pdf writing, check out ezpdf. I just got it and imported my books to it. It works wonders. You have no limits to what you can do. Although I do not know if you can add geometrical figures.
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Personally I can't really see any advantages compared to other PDF readers and at least it have one huge limit, the ability to tell if it's the pen or finger you're using. I would love to have an app that allows me to use the stylus as an " always on highlighter" and use my fingers to switch page but as far as I can tell there's no way to do that either on ez och Acrobat.
I'll check out papyrus, I've heard so much good about it but since I have LectureNotes I can't really see how it could be any better. But that's the wrong approach when testing new apps, and I'll give it a try.
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in most options in ezPdf yyou can mark with spen or one finger and scrol or zoom with two fingers. i think it is handy enough. it dous not work in draw or shape drawing modes though.

kayteck1 said:
in most options in ezPdf yyou can mark with spen or one finger and scrol or zoom with two fingers. i think it is handy enough. it dous not work in draw or shape drawing modes though.
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I would love to be able to do this, but haven't figured out what options to set to make this work. What do you need to do in order to get the pen and two finger scroll/zoom working in ezPDF? It either just draws when I use a two fingers (going off one of the two fingers) or doesn't do anything with two fingers.
Thanks!

boristhebad said:
I would love to be able to do this, but haven't figured out what options to set to make this work. What do you need to do in order to get the pen and two finger scroll/zoom working in ezPDF? It either just draws when I use a two fingers (going off one of the two fingers) or doesn't do anything with two fingers.
Thanks!
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You must deactivate "palm rejection" in options.

nequin said:
Papyrus is magical, vector based so everything is scalable. Not to mention if you root your device and revert to a stock android build (like CM10) and remove the default S-Pen features you can use the side button as an eraser/selection tool.
I'm studying engineering as well and this has worked perfectly for me
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Axel_ said:
Personally I can't really see any advantages compared to other PDF readers and at least it have one huge limit, the ability to tell if it's the pen or finger you're using. I would love to have an app that allows me to use the stylus as an " always on highlighter" and use my fingers to switch page but as far as I can tell there's no way to do that either on ez och Acrobat.
I'll check out papyrus, I've heard so much good about it but since I have LectureNotes I can't really see how it could be any better. But that's the wrong approach when testing new apps, and I'll give it a try.
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So, are you talking about Papyrus Beta or Papyrus Ex?

Robdyx said:
So, are you talking about Papyrus Beta or Papyrus Ex?
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Beta, the other papyrus is as far as I can tell for shopping lists etc rather than serious note-taking.
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Yep, I had a look at both tonight
So far, these are my impressions
Holo interface
Better palm rejection (+)
Uses for fingers (scrolling, deleting etc) (+)
fast enabling/disabling zoom (+)
LectureNotes over Papyrus
Can't try the complements before buying them
With all complements, Papyrus is slightly more expensive than LN (-)
It doesn't display the page contents when scrolling (Long load times)(+++)
Lack of a dark theme (-)
Doesn't detect pen at the end of page (+)
Longer periods between releases (two last are from December 10th and November 8th)
Only one pencil (??)(+++)
Can't record while taking notes (still didn't need this, but probably will cost money if ever added)
So far I think Lecture Notes is better, so I'll stick with it, but I don't like its UI at all and would like to see some improvements before buying any of them.... Anyway with such an impressive developing speed, we'll surely enjoy it sooner or later.
Of course, prove me wrong if I am.
Also, I've been thinking about moving to CM10.1 whenever they release a stable version (I tried a nightly and my note became a single core 2010 tab) but I really like multitasking (Solid Explorer rocks in a little window). Also, when copying problems statements it's so useful having the crop-whit-pen-button thing, but this way I also have gestures inaccesible in LN and Papyrus. Also really enjoy the clipboard management when pasting..... so I don't know what to do, anyone with the same doubts and any solution?

Note Taking on 10.1

I do like my 10.1 but still very disappointed with apps. I probably want One Note with inking and reminders but nothing comes close to a perfect note taking app yet.
Am I alone -
Written notes and typed.
I do Not need handwriting recognition.
Sync with desktop.
Quick entry with pen, keyboard or camera when you want a quick reminder.
Rich text formatting on typed text with bullets and para format.
Alarms or reminders on notes.
Ability to draw on images without messinv with switching layers.
Folder structure.
Choice of paper formats and ruling.
Looks and feels like a modern app.
S Note was not bad until it was messed up in the last version, and thd Evernote sync is useless for desktop use. Lecturenotes promisinv but way too complex for handling text and formatting sections of text easily - just not intuitive.
Am I the only one that gets excited with a new App only to find myself after 10 minutes back to using a combination of paper notepads and Evernote.
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krmurphy said:
I do like my 10.1 but still very disappointed with apps. I probably want One Note with inking and reminders but nothing comes close to a perfect note taking app yet.
Am I alone -
Written notes and typed.
I do Not need handwriting recognition.
Sync with desktop.
Quick entry with pen, keyboard or camera when you want a quick reminder.
Rich text formatting on typed text with bullets and para format.
Alarms or reminders on notes.
Ability to draw on images without messinv with switching layers.
Folder structure.
Choice of paper formats and ruling.
Looks and feels like a modern app.
S Note was not bad until it was messed up in the last version, and thd Evernote sync is useless for desktop use. Lecturenotes promisinv but way too complex for handling text and formatting sections of text easily - just not intuitive.
Am I the only one that gets excited with a new App only to find myself after 10 minutes back to using a combination of paper notepads and Evernote.
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I was just thinking about the same.
It really seems that developers are not used yet to the potential of the S Pen or that they don't use much the apps they create...
Anyway there's an app (Awesome Note) that has many (but not all) of the features listed in the OP.
See here

Sv: Note Taking on 10.1
My vote goes to LectureNotes, the only decent note taking application out there if you ask me. It don't match all your criteria, but I would really give it a try if I were you!
Written notes and typed.
Check!
I do Not need handwriting recognition.
Great, cause it hasn't.
Sync with desktop.
Check! All your notes are saved as individual bitmap images, and with foldersync or a similar app you can sync it to Dropbox and by that your desktop. The typed text is either in the image or as a separate text file.
Quick entry with pen, keyboard or camera when you want a quick reminder.
Well, it's not ideal for this but you can take an image and select share to LectureNotes after which it's automatically imported to the app. It supports multiwindow, so you can easily access it that way.
Rich text formatting on typed text with bullets and para format.
Well, it depends on how you define rich but it has a few.
Alarms or reminders on notes.
Not that I know unfortunately.. But maybe acadoid can implement it if you ask him in the LectureNotes thread here
Ability to draw on images without messinv with switching layers.
Check! You can get it to automatically import images in another layer than the one you're writing in.
Folder structure.
Check!
Choice of paper formats and ruling.
Check! Actually, since it's supporting JavaScript customization it cannot get any better since you quite easily can make your own.
Looks and feels like a modern app.
Hmm, well not really. But it's really functioning, and to me that's the most important.
But I totally agree, there's no note taking app that is perfect or even close to and that really is a shame on such a great tablet. However, LectureNotes is to me the best compromise.
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S Note app for 10.1 SUPER glitchy?

Hi, I'm using S Note on my Samsung Note 10.1 for a couple certifications i am studying for. The reason i am using S Note is because it allows me to create separate folders (i like to create a folder for each book) then in the folder for the current book I'm studying i like to create more folders for each chapter, and then within each chapter folder i like to have multiple notes for each topic covered under that chapter.
That being said, rather than helping me fix S Note, if you know of another app that will let me do exactly what i described I'd rather download a separate app that isn't so glitchy.
Moving on, The S Note app is really terrible on my Note 10.1. At random times (and VERY VERY frequently) I will either type a random word, or press the line break button, or place a period, or a space, etc (these are the only things i have found so far that trigger it) but anyways it will freak out on me and either take the most recent word i typed, or some other COMPLETELY random word i typed previously, and it will move it smack dab into the middle of ANOTHER random word, then it will delete a bunch of spaces and line breaks i made. For example, I'll type the word "card", it will trigger the glitch out of nowhere and move the word "card"into the word "motherboard" that i typed previously and it will become "mothcarderboard" or something of the sorts.
Long story short, if anyone knows how to fix this or knows another app that can do what I described I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Look for the Awesome note apk.... Or A-Note.apk. It's the note 8" version of s-notes. It is quite good from what I've used.
You can also get lecture notes, paid app though and is a bit expensive if you don't really need it.

I found out what it was. It was Swype. I tried the regular Samsung keyboard and it worked perfectly fine. Ugh. Who do I contact to fix it? The S Note developers or Swype developers?

gamer6592 said:
I found out what it was. It was Swype. I tried the regular Samsung keyboard and it worked perfectly fine. Ugh. Who do I contact to fix it? The S Note developers or Swype developers?
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I hihly doubt either will do anything. If you like swype functionality I would use the aosp keyboard or swiftkey my personal favroite. Actually the stock samsung keyboard has it too but its not that good.
As far as note taking apps go I like lecture notes and papyrus give them a try.

[Q] Questions before purchase about S Pen

I am looking at the Note 10.1 for purchase and I am trying to get information about handwriting recognition using the S Pen and saving what has been written to a .txt document or RTF doc or doc file. Searching for this answer on this forum and others has not helped - at least I have not found the answer. What I want to be sure that I can do is handwrite a document - for example an article for publication - and save the handwriting recognition text version and be able to use it then on a PC in software like Word or Notepad. Can this be done using the included Polaris Office app? What I have seen so far about the S Notes app is that it only saves to pdf or jpg files. Is that true?
Then somewhere I saw that files cannot be attached to emails sent from the Note 10.1 - is this true? If I installed an app like K9 Email on the Note 10.1 which has file attachment capabilities on other Android devices will I be able to attach the text files from the Note 10.1 that I have written using handwriting recognition (if txt files are possible using handwriting recognition)?
I am not interested (at least now) in annotating documents - I need to be able to create new text documents with the S Pen and be able to save and edit them as text both on the Note and then on a PC.
Thanks!

Hi 1776,
You can write straight into Polaris Office (or any other office app, google docs etc) using the handwriting recognition keyboard option and save into whatever format those apps support.
I've become an S Pen junkie over the last month for taking notes and docs for my work. A Note 10.1 a month ago, and a Note 2 phone (for easy noting on the move) this week.
I find the S Pen option ( Language and input | Samsung Keyboard Settings | Handwriting | Recognition type | Complete recognition) best for this (as opposed to 'Stroke recognition' option)
Good luck with it!

You can also save the files to a cloud service and retrieve them anywhere using this...

For that matter, you can even move your PCs My Documents folder to Dropbox, and use Dropsync on your tablet to do a completely automatic 2-way sync so that you can edit the files from the PC or at tablet at any time :thumbup:
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Or switch to google docs and scratch the office suite altogether. Or use sNote and sync to Evernote.
Lots of options available.
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Thanks to all! I knew I would get a fast response from this forum to answer my question. I now know from you that I can use the SPen to write into Polaris or an office suite or Google Docs and get my articles ready. There is a good price right now at Costco and I am going to take advantage of it.
Thanks again!

Sorry to bring this back up again - I went to Best Buy today and wanted to try the S Pen with Polaris Office. I opened Polaris Office and looked for the gear symbol to start handwriting recognition at the bottom of the keyboard next to the microphone symbol for voice recognition. It was not there. Only the microphone was there. I went into S Pen settings on the Note 10.1 and did not see much to set. A salesman came over and asked him how to get this display model to let me use the S Pen in Polaris Office and he said it cannot do that. He insisted the pen only works in S Note. I told him differently, explained what I expected to find and all of the more knowledgeable people than him (I did not say that part) that are on this forum say it works with Polaris and other apps. He tried and found nothing to get it to work.
So now I have a new question - does this now work with an update that perhaps their display did not have? He also tried it on the Note 8 that was on diplay and said it did not work.
You all say it works and I am sure it does. I would just like to see it do it before I plunk down almost 500 bucks.
What is needed to do to make it work? And if there was an update and the displays were not updated - would it then not work?
TIA!!!

Long press on the microphone button on the keyboard gives you a selection box. One of the choices switches the keyboard to pen entry.
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FYI I found the default pen settings to be less than optimal for my writing style. Keep this in mind while trying it out. You'll likely customize it to your liking once you own it.
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Thanks once again. I went to a different Best Buy today and did as was described here and long pressed the mike key - and there was the button to start handwriting recognition. I worked fairly well. Thank you to bsaman who warned me about having to customize the settings to get it to write smoothly. In the store, words were split, wrong letters were put in, but I can see that with some adjustment it will work just fine and I test saved a doc handwritten in Polaris and saw in the file manager that it was saved as a .doc file which is what I need it to do.
One other question - every time my hand leaned on the glass when writing with the pen in the input box that was across the lower half of the screen, it brought up a new screen scrolling up from the bottom. I assume that this can be turned off?

The only thing I can think of is the Multi-window option bar that pops up when you touch the carret in the navbar. Don't know about disabling it though.
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I went to Costco today and bought the Note 10.1 ($417 including a leather case) and now I have to start setting it up. Thanks to all!

the s-pen: recommendable apps for editing photos?

straight to the point; (or question, rather):
every now and then i tend to doodle a bit in photoshop, just for fun.
my note edge is brand new, so i haven't really gotten to test it that much as of yet.
i have tried out the s-pen applications included by samsung, but i'm currently looking
for any application that can open a photo or image on my phone, so i could either edit it
(or in this particular case add my signature).
for me it's great to have the s-pen at hand, as i could easily transfer any artwork or photos to my phone
and add my signature there. question is, what's the easiest way to do this?
and one second question:
if i find myself in need of adding my signature quite often, instead of making a new unique signature each time i need it,
would it be possible to create a signature with the s-pen on a transparent background, so it could easily be pasted into
any given photo or picture? i hope i'm making sense here.
would adobe photoshop touch be winner here?
any reply would be highly appreciated

I use facetune for editing pics. Your finger or pen will do.

steve austin said:
I use facetune for editing pics. Your finger or pen will do.
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well facetune is probably a great app don't get me wrong, but i highly doubt it's what i'm looking for.
as stated above i'd really love to know if there is any possible way of creating my own signature with the s-pen in
any given application that could support a transparent background.
i've been testing the s-note application, but this oddly enough does not seem to support transparency.
kind of dumb, as it would open up a vast amount of possibilites, and in my particular case the ability
to create my own signature, and then save it in a image file with transparency. this way i would
be able to paste my signature into documents, photos etc with only a few clicks.
i guess i'll just save my signature with a blank background, and cut it out in photoshop :silly:

niqen said:
well facetune is probably a great app don't get me wrong, but i highly doubt it's what i'm looking for.
as stated above i'd really love to know if there is any possible way of creating my own signature with the s-pen in
any given application that could support a transparent background.
i've been testing the s-note application, but this oddly enough does not seem to support transparency.
kind of dumb, as it would open up a vast amount of possibilites, and in my particular case the ability
to create my own signature, and then save it in a image file with transparency. this way i would
be able to paste my signature into documents, photos etc with only a few clicks.
i guess i'll just save my signature with a blank background, and cut it out in photoshop :silly:
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The closest app I have found to Photoshop for android is Autodesks Sketchbook Pro. It came free with the Note 3. I also bought the name version, but ended up installing the version from my Note 3 to my Edge because the name version wouldn't open the pdf I created with the Note 3 version. I 'think' you can create images with blank backgrounds.
Anyway, Sketchbook is a must have for image editing/creation in the Android environment.

Photoshop touch works well too,check out the Samsung galaxy note 10.1 forum as you might find the app floating around...

Photoshop Touch
I would have to say Photoshop Touch is your answer here, i got it for free when i bought my galaxy note 10.1 and after rooting the tab i extracted the .apk from it and installed it on every android device i have. if you do not have access to a rooted stock note 10.1 then i am sure someone can hook you up. i have it in my dropbox but i am unable to post links so... perhaps you can torrent it or something though if no one else can help. I havent tried to find it this way since i have it already though..