LectureNotes

Acadoid Developer

About this app

LectureNotes is an Android app for note-taking by handwriting on the screen, in particular with a stylus.

It has been designed while having a user at university (or at school) in mind, for instance a lecturer who is using it for preparing her/his lecture or even for actual teaching (by writing on the device and projecting the screen content for the audience) or a student who is using it for taking handwritten notes during a lecture. However, it has found many users outside university, for instance businesspersons who use it for business notes and sales presentations or artists who use it to create sketches and drawings.

Its major target devices are tablets with Android 3.0 or later. The basic functionality works on all devices with Android 3.0 or later, but some which are hardware-dependent such as pressure sensitivity might not.

NOTE: There is a free trial version to test if the app is right for you. The free trial version is fully functional with the exception that the number of notebooks is constrained to two, with no more than eight pages per notebook.

Reviews:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32hUvoo7mI

User feedback:
We would love to hear from you, please send feedback and feature requests to us by email. If you encounter a problem with the app, please email us and we will do our very best to fix it quickly.

Major features:
* requires only minimal permissions and no internet connection (we do respect your privacy!)
* allows multiple pages to be simultaneously visible on the screen (i.e. continuous page view)
* allows smooth writing, typing, scrolling, and zooming

Additional features:
* multiple layers in notebook pages
* image import and image set import into notebook (including image import directly from camera)
* single- and multi-page PDF import (requires PDFView to be installed)
* notebook export as compressed PDF
* notebook export to Evernote (requires Evernote app to be installed)
* notebook export to OneNote (requires OneNote app to be installed)
* audio recording and replay (requires LectureRecordings to be installed)
* video recording and replay (requires LectureVideos to be installed)
* presentations (requires LecturePresentations to be installed)
* sharing and import of notebook pages
* keyword attachment to notebook pages and automatic indexing
* insertion, deletion, and rearrangement of notebook pages
* sharing and import of notebooks
* organization of notebooks in folders
* backup and restore of notebooks board

See the help page https://www.acadoid.com/apps/ln/help/ for more details.

Possible issue: For certain functionality, the app requires other apps to be installed: Notebook and folder import, notebooks board restore, and image set import require a file manager app to be installed; image import directly from camera requires a camera app to be installed; PDF import requires a file manager app and PDFView to be installed; export to Evernote requires the Evernote app to be installed; export to OneNote requires the OneNote app to be installed.

Ratings and reviews

The app is amazing! It is fully customizable. I spent several hours to play with all the settings and now I feel very comfortable with the app. I used before Samsung Notes for 1 year, but abandon it due to very limited functionality and very few improvements over a year. Tried also Squid (not bad but selection tool is limited, scrolling pages is forbidden, and other small but important issues). I do not know any other good app on Android for notes taking. In Lecture Notes, I found solutions to all these issues. Was positively surprised that when I wrote to the customer support, I received a professional and helpful reply within an hour. I can see that the developers did a great job and support their customers.

This app is the most advanced notetaking solution I have ever encountered. The complete suite of apps created by this developer rival that of every other major notetaking app on the Android platform. They've thought of everything. How notebooks can be displayed, how active styli should be handled, what mode you start with, etc... What's more? Everything is stored as easy-to-work-with filetypes such as .txt, .png, .xml etc... This makes backups as simple as copying folders and files.

Perfect app. Use with drop sync and drop box to sync across device. What I love: 1. Still works on my old Note 3 and Samsung Tab 10.4 devices with pen to new Surface Duo 2. On TAB 10 works just like sheet of paper. 3. I am engineer and use grid lined paper and keep all my ideas as sketches and this app just works, across all my devices. 4. Folders and notebooks can be color coded and stored in hierarchical format. 5. When using s-pen on small device it hides toolbars to maximize drawing space.

What's new

* several minor improvements
* input motion prediction for low latency
* optional color inversion of imported images and of imported PDF pages added
* distortion of cut, copied, and imported material added
* grid cut, copy, and paste added
* notebooks and folders made accessible via link
* quick index and quick overview added
* settings made searchable