Lina Notes: Handwriting & PDF

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About this app

Turn your tablet into a focused space for handwritten notes, PDF annotation,
and lecture recording. Lina Notes brings your pen, paper, documents, and audio
together so you can stay with the class, meeting, or idea.

Use one notebook app for class notes, study notes, meeting notes, research,
lesson planning, and everyday ideas. Handwrite from a blank page, mark up an
existing document, or record the explanation while you write.

HANDWRITE NOTES YOUR WAY

Write with a stylus for a natural notebook experience, or enable finger drawing
whenever it is useful. Choose a ballpoint, fountain, brush, or highlighter pen.
Adjust the width and color, create custom colors, and save up to six favorite
pens so the tools you use most are always one tap away.

Undo or redo, erase a whole stroke or part of one, and select handwriting with
a lasso or rectangle. Move, resize, rotate, copy, cut, paste, or restyle the
selection. Full-screen writing and left- or right-side landscape toolbars help
you create a comfortable workspace.

BUILD A NOTEBOOK FOR EVERY SUBJECT

Start with blank, ruled, grid, dot-grid, Cornell notes, or legal-pad paper.
Choose a template for a new page, change the background of a regular page, and
mix page styles inside the same notebook. Add, duplicate, delete, and reorder
pages as your notes grow.

Insert an image beside your handwriting, share the current page as an image,
and rely on automatic saving while you focus on writing.

IMPORT, ANNOTATE, AND EXPORT PDFS

Use Lina Notes as a practical PDF annotation app for textbooks, lecture slides,
worksheets, planners, articles, and reports. Import a PDF and write directly on
its pages with the same pens, highlighters, and erasers you use in a notebook.
Open the document outline, browse its pages, and jump to the section you need.

Add note pages when the margin is not enough. Then export a new PDF with your
handwriting and highlights merged in, ready to submit, archive, or open elsewhere.

RECORD LECTURES AND KEEP AUDIO WITH YOUR NOTES

Start a voice recording without leaving the page. While you record a lecture,
class, interview, meeting, or study session, your handwritten strokes keep
their place on the audio timeline. Tap timed writing to return to the moment
connected with that note instead of scrubbing through an entire recording.

Keep multiple recordings in a notebook, pause and resume, change playback speed,
skip silence, seek, or export an M4A file. Your notes become visual bookmarks
for the parts worth hearing again.

SEARCH NOTES AND HANDWRITING

Find information across your library by searching note titles, folders, and
tags. On supported Android devices, you can also download Korean and English
handwriting-recognition models and search words written on the page. Open a
result to jump directly to its page and see the matching strokes highlighted.

Recognition runs on your device. Searchable text stays in a local, rebuildable
index without replacing your original strokes. The optional models work offline
after download.

KEEP A LARGE NOTE LIBRARY ORGANIZED

Group notebooks with folders and tags, mark important notes as favorites, and
filter the library when you want a narrower view. Sort by recent activity,
name, or favorites first. Switch between grid and list layouts to browse the
way that fits your tablet and your collection.

YOUR NOTES, YOUR FILES

Store your library on your device or choose another folder, including one
managed by a compatible sync service. You control where the source files live.

Export and restore a portable .lina backup. Pages, pen strokes, inserted images,
the source PDF, and recordings can stay together in one notebook backup.

MADE FOR FOCUSED WORK

Lina Notes is made for students, teachers, researchers, professionals, and
anyone whose class notes, meeting notes, planning, or ideas begin with a pen.

Write freely. Listen in context. Find what matters. Keep your files yours.