But of course! Btw, sorry for the mis-matched order of how-to's and posts. I tend to think of making a how-to directly when I figure out how to do something, and forget that my order-of-operations are probably not quite as linear as others.
My reasoning for choosing LectureNotes rather than S-Note are primarily based in my style of note-taking and the feature set LectureNotes has. I tend to grasp things better when I hand write, and I don't have much necessity for the handwriting-to-text recognition in S-Note. Although I hope handwriting-to-text and general text in LectureNotes improves with successive releases as the developer has indicated it would. The developer is highly responsive and constantly adds new features and offers his assistance.
LectureNotes to me seems to shine most in the arena of being better suited to notation and note-taking freehanded. I will break down an itemized list of features I appreciate in LectureNotes:
- Stylus recognition and detection works much better in this app, it completely disables touch input within the workspace, and orients all toolbars that can be touched at the top of the screen where my fingers and the side of my hand will not come into contact with them. There are no icons at the bottom right that I can touch like the add page and disable touch input buttons that are in S-Note. You can also optionally disable the system's back key so you can't accidentally exit a note, and if you happen to be rooted (I am not) you can also disable the entire system bar so you don't accidentally hit the home key or notification panel.
- I can add additional single or multipage PDFs anywhere in an existing notebook after initially adding the original PDF (See Step 7 of the first tutorial).
- More options for orienting the PDF in a Notebook, allowing it to resize the notebook pages to the PDF, or placing a smaller PDF where you choose on a standard A4/Letter notebook page.
- Quick access Layer menu so you can draw on a different layer than your PDF or Image underlay, and not erase the underlay when you erase your notations on the overlay.
- Allows you program the S-Pen button to a tool, like the eraser, and add the option for that to be a 1-click tool that reverts to the previously used tool after using the eraser.
- Allows you to resize the built-in template for ruled or gridded notebook pages (S-Notes ruled line templates are way too spaced apart for my handwriting)
- I feel that it has smoother recognition of the S-Pen and my new Bamboo Stylus Feel
- Allows for page indexing to make pages searchable by user-set keywords
- Cutter tool allows you make a freehand or rectangular, cut or copy of any part of a note, and move it to another part of the notebook or another notebook altogether without carrying the template lines behind it (like a screenshot copy/paste would do)
- The optional 'Show Pencil Toolbox' keeps a floating toolbox up that you can move around and quickly change between the preset pencils, custom pencils, and vector shape pencils on the fly without constantly opening a drop down panel (biggest gripe with the interface of S-Note as I constantly change pen types and colors)
- If you make a custom pencil that is a highlighter, you can quickly highlight text and swap back and forth with the pencil toolbox. The custom pen also allows you to indicate whether you want rounded or flat ends, and doesn't make that darker end to the highlight tool in S-Note
All in all the features are numerous and great, although it takes a bit of a learning curve to get used to it. Eventually though the learning curve is rewarded with a far greater feature set and application customization. The app is not ready for users that type or use handwriting-to-text often, and is primarily geared toward freehand notes and notation. If that describes you then definitely consider this app. I'll add more features I like as I go along, and please do offer me feedback on my how-to's and let me know how I can help you!
**Disclaimer: I no longer use S-Note at all so I don't know if any updates have added these features to S-Note.
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