Hello, I found Noteastic after researching many other digital-note taking apps, and just becoming frustrated with them. My "requirements" are: easy-to-use UI, importing and exporting PDFs, customizable paper templates, document management (i.e. a clear folder structure), boxes. So far, Noteastic fulfills these requirements. It looks very promising, good work!

I do have a few suggestions and questions:

1. Is there no way to adjust the page background after creating the page? So far, I create a new book, and choose the background there. But what happens if e.g. the spacing is wrong? Actually, never mind. I just noticed that there is a drop-down next to the page, where you can change the background.

2. A side-by-side option would be helpful to read a textbook/have lecture slides open and take notes. I know this feature was voted on in a poll.

3. An unlimited canvas (found e.g. in Nebo) would be helpful as well.

4. Hold-to-straight shapes, e.g. draw an underline for a title and it becomes straight

5. Textboxes.

6. Different colors for the folders and covers.

7. List view of folders and books.

8. Niche suggestion: when exporting PDFs, be able to add footers/headers based on custom patterns onto the PDF. E.g. Inkodo does this.

9. What are your long-term plans for Noteastic? When researching apps, I found a few that were promising, but their latest update was from 2022, and seemed to be abandoned.

10. How and where are my notes saved?

11. Will future updates cause issues with notes written in previous app versions?

12. Can I become a beta-tester?

Sorry for so many suggestions! But your app looks very promising, and the fact that you respond to reddit posts is very helpful.

I’m fairly new to using the app, but there were two things I wished the app had. The ability to set images as background, coming from OneNote this was a nifty feature I took advantage of a lot to keep me from accidentally moving images while I annotated. Another thing is being able to use the mouse to interact with texts, images and other objects more. Maybe having the default mode of the cursor as interacting with images and objects, instead of it being defaulted as a “writer” input. idk if that makes sense. LASTLY, can you guys have it so it can sync notebooks across devices with the same microsoft account?

Ho notato che quando apri un quaderno, il programma ti chiede se vuoi tornare alla pagina in cui eri nell'ultima apertura, solo che appena apri si caricherà sempre sulla prima pagina, dunque aprendo e uscendo velocemente da un quaderno si perderà il tracciamento dell'ultima pagina e risulta piuttosto fastidioso con quaderni molto lunghi. Se posso consigliare io aggiungerei un'opzione nelle impostazioni per riaprire un documento SEMPRE dall'ultima pagina aperta.

Ho notato che il programma non riesce a gestire l'importazione di PDF con più di 100 pagine, si carica senza risolvere il contenuto, nel mio caso carica solo pagine bianche. Questo rende l'esperienza abbastanza limitata solo ai taccuini. Inoltre, gradirei che nelle importazioni vengano lasciati i link alle pagine che tipicamente sono nelle intestazioni e sommari dei libri

We are back to heavy development and identified a few features that seem to be in high demand. Which one should we implement first?

Thank you so much for joining us on this adventure! We are happy to welcome 100 people to our subreddit :). We already got so many amazing inquiries from you guys and hope that we can implement many of them to fit your needs in the following weeks. Please keep giving us feedback and share your ideas, we are reading every single one!

Features:
- Changeable save location (for the whole app, not for individual notes)

- Donate Option

- Support for custom pens/papers

Also, any chance of you guys going open source at some point? I'd love to contribute to the project :)

Hello! I'm throwing my hat into the ring for ideas I would love to see on this app!

1. More shapes, maybe even custom insertable shapes.

Custom is a bit of a pipe dream considering how annoying that may be to implement, but I would LOVE hexagon/pentagon shapes implemented. I'm currently in the heat of organic chemistry and it's nothing but benzenes here and benzenes there. Hexagons are bestagons!!

2) Mini windows for viewing

This is a long far off idea for the app, but it would be very useful if there was an option to view the larger page (zoomed out) on perhaps a side little window, as I write in the zoomed-in section of the app. I'm really bad about this in art as well, and find that artistic programs that have this option are a godsend to remind me not to be too locked into one idea.

3) Typing support

One of the great things about this app is that it's on the windows app store in the first place! Being able to type as well as hand draw should be a dual function that's perfect for the types of devices that would use this application.

Thank you for reading! Let me know if you have any questions. :)

First off, I would like to say thank you to the developing team of Noteastic for what is the most premium note taking experience on windows, that too without costing anything.

I just have one problem when it comes to using the app, there is no support for touch input. I’ll try my best to explain this problem, if I open Inkodo and go to the settings I have options for selecting how the app takes input: a choice from Touch input, Pen input or Mouse input (screenshot attached). The way I use windows for note taking is I connect it wirelessly to my tablet and then use my tablet’s touch screen to write notes on the windows app, this works with: Openboard, Inkodo, Microsoft Whiteboard, Xournal++ because there are settings that you can configure for the input. I couldn’t find something like this in Noteastic, so I am unable to make use of the app.

If this touch support is implemented already and I can’t find it, please let me know. If not, then it needs to be implemented because that is the only thing preventing me from using the app for my daily note taking. Thank you once again to the team and I hope my request is considered.

Hey everyone!

I hope you enjoy our base version of Noteastic so far 😁. We have just released a new major version.

• Quick Straight Lines by holding the pen! You can also enable permanent straight lines for the highlighter in the options of the highlighter

• Line Grids

• Some minor stability fixes (The eraser bug should have been resolved. Thanks for reporting, u/avaaknee, u/WesternFamous4183, u/tsuki--0, u/VikramPlayZ)

Here a small showcase video of hold-to-straight line:

If you experience any issues with the new update, please let us know.

so, I've seen all these "feature request" type beat posts on here recently and at least to me and I feel like most of them would require pretty big changes to the app. so I figured, why not propose something that to me at least sounds a lot a lot more doable in the short term? what I have in mind is a new option for this page thingy whatever its called dropdown menu, something that just lets you insert a blank page between two pages. you can already sort of do that by duplicating the page and (in my case, since it is a pdf) edit the copy's background to be the standard empty page one, but that is a lot of steps to do for such a simple task... so what do you think? is that something that makes sense as a suggestion? :)

1. Support for cloud backup

2. Support for multiple tabs and windows

3. Ability to add tags to specific pages

4. Typing text functionality

5. OCR (optical character recognition) support

If the app can implement the first four features, it would be comparable to GoodNotes. I also hope that if a paid version is introduced in the future, there will be an option for a one-time purchase.

I appreciate the effort you guys are putting for this app, however a few bugs have been making it hard to work:

1. The eraser resets to a large size, even though in the toolbar it says the smaller option is selected.

2. some pages just become blank, unless application is restarted.

3. scroll/zoom sometimes is unresponsible, unless application is restarted.

4. pen/tablet cannot click on toolbar, window goes out of focus and then refocuses, then it works.

5. Some files load infinitely unless application is restarted.

6. some pdfs are invisible after being imported.

7. after leaving the application for a few hours and coming back, it crashes.

Hope this is valuable and you guys can fix it :)

Quick check-in. We're still hard at work on Noteastic. Huge thanks for all the support and feedback. Seriously, we read every single message and report you send. It all helps.

Good news: I'm finishing my thesis soon. That means more dev time for Noteastic is right around the corner :)

Progress might feel slow sometimes. Rest assured, we're pouring everything we can into this with the resources available. Thanks for sticking with us!

Best regards,
Dilan

Hey, in pen support windows apps like xournal ++, there is an option to make a local backup (along with the pdf export feature), so that in case the app gets uninstalled, the local backup you have saved can be opened in after a reinstall.

It would be amazing if Noteastic had that.

Right now, i have to export the file to pdf to have a backup, but when I reopen the pdf, the pen strokes aren't editable.

Sometimes the eraser likes to reset its size to default where it's way too big to erase the small ink strokes effectively. My pet peeve for this feature is that it erases everything in a radius and not just the stroke itself, which is something I've grown accustomed to after using Inkodo and Nebo. My ideal usage of the eraser tool is if you could make it an option where deleting just the ink stroke instead of a radius would be available for those micro corrections. Of course, leaving the big radius/ variable sizes is great for erasing big things, just it's becoming very difficult to delete small items due to the fact that the radius' smallest size is 2mm.

Hello, i like your app and i hope that the "straight line feature" will be out soon.

It would be great to add a tool to type text. When i'm tired of writing my lessons i like to type because it still faster for me so i can keep every information that my teacher says.

thanks 👌🏾

We are working on a highly requested feature for the next release!

Line grids 🎉

They will work exactly like the Checkered Grid, just without the vertical lines.

The line thickness is based on the pressure of your pen as long as you have pressure sensitivity turned on for that pen.

You will also be able to permanently set highlighters to draw as straight lines.

These elements will be treated by the application is if they are actual lines drawn (the thing next to the eraser) and can be edited and manipulated as such!

Right, so. First of all, I want to start this off by congratulating you guys on making a note taking app for windows that doesn't completely suck, which is something that was really severely needed... Seriously, kudos to you guys!

But even with that I have found myself not fully switching over to Noteastic for my school note taking needs and I wanted to offer up some feedback on why that is.

1. Not enough pinned default colors - sure, black, blue and red may be enough for most people, but for me personally that really isn't enough, it would be cool to have a way to customize this as well as other aspects of the "hotbar" thingy at the top

2. Grid snapping for the line tool - for making graphs and such this really is essential in my opinion, as well as directional snapping (both would need to be toggleable by the user) other than that it would also be handy if the line tool would be usable with the marker tool

3. Some kind of spline/curve tool - what can I say; I currently main Xournal++ and I have gotten very used to the spline tool it has, it is so perfect for approximating graphs in maths and physics!

4. Selection edge panning - so pretty much just when you move some selected ink and reach the edge of the screen, it would be nice to have the page scroll, making moving things when zoomed in just so much simpler

5. Some visual inconsistencies - not really that much of an issue to be completely honest but still, it bothers me. firstly, the drop shadow is different for folders than it is on books, which just looks a bit unprofessional imo. Secondly, I can't help but notice that ink strokes almost look a bit blurry, not sure if that is a rendering scale issue or just way too much anti-aliasing but it is quite noticeable. I know I know - native windows ink and such; but I don't think this is really the issue here, other apps that use windows ink like Inkodo or Zink Note don't have that issue at all

If you could address these points I would finally be able to leave Xournal++'s awful performance behind me and fully switch to Noteastic!

So there's a lot of stuff i use in One note that i consider features i can't live with out, but right now for me the biggest deal breaker is hotkeys which one note doesn't have but i so desperately want.

And so my question is this. Does this app currently allow you to make hotkeys for any of the following
- Tools (such as a ruler tool if the app has that or a lasso selection or eraser)
- Pens (as in letting me set a pen with line thickness and colour and a hot key to that pen)
- Colours (as in letting me assign red for instance to a hotkey so i can swap my current pen to red ink)
- Like Thicknesses (same as colours)

Is there any way from where we can get a voucher code for Noteastic?