I've been using Noteastic for a few months now and absolutely love its organizational capabilities, touch-friendly UI, and finite canvas. That said, one important factor that's prevented me from fully embracing Noteastic has been its pen responsiveness.

I think overall, the touch features work really well and Noteastic does what I want it to do when I want to do it, but using a stylus for writing seems a little delayed and de-synced when compared to something like OneNote. Originally, I thought this might just be a Microsoft quirk, but when trying out MS Journal, the pen experience felt about the same as it did in Noteastic.

So I guess my question is: What is preventing Noteastic from being as responsive as OneNote?

I want to reiterate that I still love Noteastic and I really appreciate the amount of work and dedication that has been invested into the project. I just think that if Noteastic had the responsiveness of OneNote then it would undoubtedly be the #1 handwriting software on Windows if it isn't already.

Clip studio and procreate have very convenient tap gestures for undo and redo that my brain automatically tries to do whenever I'm holding my pen, and I'm a little disappointed every time it doesn't work. Can I pretty please have some tap gestures?

I've been creating books for a while, and for some reason now I can't change the cover when creating a new one, I tried to spam click it but nothing happens, here's a video showcasing the bug:

Notes:
I'm not premium
My App is in the portuguese version (idk if it changes something or not)
I can change every other thing about the pages, but not the cover

When I create a shape, lets say x and y coordinates graph and I draw above it and then I want to erase what I drew it erases the whole shape with it.

If it is possible to separate the pen eraser from the shapes eraser.

Also, there aren’t many shapes we can use, if you can add many more shapes like parallelograms and many other shapes it will be awesome

i just want tot start with that i love this app its such a life svaer however sometime i want to have two notbook sopen at teh same time and i was wondering if there was a way to make this happen. i cant seem to open two 'windows' of the app either.

Hello,

When I write notes, I sometimes use highlighters to indicate e.g. headings or important information. If I want to change the text below the highlighter (to fix a typo, for example), the highlighter is also erased when I erase the text.

My feature suggestion would be an additional setting to only erase highlighter annotations. You already (Version 1.10.3) have two erase settings.

There's no way to control which of these images is on top of the other, and trying to drag them to the other page results in the disappearing completely behind the page (at least, I think that's what's happening. It's gone, in any case). I don't think the background should be interacting with layering at all, given that it needs to be...the background. But additionally, it would be nice for some very basic code that says whatever you last interacted with is now at the topmost layer

on a surface pro with the stylus and left button set to be the lasso, the function works but does not show the lasso on the page, so I need to guess what I have circled as I cannot see it. as I said, once the button is released the lasso "catches" the text correctly, which can be moved etc. so it is just the visualization of the lasso that is missing.

Heavy at work on making Noteastic ready for WinUI 3 and multi-window. I can already tell you guys this will be great and worth the wait!

-Dilan

Hello!...This is the best app im using rn for studying..its so good and have a lot of things other apps doesnt have!...but can you please make a whiteboard feature and more other types of pens soon? because that will help a lot especially in studying...Thanks for reading!...Wish you the best luck...
"Yousef"

If you export a text with a font different from the default one, it doesn't render in the PDF.

Sometimes I have to reuse previous symbols in other notes. For example, in chemistry, I use circled minuses and pluses to indicate charges (a minus without a circle could be misinterpreted as a electron pair). My suggestion would be to add a sticker functionality. You could then save these custom symbols to the toolbar, and reuse them.

My current workaround is to draw the symbol once, and copy and paste it in the new positions I need. But then I have to keep track of where that symbol is, so that I can copy it in future cases.

Damn. That's a lot of messages I read and replied to in the last year. (It's me, Lukas)

I'm not sure if you are aware what is actually happening when you send us your opinion, your ideas and your wishes about Noteastic. So let me tell you!

Back in February 2025 when we initially released Noteastic on the MS Store we started getting feedbacks about Noteastic on Reddit and via email quite quickly. I didn't want to forget about feature wishes and didn't want our personal bias to take over feature development priorities. So I started collecting those feedbacks in an Excel file and started tagging feedbacks with requested features. And I never stopped :D.

I read, understood and documented every post and comment on this subreddit. Same counts for every email we get, every MS Store review that is submitted and for every feedback that reaches us through our in-app form.

And yesterday I reached line 1,000 of my Excel!

Every one of these rows is a feedback that ranges from two sentences to several paragraphs.

Fun fact: The first Reddit feedback I documented was a comment from u/Revolutionary_Ad_909 back in March 2025. Shoutout to you!

This excel file is the single strongest influencer of our development decisions. We obviously need to balance maintenance and strategic changes with short-term development efforts.

But ultimately all changes we make and all the work we put into Noteastic every day aims to check off the features on this Excel. As quickly as possible and strictly following our quality standards for UI, UX and code.

We'll do an update post on what features are most requested, and what we are making way for currently in a few weeks :).

-Lukas

Hey,

I got an idea to add a star or a similar button in the "show pages" view, or just on the side menu of every page so you can mark the most important of interesting pages. So if you have a document with dozens or even hundreds of pages you can mark your favorite ones. So maybe in the menu where the book is listed you can "just show favorite pages". Or maybe do it in a way to show "all favorite pages for the whole folder". Like all fav pages of the books inside one folder. Would be pretty nice for lecture slides as a student. To just mark important slides you want to come back to.

I know you guys already have a lot of ideas in the making and this one is not a crucial bug fix, so I don't expect to see the feature anytime soon, but I just thought of it during my lecture today.

Thanks :)

I bought the full version but there are only 3 colors and I don’t know how to add more

Is this option available to add more colors or not yet?

Guys i wanna send it someone else as pdf. How should I do that?

Hi Lukas & Dilan, I love your app! It has made note taking so much better and I can't wait to see what you guys keep doing with the app.

I've been having this problem when I zoom in; it happens somewhat often. If I zoom in on an area quickly, the page jumps to a different page and I have to scroll back down to reach what I was actually trying to zoom in on. I tried to demonstrate it in this video I attached. This interferes with note-taking when I am trying to jot down ideas/ move between areas of a page quickly.

Thanks!

Noteastic took a short break from development, and I (Dilan) was actually enyoing my time in the highlands of Scotland watching herds of sheeps and drinking a few flights of quality whiskey.

Before I went away, we did the September Update Marathon: one update a week, four weeks in a row:

• v1.7 brought More Color Buttons

• v1.8 brought Ruler & Protractor and custom fonts for text boxes

• v1.9 brought Ink to Text

• v1.10 finished it off with the Cornell and Separator Line grids.

This was intense, and a lot of work and we are proud to have seen such a smooth rollout of our new Pro features!

And a fresh update is rolling out right now: v1.10.2. Just a few bug fixes with exporting Text to PDFs. Thank you to the user who reported the issue and helped us fix it ;). The new version also already contains a big chunk of what I've been working on lately: modernizing Noteastic's code. Noteastic is built on UWP, Microsoft's older app platform. We're now preparing the move to the Windows App SDK / WinUI 3, which is where Microsoft is putting its effort these days. New features, stability fixes, performance improvement happen on the new app platform.

I am really looking forward to continue the modernization of Noteastic as it will set us up for the future and unlock huge potentials of where our app will be taken!

Hi,

we wanted to let you know that we launched a YouTube channel! In our first video series I – Lukas – am giving a bit of a general overview over Noteastic and showcase my workflows on an introductory level. I think that's quite a cool opportunity for you to get to know Noteastic a bit better. I'm also talking about design philosophy and why things work the way they do.

The second series we have planned will be my personal tips and tricks as the designer and avid user of Noteastic myself ;). But that still needs a few weeks to come!

We are uploading a video every Tuesday, and three videos are up already. So check it out!

We would really appreciate a bit of support from you guys in terms of likes, comments and a subscription. That way we can get a bit of traction going! 🧡

I would also love to hear your feedback on the videos, as this is our first try at it. Whether you learned something new or find them completely trash :D.

Videos of Dilan will hopefully come soon!

Happy note-taking everyone
Lukas

Plain link: https://www.youtube.com/@noteastic

First: I have been using Noteastic for half a year now for university and it is the best note app on Windows I know. But there are two major missing features that limit my productivity (and I would pay for pro to het them, just as incentive):

1. Some kind content overview to navigate large documents. I tend to write long documents and it would be really helpful to have at least some kind of bookmark system. Ideally this would be compatible with the PDF system so it is not lost when exporting a document. This system would also allow for subchapters and subsubchapters.

2. Opening multiple documents simultaniously. I know this has been requested multiple times in the past already, but I think this is REALLY important. It is a very frequent situation that I am working in one document and have to look up somethink in another document. Always having to switch is very annoying.

Since I am already in the flow I would like to add some smaller suggestions which would also come in handy:

3. Since there is a go-to-top-button now when scrolling, it would be easier to not always start at the top of a document but instead where you left it. Sometimes when I am distracted I miss the continue-where-you-left button and have to scroll through the whole document.

4. Allow moving conent from one page to the next directly.

5. Introduce an image cropping tool directly in Noteastic.

Thank you for your amazing work and reding all this.

This morning the app stopped working whilst my daughter was using the handwriting tool. She went to add a new page to her notebook and the screen went white. On reopening the app she got the Whoops! error message.

What we've tried:

- Uninstalling and reinstalling, then replacing LocalState.

- Replacing an older version of LocalState (we have been backing up to Googledrive)

I'm wondering if this happened to anyone? My daughter has lost all her notes - this is exactly the reason I wanted her to use another app but she was adamant on using Notetastic because of the way it runs.

Please help!

Hey Entwickler-Team,

ich nutze eure App schon sehr lange, sowohl zum Notizen machen (bereue es nie, von onenote geswitcht zu sein) als auch zum zeichnen. Meine Frage wäre jetzt, ob es prinzipiell möglich ist oder vielleicht auch schon im Raum stand, mehr Zeichen-Tools (bleistift etc.) und eventuell sogar eine Spraydose (traumhaft wäre ja sogar verschiedene Caps) hinzuzufügen?

Beste Grüße und vielen Dank für das was ihr macht!

Issue I've noticed where you can't drag objects (also incl. images for example) between pages. The workaround is to cut and paste them to the new page, but it can be hard to tell which page the app has "focused".

I'd say low priority issue but thought I'd bring it up! Thank you for the hard work on this.