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What do CM9 users do about pen apps?

Users of CM9-based ROMs -- what are you using to replace the functionality of S Memo, etc?

Quill, LectureNotes, Sketchbook, etc.
There's plenty of alternatives.

knightnz said:
Quill, LectureNotes, Sketchbook, etc.
There's plenty of alternatives.
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Do they have as good of a brush and colour selection as Samsung's apps? And what about pressure sensitivity? Pressure sensitivity is GREAT for writing Kanji.

i am very interested in this topic as well , would be great if people who tried alternative apps indicate the pros/cons and compatibility with cm9

i would love to see palm reject in cm

cruno91 said:
Do they have as good of a brush and colour selection as Samsung's apps? And what about pressure sensitivity? Pressure sensitivity is GREAT for writing Kanji.
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Varies from app to app, but yes.

knightnz said:
Varies from app to app, but yes.
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What are you using that has the same pressure sensitivity, organizational abilities, cloud sync abilities, and intent support (i.e. exporting/importing to/from pictures, etc.) as S Memo?
I ask because I'd really like to give a CM9 ROM a try but need to know I'll have the pen support I've come to depend on.

starkruzr said:
What are you using that has the same pressure sensitivity, organizational abilities, cloud sync abilities, and intent support (i.e. exporting/importing to/from pictures, etc.) as S Memo?
I ask because I'd really like to give a CM9 ROM a try but need to know I'll have the pen support I've come to depend on.
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I wasn't aware that S-Memo supported cloud sync, it's not a feature I have any interest in using.
Lecturenotes will upload to an Evernote account and will import existing images.
Just search on the market for "stylus" and see what pops up.
Jotter
Writepad
Quill
Skitch
LectureNotes
SketchBook Mobile
Samsung S-Memo (No idea if this version would work on CM9, it's not available to my country)
Omnisketch
If you heavily rely on the native Samsung apps though, then I'd not recommend switching to CM9.

Unfortunately some of the "stylus" search results are designed for "fake styluses" on tablets.

True. The ones I've listed are ones that work properly with the Note stylus. (Or did when I tried them anyway). They mostly support pressure sensitivy when it's useful for them to do so. Palm-detection is pretty hit & miss.
I think Skitch is about the only "generic" input app in the list.
I'm not aware of anything that replicates _all_ of the functionality that the native Samsung apps do (particularly the versions in the ICS release), but as I mainly just want to use the device instead of carting around a pen+paper to make quick notes, or draw (very poor) pictures when I'm idling, the alternatives work fine for me.

Edit: Dame it, it's not ics compatible
Hi guys,
I'm using this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steadfastinnovation.android.projectpapyrus&hl=de
It is build for the s-pan.
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Notesmobile
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proabably the most used is freenote

After trying most of the list, my favourite is LectureNotes... It seems to have the best sketching features, reasonable import/export and pretty much suits my needs to the extent that I would choose it over s- memo
But that is just my opinion... Try a bunch out and see what works for you
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garytube said:
Edit: Dame it, it's not ics compatible
Hi guys,
I'm using this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steadfastinnovation.android.projectpapyrus&hl=de
It is build for the s-pan.
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I restored it with titanium backup. Works fine.
Edit: I lied. Coulda sworn it worked, no input. =/
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Yeah, hopefully Papyrus will have ICS support soon. It's awesome.
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im using jotter. much better that the stock memo apps

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Yeah, hopefully Papyrus will have ICS support soon. It's awesome.
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+1
Very good application! I'm using it on latest cm9 nightly and it perfect. If only we could have s-pen support some day.
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coming soon: http://opendesign.bbqdroid.org/features/?cat=1&feature=3
...maybe.

Quill is very good.
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Is there any app that can recognise my written mathematical formula?

I know that S memo does the job, but I am currently using cm9 so I am looking for alternatives..
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I am using handwriting calculator, downloaded from Samsung Apps.
It solves equations written by hand.
Cheers!

Hey, thanks for the info
The thing is, samsung apps cannot be installed on cm9 Also, what I am looking for is more like wolfram alpha. The s note recognized hand-written formula and wolfram alpha-ed the formula for me.
Hope you get what I mean

Never though I'd say this..

..but shortly after I flashed CM9 stable, I kinda started to miss touchwiz a lot, so I had to nandroid back to it.
And I am the one who hates touchwiz.. (although, I use Nova as my launcher)

Never thought you would post this
By the way it happens always, aosp Rom doesn't suit all unless they are ready to compromise some features
《tapatalked from galaxy s3》

Never thought I'd see a thread created on this.
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I actually like Touchwiz on this phone, seriously. All previous versions annoyed me, but it is smooth and flows well on this phone.

Touchwiz is good and nice, but i think if the backgrounds were white (in the contacts and call log at least) it will be nicer
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Can understand you very well.
Have been an aosp freak before (or I'm still, but not at this device), but I'm pretty pleased with touchwiz now. Some ctl and build.prop tweaks and all works fine so far.
Also touchwiz has at the current stage already some small, but useful features build in like the battery percent or the pinch to overview at the appdrawer. Not to forget about the missing mhl support at cm10 which is a dealbreaker for me.
Additional I must confess that I don't like the attitude of team hacksung, even while their work is still much appreciated and they are for sure great developers, it seems to me they aren't doing it anymore because they like to do it, more because they think they have to. For sure it's annoying when noobs clutter the development thread with ridiculous posts, but that you have to expect at a device like the gs3 and the argument that they are doing it for free, yes, it sure makes their work more valuable, but at the same time, they knew it when they started.
My opinion is they or at least every member of their team on his own should focus on one device, maybe that way it would be less load for each developer and at the same time more benefits for the community.
Sry that I cluttered your thread, this I wanted to get of from me sometime ago.
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Tectas said:
Additional I must confess that I don't like the attitude of team hacksung, even while their work is still much appreciated and they are for sure great developers, it seems to me they aren't doing it anymore because they like to do it, more because they think they have to. For sure it's annoying when noobs clutter the development thread with ridiculous posts, but that you have to expect at a device like the gs3 and the argument that they are doing it for free, yes, it sure makes their work more valuable, but at the same time, they knew it when they started.
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I kinda agree with you on this.
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Coming from a galaxy s phone, I remember wanting touch wiz back. The problem with touch wiz as opposed to HTC sense, is you can't retain the framework with a custom Rom. I feel there is more to gain from having a custom Rom than having full blown touch wiz. Look around though, you can probably find a .zip of the launcher here, so you can run a very close emulation of touch wiz on the Rom if your choice. I had a Rom on my captivate called "remics" which had galaxy s3 stock theming throughout the operating system. Just look around, you'll find what you want here on xda
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Samsung has come good features but they load it up with crap and its to much. Problem is it seems like an all or nothing situation

Same happenend to me I love touchwiz I flash back. Will go aosp when aokp is back on track .
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It's the hidden stuff I love in the new touchwiz, like the native mkv and other formats, stay awake, camera app, t9 dialler, swipe to message/call, reject a call with a message..... and loads more really well thought out features. Touchwiz isn't just the launcher. I use apex and have it looking how I want (stockish), yet retain all the samsung stuff. Why anyone would complain about touchwiz on the S3 is beyond me.
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Touchwiz is good and nice, but i think if the backgrounds were white (in the contacts and call log at least) it will be nicer
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There are some good dialler apps and message apps that have white backgrounds (or customisable) with the t9 dialling aswell. I can't remember the names, but you should have a look if you're interested.

The simple fact that I could not create folders in my app drawer made me flash back
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irish-sid said:
It's the hidden stuff I love in the new touchwiz, like the native mkv and other formats, stay awake, camera app, t9 dialler, swipe to message/call, reject a call with a message..... and loads more really well thought out features. Touchwiz isn't just the launcher. I use apex and have it looking how I want (stockish), yet retain all the samsung stuff. Why anyone would complain about touchwiz on the S3 is beyond me.
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This. I dusted off my galaxy nexus the other day because I thought I wanted to go back to it ... only phone with stable jellybean right now and all ... but two days with it and I was missing the s3 something almighty with all the "gimmicky" features that are actually very cool.
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dr.m0x said:
This. I dusted off my galaxy nexus the other day because I thought I wanted to go back to it ... only phone with stable jellybean right now and all ... but two days with it and I was missing the s3 something almighty with all the "gimmicky" features that are actually very cool.
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Quite right. I'm planning to sell my nexus now. I think I'm getting over it.
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ceo.mtcl said:
Quite right. I'm planning to sell my nexus now. I think I'm getting over it.
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Don't sell it!
Flash boot 2 gecko on it like I did
Its my experimenting phone these days, building a JB rom to flash now.
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nodstuff said:
Don't sell it!
Flash boot 2 gecko on it like I did
Its my experimenting phone these days, building a JB rom to flash now.
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Gecko... I'm a little lost here friend... ???
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I am running Holo HD but I like touchwiz. Especially the icons, they did an amazing job on the icons. they look so nice now and not preschool like before. So I decided to keep using the touchwiz icons for holo.

Yeah, the thing I love with touchwiz is the message app (stock android'd message app is dead boring), the camera app and a bunch of other stuff.
What kinda is a dealbreaker for me which I can't really decide about is exFAT support. Dumbing down my 64gb microSDXC card kinda feels like a stupid thing to do. exFAT is much faster and allows big chunks to be handled at once (like 16 exabyte chucks instead of 4GB ones)
The whole idea with their Nature UX kinda appeals to me. Soothing alarm and ring tones and beautiful wallpapers. Much better than previous touchwiz's.

i like TouchWiz , tried it on both S2 and S3, i also tried CM9/CM10 on both
I hate the TouchWiz launcher, changing the launcher to something like nova solved my problems.

lol because of this I just reverted back to touchwiz from ADW.

Drawing on the phone.

I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.

Archaenon said:
I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.
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I don't have very good drawing skills, but I did just find an app called flipaclip(maybe everyone else already knows about it, idk)it allows you to draw flip book style clips. Pretty neat and fun

Archaenon said:
I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.
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You are talented. Very nice drawings. :good:

Archaenon said:
I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.
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Awesome drawings! Can you do some on the Note 3 and show us how they come out?
EDIT! Duh! I see that you said those were done on the Note 3. Lol! Very cool! What app do you use?

mike208 said:
I don't have very good drawing skills, but I did just find an app called flipaclip(maybe everyone else already knows about it, idk)it allows you to draw flip book style clips. Pretty neat and fun
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I'll have to give it a whirl, sounds pretty neat.
To everyone else, thanks. Also the programs I used are Sketchbook pro/mobile (which amusingly enough I don't like for desktop), and Artflow, both very good programs for the note line of tablets and phones. It allows for full blown drawing and rendering in a tiny app.

WOW!!! Great art work. Im glad to see that people have been sharing what this great phone can do.
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I'm in no way an artist. But I do enjoy drawing on this phone. Its something I used to do a lot to relax when I had a notepad on me but I haven't carried a pen and paper with me for years. Its nice to be able to draw again and just doodle whenever I feel like it and not have to plan on bringing anything more with me.
Here is something I drew a few days ago. Just getting used to the program.
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zanson said:
I'm in no way an artist. But I do enjoy drawing on this phone. Its something I used to do a lot to relax when I had a notepad on me but I haven't carried a pen and paper with me for years. Its nice to be able to draw again and just doodle whenever I feel like it and not have to plan on bringing anything more with me.
Here is something I drew a few days ago. Just getting used to the program.
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That pen is pretty capable. Interesting .
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Yea the sensitivity is nice. Once you get used to the program brushes and customize the size for the pressure you use. Its nice.
My fiance is an animator, usually works on the cintiq, and has the note 2 and loves the pen. One of the reasons she got the phone was because of the wacom tech.
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Archaenon said:
I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.
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Very nice!
I was at CES when they announced the first Note. They had artists all of the building doing character paintings. It was all very impressive!

Damn! /Salute! Very nice!

Thanks!
Hopefully more people will post some artistic pics of their own. I'm curious to see what people come up with on it.

Im sure youve made an account on PEN.UP app on your phone .. anywho heres somethin i drew
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I'm not that good. But its something I am going to build soon for work
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The main reason i picked it up was for drawing. I sync my sketches with my dropbox and work them on my windows tablet, phone, and desktop. Sketchbook for galaxy is such a significant upgrade for me as well. All i need is the lasso cutout tool...although you can lasso through screenshot and share right into a layer. Very sharp.
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Archaenon said:
I'm curious, did anyone buy the phone for the ability to draw on it? I was excited to see they included replacement nibs with the note3.
I've drawn on all three notes, and the note 3 has some really good pressure sensitivity, better then my cintiq at times.
Anyone else want to share any drawings or other art they've done on it so far, or even the Note 1 or 2?
You can see mine here.
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Damn you good
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You guys are killing me .....so much talent
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I'm in the process of customizing my launcher. I'm drawing my own icons on the phone. Does anyone know if sketchbook can save a image with a transparent background? Every time I try to make a icon the background is always white. And yes the note 3 and spen can make beautiful drawings.
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The main reason i picked it up was for drawing. I sync my sketches with my dropbox and work them on my windows tablet, phone, and desktop. Sketchbook for galaxy is such a significant upgrade for me as well. All i need is the lasso cutout tool...although you can lasso through screenshot and share right into a layer. Very sharp.
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I'm hoping photoshop will get on board and make an app, or at the very least pro-create. I use it a lot for work, it was just random doodling on my previous notes, but the 3 has a lot of potential.
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Not bad, I like how clean you can get line work on this with the added resolution.
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Damn you good
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Thanks!
a3plew said:
I'm in the process of customizing my launcher. I'm drawing my own icons on the phone. Does anyone know if sketchbook can save a image with a transparent background? Every time I try to make a icon the background is always white. And yes the note 3 and spen can make beautiful drawings.
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I don't think you can, you might have to do a bit of exporting and then importing them back in to get a png/gif effect. Sounds like a neat project, good luck.

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Im sure youve made an account on PEN.UP app on your phone .. anywho heres somethin i drew
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I looked at Pen.UP, but I haven't made an account. I mainly just use instagram to post.

[Q] Best apps for productivity? Note taking?

What are some of the best apps for note taking and other general productivity? I really need to be able to annotate PDF's. Multi-window would be fantastic too are there and ROMS that feature this yet?
As far as a pen, is the Jot Pro the best for note taking on capacitive touch screens?
Thanks!

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What are some of the best apps for note taking and other general productivity? I really need to be able to annotate PDF's. Multi-window would be fantastic too are there and ROMS that feature this yet?
As far as a pen, is the Jot Pro the best for note taking on capacitive touch screens?
Thanks!
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For apps ever note and skitch work well together. Snitch let's you annotate pictures and PDFs and other things while ever note let's you take notes in a notebook style. You can also buy a member ship for more features but it works fine with the free version
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For apps ever note and skitch work well together. Snitch let's you annotate pictures and PDFs and other things while ever note let's you take notes in a notebook style. You can also buy a member ship for more features but it works fine with the free version
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Thanks! I'll check them out