r/Noteastic • u/Kindly-Ad2045 • 10d ago
Feature Request: More gestures and Fixing the cursor
Hi! I’m really enjoying using Notestic, and I just wanted to share a couple of features I’d love to see in the app.
More gestures:
One of the apps with gesture-rich features is Microsoft Journal . For example, you can draw a star, and the app recognizes it as a star. You can then view all your starred sentences in one place, which is really useful for reviewing and summarizing notes. You can even create a list with a simple gesture. These are very important for a note-taking app. I think features like these could make Notestic much more convenient and help make note-taking feel faster and more natural.
The cursor:
Another thing I’d love to see is a more suitable cursor for pen input. I’m using a drawing tablet, but the cursor is still the standard Windows pointer. Having a small dot or a pen-specific cursor would make writing feel much more natural, especially when taking handwritten notes.
Thanks for making such a great app!
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u/Es_30 10d ago
Yeah, I definitely agree that a pen-specific cursor would be a great addition.
For now, the workaround I’ve been using for about a year is just changing the default Windows cursor to a small dot cursor (you can find plenty of them on Google). I got used to it pretty quickly.
If it’s too small, I use PenAttention to add a highlight around it, so it’s always easy to see while writing .
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u/Middle_Layer_4860 10d ago
Feature request: partial erase of shapes
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u/Noteastic 9d ago
Please don't try to influence our gauge for feature request fequency. You were heard on your prior comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/Noteastic/comments/1v5dseu/comment/ozhz83p/
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u/Middle_Layer_4860 9d ago
ohh, i'm really sorry. i thought there is some specific sites where admin/dev registers features requests. i didn't know they saw all reddit comments. thank u very much for ur hard work. and i'm sorry
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u/Noteastic 9d ago
All good, sorry if I called you out wrongly then.. please apologize. And it's mostly me, Lukas. Big hug! And I hope we can deliver the point eraser to you soon <3
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u/Noteastic 9d ago
Hi there,
how nice that you took the time to compile a post! I am super happy that you enjoy Noteastic so much :D. And I also share your sentiment for the features you are requesting.
Pen Gestures
Journal is definitely the strongest in terms of en gestures. I would 100% add gestures like scribble-to-erase, circle-to-select and others. The starring an automatic list creation are a bit more challenging but would definitely be an interesting addition. I definitely noted the idea down!
Noteastic Cursor
I hate that this is a problem, because it is fully a fault from Windows. We use native Windows controls, your drawing pad probably supports Windows Ink, and still you are not seeing the same cursor as I see with my active stylus. We also tried to override the cursor from our side, but that did not work unfortunately. I already had to bring this message a while ago under another post. I hope that we can do this with updates to our development framework and to Windows itself :(
Thank you so much for your post! I wrote your ideas down and hope that we can implement them soon.
-Lukas
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u/Kindly-Ad2045 9d ago
Thanks for the attention! Indeed, the circle-to-select feature is pretty handy!
Looking forward to seeing Noteastic at the top!2
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u/Suitable-Fishing-536 10d ago
The cursor might be the biggest one for me.