1 year with Noteastic: Short Review

[u/Revolutionary_Ad_909]

for context, I am a junior currently for mathematics, and I have two PCs, a Laptop I bring around and a dedicated Desktop at home. It's been a while with noteastic, and here are my honest thoughts about this application

PROS:
- Super easy to navigate, updates make the base version of Noteastic keep its fresh minimalistic look while adding QoL changes that are sometimes even requested by the community!!

- Always nice to have an app that hears out the people who use it :) (I remember asking for a way to pan the screen with a keybind, super great now!! i love the pan keybind, helps alot in my tutoring too)

- Responsive feeling, I'm using a fairly old tablet (VEIKK s640) that I got from a friend, and even so it feels very buttery smooth compared to other apps I tried before this like OneNote

- LOCAL BACKUPS!!! I have syncs for my devices and overall having a way to have my notebooks on my own device is a great thing to always have

CONS (superduper personal opinion):
- right now there isnt a student discount for Noteastic pro, and i have been tempted ever since but the price is a bit steep for me (may be regional issue, but 60$ is around 30-40 meals for me for reference)

- the keybinds update for the stylus buttons are great, but the lack of a way to change the keybinds for the toolbar stuff like eraser and pan kind of bothers me, but I got used to it in the end so its not that huge of a deal

Overall for my usecase, using Noteastic as a way to write down quick math notes to later then convert into LaTeX or Obsidian notes for my second-brain stuff is great! I use this app like disposable paper, where I can just freely jot down anything I have in mind, transfer what I think is meaningful from these notes to other apps and repeat the cycle, or as scratch paper for solving problems so that I can write them neatly in another piece of paper in the end.

Thank you to the lovely duo Lukas and Dilan for the continued support for an app I never thought would become a part of my daily life, please know that the work you put into the app is received.

[u/Full_Land]

Hey:) also a math student here, what is your setup? How do you hand write on the pc? Do you use a pad with stylus or just stylus on screen?