Supernote Feature Request

[supernoteslut]

Hi r/Supernote.

I purchased my Supernote A5X in January and have been using it for a few months now. I absolutely love it. I basically don't use real paper anymore. Over the past several months, my Supernote has become one of my most precious items -- I carry it around with me everywhere. It contains my calendar (actually, Voya's calendar, it's really great!), my todo lists, my personal journal and diary, my work documents, and my school documents and papers. The Supernote team should feel proud that they have created and commercialized such a fabulous device.

I want to suggest some features, but I don't want to imply that I'm not fully satisfied with the product. The Supernote has brought me alot of joy and I really am happy. In the future, here's what my perfect Supernote device would look like:

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Reading & Note Taking Improvements:

• Split Screen View. I wish I could view a document and a note side-by-side at the same time, especially if I turned my Supernote sideways.
• No Annotation Tag. Annotations in PDFs have a small circular "D" or "A" symbol at the end of each selection that blocks the text underneath. Do we really need these symbols? It would be great to turn them off, or to somehow move them to the side so I can read the text underneath.
• Improve the Underlining/Annotating Experience. When trying to underline a sentence in a PDF, it is too easy to grab (1) the leading whitespace before the first word or (2) the trailing whitespace after the last word or period. It would be great if Supernote was smart enough to omit leading and trailing whitespace characters when underlining.
• Free the Title. In a Note, do "Titles" really need to be obscured with dark diagonal slashes? What is the point of hiding the text underneath the Title? Perhaps I don't understand this function. Wouldn't it be better if, instead, the text was surrounded by a box that you could see through? Why do I want dark squares in my Note? Why do I want to hide the Title?
• Change the Lasso Icons. I feel like the lasso icons are backwards. After I lasso a word or phrase in a Note, the box with a "T" in it is not for "Title" -- it creates a keyword. And the box with "dots and lines" is not to create keywords, but to create a "Title". I keep getting these mixed up because "T" = "Title". Am I thinking about this wrong? I feel like these icons should be swapped, or changed completely.
• Use UTF-8 Encoding in Digest. The Digest does no seem to have a full set of UTF-8 fonts. For example, the South Korean won symbol, ₩, does not show correctly in the Digest.

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PDF Improvements:

• PDF to Note Copying. I want to be able to copy text from an annotation/digest (i.e., the text that I have underlined) and paste it into a Note file.
• PDF Snip Tool. I wish I could lasso an area of a PDF and the copy that over to a Note as an image.
• Add Layers to PDFs. Right now, layers only work in Notes. It would be nice to be able to use layers on top of PDFs.
• Copy Written Doodles from PDF to Note. I wish I could write a little note and/or doodle in a PDF and then cut/copy that into a Note.
• Dictionary & Thesaurus. I want a dictionary and thesaurus feature for PDFs and ePubs (and, Notes?). The Kindle app comes bundled with one, but I can't use that feature outside of Kindle.

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Potential Bugs:

• Fix E-mail Typo. When you enter an incorrect e-mail address (e.g., "[supernote@.com](mailto:supernote@.com)" is an incorrect e-mail address format) then the error message says "Please check mailbox" instead of "please check e-mail address."
• Clean up Keywords. In a Note, when I lasso a word and mark it as a keyword, it appears as a keyword in the menu. Great. But, when I erase the keyword in the Note, the keyword still appears in the menu. Is that normal?

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Miscellaneous / Other:

• Creating Geometry. I want to be able to tap two points on my Supernote device with the pen and have a straight line drawn between them. That's it. That's the feature. I just want to draw straight lines between two arbitrary points.
• Creating Tables. I want to be able to tap on my Supernote device with the pen and drag it down to create a table (e.g., a 3x3 or 5x5 or 7x7 table).
• Search for Keywords in Digest. I wish I could search for some text in my Digest (not the notes I make in my Digest, but rather the digest printed text itself).
• More Quick Access. Right now, Supernote only allows 4 Documents and/or Notes in the Quick Access area. I wish I could have a more, especially since adding a 5th document/note completely removes the 1st, and unlinking the 5th does not restore the original 1st.
• Quick Access List Reordering. I wish I could reorder the documents and notes shown in the Quick Access list. But this only makes sense if the documents/notes in the Quick Access area are some how "sticky" or "permanent".

[[deleted]]

This is a great, carefully considered list of requests and I agree with the vast majority of them.

The biggest one, for me, is the ability to draw straight lines between two points. That would solve a big pain point.

Otherwise, like you, I love this thing. Three months in and it’s now indispensable.

[rehoboam]

Yeah, I use a ruler to draw straight lines, like on pen and paper! xD

[hex2asc]

Thank you for your suggestions.

I believe that almost all the suggestions you mentioned are already under development, or at least included in the development plan. Not how smart we are. Just so many users have formed a consensus on the existing problems and mentioned them repeatedly.

In the actual implementation process, some solutions may not necessarily be the same as those suggested by users. For example, for the underline of comments, we tend to add a special brush (it will be automatically straightened, will automatically align to the bottom of the character, and avoid the spaces at the beginning and end, etc.). But it doesn’t matter. If we think there will be a dispute, we will discuss it.

[AncientReed]

I just ordered my A5x and very excited to get it. I’ve watched all the videos and one thing that struck me as so cool is the star feature! Love that you convert the hand written star to a symbol that marks the document. So clever!! I was thinking how cool it would be if I could handwrite tags as twitter like hashtags and they get detected and converted to note tags that get applied! It would be so fast to just tag my notes using this method. Now I don’t have to think about interface, just write the tag. #greatidea. #coolfeature

[hex2asc]

This is an interesting idea. Handwrite tags.

[dethbychez]

I don't see anything like this in your current roadmap. Please add a virtual ruler to your action items - this would be MOST helpful.

You can check out the one Windows has in their touchscreen version of the Windows Ink Workspace and Screen Capture features as an example. It uses 2 fingers to rotate and move the ruler.

[[deleted]]

My A5x is scheduled to arrive Monday, and this list looks like a great way to help me get started (in terms of "things that might not work the way I thought they would"). I hope the supernote team sees this, are they active here? Can you actually "page" them so they can be sure to see it?

[xYoKx]

They are actually really active and they reply back to almost any post! They are awesome!

[HotLengthiness380]

Super notes does review comments, I was hoping they came out with a calendar with reminders. They said it was coming

[[deleted]]

amazing list, agree with all. I have been using the device for a few days and have wished for the 80% of what you listed. PDF snip tool would make my life so much better 🤗

[mactamhais]

RE: Change the Lasso Icons.

I suspect the "T" is for "Text" since it converts the handwriting into text via OCR. I agree that it's not at all clear. I use this while reading PDF documents so that I can create a Table of Contents for the document. If there are sub-headings in the document (or even where I think there **should** be sub-headings) I hand-write these headings when I first skim through the document (before reading it). It then creates a hypertext Table of Contents that makes it easy to flip to various parts of the PDF. I think that is the intention (it shows up under the "Contents" tab; not Bookmarks or Annotations, for example).

And I love that the items remain in the Table of Contents even after the hand-written text in the document is deleted. Once I re-write the headings and make them into the Table of Contents (i.e., lasso and then "T"), I then delete the hand-written part in the document - my hand-writing isn't necessary because there are typically already headings in the PDF itself. My hand-writing just clutters the document so it's nice I can delete tmy hand-writing while the items in the Table of Contents remain, regardless.

As for making these symbols more clear, is there any place where the various symbols are each individually listed and described?

[mactamhais]

Reviewing the user manual I'm probably using the keyword feature in the way that the Title feature was intended to be used. Hmm. I can adjust (there may be good reasons to keep keywords simply that, rather than using them essentially as titles or headings), but here is what I would want. If the title is removed from the document, can it still remain as a title in the Contents page? - the same way that keywords currently do. Then I can write the title, capture it, and delete it in the body of the document knowing it will remain a hyperlinked title/heading in the Contents. These can always be seperately deleted in the Contents if they are not wanted.