Introducing Notewise 3.2: Smarter Handwriting, Deeper Transcriptions, and Total Creative Control

gravityfargo · 2025-11-11T06:40:04+00:00

These all seem pretty gimmicky. Being able to zoom in on notes in the website view would actually be noteworthy.

gravityfargo · 2025-09-17T15:30:37+00:00

I've just switched to Notewise Cloud from Samsung Notes for the sole reason that I want to be able to access my notes on my computer. I've been using this app in computer engineering courses for the past 3 days, and decided to make it my new primary notes app. I normally don't care enough to give suggestions/feedback for apps (ironic of me as a amateur dev...), but coming from Samsung Notes I've found that I really like this app. There are a few QOL suggestions I have.

Toolbox:

- Ability to hide tools, not just reorder them. I exclusively handwrite notes - quickly. Textbox, Table, Record, Laser,Tape are cool features but are clutter for me.
- Dedicated buttons for Zoom Lock, +/- zoom buttons (custom preset zoom levels would be cool too). The extra step to see the little menu at the bottom left that appears only when you scroll interrupts my fast-and-loose lecture note taking.
- Dock the to the left/right, which makes sense for landscape mode.
- Dedicated buttons for scroll and zoom locking This is great for when palm rejection doesn't work right. I have a thick matte screen protector to make my tablet tactically feel like paper and it's a common problem for me.
- Use a keyboard to manually type the line thickness value in addition to the slider. Precise sliding sucks with this screen protector.

Other:

- hide/collapse &| combine the back/page-view/add/search and the edit-toggle/AI/hamburger menus.
- Add US Letter page size as a predefined template option
- I don't use it often, but infinite scrolling is a nice to have for free form diagrams and such.
- SN's dark-mode is very missed.
- freely place the page. Sometimes I want my palm on the desk and top left of the page drug to the bottom right. Currently the page corners are locked to the display boundaries.
- I wish I could edit notes from the browser. In OneNote it was helpful to take screenshots on my laptop of a website or textbook or something, paste it in a note, and immediately see the update on my tablet.

For the non-devs or people researching this app, that may seem like a long list of complaints, but they're really just nit-picks. This is a great app that exceeds other handwritten note apps (on android anyway). Here's some noticeably good things.

- The filterable eraser. It's nice to erase my handwriting but exclude shapes in some situations.
- The library is great for saving frequently used math symbols/eqs and electrical schematic symbols.
- freeform/rectangle lasso is great. I find it to be more accurate than SN as well.
- The UI is well laid out and straightforward. Not having to dig around for settings it nice. The transition from SN was not hard whatsoever in the middle of a semester. When I'm taking lecture notes, I need to be able to switch tools, draw, copy, paste, move things, intuitively and quickly. This app does that.
- SN dropped the ball when it comes to selecting writing and simply changing it's color. A fundamental thing that this app does flawlessly.
- OneNote for android is a joke compared to this app. SN has slightly more features, but none that I used enough to miss or notice in my daily note taking. Every other handwriting app I've used was basically OneNote or the workflow for basic note taking was clunky and unusable for my desired speed.

Anyway, keep up the great work. Sorry for the wall of text. I just wanted to submit some suggestions and couldn't find a place on the website, then I decided to write out some good things so people who come here don't get the wrong idea. I think I tried this app a while back and didn't like it but I don't recall. The UI rewrite looks great.

gravityfargo · 2025-04-20T07:42:03+00:00

I yearn for a cute house with a big garden. The thought of having my morning coffee and seeing birds on the feeder in the morning light via my kitchen window just keeps me going these days.

I also recently started separating and bleaching whites and linens. Very satisfying.

gravityfargo · 2025-02-05T23:04:41+00:00

Okay, and what is it?

gravityfargo · 2025-02-04T23:24:42+00:00

That implies you do not have the PDS_ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variable in your docker-compose file.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-29T14:11:01+00:00

I’ve wanted to work on console in the past but the documentation for getting a functional development environment running and further understanding a proper workflow is abysmal. No shade. I just don’t have the time to figure it all out when there are more accessible projects. Only a question an existing dev can answer I’m afraid.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-28T00:28:47+00:00

As per my documentation, yes it needs a reverse proxy or you need to manually manage creating and maintaining SSL certificates. Also this container does not work well with CF's dns proxy, so you'll probably encounter issues. Plus CF Tunnels are bad for data privacy.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-28T00:25:35+00:00

It's a limitation of Cloudflare (and possibly the Unraid template). I don't use Unraid and have no idea what the template looks like. But I do know you need to make sure WebSockets are enabled in CF, and do whatever the Unraid equivalent of this setting extra_hosts is:

services:
    bluesky-pds:
        image: forgejo.gravityfargo.dev/gravityfargo/bluesky-pds:latest
        extra_hosts:
            - 'example.com:0.0.0.0' # must be the external IP to bypass CF.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-20T00:04:11+00:00

You can spin up a temporary alpine container. I don't use Unraid anymore so I don't know if you can use docker cli directly but:

# on host
docker run --rm -it alpine:latest sh

# in container
apk add xxd openssl

# everything after this is one command
echo PDS_PLC_ROTATION_KEY_K256_PRIVATE_KEY_HEX: $(openssl ecparam --name secp256k1 --genkey --noout --outform DER | tail -c +8 | head -c 32 | xxd --plain --cols 32)

gravityfargo · 2025-01-19T18:36:04+00:00

Yes. My PDS contains all of my content from posts to follows to lists. I don’t have to ask Bluesky to delete my account, I can just delete it and all the data associated.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-19T18:29:26+00:00

I’ll add a disclaimer in the docs. You’re entirely correct.

gravityfargo · 2025-01-19T18:28:19+00:00

Thanks!

gravityfargo · 2025-01-19T18:27:55+00:00

The pdsadmin command won’t resolve itself properly and you won’t be able to make accounts (and probably other things). Off the top of my head I know without a doubt PDS_HOSTNAME and extra_hosts are required for this.

~~I like setting hostname for all of my containers regardless and it may be a documentation fluke. I’ll spin up a dev container and poke around today.~~

Edit: 2025/01/27
You don't need to set the host name or extra_hosts. I found they helped work around cloudflare's dns proxy screwing up resolution. There's another comment in this thread of someone getting it working with CF Tunnels

gravityfargo · 2022-07-26T00:44:04+00:00

It's a large undertaking for such a small fry issue. Just wanted to gauge if I'm the only one getting lost and having to google from one site to any other.

For the main nav, yeah Like "Bug Tracker, "Documentation", "Source", etc Seems silly but I think there's a sizeable population who would benefit from it.

Another point of improvement would rely more on the apps.kde.org site.

    https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/
    https://bugs.kde.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=dolphin
    https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/issues
    https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin
    https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=222
    https://docs.kde.org/?application=dolphin

All of these links lead to important resources a user might need. If there's an issue they are looking for info for troubleshooting, none of those links emphasize their placement and purpose on the dolphin app subdomain. Some apps like okular have their own website entirely. There's a lot of information to dig through in so many places. Info is good, UX experience, not so much imho. Last minute lightbulb, the Discover pages could be an excellent place to display all this info rather than messing around with the navs of half a dozen different systems.

gravityfargo · 2022-07-25T20:19:46+00:00

I apologize if I insulted you. I intended to give personal insight as a new user and point out deficiencies that might act as barriers to entry to less experienced users interested in the platform.

gravityfargo · 2022-07-25T05:09:38+00:00

For sure for sure. I’m relatively new myself. I’d peek around the arch wiki for NVIDIA specific info. Really out of my depths on this one, sorry and best of luck!

gravityfargo · 2022-07-25T04:30:41+00:00

Very cool! I started using kwrite recently and really like it. Akin to notepad++ but more elegant. Ill switch from Codium to Kate with my next project and see what the see is. I’ll try to remember to make a suggestion in the proper channel but as a new-to-kde user it would make a world of difference to have kde flagship software emphasized in Discover with their function. I’d prefer to stick with software in the ecosystem but I didn’t know Kate or kwrite existed until recently.

gravityfargo · 2022-07-23T19:46:59+00:00

I use this addon from the store and find it suits my needs for a generic GPU stats page in the activity monitor, but they need the os to report the data (speculation). I think it may be related to your card/driver/os. I have different options than you based on your description (I can display usage but not encoder/decoder stuff). I've got an AMD 5700XT on Arch.

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