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[REQ] Page buddy shortcuts

Has anyone found a way to change the shortcuts that appear with Page Buddy? I find it annoying that my phone automatically populates these shortcuts. I would like to actually put useful shortcuts there. For example, S-Pen compatible apps for the S-Pen Page Buddy. Not these random games I'm addicted to (and, apparently, I'm playing whenever the S-Pen is out, even if I don't actually use the S-Pen to play these games).

[Q] My quest for best note app for stylus, any takers?

I have to admit it, I like using my S-Pen with S-Note on my Galaxy Note 2, unfortunately it only works in TouchWiz and not CM, AOKP, or Stock Android custom ROMS. And it can be excrutiatingly sluggish even on my Galaxy Note 2.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT SAMSUNG'S S-NOTE app:
1. You can call up a floating pop up note from any application so that you can start taking notes with the S-Pen or with the soft keyboard if you so choose. This has proven very useful during a call when you have to jot something down.
2. S-Note Widget. I like how you can select to see the notes and folders list, or a list of templates to create a new note.
3. I like how you can use the S-Pen whilst pressing on the S-Pen button to freehand selection, capture, and sharing of anything on the screen from any app and then save/share with other compatible apps. Very useful feature. Of course being able to import images into the note is very important.
4. Tagging notes
5. Syncing notes (albeit to Samsung's servers)
OTHER FEATURES REQUESTS for my perfect Note/stylus app
1. In S-Note, list view, I wish we could drag and drop (single or multiple) notes and/or folders into folders with the S-Pen, or custom rearrange them by dragging and dropping. It would be much more intuitive and less cumbersome and tedious. I could take hundreds of notes but then to have to individually menu click on them to move and organize them is just toooo much work and really overweighs the usefulness of the app with the more notes you take.
2. In S-Note, I wish to remove the file name overlay on the note icons, I would rather see the full contents of what I wrote on the note, and the overlays never are able to show the entire file name anyway, so basically useless and in contrary to the clarity of the user interface.
3. in TouchWiz I wish the pop up note (or any pop up window for that matter) could be resizable to a custom size on the screen by clicking and dragging the corners. Right now you only have the option of full size or part-sized.
4. I wish we could call up a pop up window of a selected note from S-Note, so that we can reference it while we are doing other things like dialing a number, or checking something on the browser.
5. CUSTOMIZABLE TEMPLATES, come on, just give us option to make custom templates, and the ability to apply that template to every new note, even pop up notes. Right now I dislike all the ruled and graphed templates so I have to click and select a blank page every time I make a new note. ARGH
6. PAGE SIZE, come on Samsung, the templates should have a page size option, or else infinite (like Papyrus)
7. I wish to have size customizable text boxes and placement.
8. SPEED. the S-Note is SEVERELY LAGGED in my opinion. I mean I'm waiting at least 1 second for each creation of a new note, menu clicking to fix my template, menu clicking to select my pen type, etc. AWFUL SAMSUNG AWFUL.
9. VECTOR based strokes and drawings. This is not a feature of S-Note BUT one of my BIGGEST WISHLIST features. VECTOR graphics for S-Pen drawing/writing (like in Papyrus app). I NEED THIS SO BAD. It is just so much faster, cleaner, and RESIZABLE without destroying the quality of the line/stroke
10. I wish there was a DIRECTLY EDITABLE WIDGET for S-Note OR ANY other S-Pen note app that you can directly write onto from the homescreen without needing to press any other clicks other than to choose finger, pen and finger, or soft keyboard input (but with SPen as default). After writing a memo on the widget (with choice of S-Pen, finger, or soft keyboard) you would just click on a save button or something similar, and that memo would just be saved, the widget would then clear itself and be ready for the next note to be inputed. It would have to have option for palm and finger rejection so that you don't accidentally write a note when you are trying to swipe to another homescreen.
11. The ability to open and annotate PDF files that could be saved and seen from other PDF apps crossplatform
THE OTHER APPS I'VE TRIED:
Papyrus
(actually my favorite for actually writing and drawing with the stylus and it is super speedy and accurate, there is no lag at all with this app. But because it lacks the more robust features of the S-Note ie. No widget at all and no sharing to the app, no pop up memo, etc etc). If the developer of Papyrus is reading, my above features requests would make you the #1 note taking app.
Memo
meh
Lecture Notes
meh, I don't know, is this what college kids are going for these days?
OneNote
whatever, haven't really tried it
GNotes
I like how it auto syncs with Gmail account, but the features are too rudimentary and basic, and well, useless to me
A BIT OFF TOPIC, CLOUD NOTES ANNOTATING & BOOKMARKING APPS (no hand writing features)
Evernote
meh, we know it's the most popular and polished one, but it still lacks my most wanted features concerning bookmarking and annotating for cloud based apps that I haven't even mentioned in the above.
Catch
I tend to switch between Evernote and Catch a lot, I don't exactly know why. But even though Catch lacks even more features than Evernote, the simplicity and immediateness of it is compelling.
Power Note (Diigo)
In my opinion, Diigo is actually the most USEFUL web annotating app out of all the apps I've tried so far to date, and trust me I have wasted much of my time trying to try all of them. The Android Power Note app however, is pretty useless other than to reference your Diigo library. I wish they made a better more polished Android app so we could also highlight and annotate webpages from our Android and other mobile devices, and just cleaned up polished up and leaned up in general across the board. If they implement that as well as PDF annotation, and a more robust free note taking like in Evernote and Catch, they would be supreme. And if they went as far as allowing web app cloud based syncing of hand written vector based OCR page layout notes from any platform and device, eh, FUGGEHDABODIT. It would be #1.

I've found S-note and papyrus both to be quite good for note taking. nothing beats ezpdf for pdf annotation. skitch in combination with evernote is also pretty nice for annotating web pages if you want it saved in evernote (or you can share it to s-note or save it as a pdf to use with ezpdf if you don't care about it being in evernote).

Honestly S-Note is pretty good. The one thing I'm dying for is for the handwriting input to automatically enter a space after recognizing a word.

JarkMackson said:
Honestly S-Note is pretty good. The one thing I'm dying for is for the handwriting input to automatically enter a space after recognizing a word.
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+1 sometimes remembering to put the space is annoying. But the handwriting recognition works pretty well. I also would like to be able to add more fonts (like a handwriting font) to the handwriting recognition.

I use the asus supernote app. Jusslt google an apk of it. Lots of features that nake it easier to use in class... for me at least.
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One of my concerns with S Note is that I will be stuck with Samsung Touchwiz and Galaxy Note to use it, it will be hard to be available on other phones and especially if not Touchwiz.
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I've been using LectureNotes for the past week or so in my Organic Chem and Physics 2 classes. I've compared it to S Note, Papyrus, and a couple others..
This is the only one that meets most (nearly all) of my needs, and the developer is extremely quick with responses/feature additions/problem correction.

[Q] No email or calendar widgets except magazine xu?

Is there a way, without downloading a 3rd party app, to get the samsung calendar and/or email widgets aside from what are on the magazine ux, which are a bit cumbersome in my opinion. I'd prefer to have the same widgets I have on my galaxy S5: full screen month view calendar widget, and the default email widget. Is there a way to do this, also, without doing a different launcher, like Nova, which I've tried and don't love.
Odd Samsung would strip these out, but they clearly want to push this magazine ux thing.
Thanks in advance for the help!

I am also looking for the calendar widget. Someone knows how to get it? I don't like this magazine ux

drjea2010 said:
Is there a way, without downloading a 3rd party app, to get the samsung calendar and/or email widgets aside from what are on the magazine ux, which are a bit cumbersome in my opinion. I'd prefer to have the same widgets I have on my galaxy S5: full screen month view calendar widget, and the default email widget. Is there a way to do this, also, without doing a different launcher, like Nova, which I've tried and don't love.
Odd Samsung would strip these out, but they clearly want to push this magazine ux thing.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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I too was annoyed at this. I didn't mind losing TouchWiz, but wanted to stay stock for potential future updates (please Google change SD card write access) so I downloaded the "Google Now Launcher" to get rid of the Magazine UX (although I didn't install "Google Now" so not to have that pop up on the home screen). I use "Pure Grid Calendar Widget" from the Play Store. If you choose the "4x4 free" calendar you can set the pixel count for your tablet/preference upon creating the widget. I have it around 1550x1550 pixels for my Tab Pro 8.4 and stretched it to fit most of the screen.
I liked Pure Grid Calendar Widget on my old HD2, but didn't need it on my S3 and S5 because the Samsung Calendar was similar. Enable events in the timeline to show descriptions in month view on the widget. I also wanted a full-screen email widget for 2 accounts, so I downloaded Aqual Mail, which looks and works similar to the S5 Email widget. I stretched that widget to full screen too (or square with some app shortcuts below it).
All in all, Google Now Launcher made the Home Screen interface seem less laggy (along with some adjustments to animations in Develop Options). Add in these two free apps (paid version unlocks additional features) and I it gives a similar feel to my S5 setup. I know you said you didn't want to download any apps, but this seems to be the only option (I didn't check Samsung Apps for a calendar though, don't know if they have something there).
***Note: I don't have any apps installed on the SD Card, but some people say that the shortcuts for apps installed on SD Cards disappear from the Home Screen if you use the Google Now Launcher.

[Q] Suggestions for Alternative apps for weather, photos etc.

Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!

quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.

virtyx said:
quickpic version 3.4.9.1 doesnt have pink icons for me and its neutured down so no google drive, dropbox etc linking - just pure gallery.
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Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova

masri1987 said:
Got a trusted source for that APK?
I am seeing some of the benefits of Google photos though... wondering why i didn't use it sooner
Edit: found a trusted apk for quickpic.
How do I get google weather widget in nova
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i was about to upload
how do you find it? its slim, lightweight, fast - and gets the job done without any extra add-ins which is what i like, almost like the huawei launcher plus you can change the display and it recognizes ALL your images on your phone (im looking at you google photo)

masri1987 said:
Hi all, So i as usual installed Nova to use some of their gestures (such as bringing down status bar from swiping down anywhere on screen etc)
In the process i lost access to the google weather widget (as it isn't available through Nova launcher)
Any lightweight suggestions to replace it? or is there any way to get the google weather widget functioning on 3rd party launchers?
What about alternatives to google photos? To be honest i never really used photos , I'm going to try to start doing so but i notice that it doesn't even pick up all my folders such as facebook folder (pics downloaded from facebook).
How do i get it to recognize folders like this ? What other lightweight yet useful gallery app is out there? (not quickpic please that purple font is killing me)
Thanks in advanced!
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I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link

Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.

I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.

NepoRood said:
I too use Nova, for weather, I've been using Weather XL by exovoid for years, link
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thanks, tried it out, looking for something a bit more lightweight, just for the purpose of widget use.
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Action launcher has the Google widget and weather baked in. I switched from Nova to it years ago and while I'll go back to Nova briefly for change of pace purposes I never leave Action for very long. Once I got used to and understood the blinds and shutters features in Action everything else became dad's old launcher; including Nova. You can also set the Now page, assign gestures, all the usual staples of fully featured launchers.
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So i installed action launcher and I cannot find the option to build out tabs or folders within the drawer itself? Also can't remove the multidot drawer icon and just use the swipe up feature by itself
Cool thing is it did import everything almost from nova
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I've used Piktures as my main gallery app for a few years. Great app.
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Yeah i just discovered that app ,
I also discovered that any motion photo or any other like top shot (to show you the whole selection of photos taken) etc doesn't show up in 3rd party gallery apps

You just long press and drag the icon up and out, you'll see the remove label at the top of the screen, drop it there and it's gone. The rest will take a bit of reading as Action doesn't work the way normal launchers do so it takes some explaining. Before I do you can create folders in the drawer section of the home settings, it's under folders. I'm saying this because Action doesn't really work the way Dad's old launcher used to do and there are some new paradigms in play. Don't want to deal with that then just imagine the post ends here.
In action you don't really need to make folders in the drawer as it's laid out to use it's killer features, the covers and shutters. For covers you can drop a shortcut you tap as normal to open that app and then you can also swipe or tap the shortcut and it will open a folder with whatever apps you want inside of it. Those are created by dropping one app onto another to create a folder as with most launchers, open the folder you just created and tap the menu (3 dot), choose create cover and now you have it. Tap the first icon you placed and it will simply open that app, swipe it (or double tap if you select that as the opener) and it will open up the folder underneath. I'm not sure if there is an app limit for the folders, I've had 14 in one now. Using my setup for example I use Hangouts as my personal primary text and instant message app but I also use several others; I have a hangouts cover set in the dock, as its a cover I tap it and open hangouts in most cases. Because it's a cover I have the apps for texting that I use infrequently underneath that which I access by swiping the icon instead. This goes on for all the shortcuts I set in the dock. I use a 2 page dock which is all covers save for one which is a shutter and through those have quick access to 47 applications. Much quicker than finding them in a drawer, even when folder the drawer because you will need more touches to get to the app than with a cover.
The shutter is an app shortcut which you use to either open the app or by swiping it open one of that apps widget. An example would be Whatsapp is my work messaging app. I have the icon set and use it as a shutter. I touch it and go into the app as normal. I get a lot of junk messages though that really aren't for me so sometimes I'll swipe it and open up the unread messages widget. This allows me to skip straight to the more important messages first rather than sort through them all in the app itself. The menu(3 dot) when you first open up the shutter will allow you to select the widget you want to use.
Despite all that you can still access the built in long presses if the app/icon has them. What happens in all this is the app drawer itself becomes more of an initial setup bin where the apps are laying until you set your covers and on the odd occasion you go in there to open a seldom used app. In the rare cases you do need to get into the drawer the sea of icons pulled out of the bottom ala Pixel may look cool but it's slower than using the side drawer which I would highly recommend folks try. While not looking cool it's more efficient; particularly for those with many apps. Still want the bottom drawer pullout it's the default action, just get rid of the shortcut and it's there.
You're going to want to menu dive with Action because there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. You can have it match your wallpaper for the launcher theme in the quick theme section. In quickbar you have what amounts to the Goog searchbar with extra functionality that you can adjust. I don't use it as I find little need for it with all the different ways you can get to the search function and it takes up space which can be better spent showing off my carefully selected wallpaper. The icon pack section is self explanatory. Icon appearance will let you change functions and visual cues like notifications counts. App drawers is where you will decide on trying that side drawer and other related settings. Recommend if you do go to a side drawer to tell it to remember where you left it. Otherwise it will always default to the top of the alphabet. Desktop is where you will do the meat and potatos of setting your desktop, the grid, icon scale, scroll effects, infinite scrolling, etc. One thing of interest in the desktop section is it will allow you to create a quickpage. This is a page you can "pullout" from the side that is separate from simply the page to the right of home. I use it for my travel apps of which I have a fair few but only use during that time. Desktop shortcuts will take you to the settings for which functions will show up when long pressing the home screen out in the open. You'll be able to add typical actions like wallpaper, widgets and so on but also custom actions. Docks is where you'll set up the number of dock pages if any, style of dock, dock seperators (or not), etc. Folders and shutters will allow you to change functions there for those tasks. Shortcuts is where you'll define whatever gestures you want.
While all that seems like a lot when you start fiddling with it it'll start making sense. Sorry for the length of that and I hope it wasn't too boring for those that made it this far.
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Oh, yeah... If you use a launcher that allows you to set custom action widgets (Nova, Action Launcher, etc.) you could simply install Action launcher, never use it but get use of the weather widget via custom action in Nova or any other launcher which supports that function.

Huge fan of Today Weather! Can choose which service to receive forecasts from and has a number of widgets.

Nova Launcher - How to populate the entire desktop with widgets (Galaxy TAB S5e)

Hi!
I'm using a Galaxy Tab S5e as a smart home hub and am trying to utilize the entire desktop to fill with widgets, however there is a thick bar-area in one of the sides that is unable to populate (shown in picture). I have the pad reverted now but believe the empty space signifies that you wish to paste the widget in to a new page, however I only wish to use one side and if possible would like to lock that down and disable the feature to use two screens if that would alleviate the issue.
Does anyone have any tips/work-arounds to ensure that one can use near 100% of the desktop real estate?