Writernote

Linux

Features:

• Pen support
  • Zoom in and zoom on
  • Rubber size and type
  • Pen size option and type
  • Move object with the pen
  • Insert image
  • Enter text in pen mode
  • Reposition the page in case the application has encountered a bug
• Export file as PDF
• Print file
• Keyboard support
• Audio record:
  • Include audio file in writernote file
  • or decide to save the file in a specific location
  • listen to the audio again and visually see what was being written [only keyboard]
• Create style of sheet
• Dynamically decide how to create the sheet
• Extract audio from writernote file
• When closing the application, the program understands if the user has written something
• Decrease file size [only in pen mode]
• Open last open file 3 options:
  • Set the number of recent files to show
  • Disable the option, and show writernote directly
  • Directly open the last opened file
• Drag and drop:
  • Image
  • Writernote file
• Draw with mouse
• In case the application closes unexpectedly it is possible to recover the file, also setting the saving time of the restore file
• Ready pdf file and take notes

Experimental Features:

• Android support
• Insert text into pen mode
• Preview

To do

• Convert audio to text
• Compile for IOS
• Load file from pdf
• Create launcher for windows and linux to:
  • Send log information to a server
  • Restart the application
• Create external program to update writernote, it automatically has to download a zip archive of the latest release on github, extract it, and update the files
• Group

Supported platforms:

• GNU/Linux x86 [snap [here]]
• GNU/Linux arm64 [snap [here]]
• GNU/Linux armhf [snap [here]]
• GNU/Linux x86 [flatpak [here]]
• GNU/Linux arm64 [flatpak [here]]
• Android armeabi [apk] [beta]
• Android arm64 [apk] [beta]
• Android x86 [apk] [beta]
• Android x86_64 [apk] [beta]
• IOS [beta]
• Windows x86 [installer, zip]

Installing

• Linux:

  Install stable version [from snapd]

  sudo snap install writernote
  sudo snap connect writernote:audio-record

  Install stable version [from flathub]

  flatpak install flathub com.github.giacomogroppi.writernote-qt

  Install unstable version [last] With multipass you can specify how many thread, ram, and disk, for the virtual machine for compilation. Personaly i use 20 thread, 24G ram, and 100G of disk.

  sudo snap install multipass 
  sudo snap install snapcraft --classic
  git clone /~https://github.com/giacomogroppi/writernote-qt.git
  cd writernote-qt
  multipass launch --name snapcraft-writernote --cpus 20 --mem 24G --disk 100G
  snapcraft
  
  sudo snap install writernote*.snap --devmode --dangerous
  sudo snap connect writernote:audio-record

• Windows and MacOS: here you can find all the version for windows.

Compiling

• Linux: dependence: it's raccomend to download qt creator, with all the component, from the official website (with qt 6.3.0) and install in ~/Qt. in case you can install all the dependence by install all the package from build-packages and the stage-packages in snapcraft.yaml [writernote]

  compile:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    make
  

• Windows: dependence: mingw:

    pacman -S git
    git clone /~https://github.com/giacomogroppi/writernote-qt.git
    ./windows/dipendenze.sh
    ./windows/compile.sh
  

  power Shell: [to create an installation file]

    cd windows
    .\package.bat
  

• Android: In /android you can find all the rule to compile writernote for android. It's an experimental project and a lot of things don't work for android.

File format

The _.writer format is a compressed archive, in which a file `` indice.xml '' can be found, in which all the notebooks and all the audio are saved, whether they are recorded, or whether they are imported by the application.

Directory structure

• 3rdparty: all script for compile external library that we can't download directly
• andreoid: all roles for compile writernote for android
• images: all images
• language: all translation
• snap: snapcraft instructions for release the app in the snapstore
• windows: all script for compile writernote for windows
• updater: updater Qt project for update writernote [windows]
• src: [all file for application]
  • audioplay: file for play an audio
  • audiorecord: file for record an audio
  • audiosetting: file for load the setting of the audio
  • autosave: module for manage autosave
  • cloud: cloud file
  • currenttitle: class for the copybook
  • datamanage: file for manage file after stop recording of audio
  • dataread: module for read file .writer
  • datawrite: module for writernote file .writer
  • dropEvent: file for manage drop event:
    • image
    • writernote file
  • frompdf: module for load a pdf
  • image: file for manage image inside writernote
  • last_open: mdule for load the last open file
  • lastedit: module for manage redo and redo
  • log/log_ui: module for manage writernote log
  • pdf: export pdf
  • restore_file: module for restore lost file after crash
  • sheet: style for the sheel
  • utils: some modules
  • windows: manage update
  • touch:
    • copy: files to copy area
    • datastruct: class for manage data
    • event: event for touch, resize event, mouse event ...
    • paintevent: module to draw object to pixmap
    • reduce_size: module to reduce precision of file
    • riascolto: module to load and play audio dynamically
    • rubber: rubber
    • scrollKentic: module for scrolling kinetic [pen mode]
    • square: module to move object with finger
    • text: insert text into file
    • zoom: module to manage zoom

Development

For developing new features, write a Ticket, so others know what you are doing. For development create a fork, and use the test as base. Create a Pull request for each fix. Do not create big pull requests, as long as you don't break anything features also can be merged, even if they are not 100% finished.. To report a problem send an email to the same address [possible with the error log and/or with a photo].

See GitHub:writernote for current development.

Todo

In the code there are some references to TODOs

Third-party

• Share file in Android and IOS (LGPL)
• Qt 5.15.2 (LGPL)
• OpenSSL 1.1.1 (OpenSSL License)
• zlib 1.2.11 (zlib License)
• CMake (New BSD License)
• libzip (BSD License)
• Poppler (GPL 2.0)