Fewer clicks to switch tools
I'd like to have fewer clicks to change tools. Like changing from pencil to eraser or shapes. Maybe there could be a quick change or some defaults.
To change tools, you have to
1. click the tools menu
2. Click the tab of the tool
3. Choose the specific tool
4. Click out of the menu
Then, you can start using it. And that is without changing any tool options.
Larry E
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Jonathan Ng
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I made my own ticket, but this ticket is popular and similar so I'll drop it here as well...
Currently, it takes up to THREE taps to do something, (1) opening the menu icon, (2) browsing the submenu and (3) making a selection. This can be shortened to just ONE tap when using the tool/color menu. When hovering over a menu/submenu with a mouse, finger, or stylus, the menu/submenu should immediately open without a tap. With touchpads/mouses, clicks should be used to make a selection. When using a STYLUS/FINGER, the user should be able to hold on the menu icon, drag to the selection, and release to make the selection (menus/submenus should open as soon as touched).
This implementation should be relatively EASY for the developer to add in, so if you like the sound of it, please upvote to get it some attention.
http://feedback.squidnotes.com/forums/177239-general/suggestions/38802388-quick-hover-tool-color-select -
Jonathan Ng
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Currently, it takes up to THREE taps to do something, (1) opening the menu icon, (2) browsing the submenu and (3) making a selection. This can be shortened to just ONE tap when using the tool/color menu. When hovering over a menu/submenu with a mouse, finger, or stylus, the menu/submenu should immediately open without a tap. With touchpads/mouses, clicks should be used to make a selection. When using a STYLUS/FINGER, the user should be able to hold on the menu icon, drag to the selection, and release to make the selection (menus/submenus should open as soon as touched).
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Zachary Gateley
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When you are on the select tool (nothing selected) and you select a new color, change the tool to the last used color-using tool.
For example: I am writing with the pencil In blue. I select the crop tool and move something around. I unselect all. I then change the color to black. The pencil tool should be automatically selected since color means nothing with the crop tool, and changing the color with nothing selected indicates intent to change to a color-using tool.
If I want to use black for something other than the pencil, that's fine, I will select that tool. I will have to do as many clicks as I would with the current system. But in no case will I want to use that new color for the selection tool. I predict that for the majority of usage, reverting to the last used color tool will be what the user wants.
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Renzo
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Please display both the pen AND the eraser at the same time and you ll get loads of new premium customers, starting with me ;)
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David Han
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Bump! Still waiting for these features after many years. Makes switching tools and colors a lot faster.
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Anonymous
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Botões de ferramentas
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Nanta
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Want to put the tool bar into one long line, which has all the tools placed together. it is convenient to change the tools for note taking. because I use the phone to note. and want to increase the rotation and increase the existing shape...thanks
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Anonymous
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I hope to increase the ability to automatically switch to the default brush after using the eraser. Goodnote on the IOS platform has this feature.
After all, there are only a few parts of the mistake, and using the eraser to automatically switch to a brush can greatly improve the writing efficiency. -
Greg
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A five year old request, one of the highest voted, and no Dev comment. I guess it's safe to assume I shouldn't get my hopes up? That's not very inspiring considering this is little more than a UI update. It's not even asking for new functionality.
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Anonymous
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Just put a switch between pen & highlighter button pleaseeeeee!!! It would be so useful!
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David Han
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As mentioned earlier, Chromebooks have a lot of space for quick access to the options on the toolbars. I would like the option to switch colors by just tapping once or even touching the lasso tool. Give us the ability to customize the toolbar.
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Anonymous
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YES. Pen, Marker, Eraser and Lasso
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Hamzah Malik
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This is super important! Chromebooks have so much room in the top bar to add one click actions between tools (pen and eraser)
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Anonymous
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I saw th comments about your app and i think i will like. But there is something very important for me that no app has, except the drawboard.... is the fact of having the possibility of having more than 1, at least 10, different pens always in the screen. That is, i loose lot of time changing the color and the type of pen. I want to switch easily.
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John
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I am 100% behind this. Any news from the developers that they are working on something like this? There are a lot of people who want this!
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Anonymous
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I want to switch easily between pen entry and finger entry. I hate having 8 or more taps to go from one to the other. It oughta be just one or two, please.
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Greg Martin
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While maybe not the most useful tool on phones, due to their limited screen size, this feature would be great for us laptop users. All that's needed is the ability to set some button/icons that would sit just to the left of your standardized tools. When clicked they would apply their preset tool profile to the cursor. I would like to be able to preset the size, color, tool (pen, highlighter, lasso ect).
Initially a simple settings menu gui to create these would be great, but maybe in the future you could drag and drop tools onto the top bar to 'dock' them. Once there you could long press or something similar to change that tool profiles attributes, but that really doesn't affect the major use of the feature.
Thanks for your consideration
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Merg
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I would like to chime in too. I just purchased squid because its so good, but I used One Note and one thing they did good on the full version of the surface was the ability to customize and place short cuts of whatever pencil or highlighter color in a couple of custom spaces.
It looked really pretty too. You would be able to create for example an orange highlighter and place it into one of the empty boxes up top and the icon would reflect as well. You'd see only the tip of the highlighter but you would know its a highlighter because of its angled edge and its color being orange. The same thing goes for a pencil or pen, you would be able to tell based on the tip of the tool in the icon and the color.
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Hazem Darwish
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The upper bar can be filled with shortcuts to tools and pen seizes and colours, there is a lot of wasted space, there is no need for a drop down list and a dozen of colours that we don't need
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Anonymous
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I find myself constantly switching back and forth between the pen tool and highlighter. It'd be nice to be able to just hold down on the tool button when the pen/highlighter is chosen and have it switch to the other.