A lightweight, fast, and stylus-optimized note-taking app built for classic tablet PCs, low-resolution screens, and vintage hardware.
- 🖊️ Pressure-sensitive inking with stylus support
- 📄 Multi-page notebooks with tabbed or scrollable page view
- 📌 PDF background integration with annotation overlay
- 🌀 Dial UI + Joy-Con support for intuitive one-handed control
- 🎨 Per-page background styles: grid, lined, or blank (customizable)
- 💾 Portable
.snpkgnotebooks for export/import & sharing - 🔎 Zoom, pan, thickness, and color preset switching via dial
- 💡 Designed for low-spec devices (133Hz Sample Rate @ Intel Atom N450)
- 🌏 Supports multiple languages across the globe (Covers half the global population)
| Drawing | Dial UI / Joycon Controls | Overlay Grid Options |
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- Windows 7/8/10/11/Ubuntu amd64/Kali amd64/PostmarketOS arm64
- Qt 5 or Qt 6 runtime (bundled in Windows releases)
- Stylus input (Wacom recommended)
- Launch
NoteApp.exe - Click Folder Icon to select a working folder or Import
.snpkgPackage - Start writing/drawing using your stylus
- Use the MagicDial or Joy-Con to change tools, zoom, scroll, or switch pages
- Notebooks can be exported as
.snpkg
- Can be saved as:
- 📁 A folder with
.pngpages + metadata - 🗜️ A
.snpkgarchive for portability (non-compressed.tar)
- 📁 A folder with
- Each notebook may contain:
- Annotated page images (
annotated_XXXX.png) - Optional background images from PDF (
XXXX.png) - Metadata: background style, density, color, and PDF path
- Annotated page images (
SpeedyNote supports controller input, ideal for tablet users:
- ✅ Left Joy-Con supported
- 🎛️ Analog stick → Dial control
- 🔘 Buttons can be mapped to:
- Control the dial with multiple features
- Toggle fullscreen
- Change color / thickness
- Open control panel
- Create/delete pages
Long press + turn = hold-and-turn mappings
- Install Qt 6 and CMake
- Clone this repository
- Run:
rm -r build
mkdir build
# ✅ Update translation source files (ensure the .ts files exist already)
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\lupdate.exe" . -ts ./resources/translations/app_fr.ts ./resources/translations/app_zh.ts ./resources/translations/app_es.ts
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\linguist.exe" resources/translations/app_zh.ts
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\linguist.exe" resources/translations/app_fr.ts
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\linguist.exe" resources/translations/app_es.ts- (Optional) Modify translations in the GUI interface
- Run:
rm -r build
mkdir build
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\lrelease.exe" ./resources/translations/app_zh.ts ./resources/translations/app_fr.ts ./resources/translations/app_es.ts
Copy-Item -Path "C:\Games\yourfolder\resources\translations\*.qm" -Destination "C:\Games\yourfolder\build" -Force
cd .\build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..
cmake --build .
& "C:\Qt\6.8.2\mingw_64\bin\windeployqt.exe" "NoteApp.exe"
Copy-Item -Path "C:\yourfolder\dllpack\*.dll" -Destination "C:\yourfolder\build" -Force
Copy-Item -Path "C:\yourfolder\bsdtar.exe" -Destination "C:\yourfolder\build" -Force
./NoteApp.exe
cd ../