📝 SpeedyNote

A lightweight, fast, and stylus-optimized note-taking app built for classic tablet PCs, low-resolution screens, and vintage hardware.

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✨ Features

• 🖊️ 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 .spn notebooks for note storage
• 🔎 Zoom, pan, thickness, and color preset switching via dial
• 🗔 Markdown sticky notes are supported for text-based notes
• 💡 Designed for low-spec devices (133Hz Sample Rate @ Intel Atom N450)
• 🌏 Supports multiple languages across the globe (Covers half the global population)

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📸 Screenshots

Drawing	Dial UI / Joycon Controls	Overlay Grid Options

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🚀 Getting Started

✅ Requirements

• Windows 7/8/10/11/Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/RedHat/ArchLinux/AlpineLinux
• Qt 5 or Qt 6 runtime (bundled in Windows releases)
• Stylus input (Wacom recommended)

🛠️ Usage

1. Launch SpeedyNote shortcut on desktop
2. (Optitonal) Click the PDF button on the tool bar to import a PDF document
3. Start writing/drawing using your stylus
4. Use the MagicDial or Joy-Con to change tools, zoom, scroll, or switch pages
5. Click the × on the tab and save the notebook as a spn package

OR

1. Right click a PDF file in File Explorer (or equivalent)
2. Click open with and select SpeedyNote
3. Create an spn notebook package in the directory of the PDF file
4. Next time when you double click the spr notebook, all the notes with the PDF background will be loaded.
5. Start writing/drawing using your stylus

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🎮 Controller Support

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

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📁 Building From Source

Windows

1. Install dependent.

   • QT6
   • DSL2
   • Poppler
   • Compiler(e.g. Mingw GCC/Mingw llvm clang, or MSVC(Visual Studio))
   • CMake
   • Ninja (Optional)

2. Move resource.

   Copy-Item -Path \
   ".\resources\translations\*.qm" -Destination ".\build"

   If failed, try to use --Force argument.

3. Build.

   cmake -B build  \
   -DQT_PATH="D:/Your/Qt/Path" \
   -DSDL2_ROOT="E:/Your/SDL2" \
   -DPOPPLER_PATH="F:/Your/Poppler"
   cmake -G Ninja # If installed ninja. 
   cmake --build build

4. Run.

   The compilation product is usually in ./build/NoteApp.exe

5. If you want to make a Installer, try to use InnerSetup

Linux

Flatpak

1. Run compile and package scripts

   ./compile.sh
   ./build-flatpak.sh

2. Install the flatpak package

   flatpak install ./speedynote.flatpak

Native Packages

1. run ./compile.sh and ./build-package.sh
2. Install the packages for your Linux distro. Note that the dependencies for Fedora and RedHat are not yet tested. .deb,.pkg.tar.zst and .apk are tested and working.