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

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• 🖊️ 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 .snpkg notebooks for export/import & sharing
• 🔎 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)

Drawing	Dial UI / Joycon Controls	Overlay Grid Options

• 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. Click Folder Icon to select a working folder or **Import .snpkg Package
3. (Optitonal) Click the PDF button on the tool bar to import a PDF document
4. Start writing/drawing using your stylus
5. Use the MagicDial or Joy-Con to change tools, zoom, scroll, or switch pages
6. Notebooks can be exported as .snpkg

1. Right click a PDF file in File Explorer (or equivalent)
2. Click open with and select SpeedyNote
3. Create a folder for the directory of the current notebook
4. Next time when you double click a PDF with a working directory already created, step 3 will be skipped.
5. Start writing/drawing using your stylus

• Can be saved as:
  • 📁 A folder with .png pages + metadata
  • 🗜️ A .snpkg archive for portability (non-compressed .tar)
• 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

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

1. Run translation and compiling scripts

./translate.ps1
./compile.ps1

(Dependency directories may need to be modified)

2. Install InnoSetup and open packaging.iss with it to pack SpeedyNote into an executable installer.
3. Run SpeedyNoteInstaller.exe to install SpeedyNote to your PC.

1. Run compile and package scripts

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

2. Install the flatpak package

   flatpak install ./speedynote.flatpak

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.