Display scanned page images with rotation applied to make the page appear as straight up-and-down as possible. Ideally any horizontal lines / rules on the page should appear perfectly horizontal on the screen.
This would apply if you have run out of page scan credits, or if there is server downtime or some other error. The idea is that you could still scan and save pages, but you wouldn’t get page number detection, search, or text copying for those pages. I was concerned that the experience in that case would be degraded enough to turn people off of the app. But there might be a middle ground: save pages, but have some kind of persistent notice that the writing on those pages hasn’t been analyzed. There would be an option to run handwriting analysis after the fact when you get more scan credits, or when the server is back online.
I got a request for an option to the local copies of page scans on an external SD card. I’ll have to do some research on how to do this on Android and iOS - if iOS supports this. It looks like iPhones don’t have SD card slots, but people sometimes use USB-C or Lightning connected storage. At least I know on Android internal storage keeps files completely private to that app. Using external storage can make data available to other apps that have permission to access storage. Maybe there is also an app-private external storage option. If not that could be acceptable if the user is informed. Another option (that is not mutually exclusive) is to support external storage as a backup target.
Request from a tester: An option to match lighting. Whether that's a simple image edit, or just an AI touch-up option, something in case the lighting is wildly different between uploads. I’ve noticed the same thing. The easiest option might be to desaturate scans which would end up with a black and white look, or something closer to a black and white look. But maybe there is some less aggressive white balance option.
From the tester who made this request: When creating a new journal, I would love the option to "Use page numbers" (followed by marking where on the page to check for page numbers. Say "upper corner," "upper center," "lower corner," or "lower center") OR, "Use page order" to automatically number by where the page is in the upload order. This option would also really benefit from a feature that lets you choose "Reorder Pages" (or similar) to hold-and-drag to manually order pages So this relates to @Setting for where page numbers are located but this request specifies an option to not use page numbers.
Request from a tester: Option from the Journal screen to "Update all page numbers," that does a Review for all of the pages scanned so far. It sounds like this is a request to take all pages from a journal that have already been reviewed and saved, and to review them again with the review feature where you see zoomed in views of the detected page numbers. So this would be an option to catch mistakes that slipped through the cracks previously. The reporter points out that currently page number changes to saved pages have to be done one page at a time.
Another request from a tester: When adding new pages, it would be super helpful to have a prompt somewhere that says "Last page added: (#)", or "Pages uploaded so far: (# to #)" I think the idea is to have this info on the scan screen, and I agree. Space on that screen is quite limited, so it will take some creativity to fit it in. Currently there is a message at the top before you start scanning that has instructions. You don’t need to see that after you have learned the process, so that space could be used for page number reminders instead. But that area gets replaced with thumbnails after you start scanning. Is it important to fill that top space with a strip of thumbnails? Maybe a more compact status indicator would work? There was another comment from the reporter: I upload 20ish pages in two batches, and on the "Review scans" screen I couldn't remember what page I'd ended on before, so my journal right now goes from 0-35 and then 50-63 because I didn't want them to mix by guessing too low on the first page number of the second batch
I got a request for a setting, perhaps a per-journal setting, to fine-tune page number detection. Currently the app looks for numbers in the corners, and in the top center and bottom center. (It might be too generous about what is considered “corner”, “top”, and “bottom” - that’s another detail to tweak.) You could set it so, for example, for your current journal it should only look in the bottom corners for page numbers. At this point the app doesn’t know whether it’s looking at a left page or a right page so there isn’t a great way to get more specific about which bottom corner to check.
I got an inquiry on support for regular expressions in the search feature. That would allow stuff like searching for any phone numbers with \d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}
In case you get two copies of the same journal due to creating it separately on two devices. Add an option to merge to get back to one copy.
There are many popular digital notetaking tools (I use standard notes). I would love to be able to use an application to scan a handwritten note into my note taking application of choice. I know many applications use markdown.
It would be nice to be able to characterize a note using hashtags. So a note related to an idea for a renovation project could be #ideas, #projects/renovations
When uploading multiple pages, I should have the option to set sequential page numbers, so that after setting the first page number (n) subsequent pictures are given page numbers n+1, n+2…
It would be nice if when you take a picture of a page, the orientation is lined up with the page lines automatically, and if the image was cropped to only include the page itself