I always found myself needing more writing space when doing homework/taking notes with the stylus in OneNote. Often, I would manually scale down my own writing, which is a tedious process in OneNote. I thought, what if there was a feature where your writing would scale down automatically?
A Windows 10 app that allows the user to draw strokes, but with a catch: The strokes will intelligently resize themselves by a certain percentage after a certain amount of time has passed without pen input, or after one of several other conditions. Developed as a prototype app to encourage implementation in Microsoft OneNote and other pen input applications.
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Automatically resize all strokes that have not already been resized, after a certain time period of no pen contact
- Resize percentage and time period can be set using a slider
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Resizes around a certain reference point: the top left corner of the set of all strokes to be resized
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Intelligent resizing: If a new stroke is not within the (un-resized) bounding rectangle of the last resized set of strokes, but close enough to the last point drawn, keep the previous reference point
- Prevents large gaps in writing that would have been caused by shrinking two parts of the same sentence separately, for example
- This makes the app much smoother, as the condition being met usually means the user is continuing the same "flow" of writing
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Height Option: If the height option is selected, resize all strokes to the same median height as the first set of strokes resized
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If the new stroke is very far from the last point drawn, automatically resize
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Also press R or right click to resize
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Press Y to undo shrinking the last stroke
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Press U to delete the last stroke
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Upload a file as a background image
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Change pen color