4.0.2
2022-02-28
Fixed: Notes can now be deleted without a Pro subscription.
Fixed: "Contact us" in settings creates a correctly-addressed email message.
Previously fixed: A bug in the creation of a LessonNote Pro account.
4.0.1
2022-01-10
This update fixes an intermittent crash and may resolve issues that some customers were having when trying to subscribe to LessonNote Pro.
And, in case you missed it, LessonNote 4 is a big update. Here's all that's new:
This is a major rewrite, 2 years in the making, with many performance and user-interface improvements! It is, however, no longer completely free. To help us afford to continue developing LessonNote, a subscription is required for recording more than 5 lessons per 12-month period (lessons with fewer than 15 notes don't count). The 5-lesson limit should be adequate for most teachers involved in Lesson Study, but a subscription allows unlimited use and includes a LessonNote Pro account, which in turn allows you to back up lessons, share seating charts, export lessons as PDFs, export photos, and search for notes across multiple lessons. Read more at https://LSAlliance.org/LNPro .
What's new:
• The handwriting engine has been completely redone; handwriting capture is beautiful and undo is instantaneous.
• Move directly between note-taking and notes review, permitting quick editing of recent notes.
• Enhanced filtering of your notes: show notes that are flagged, that have a seating chart, a photo, a typed annotation, or that relate to selected entities from the seating chart.
• Includes a new photo manipulation tool for moving/resizing photos.
• Support for Apple Pencil® when drawing, using undo / redo, switching note-taking tools and colors.
• Other UI tweaks and refinements.
4.0
2021-12-14
PLEASE READ BEFORE UPGRADING
This is a major rewrite, 2 years in the making, with many performance and user-interface improvements! It is, however, no longer completely free. To help us afford to continue developing LessonNote, a subscription is required for recording more than 5 lessons per 12-month period (lessons with fewer than 15 notes don't count). The 5-lesson limit should be adequate for most teachers involved in Lesson Study, but a subscription allows unlimited use and includes a LessonNote Pro account, which in turn allows you to back up lessons, share seating charts, export lessons as PDFs, export photos, and search for notes across multiple lessons. Read more at https://LSAlliance.org/LNPro .
What's new:
• The handwriting engine has been completely redone; handwriting capture is beautiful and undo is instantaneous.
• Move directly between note-taking and notes review, permitting quick editing of recent notes.
• Enhanced filtering of your notes: show notes that are flagged, that have a seating chart, a photo, a typed annotation, or that relate to selected entities from the seating chart.
• Includes a new photo manipulation tool for moving/resizing photos.
• Support for Apple Pencil® when drawing, using undo / redo, switching note-taking tools and colors.
• Other UI tweaks and refinements.
3.8.1
2018-01-12
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Additional fixes to prevent reported crashes
3.8
2017-12-05
- Improved image deletion - selecting an image (two-finger tap) now enables the trash can button; tap trash can button to delete the selected image
- Fixed issues with creating a new lesson, creating a new seating chart, creating a lesson from a seating chart
- Preserve active filters if user taps timeline in review mode
- Show a spinner and dim the background when user deletes a lesson
- Additional fixes to prevent reported crashes
3.7.3
2017-08-24
- Bug fixes
3.7.2
2017-06-28
- More bug fixes and performance improvements
3.7.1
2017-06-27
- Subscribe to LessonNote Pro via in-app purchase - backup, export, share lessons and seating charts with others, and more! (A free trial is available.)
- Handwriting improvements
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements
3.7
2017-06-12
- Subscribe to LessonNote Pro via in-app purchase - backup, export, share lessons and seating charts with others, and more! (A free trial is available.)
- More bug fixes and performance improvements
3.6.2
2016-12-20
Bug fixes and performance improvements,
French language support (thanks to Stéphane Clivaz & team at HEPL!)
New in 3.6:
• Tags!
3.6.1
2016-11-16
• Fixed: a spurious line would sometimes get drawn in a note.
New in version 3.6:
• edit notes from review mode by tapping the expand note icon;
• TAGS! tag notes, then filter notes by tags in review mode
• bug fixes.
This version comes preloaded with a set of tags based on the “Teaching for Robust Understanding” framework developed by Alan Schoenfeld (see http://map.mathshell.org/trumath.php). If you prefer, you can turn those off and create your own custom tags.
3.6
2016-10-28
New in 3.6:
• edit notes from review mode by tapping the expand note icon;
• Tags! Tag notes, then filter notes by tags in review mode;
• Dutch localization (thanks to Henk Logtenberg!)
• bug fixes.
This version comes preloaded with a set of tags based on the “Teaching for Robust Understanding” framework developed by Alan Schoenfeld (see http://map.mathshell.org/trumath.php). If you prefer, you can turn those off and create your own custom tags.
3.5.3
2016-06-22
Bug fixes and improvements to 'Undo' drawing stroke performance.
3.5.1
2016-05-20
Drawing improvements, including improved capture of the beginning of a stroke.
3.5
2016-04-16
Additional bug fixes and performance improvements. Note new photo manipulation techniques: 2-finger tap to select, 1-finger drag to move, 2-finger pinch-zoom, tap out OR 2-finger tap to deselect – that way you can enlarge a photo to fill the note area and still deselect in order to draw on it.
3.3
2016-03-29
Improved responsiveness and important bug fixes, including the following:
- Improved memory use associated with taking photos.
- Fixed a bug that prevented statistics from being correctly displayed under certain conditions.
Improved image manipulation:
- 2-finger tap to select an image
- pinch to resize the selected image
- 1-finger to move the selected image
- Tap out of the selected image to deselect it.
New:
- Entity name is now displayed in the filter list when filtering by entity. (Tap on an entity name in the statistics list.)
NOTE: You may see the message "Updating data" for a long time on first launch. Be patient, it does eventually finish. The eraser will return soon. Thank you for your patience!
3.2
2015-12-22
Improved responsiveness and important bug fixes, including the following:
- fixed crashes associated with taking photos;
- fixed a bug that caused the single-column notes list to appear empty.
New:
- Users with LessonNote Pro accounts can now share seating charts by providing a token to another user, regardless of whether the other user has a Pro account
- Thai localization
NOTE: You may see the message "Updating data" for a long time on first launch. Be patient, it does eventually finish.
The eraser will return soon. Thank you for your patience!
3.0.44
2015-04-24
This is a significant new redesign for iOS 8! A clean look and many, many improvements. We have been testing it for months and just love it!
NOTE: You may see the message "Updating data" for a long time on first launch. Be patient, it does eventually finish. Also, we have heard from one user, who had many lessons, who lost data when installing this version. Please back up your data either to your computer with iTunes or to LessonNote Pro.
Note-taking:
• Streamlined photo tools: one-tap camera access; select, then move and resize photos using 2-finger gestures.
• Improved handwriting quality and responsiveness
• Optional “silent shutter” mode eliminates the risk of disturbing students during a lesson
• Improved overall responsiveness
Notes review (big changes here!):
• Notes are reduced to 1/2 size without sacrificing readability, so you can view more notes at once. View any note full-screen with a tap.
• Filter notes based on entity, image, flag, or annotation.
• Statistics are integrated into the notes display.
• Statistics can be restricted to whole-class segments of the lesson.
• An alternative 3-column view makes it even easier to find notes you are looking for.
• Redesigned timeline shows the span of the entire lesson and clearly shows where the current notes lie within the lesson. Tap on the timeline to navigate.
• Swipe left to delete a note, including mode transitions.
• Insert a mode transition in case you missed it during the lesson.
• Tap on the seating chart to view it full-size.
• Add typewritten annotations
LessonNote Pro integration:
• Easily share seating charts, even with users who do not have Pro accounts
• Indicates if a lesson has been uploaded.
New in 3.0.44:
• Images can be deleted by dragging up toward the toolbar
• Manipulating overlapping images works a little better (not perfect, but better)
• Added a progress indicator for deleting lessons, which can take a long time
• Eliminated the "door" entity – tell us if you need this back!
• Other minor fixes
3.0
2015-04-13
We are proud to release this significant new redesign for iOS 8! A clean look and many, many improvements. We have been testing it for months and are sure you will love it as much as we do!
NOTE: You may see the message "Updating data" for a long time on first launch. Be patient, it does eventually finish. Also, we have heard from one user, who had many lessons, who lost data when installing this version. Please back up your data either to your computer with iTunes or to LessonNote Pro.
Note-taking:
• Streamlined photo tools: one-tap camera access; select, then move and resize photos using 2-finger gestures.
• Improved handwriting quality and responsiveness
• Optional “silent shutter” mode eliminates the risk of disturbing students during a lesson
• Improved overall responsiveness
Notes review (big changes here!):
• Notes are reduced to 1/2 size without sacrificing readability, so you can view more notes at once. View any note full-screen with a tap.
• Filter notes based on entity, image, flag, or annotation.
• Statistics are integrated into the notes display.
• Statistics can be restricted to whole-class segments of the lesson.
• An alternative 3-column view makes it even easier to find notes you are looking for.
• Redesigned timeline shows the span of the entire lesson and clearly shows where the current notes lie within the lesson. Tap on the timeline to navigate.
• Swipe left to delete a note, including mode transitions.
• Insert a mode transition in case you missed it during the lesson.
• Tap on the seating chart to view it full-size.
• Add typewritten annotations
LessonNote Pro integration:
• Easily share seating charts, even with users who do not have Pro accounts
• Indicates if a lesson has been uploaded.
2.1.1
2013-10-28
* Bugfixes
2.1
2013-04-15
We introduce a new statistics screen that shows how many notes were taken about each student, their total duration, and how time was allocated throughout the lesson on whole group instruction, individual work, or group work.
Bug fixes:
* Modality (whole class, group, etc.) will always reflect the most recent transition.
* A lesson can have only one start event. A second tap will shift the start event to the current time.
User interface tweaks:
- Lesson start/end events have their own color.
2.0
2013-03-12
PDF export is now available! LessonNote Pro, a web-based companion to LessonNote, provides PDF export of notes, download of photos, backup storage, and the ability to view notes and seating charts using any web browser. Other data sharing capabilities are coming soon—please contact us with questions or immediate needs.
Also new:
• One-tap action to create a “seating chart note”
• Bug fixes and user-interface tweaks.
1.2
2012-11-27
• Edit a classroom during a lesson—move, delete, add students and other entities, and edit their labels
• New "seating chart note" for making notes about multiple students
• Icons in timeline identify notes with photos.
• Bugfixes and small interface improvements.
We hear your requests for PDF export and are working hard to make this available soon!
1.0.6
2012-10-24
* Fixed a bug that caused the app to quit during startup for users with a lot of data.
New in version 1.0.5:
* Fixed a bug that caused some users to lose data when upgrading
* Fixed a bug that caused the pre-loaded classroom layouts to appear blank
New in version 1.0.4:
* Edit the labels on students and other entities!
* Duplicate a classroom layout
* Grid in the notepad for Japanese language users
* Icon for display has its own color
* A radial menu for editing properties of teachers, students, etc
* Fixed feedback email address
* Bugfixes and user interface tweaks
1.0.5
2012-10-05
* Fixed a bug that caused some users to lose data when upgrading
* Fixed a bug that caused the pre-loaded classroom layouts to appear blank
**NOTE: We have identified a flaw such that, for some users with a lot of data, LN may fail to launch after updating. A bugfix has been submitted and we are waiting for approval. NO DATA IS LOST, so please don't delete it if this happens to you.
New in version 1.0.4:
* Edit the labels on students and other entities!
* Duplicate a classroom layout
* Grid in the notepad for Japanese language users
* Icon for display has its own color
* A radial menu for editing properties of teachers, students, etc
* Fixed feedback email address
* Bugfixes and user interface tweaks