Android Notepad ColorNote FAQ

Q : How do you put a sticky note on the home screen?

A : Goto home screen and long press empty space and choose widget, ColorNote will be there for sticking on page. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpMLF9b2aTQ See this youtube video to learn about the home screen widget.

Q : How come the widget and the alarm and remider functions don't work?

A : If the app is installed on the SD card, your widget, reminder and etc. will not work properly because Android doesn't support them! If you have already moved app to SD card, but you want those features, you have to move it back to device and reboot you phone.

Settings - Applications - Manage Applications - ColorNote - Move to Device

Q : Where are 'Archive' and 'Recycle Bin'?

A : Click 'ColorNote' on top left of the main screen.

Q : I had to reinstall color note and there is an automatic backed up data that was stored but it requires a password and I hadn't set one up in the past. How do I retrieve that information?

A : Try default password '0000' (numbers)

Q: How do you back up the notes?

A: Goto backup screen 'Menu-BackUp' , tap backup button, and enter your master password.

Q: How do you restore backed up data on SD card?

A: Goto backup screen 'Menu -> BackUp -> SD card backup' then you can see list of backup files. Tap backup item you want to restore. Type password that you have set when backup file was created. The password is same as the password for lock notes.

Q: Where is backed up data at?
A: /data/colornote/backup on sdcard (/sdcard/data/colornote/backup)

Q: I forgot my password, how can I change it?

A: Menu -> Settings -> Master Password -> Menu Button-> Clear Password.

!! You will lose current locked notes when you clear password.

Q: I don't remember my password to restore backed up data. Any help?

A: It can't be restored if you don't know the password.

Q: How to move up & down a checklist item?

A: Touch left icon and drag to move it. If drag & drop doesn't work, Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Turn off 'List item drag and drop'

Q: ColorNote is stuck in an "Installing" state. I can not update it or reinstall it.

A: That seems the market app problem. Go to Settings-->Applications-->Manage applications-->Market and clicked on 'clear data' or Go to Settings -> Applications and deinstall the Market update. -> Clear the Market's cache and data. https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1067233&topic=1100168

Download the app
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.socialnmobile.dictapps.notepad.color.note

ColorNote 2.0 Released

ColorNote 2.0

-Improved reminder

+ List widget shows active items count

+ All day reminder on status bar

+ Repetition added

- Main list context menu

+ Lock menu added

+ Pin to status bar menu added

- Lock feature imroved

+ List can be locked now

+ Master password can be reset : Settings -> Master Password

+ Password can be removed : Settings -> Master Password -> Menu -> Remove Password

- Checklist improved

+ List item height can be changed (Normal, Small)

+ Sort Alphabetically in checklist

+ Drag & drop checklist item

-Label colors

Download the app
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.socialnmobile.dictapps.notepad.color.note

ColorNote : Android Notepad App

Download the app
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.socialnmobile.dictapps.notepad.color.note

ColorNote is a simple notepad app. This is not just a typical notepad. It give you a better editing experience when you write note, email, message or twit and it has a dictionary look-up feature for perfectionists. ColorNote makes taking notes easier than any other notepad apps.

Supports sticky note widget, Quick Search Box and color tagging.

Simple Notes List

Grid View

Edit Note

Stick Note Widgets

How To Use Widget Video

1.5.0 supports Checklist

Top 200 in the Android Developers Challenge 2

Social & Mobile made 2 applications Top 200 from Google's ADC2(Android Developer Challenge 2) Round 1.

Food Canary / Travel Category
Complete Memorization / Education Category
It's not easy to made an application to the top 200. But we made two applications on the list. Thank you for users who give us 5 stars in the round 1.

Food Canary

Complete Memorization

ColorDict Universal Dictionary supports Android Quick Search Box (QSB)

One of the great new features in the Android 1.6 release is Quick Search Box for Android.

And now, we proudly announce that ColorDict supports Quick Search Box.

The user can choose to enable particular suggestion sources from the system settings for search (by going to "Search" > "Searchable items" in settings).

Android Tips Video : Quick Search Box

ColorFlashlight for Android

I've uploaded a Android ColorFlashlight App video to YouTube. See its fun effects.

Andorid アンドロイド 辞典 : Color Dict Data : Japanese Engligh Dictionary

We just have released Japanese-English-Japanese dictionary(英和辞典,英和辞典) data on the android market. This is StarDict data based on the JMDict(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/jmdict.html) dictionary.