Hey👋 Thank you for your interest in Quillo!
Quillo is a handwriting notes app for Android, developed to provide a smooth handwriting experience. The core features of the app — such as writing, syncing and organizing your notes — already work well. However, the app is still under active development, so some features aren't implemented yet (such as exporting single pages instead of the entire notebook). To create a fully functional app, I need help. If you'd like to contribute, even if it's just a small improvement, you're more than welcome!
Quillo provides you with multiple tools, such as a pencil, a highlighter, a laser, a lasso and a path tool.
You can use the laser to present your notes, move parts around with the lasso and draw smooth paths with the path tool.
If you have some documents, you can import them into your notes — whether they're digital (like PDFs) or analog and scanned with the built-in scanner. If you want to share a note, you can export it as a PDF.
If you often lose your notes, this is for you! With Quillo, you can sync your notes with Dropbox for free, so that you won't lose any notes anymore. Even if you don't have access to your device right now, you can view all your notes on any other device, too!
To organize your notes, you can create folders and customize their colors and add expressive icons.
Multitasking is also no problem with Quillo. You can easily open multiple notes and switch between them without any delay, so you can stay productive and well-structured — even if you have a lot of work.
Your notebooks are also flexible. With the integrated page sorter, you can easily rearrange your pages, delete them or add new ones.
You can go to download Version 0.1 of the app here and install it on your device to test it. If you want to contribute, you should build the app from source.
git clone https://github.com/ByteSculptor07/QuilloNotes.git
Note
For security reasons, the Dropbox App Key is not included in the source code. You'll need to create your own.
To sync your notes using Dropbox, you need to obtain a Dropbox API Key.
1. Create a new app on the Dropbox app console
- Choose "Scoped access"
- Choose "App folder"
- Enter "Quillo" as the app name
- Click "Create app"
- Go to the "Permissions"-tab
- Choose "files.metadata.write" and "files.metadata.read"
- Choose "files.content.write" and "files.content.read"
- Click "Submit"
Create a file called keystore.local in the project root with the content DROPBOX_KEY=<your-key-here>. Make sure to replace with your actual Dropbox key.
Warning
Do NOT commit your API Key to the repository.
Firstly, thank you for your interest in contributing to this project!
The app is still in an early stage of development. Many features I have planned aren't implemented yet and of course, there are bugs. So any help is welcome, whether it's a new feature or just fixing a typo.
Note
If you'd like to contribute, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.
This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.
Quillo wouldn't be possible without these awesome open source libraries and tools:
- ZoomLayout by Otaliastudios – for smooth zoom and pan support
- ColorPickerView by skydoves – for color selection
- Glide – for efficient image loading and caching
- PDFBox for Android – for PDF export
- Gson – for JSON serialization
- OkHttp – for networking
- Dropbox SDK – for cloud sync
- DocumentScanner by WebsiteBeaver – for built-in document scanning
Many thanks to all library authors! 💙
Also, special thanks to Phosphor Icons for the awesome icons!
