BarNote in store

Note definition examples

• hidden note
  0;;Hide me;Footer;0123456789;
• note without header & footer displaying text :) using the default font
  1;;;;:);
• note with header MULTILINE NOTE & footer TWO LINES displaying text in 2 lines 1ST LINE 2ND LINE using the smallest font
  1;1;MULTILINE NOTE;TWO LINES;1ST LINE//2ND LINE;
• EAN barcode:
  2;;My grocery EAN;Remember the milk;3453242346264;
• Code128:
  3;;Park run code128;John RUNNER;A123456;
• QR (connection to internet is needed when you put new QR or change QR, also to use QR you have to have device with minimum CIQ 3.0.0):
  4;30;QR shop;;691234567X;

Settings

You can define notes and other properties in settings in settings (using settings). There are abbreviations in settings due to narrow settings apps. Some options can be also changed on watch, use Menu command.

• Colors NO-bg;NO-tx;HF-tx;
  • format:  3 hex numbers separated by semicolons and semicolon at the end
  • default: 0xffff55;0x000000;0xffffff; (use it if you stop seeing data :))
  • NO-bg - note background color
  • NO-tx - note text color
  • HF-tx - header/footer text color
  • 1st and 2nd and 2nd and 3rd shouldn't be the same
  • colors for your device
• Colors inversion (also on watch). You can use this feature to invert defined colors (e.g. from day mode to night mode). Test it, black will be white but sometimes inversion may surprise you.
• Open the recent note (also on watch). Use it to open on start note from the previous session.
• Default font (also on watch), number:
  • 0 -  default from design
  • 1 - 5 size (xtiny - large)
• Wider code128 (also on watch). Usually you should check this option but if you have very long code128 bar the only way to show it wholly is narrowing it by unchecking this option. No every  bar code reader can read such small stripes.
• Widget note - text to display in native glance view or app's glance (if you have switched off glance preview or device doesn't support native glance). Use // (two slashes) to break line.
• Notes HT(0-3);FO(0-5/PC);HR(…);FR(…);NO/BC(…);
  All notes #0-30 notes use the same format
  
  • format - 5 fields separated by semicolons and semicolon at the end
    
  • default: empty (no note)
  • all chars between separators are important, so ;abc; and ; abc ;  are not the same
  • HT(0-3) - Hide/Type, number 0-3:
    
    • 0 - hide note
    • 1 - text
    • 2 - EAN-8/EAN-13/UPC-A bar code
    • 3 - code128 bar code (e.g. park run)
    • 4 - QR code
  • FO(0-5/PC)
    • for text note (type 1) font size for note, number 0-5 (or empty)
      • see description in Default font section above
        
      • same devices (e.g. venu sq) doesn't support font for all sizes
      • you should always choose the font the best for you because BarNote tries to find the largest font for which the entire note fits on one page. It starts from biggest (5) end ending on this one defined by you
        
      • if this field is empty or has 0, default font is used if default font is 0 font from design is used
    • for QR (type 4) - two digits - both influence on size of QR (memory, transfer, storage) so you should keep them as small as possible
      
      • P - row/columns in pixel 1-9) - the initial size of QR depends on data you want to encode into QR but if readers have problem to read small QR try to enlarge this value,
      • C - correction level (0-3) - you should use value bigger than 0 only if you have QR too big to fit the screen when 0 is set so try to increase C so maybe (no guarantee) visible part of QR will be enough to be read properly. 
  • HR(…) -header - text for header (if empty, header will be hidden for text note, put space to show header)
  • FR(…) - footer - text for footer (if empty, footer will be hidden for text note, put space to show footer)
    
  • NO/BC(…)Note/Barcode, according to Type(HT):
    
    • for type 1 (text) - text for note, use // to break the line
      
    • for type 2 (EAN/UPC) text and numbers but only numbers are changed to bar code. App counts checksum and display it in red if it's not correct and shows correct last digit (if you see red text means bar code is incorrect). Apps choose EAN-8 when you put 8 digits, UPC-A for 12 digits and EAN-13 when finds 13 digits.
    • for type 3 (code128) text and numbers are changed to bar code;
      remember, space is the char converted to bar so ;A1234; and ; A1234 ; produce different bars (BarNote doesn't know if space is valid or not); you can use only (see column 128 B in wiki:code128):
      - ASCII characters - code from 32 to 126 (0–9, A–Z, a–z, some special characters including space)
      - chars FNC1 - Ï (207), FNC2 - Ê (202), FNC3 - É (201), FNC 4- Í(205) but BarNote doesn't check if next chars are correct with function)
      
    • for type 4 (QR) text and numbers you want to encode into QR;
      remember, space is the char converted to bar so ;1234Q; and ;1234 Q; produce different QR (BarNote doesn't know if space is valid or not);
      

Input events (button/touch/swipe)

• UP - showing
  • the previous/last note (scrolling notes mode)
  • the previous/last page of note (scrolling pages of notes mode)
• DOWN - showing
  • the next/first note (scrolling notes mode)
  • the next/first page of note (scrolling pages of notes mode)
• START/SELECT
  • changing mode from scrolling notes to scrolling pages (for multi pages notes)
  • turn backlight on, on some device additionally set backlight to 100% (it allows to read easier bar code and after ending wrist gesture backlight is still on for defined time)
• BACK
  • changing mode from scrolling pages of note to scrolling notes (for multi pages notes)
  • exiting form app/widget

Errors Errors connected with default values are not reported (e.g. font, colors). So if you can't see your settings check them. Errors in EAN/UP When you see red label it means bar code is incorrect. BarNote display the correct the last digit in ><. Putting this digit instead the last one (in example changing 9 to 0) makes barcode valid but usually you should check all digits. There is no such problem with code128 because BarNote counts checksum itself so every bar code will be valid. # of errors in note definition 1 bad note definition (usually there is no 5 semicolons!!!)  2 bad type of note (0-3) 3 text of note is empty (put something to show) 4 no digit when type is 2 5 EAN/UPC should have 8/12/13 digits  6 too long note for type 3 (max 30 chars) 7 bad char in note for type 3, see description NO/BC 8 You need CIQ 3.0 to use QR QR codes are generated outside of device and stores ONLY in device. So device need connection to the internet when you put new QR or modify old one (you can sometimes see see it e.g. #25...  means note 25 is  processing). You can meet some error connecting with QR processing - ale http/https error (e.g. 404) but due to bug in ciq probably you will see only 404, - errors from CIQ - see Communications.