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The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting
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Allow Text Field To Be Created Anywhere On A Page #486

Open WasteOfO2 opened 1 year ago

WasteOfO2 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, text fields can only be created on top of a page. It can be handy to have text field anywhere on the page of any size and have the ability to move it around the page

(Currently moving objects to different pages doesn't seem to be supported, hence not requested)

Describe the solution you'd like

A lasso/selection type tool instead to create a text box. Here is how OneNote handles it

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/45941793/226357153-14f71520-a47f-42f1-9769-0c2d162cd7d0.mp4

Issues with this approach:

  1. Overlapping text boxes can be an issue, unless we make it such that you cannot overlap them
  2. Would require a re-implementation of current behaviour
  3. Not sure how adjusting the size of the box would be made possible after the field has been created
  4. Not sure how editing the text itself would be handled

Describe alternatives you've considered

Have considered turning the entire page into a layer of text field and annotation field, which would serve the following purpose

  1. Would eliminate the problem of overlapping text boxes
  2. Would make it possible to add text anywhere on the page with perhaps fixed size
  3. Annotations remain undisturbed

Issues with this approach:

  1. Would require a re-implementation of how a page functions
  2. Makes moving text around difficult
  3. Not sure how font scaling would work

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Additional context If relevant, add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

smellymoo commented 1 year ago

+1

Pretty unusable in its current state. Even if when you selected text, it let you touch where horizontally you wanted to start, that would hugely improve things, allowing columns.

flckf commented 1 year ago

+1

InanisOmnia commented 1 year ago

+1

This would be a great addition and is currently an issue stopping me from making this my default note-taking app

ghost commented 6 months ago

This would be amazing if it worked like a sticky note too. I add sticky notes to my main notes if I need to add some extra notes to a bullet point.

drmathewsgit commented 4 months ago

+1 This is a prerequisite for Pageless issue, So this should go up in urgency.