Allow Text Field To Be Created Anywhere On A Page

[WasteOfO2]

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

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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

Device (please complete the following information):

• Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite LTE
• OS: Android Lineage OS 19.1 19-20230318-NIGHTLY-gta4xl
• Version: v0.9.9

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

[smellymoo]

+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]

+1

[InanisOmnia]

+1

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

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]

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

[jdkruzr]

this is a basic feature that would be very welcome.

[QubaB]

It is complicated to implement such feature at the current state. Saber use "Rich text editor" which is created on each page. So it is not possible to add text to arbitrary position. I am not able to code such think.

To insert vertical space for new text I created draft pull request #1487. It is sufficient for me as I use only hand-written text.

[jdkruzr]

the application already has support for images; it seems like all you'd have to do is create a transparent image overlay with the text in it.