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Current text implementation is awful (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Knox_Dawson@alien.top to c/remarkable@hardware.watch
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Or should I say offal. I had reason today to actually USE text. I was looking at a notebook on my phone with the app, and I thought of a todo item to add to it. So I typed it in.

Later, on the tablet, I tried moving that text up a little. No go. So I just wrote it where I wanted. Then I deleted the text. I thought, "Okay, I'll also remove all those blank lines that positioned the text close to where I wanted." When I did that, half of the handwriting rose up over the other half and clear off the page. Undo? No go.

To get the page back, I went to my other tablet--not connected to the wifi, copied the original notebook, connected and synced, then rewrote my todo item. Sheez.

Lesson to myself: NEVER mix text and handwriting. That's useful, right?

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[–] restanndrelaxation@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The only time it's been useful is to copy and paste questions from class through my laptop , and just using the text to title a page. But other than that I don't see any point.

[–] FRK299@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The way handwriting is “linked” to the text needs a little getting used to, since manipulating the text also changes the handwritten content. Think of the text feature like a typewriter with thick margins and not a word processor or something where you can have text boxes and move it anywhere

[–] somedaygone@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Totally agree. Unless I can move a text block like PowerPoint, it is unusable to me. Plus I need to be able to change font styles. I so want checkboxes to work for me, but the text is so small it is unreadable to me, even with “Large” selected in Accessibility options. I’m glad to know this before I purchased a Type Folio. Maybe someday…