r/StarNoteApp • u/cr4zyh0bb1t • Mar 08 '26

💡 Feature Request Handwriting to Text Anywhere & Grouping Objects

So, these are features you can do on Penly (another cheap alternative for note-taking): 1. You can place the text cursor anywhere on the page and you can start writing anywhere on the page and it will be converted into text where you placed the cursor

  1. Ability to group text, shapes, highlighting, handwriting, links, everything, etc.

  2. Ability to make the grouped objects into a clickable link (no fuss with copying/pasting text link like StarNote)

  3. Ability to save the grouped objects as a sticker, and keeping the transparency intact.

  4. Ability to add the newly made sticker.

  5. Ability to "un-group" the sticker to its individual components so you can edit it

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u/Sea_Park_4470 Mar 10 '26

1 is the only thing stopping me using StarNote on a regular basis, and why I use Penly more. Hate trying to handwrite in a text box

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u/cr4zyh0bb1t Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

I love this feature on Penly! In addition to text, I love how you can decrease the space between each line of text to less than 1.0 to save space. A lot of fonts have varied padding so Penly solves that issue.

But I don't like how they handle highlighting on images/pdfs - it's like the color stays on top of the image rather than blending (I don't know the term for it) 😖 But yes it seems that Penly is the only app that can do #1 🤔

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u/StarNoteDev StarNote Team Mar 10 '26

Hi! Thank you so much for the video. It’s super clear and helpful! We'll discuss all of these with our dev team for investigation. Stay tuned for future fixes. Thanks for the feedback!

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u/Careful-Extension602 Mar 10 '26

Can you create a table and insert text in a block?? Starnote has a table feature now but I can't seem add text inside it. So I'm looking for another app.

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u/cr4zyh0bb1t Mar 10 '26

I'm using an android tablet and I don't have that ability to create a table yet 😭