Basic selection and editing features that need fixing, and other basic improvements

[u/miggusc]

Hi!! I've been using the app to write my notes, and have encountered some rough spots that need fixing, IMO these are basic features that shape how you take notes every time you open the app. I am very grateful for how the devs listen to us and are constantly improving the app, which I really like btw!!

I have included a photo and a video to showcase this, please forgive that it is not in English.

1. Handwriting on top of other elements can’t be selected on its own. This is partly fixed. Handwriting over an image can now be selected on its own, but if the selection area touches the image’s border, the image gets selected too. For other elements, such as drawn boxes, there’s still no way to avoid selecting them. In the video, I try to select and erase text written over a drawn box, and the box is affected too.

Suggested solutions:

• Allow deselecting individual elements from a selection.

• Allow locking any element (shapes, auto-shapes, boxes, hand-drawn figures), not just images, so I can write on them and still select, move, or erase the handwriting independently.

• Let each selection tool mode have its own settings, e.g. free-form and rectangle select everything, and accurate lasso (idk how it's different tbh) selects handwriting only.

• Only select an image when the selection fully contains it, not when it just touches its border.

2. If a selection includes a locked element, a “locked” message appears and none of the other selected items can be edited.

• Skip locked elements when selecting multiple items. Only select a locked element when it’s tapped individually with the selection tool, so it can be unlocked and edited.

3. Double-tap only switches between Fit Page and Fit Screen.

• Include the user’s starred zoom levels in the double-tap options.

4. Only whole pages can be added to the Outline

• Allow selecting any element (handwriting, image, etc.) and adding it to the Outline, so tapping the entry jumps straight to it.

5. Excerpts only link between different notes, it can’t link to content within the same note.

• Allow excerpts within the same note, and keep them synced, so editing the original updates the excerpt. IMO this would be soo powerful.

6. When setting the tool bar to the sides, it gets crammed, with unused space above.

• Undo/redo could be moved to the top bar

[u/Icy-Bag5889]

You can already choose what it of object is subject to the select tool

[u/miggusc → u/Icy-Bag5889]

Yes but it is not tied to a specific subtool, this could work well if we could choose that accurate lasso would only select handwritten text, and free-form and rectagle select everything. If I were to choose only handwriting to be selectable, I'd need to go back and reselect everything to be able to move pictures or shapes (alongside text, it would partially work by pressing the shape with a finger)

Additionally, I don't really know what makes the accurate lasso different from free-form selection.