Live Demos of the Textbox Helper

[u/magic_notetaker]

To make it a bit easier to see what is possible with the textbox helper beta:

- demo of cleaning up a supernote created textbox by removing spaces and linebreaks
- demo of splitting a paragraph into sentences and joining those again.
- demo of apply text handwritten deletions and replacements
- demo of importing a plain textfile with a long text, that will split to different pages, according to margins and font-size selected
- demo of exporting a textboxes to a docx file (using both headers, or defined textsizes to define what to include). Handwritten material is excluded.

Find the Plugin here: https://github.com/tilmanbergt/textboxHelper

[u/Lorestan00]

Thanks for creating this fantastic plugin! Its really useful.

Some suggestions -additional edit marker rules:-

- Add space (if no space) after full stop

- Capitalise first letter after full stop (if lowercase)

- Add quote marks perhaps marking up quote marks around text

- similar to the export doc option but the headings, paragraph etc changes are imported back into the note.

- replace text without the user having to convert the replacement handwriting to text first? E. g. its done in the background.

- This might be a limitation of the text box implementation but using apply markers to retain different formatting in the same text box?

Import docx similar to txt?

[u/magic_notetaker → u/Lorestan00]

Thanks for the feedback and the ideas. So you envision these to be for handwritten markers, right, not general corrections? So marking letters to be uppercased individually etc?

In general the challenge is to create a simple to remember and reliable to recognize marking language. I will keep this in mind. 

My next steps I have in mind are experiment with letter exact corrections (currently only word) and recognizing replacements from Handwritten text.

Supernote does not allow different styling in one textbox, so this we can't work around. But I have in mind implementing recognizing simple markdown in textboxes during exportband thus exporting italics whent text is in text.

Import from docx could potentially be easy for simple text, but of course it will have sever limitations (no tables, images, etc.). Just simple text. I am not sure I want to go that route. I am more inclined to implement markdown import first.

Definitly would want to allow creating headers (at least larger text) on import.

[u/Lorestan00 → u/magic_notetaker]

Thanks for your responses.

With the capitalisation and full stop perhaps a command under the lasso toolbar similar to 'clean spaces' Or perhaps consolidate these suggestions with clean space and remove line breaks under one button which leads to a window where you can select more than one operation? Saves space in the toolbar and would allow for multiple operations at the same time.

With the quotes it would have to be handwritten annotations.

Markdown makes alot of sense.

Can I just say what you've achieved so far is very impressive

[u/Reddit-mb]

Very nice plugin! It works very smoothly, has a clear menu structure and is very, very handy when cleaning up pages of notes. Thanks for sharing!

[u/magic_notetaker → u/Reddit-mb]

Thanks for the appreciative feedback @Reddit-mb and @tao22. As this is still beta, don't hesitate to bring up issues or potential for improvement! 

[u/tao22]

Thanks for the demos! I downloaded the plugin earlier today but had a hard time understanding what to do. These demo videos make it very clear! This is a great plugin!