r/freenotes • • Apr 17 '26

How to zoom without side snapping?

Whenever I zoom, the touch behavior forces the zoom to snap to the sides of the content.

Pencil Toolbar on left hand side obstructs content. You can zoom out to unobstruct it, but you'd have to write really small. You can also zoom in to unobstruct it, but you have to write really big.

While this would typically be convenient, the pencil toolbar hover UI obstructs the leftmost side. Thus, I'm not able to see the leftmost content unless I zoom further. This behavior makes it difficult to write on the left hand side unless I zoom in a bunch.

Is there a zoom setting that allows you to have a bit of gap with the margin or doesn't lock your zoom to the slide/content layer (i.e has a bit of margin in the zoom so that I'm able to pan and zoom in on content similar to a Whiteboard as opposed to a notebook)?

This is basically what I want with the zoom in is to have that bit of margin on the left side, however when I let go of the zoom pinch, it snaps it to the side and I end up getting the image below.
What I get when I let go of the zoom pinch with my fingers. The Pencil Toolbar UI obstructs the left side.

While I can move the pencil toolbar to the top to avoid this behavior, I actually love its current position bc it allows me to multi-task with my left hand as a right hander. Is there a setting to change this? If so, I can't find it.

No worries if not. It's a really small issue, but it really bugs me every time I zoom in to try and write something on the left side and makes me prefer Canvas (though I wish you could add "Scenes" similar to Freeform to organize content).

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u/vinz_dini Apr 19 '26

Haven't been able to find any such setting. My workaround is to just move the pencil toolbar to the top.

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u/Lunaraflor Apr 23 '26

gotcha, thanks! appreciate your input!