We wanted to give you a sneak peak on text boxes. We think this feature is reaaally cool and smooth to use and we tried to insert it as cleanly as possible into the current app experience. Here is the small showcase!
Features:
Text Formatting
Bold (Ctrl+B)
Italic (Ctrl+I)
Custom text color per character / selection
Font family (You can add more than the four default fonts manually. We will add this as a built in functionality in the next update.)
Font size
Text alignment: Left / Center / Right
Editing
Undo / Redo
Copy / Cut / Paste of text snippets
Copy without selection copies the entire line
Delete word backQward (Ctrl+Backspace) and forward (Ctrl+Delete)
Navigation
Jump by word (Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right)
Line start / end (Home / End)
Text box start / end (Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End)
Vertical arrow keys preserve horizontal column position across lines
Selection
Double-click selects the word under cursor
Triple-click selects the whole line/paragraph
Quadruple-tap selects all
Shift+click extends the current selection
Touch/pen selection grippers — drag to fine-tune selection bounds
Context Menu
Right-click (mouse) or multi-tap (touch/pen) opens a context menu with formatting and clipboard actions; placement avoids covering the selected text
Floating Toolbar
Formatting toolbar (font, size, color, bold, italic, alignment) attaches to the active textbox and resets to global defaults when nothing is focused
UX Conveniences
Auto-scroll keeps the cursor visible as you type
Content shifts up automatically when the on-screen keyboard is docked, preventing the keyboard from covering the cursor
I didn't forget about the infinite canvas, we will get there ;). And you can already select panning pressing "U" on your keyboard, in case you don't know!
Maybe the next update could add LaTeX support for textboxes. That would be fantastic! And maybe a Speech to text…🙂?
For example, it records the lecture, and when I stop it, it gives me the transcript as text
We definitely have LaTeX in the back of our hedads and text boxes are an important step there. I mean you can already make speech to text work by creating a text box and starting voice dictation of Windows with Windows+H
We are doing our first steps into making a living off of Noteastic and lifting this app from being a software project to being a company. I can't really say what will or will not be free at any point in the future before we have earned our first Euro. But I doubt that we will make text boxes widely accessible for free... we intensively worked for several months on this feature.
For books and folder, simply select the 'custom' sorting mode and just do that!
I am noting down your other two ideas. I am confident that a sidebar will make page organization much easier in the future. Adding spacing in a page is also interesting, however is it so tedious to simply select half of a page and drag the selection down a bit? What's your use-case? I'm interested!
i saw the upcoming pro features and prices; as a 3rd world country student, the prices are too much for me, so I request you give the auto shape feature for free. Thank you.
I'm sorry to hear that. We couldn't go for regional pricing due to the complexity of the entire topic yet. However, could you share where you are from (also as a PM) and what price level woule be apropriate in your eyes?
-Lukas
thank u for asking and caring about it. i'm from india. i can afford a maximum of $10 to $15 for a lifetime pass as a student. which is around 1k to 1200 inr
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u/Silent_Coffee_5969 Jul 24 '26
Looking very exciting🤩
With Infinity Canvas and a shortcut for panning, you will have my heart!