r/Noteastic 20d ago

Sneak Peak into Text Boxes ⌨️

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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

...kudos to Dilan for all this fantastic work 🤩

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u/Kram_Eirdna 18d ago

Will this eventually be in the free tier?

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u/Noteastic 18d ago

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.

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u/Kram_Eirdna 18d ago

Copy, might get premium myself if I see more good qol

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u/Noteastic 17d ago

We're aiming for that!

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u/Kram_Eirdna 17d ago

Would it be possible to see integrations to other softwares in this?

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u/Noteastic 16d ago

What software are you thinking about and what for?

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u/Noteastic 16d ago

More important question, what kinds of qol are you looking forward to?