saber Allow Text Field To Be Created Anywhere On A Page

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, text fields can only be created on top of a page. It can be handy to have text field anywhere on the page of any size and have the ability to move it around the page

(Currently moving objects to different pages doesn't seem to be supported, hence not requested)

Describe the solution you'd like

A lasso/selection type tool instead to create a text box. Here is how OneNote handles it

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/45941793/226357153-14f71520-a47f-42f1-9769-0c2d162cd7d0.mp4

Issues with this approach:

Overlapping text boxes can be an issue, unless we make it such that you cannot overlap them
Would require a re-implementation of current behaviour
Not sure how adjusting the size of the box would be made possible after the field has been created
Not sure how editing the text itself would be handled

Describe alternatives you've considered

Have considered turning the entire page into a layer of text field and annotation field, which would serve the following purpose

Would eliminate the problem of overlapping text boxes
Would make it possible to add text anywhere on the page with perhaps fixed size
Annotations remain undisturbed

Issues with this approach:

Would require a re-implementation of how a page functions
Makes moving text around difficult
Not sure how font scaling would work

Device (please complete the following information):

Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite LTE
OS: Android Lineage OS 19.1 19-20230318-NIGHTLY-gta4xl
Version: v0.9.9

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Mar 20 '23 13:03 WasteOfO2

+1

Pretty unusable in its current state. Even if when you selected text, it let you touch where horizontally you wanted to start, that would hugely improve things, allowing columns.