Or should I say offal. I had reason today to actually USE text. I was looking at a notebook on my phone with the app, and I thought of a todo item to add to it. So I typed it in.
Later, on the tablet, I tried moving that text up a little. No go. So I just wrote it where I wanted. Then I deleted the text. I thought, “Okay, I’ll also remove all those blank lines that positioned the text close to where I wanted.” When I did that, half of the handwriting rose up over the other half and clear off the page. Undo? No go.
To get the page back, I went to my other tablet–not connected to the wifi, copied the original notebook, connected and synced, then rewrote my todo item. Sheez.
Lesson to myself: NEVER mix text and handwriting. That’s useful, right?
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Totally agree. Unless I can move a text block like PowerPoint, it is unusable to me. Plus I need to be able to change font styles. I so want checkboxes to work for me, but the text is so small it is unreadable to me, even with “Large” selected in Accessibility options. I’m glad to know this before I purchased a Type Folio. Maybe someday…
The way handwriting is “linked” to the text needs a little getting used to, since manipulating the text also changes the handwritten content. Think of the text feature like a typewriter with thick margins and not a word processor or something where you can have text boxes and move it anywhere
The only time it’s been useful is to copy and paste questions from class through my laptop , and just using the text to title a page. But other than that I don’t see any point.