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Add a lasso tool like many other pdf editors have too and if not too much work make notes groupable

I'd love to see Xodo having a lasso and or box selection tool for moving around, deleting or resizing notes we took, picking apart drawings consisting of more small pieces is just painful.

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  • Amir Khodayan Karim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello again,

    Congratulations on the new update, it is a huge success. I'd like to mention a thing thst I have realized. The app selects drawings and annotations, even if you are not in the select mode (lasso, multiselect). This csn become really annoying when you make a lot of annotations because wherever you tap, even if you don't intend to select anything, it becomes selected and you have to deal with canceling the selection.

    I also recommend another thing. It is more convenient that when you use the pen to write something on the documrnt, it wouldn't be grouped as one giant item. It is morr convenient to have each curve as a single item in the beginning but having the ability to group/ungroup them anytime you want. I shall explain why this can be helpful. Imagine the annotation is over but the user wants to undo something, it would then undo everything he/she has just wrote. Another reason is that sometimes people draw handwritten shapes (this maybe helpful forexample when you are reading a scientific document and you need to draw a shape to explsin a few things). In these situations you may get in and out of the annotation mode several times and it is really preferable if the steps before are not grouped as chunks if drawings.

    I can imagine a good reason for why the developer didn't do this initially so that everything would be consistent with the history of annotations in the book mark window. However it isn't really necessary if you think to have each set of drawings to be grouped. The history of annotations could simply serve as s log and shows thr reader where the annotations did happen in thr first place. But it would be really better if things are not grouped up in the beginning.

    Once more, huge congratulations on the new update.

    Sincerely, Amir

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  • Amir Khodayan Karim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Dear developers,

    I would also recommend and like to have the Lasso tool. In advance I can also suggest a feature that is also in Metamoji Note. You can also find there a selection tool that works as follows:

    Draw a curve that you would like to select items with it. What can happen is that it selects, objects that the curve hits (including any part of any member of a a set of objects that are currently grouped together). Isn't this also a cool idea? :) I am looking forward to see your thoughts about it.

    Having the ability to group objects together is really awesome. Also it is so useful in the sense that if you combine it with the ability to save these groups in the memory for later uses in all the documents, you can just once create a complicated object (I'm talking about something exactly like the predefined drawings that your app already has like faces, hands, etc.) and then you will be able to use it forever. Metamoji note also has this ability. It may seem out of the box in the beginning but once you have it, it makes the app extremely powerful. I don't think saving the grouped items in the memory for later use could be hard to implement... I mean I may be wrong but I guess once you implemented the "grouping items" feature, saving these grouped items together for infinite use in the future is just a matter of also also storing them in the non-volatile memory. So I guess just by implementing the grouping feature, you would have this very awesome and powerful feature for free.

    I hope that you find this comment helpful and that it helps to improve your beautiful app.

    Sincerely, Amir

  • silla commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I like and need the lasso tool very much.
    It would be great if the selection was even more precise and you could select individual words in handwritten text.
    Thanks for the great app, by the way.

  • Hugo So commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add a selection lasso! Multiselect is nice but doesn't give enough flexibility. Copy-paste and group features for annotations would be very nice too!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please add a lasso. it's too uncomfortable because the present lasso tool groups too many elements.

  • Yvonne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great if we had more options I.e. copy and paste when we've lassooed and grouped things.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The addition of this option to lasso select elements in the PDF, and then be able to manipulate them, copy, cut, paste, group, etc. would be a powerful addition to this amazing program. Please consider adding this to our already amazing tool set. Thanks!!

  • Mark Armstrong commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    LASSOO IS POSSIBLE - load your edited file into the desktop and simply group objects in usual way. This works. I would think that then saving file and opening again in app allows user to continue. Worth doing if lots of group and copying to do as I need to do.

  • Dave commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add a lasso, i agree with so many others, one of the last things Xodo needs to make it very user friendly

  • Jean-Pierre Schnyder commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Simply look how the Evernote lasso tool for handwritten notes works and you will realize how this feature must be added asap to the great Xodo !

  • Sarah commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This app is seriously in need of the lasso tool PLEASE ADD IT ASAP, would make life so much h easier.

  • DoS007 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is the only crucial feature really missing. Things like pen sensitivity are luxury and only enhance use cases. But THIS FEATURE opens NEW USE CASES. Please, please add it.

  • jue commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    yes, would be great.

    please add also a copy / paste for grouped notes. with this notes could be shifted to another page.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add it, please! At the moment it's the only thing that prevents me from using xodo...

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