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  1. Toggle Menu like the one in Notion would be a game changer for Goodnotes. It will help me as a medical student to recap and memorize my notes in an organized way, leave Notion and use only one app that has everythig i need.

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  2. A mode in which the app zooms in to a certain proximity so that 1 cm on the device‘s display is actually 1 cm of the document.

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  4. It would be great for my OCD if I can snap images like in notability for when I want all my photos to be the same size

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  5. Dear GoodNotes Team,

    I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to you today to suggest a new feature that I believe would greatly benefit your users. Specifically, I would like to propose the integration of a sorting function in the app that would allow users to easily sort and find their notes by day, week, or month.

    As someone who uses GoodNotes frequently for note-taking and organization, I often find myself sifting through my notes to find specific information from a certain day or week. I believe that by adding a sorting feature or allowing users to…

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  6. How about a stats which tell
    1.how much pen did you use
    2. Which pen colour did you use the most and
    3 what percentage you use eraser and pencil and highlighter
    4 and which notebook did you used the most and how many times
    5 how many letters you typed
    6 how many strokes you deleted

    There is literally endless possibilities of what you can add to stats.

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  7. A good notes account is a good idea as iCloud sync is not reliable. Making a username and password to have all folders and notebooks safe in a “goodnotes account” is the best way to ensure nothing is lost, and is an easy way to access these notes on other compatible devices (like iPad to MacBook).

    6 votes

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  8. I love the lasso tool. It’s so useful. But I still can’t rotate text boxes!

    2 votes

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  9. The default iOS Split-screen mode is not enough. I’m an English major from China , and have heavy using needs on GoodNotes for long English articles .it would be super convenient if I can split my screen up and down like I’m notability, it would help me easily match the Chinese translation with original English text and take notes .

    The reason why I require this is because in terms of marking and highlighting sentences with pen and shapes , Notability is inferior to GoodNotes . If this function can be added , it’ll completely change me into a full-time…

    1 vote

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  10. Very specific problem, but on a shared document, lets say I write something, and the person I am sharing with wrote something in the same area without me knowing and it hadn’t uploaded yet, once their work finally loads, it covers mine. However, since I have already moved on to other areas of the document, I can’t simply undo the work I did during that previous time or at that area of the document… I wish there was a way to select the undo function for a specific time in the editing history or maybe even placement on the doc…

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  11. 1 vote

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  12. Hello! Thanks for the great app. It would be really cool to add a third scrolling mode: instant slide switching. This is sorely lacking. When I make podcasts, I have to erase in the reverse order, and return the elements as the podcast progresses. Switching (seamless) would be much easier

    2 votes

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  13. I find myself swapping between two different pen styles often, and it would be great if (like the recently added color slots), you would also offer the option to add custom pen slots in the nav bar.

    I attached a quick mockup showing a possible way to do this.

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  14. It would be nice to be able to change to eraser with the button on the side of my pen without having to lift my pen for the actual change to take place. It works like that in OneNote, and it would be a nice quality of life if it also worked like that in Goodnotes.

    1 vote

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  15. Aligning object(line, shapes, pictures, text box, etc.) like MS PPT.

    1 vote

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  16. Please add a new type of pen whose color will become darker over time. So that the user can easily identify which handwriting was written recently

    2 votes

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  17. When opening the file-browser, one can only get back to the document writing view by opening a new document.
    Very inconvenient.
    Implement a "close button" for file browser an GN jumps bach to the document one was working on

    2 votes

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  18. I use outlines a lot, so it would be great if they were more easily accessed on the top left corner. Something like if we could create the option into a shortcut for either Thumbnail/Favorites/Outlines depending on what we need the most at the moment just like with the pen and eraser tool. Also would be great if the option didn't open a pop up and instead a side panel.

    A little nitpicky, but would be super helpful and eliminate my use of the documents app and allow me to entirely make the switch to goodnotes for all studying purposes…

    2 votes

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  19. I read a lot of papers from Arxiv, which are of the form https://arxiv.org/pdf/XXXXXXXX.pdf

    I would like to import a pdf to read directly from the link. Right now, I have to download the paper, store it in hard drive, import it in Goodnotes, then delete the file. This creates unnecessary steps and I have to delete the files later anyways. Would be great if I could import pdf directly from a link that links to a pdf.

    In OneNote, I can directly import pdf to OneNote notebook using a Chrome extension.

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  20. when resizing the image, lines, objects, etc, make it able to flip horizontally and vertically and have the option to fix its proportions while doing so and show degrees when simply just rotating.

    6 votes

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