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  1. Can you please add the opportunity to "freeze" while presentation-mode. Like you did in GN4. This was great, because you could take a look foreward without confusing the audience by scrolling.

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  2. As a neat workaround for the lack of infinitely large docs - give me a (dot) grid that is zoomable. So I zoom in, and instead of loosing orientation because I have to write 4 lines within one element, I want to see a finer grid appear as i zoom in. That helps to put and structure a lot more content on one page. (See figma or others that do this)

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  3. Most PDF creators can make a fillable PDF with named fields, we need the ability to capture that data.

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  4. Ladies and Gentlemen,

    an idea:

    • it would be very practical and helpful for students and teachers if the folder structure were structured like a kind of TAB structure (similar to the pages in GoodNotes)

    • so one would have a better overview

    See photo in appendix.

    Yours sincerely
    Yavuz Ata

    7 votes

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  5. Now iPadOS has very rudimentary mouse support through the AssistiveTough feature. Perhaps it would be nice to make use of this? Currently, in the presentation mode the mouse cursor is hidden, along with other interface elements.

    While GoodNotes 5 already has a very nice laser pointer feature, this still requires you to be near the iPad. On the other hand, when doing a presentation, the ability to move away from the podium would be very nice.

    I happen to have the Logitech Spotlight presenter, and it can actually move the mouse cursor, when paired with my iPad Pro. So, it…

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  6. Have the pen settings so it’s not saved as a global settings. Eg Fountain pen for note taking, Ballpoint pen for drawings.

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  7. Goodnotes used to open to the last notebook I viewed. Now it constantly goes back to the main document screen and I have to find and open the document I want every Time. Is there a way to make it stop doing that?

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  8. The handwriting experience in GoodNotes is now perfect but texting is not. I suggest that users can select an area of the page and use markdown language (or Latex for academic purposes)to organize formal notes, including mathematical functions. Such feature would be even better if one day we can see a macOS GoodNotes app, cause handwriting is not the primary way we interact with laptop.

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  9. I would like to be able to change the color of pre-written text faster and more precisely than the lasso tool allows. This could be done by letting the user drag their highlighter over the text they want to change, then by changing the color of the selected pen marks to a new color (without creating highlighter marks on top).

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  10. It would be great if you could add medical dictionaries for us to download so we can easily define the terms we encounter

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  11. Please add ‘palm-rest’ on Goodnotes 5. Or any other feautire that can move up the bottom of the page for easy writing

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  12. When we create a new notebook we should be able to choose the number of pages we want added for the paper template we selected. For example, I want fifty pages of the blank paper template automatically added to my new notebook.
    That way we don’t have to manually add page after page or keep pulling on the current page and release to add another page.
    This feature would be the equivalent of buying a physical notebook from the store with a set number of pages.

    7 votes

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  13. I believe work flow would be improved if select and copy is quicker.

    Lets say, leave one finger on the screen and select would copy, doing that with two fingers on the screen would past it.

    The time holding the finger down sometimes makes quicker write the sentence again instead of copying it.

    7 votes

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  14. Your support tools for creating new templates is poor at best. The link to the YouTube video is deleted. The most recent info is 2 yers old!?
    I just want the simple answer to create my key tasks at the top of the page and daily notes below without buying templates on 3rd party sites. You seem to support the 3rd party eco system over providing SIMPLE instructions for users to for their own.

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  15. I often trigger the undo gesture or the double tap to zoom unintentionally. I would love the ability to toggle off all input that ISN’T the pencil so that I can focus on quickly taking notes

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  16. The idea is very simple:
    Being able to select different items in one page, having them in a clipboard, and pasting them in another order. said items could be text, sketches, marked up images, or even handwritten paragraphs, really could be anything. I feel like we are so used to having the one item copy paste clipboard, but this could be really a huge feature. Also making them stick to the clipboard even after the first paste, is a feature I see a lot of Chemistry/physics/engeneering notes being boosted with.
    I hope I delivered the concept.
    I am not a…

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  17. Having the possibility of searching an index we have add directly in the index tab would be very comfortable, especially when you have lots of them

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  18. The cutout tool should work over pages. If I'm cutting out a text or object on page one, then vertically scroll a bit down to page 2 I should be able to move the marked object over the pages to place it on the new one without copying it every time just for rearrange purposes.

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  19. Would be great to have the option to open PDF files directly, e.g. from iCloud Drive. After some edits were applied, save the changes in the file directly.

    I‘ve organized all my files in iCloud. Using Good Notes I always have duplicates and there’s a noticeable amount of work to keep them synced, besides that the export flattens the PDF so no further edits are possible.

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  20. I would like to know when good notes will be available on Microsoft Go? I need to buy a tablet for my work, my job requires goodnote but I would really prefer Microsoft Go over an iPad. Please let me know ASAP. Thank you!

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