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  1. Please add a feature that puts text on top of the highlight whenever text is highlighted. Currently, only black colored writing shows up on top of the highlight. With any other color, the highlight goes on top of the words, which means when I write new text, the color of the words look uneven. Thanks.

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  2. Have the option to be able to sort pen and highlighter colours into chosen orders so they are easier to find and make it easier to see the difference in similar colours.

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  3. Track changes: allow users to see changes that they've made to their notes document so that they can restore to previous versions if necessary
    View previous versions: allow users to see any previous saved versions of their document and allow them to restore to a version if necessary.

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  4. stop compressing images imported into pdf. Retain the image quality please!

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  5. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

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  6. I love the pencil brush on the Apple Notes app. To me, it makes the writing experience closest to writing on paper. I find the Goodnotes pens/brushes OK but as they are totally opaque and non-texturized, it makes the writing experience remarkably more artificial. I of course like all the other functionalities, but to be honest, the amazing pencil brush almost makes me want to continue with the default notepad. Please, please, please make such a brush!

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  7. Many GoodNotes users want to share documents with people who do not have the app, so it would be incredible if you added the option to share through a link so that anyone from any browser can view it and download it in pdf format, and that when we are modifying the file the other person reload the page and the changes made will appear.

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  8. These idea already was written, and the status is "done". But in fact it isn't. Look how the highlighter is on dark paper when it is done and when it is selected or with apple pencil on it when you make it. You should review this idea and realise it already please.

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  9. I would love to see a ruler where you can draw precisely.
    And one should be able to see the radius of the circle while drawing.
    Or see how longe an edge of a form is, angle etc.

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  10. I like color coordinating my notes and I hate how we only have three color options at a time. It takes so much time to click the pen color and then find the color that we want to change it to. There is so much real estate left when I have my iPad Pro horizontally, so we should take advantage of that.

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  11. I need to do a lot of reading, whether it's class readings or readings that correspond to my interests. The problem is that I don't have time to fit all of it into my schedule. My eyes get tired from all of that reading and I often wish I could just relax my eyes but still listen to the books/articles being read. This would help me keep absorbing information and move forward even when I don't feel like reading. I wish GoodNotes had a feature that could read aloud for me PDF books and scanned articles.

    PDF books usually have…

    9 votes

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  12. I’d love to have the ability to hyperlink something I’ve written down or a photo I’ve inserted so that when I click it in non-edit mode, it’ll take me to another notebook in Goodnotes or to a website of my choice. Adding this to the long hold feature with the lasso or photo tool would be great.

    This would be perfect for school as I keep a separate document for key words and people in certain classes, and if I had the ability to click on a certain text (handwritten or typed) it would lead the another notebook where a…

    9 votes

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  13. sometimes it needs a more detailed explanation of the answer. Zoom would be great.

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  14. Trello etc are great for collaboration, tracking etc. In Trello I can add typed notes and see into linked Dropbox folders. Is it possible for GoodNotes to work with Trello and link named notes to Trello cards?

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  15. Sometimes I have a hard time reading typed out text and understand my own handwriting better but it’s just so tedious writing everything out by hand. Since typing is more efficient, it would be nice to convert text to handwriting. We could start by writing the whole alphabet in capitals and lowercase and when we want to convert text to handwriting, it could replace the text characters with letters we’ve drawn out.

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  16. Get rid of the “Save as default” in font styling and just have the font set automatically to the font when it’s adjusted. Just like how when you work in word document, google docs, when you set the font, it stays at that font every time you work. I constantly have to change fonts and reclick the “Save as default” Font, and it’s really annoying because it doesn’t appear in split screen. Why not just get rid of it entirely and save the font once it’s set, as it’s much more intuitive.

    In Notability, they have the Font Adjuster appearing…

    9 votes

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  17. Gives us some space to write down our answer when using flash card. I think the ability to write the idea down instead of just thinking about the question helps memorizing a lot. We can also compare it to the answer afterward.

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  18. The black paper on GoodNotes is "black" but it's not PITCH BLACK. I find that my notes pop out and look better with a pitch black paper, I'm so sad the GoodNotes "black" version is more of a dark gray.
    I love the variety of colors offered by GoodNotes but I keep going back to Notability because their paper is darker and I'm able to actually use the highlighters (and have them pop) .
    Please please provide true black paper that's compatible with highlighters! The highlighters do show, but they are not bright and get lost in the grayness of…

    9 votes

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  19. Similar items have been suggested but only after selecting them which is cumbersome. Would love an option to recolor text by using a variant to the highlighter. Just like dragging a highlighter over text would highlight it, the recolor highlighter would instead recolor the text you've drawn a line over to the color selected. Think of it like putting a strike through a sentence, but instead of the line strike, the result would be changing the color of that underlying text from black to red for example. Much better UX than trying to draw a select around text.

    9 votes

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  20. How come you decided to go for double-tap /only/ instead of giving us the option to choose between single or double-tap?

    Please add this, and maybe an option to turn the gestures off for those who prefer the buttons on the screen (see the comments on your own post about the update, for example). It would be deeply appreciated.

    And also, the redo gesture does not work very well for many, if at all (not working at all in my case).

    9 votes

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