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  1. 4 votes

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  2. i just wanna recommend eraser option that erase only pens except highlighter.
    could you add this option? thank you.

    24 votes

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  3. Notability has the option of resizing the shapes, both enlarging and reducing but also making one side shorter or longer etc. I would like that in goodnotes

    2 votes

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  4. The different colours and colour gradations are assigned different meanings for me, e.g. the "common" yellow is generally important text, the "common" green are definitions, the "common" blue are examples, a more transparent blue are interesting quotations / statements.
    Unfortunately, I find it difficult to remember the assignment for every shade. It would therefore be useful if I could give the different highlighter colours a name or description. As a result, I would not have to constantly interrupt my work process in order to remember the assigned gradation for different specifications. In addition, the colour gradations can be used uniformly…

    1 vote

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  5. It would be nice to bookmark or highlight certain sections of a document, which can also be handwritten, and add comments to it.

    3 votes

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  6. When you have a multiple taps open, it would be nice if the colours, pens etc. would be bond to the document.

    3 votes

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  7. When adding a picture or drawing a box, form,..., there is an option to make it either opaque or translucent with grading in percentage. Also, writing in translucent would be also very nice for several works.

    9 votes

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  8. I would like an Import Action for the Shortcuts app. One use I have for your app is markup for online teaching. Adding this action would allow me to create a shortcut that can automatically import the PDFs that I will use for that day's lesson into a student's folder.

    10 votes

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  9. It would be really helpful if one could "unlock" a page and let it overlap another page above it.
    When doing exercises I often get an exercise sheet and create a new page below for solving. It would be pretty cool if the new page could overlap the exercise sheet so I always see the exercise I am working on above it.

    Thanks!

    3 votes

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  10. I constantly am uploading PDFs to GoodNotes, but unless the PDF comes with OCR, then I cannot search the text within the PDF. Notability has this feature, and automatically makes all of the PDFs OCR compatible. If GoodNotes could add this feature that would be amazing, because as a student, I’m constantly uploading files and needing to search through them.

    12 votes

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  11. When I input some big size text or several lines text, due the text function cannot modify the width, so it cannot show it fully, sometimes it looks weird. I cannot imagine the result after I put this kind of text.

    2 votes

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  12. A third section of the color picker with document-specific themes and colors would be nice. I have lots of documents with different color schemes that are made confusing by the current color picker setup.

    25 votes

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  13. Include the ability to save vocabulary searched through dictionary for a later time

    6 votes

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  14. I name my documents in the following way:

    2020-11-15 Team Discussion
    2020-11-17 Meeting with ...
    2020-11-18 anything

    I would like to see the document with the youngest date string on top. Sorting by date doesn't help in any case, because sometimes I change something in a document - but the sorting shouldn't be affected ...

    6 votes

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  15. Es wäre hilfreich, wenn es die Lernkarten auch als linierte oder karierte Lernkarten geben würde. Dann könnte man handschriftlich schöner darauf schreiben.

    8 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your idea. We will add more Flash Card templates in future updates. In the meantime, please import your own custom templates and configure them as flash cards. You can do so in Menu > Notebook Templates > Edit > … > Toggle the “Flash Card” button

  16. Drawing shapes such as boxes or ovals around handwritings for highlighting certain words or phrases causes inaccurate handwritings recognition in GN5. The reason seems to be that GN5 treats shapes drawn by the shape tools just like regular handwritings made by the pen tool, unlike Notability.

    The only workaround seems to be only using the highlighter tool for emphasizing certain text since GN5 doesn't consider highlighters as text to be recognized, but the highlighter tool doesn't offer precise thickness control unlike the pen tool.

    Notability seems to treat both the highlighter and the shapes differently to the handwriting made by…

    55 votes

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  17. Please add a writing section tool to make space in the document, as on OneNote. The Lasso toll takes a little too long

    2 votes

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  18. When pressing 3 times, switch to the next open tab

    1 vote

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  19. customization of the tools in the toolbar.
    -To be able to place the tools in the order you want
    - Within the tools as a marker, you can choose the intensity of the color (brightness)

    • Be able to create annotation routines, for example that the program detects or you introduce some patterns so that when you select a certain color or marker it already acquires a certain thickness or (better option ->) recognition of certain symbols so that it automatically changes to a tool (previously defined) and to save us having to change manually (((for example I write a "-"…

    3 votes

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  20. I use goodnotes to documents conditions in the field- taking lots of phots using the camera tool. I would like to be able to export those photos as JPG or TIFF or some photo format for using in other apps, like word for writting reports. The only way I have been able to export an actual photo is to share the individual photo. This is not efficient when I have hundreds of photos to upload. There should be a method to export the individual photos in a notebook all at once. Exporting the notebook as a pdf does not work…

    4 votes

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