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  1. I create my notes off professors’ notes, and thus I need an option to go to a subsequent number when I hit enter. I still use Microsoft Word for this because GOODNOTES 5 doesn't offer this possibility. Also, it would be great if you could integrate GRAMMARLY to GOODNOTES 5.

    4 votes

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  2. 1 vote

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  3. After editing a shape we should be able to touch the screen once with the Apple Pencil to “click out” of the shape editing mode. Each time I do this a mark is created because the pencil goes right back into writing/drawing mode

    2 votes

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  4. I want to make my hand-notes from work more searchable and actionable.

    I was thinking of tagging and defining elements: e.g. add in current date/time (press on a handwritten date and tag it OR add in current date) to search it later. Additionally, I can imagine tasks tags, questions tags which then are searchable in a separate list/table etc.

    3 votes

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  5. I cannot search for a single digit number. I have a book imported to goodnotes, but when I search for "3" it says that there is nothing, but obviously there is a page three

    5 votes

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  6. I'm using a bluetooth keyboard with iPad when I'm writing and I find it really useful to change tools with keyboard shortcuts (instead of clicking the icons)! I think it would be better if you could also add a shortcuts for changing colors (for example command+1, command+2, command+3). I will really appreciate that and thanks in advance!

    14 votes

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  7. 11 votes

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  8. Customizing searches or ability to archive old documents

    When searching I do not have the ability to select which folders to search in. As a medical student, I use goodnotes for every lecture as well as all textbooks and have an excessive amount of files. The ability to search within a selection of folders would limit the amount of search results I have. Another option could be to offer an archive function that removes certain documents/folders from future searches.

    77 votes

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  9. I am studying electrical engineering and i have to draw a lot of shapes and i struggle with the drawing of rectangles and lines a lot because they never seem to align where i want them to be. Often rectangles are made into circles because i drew them to quick and so on. I wish there was a feature like OneNote where i can just drag a rectangle into the note and resize it. Arrows at the end of then line seems to work randomly and not graduated.

    Because of all of this I am constantly looking for other note…

    17 votes

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  10. As a Goodnotes user on Ipad (+ Pencil) and Iphone I would really like more flexibility with using a keyboard for text imput on both platforms, but primarily on Iphone.

    I would really like to have nested bullet points, dashes, numbering, and indentation features available within the Text Boxes

    3 votes

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  11. 1 vote

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  12. Scientific articles come with references at the end. Looking simultaneously at the end of the document while reading the content would be helpful. Hence being able to split the screen horizontally (not just vertically) would be nice!

    12 votes

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  13. As automatic backup or icloud sync copy directly of the modification into the backup, it could be useful to have a backup option to allow different backups in time. So that if an error is made (file deletion, bad document modifications), it can be possible ot restore from an old backup.

    Ideally like timemachine for apple or more basically different backups with the delta of modification.

    Thank you for your great job!

    4 votes

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  14. Presently it is not possible to restore directly from an automatic backup (oneway backup function to a distant drive different than icloud). You have to first download all the files and folder from the distant drive (ex google drive) then zip them and then send them via airdrop to the ipad and open it with Goodnotes.
    And it’s even more difficult if you have selected the option to backup .goodnotes and .pdf files because you need to delete the .pdf files ...

    Please add a restore function simple to use

    4 votes

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  15. It’s good idea to add option to back up on pcloud

    14 votes

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  16. I am an engineer.
    I use GoodNotes all the time to produce flow diagrams at a professional level, good enough for tender documents.
    It has become a much more useful tool than AutoCAD for this purpose.
    I also use it to produce preliminary MEP drawings.
    Basic measurement tool with a simple calibration Tool could help a lot.

    Thanks.
    David.

    6 votes

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  17. Imagine you are writing a thesis, you need to read tonnes of heavy journals and you want to easily extract the essence of the content for use in your work. While highlighting is useful, being able to remove everything else and only see the highlighted content you have marked will significantly improve the understanding of that journal.
    And imagine if the content is editable too, as in exporting it to a Word file. Can you imagine how this reduces the time spent on reviewing literature??!

    13 votes

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  18. I’m trying to search for multi-word phrases in GoodNotes on my iPad and the search engine appears to be treating each word as an independent search term. Is it possible to search for the entire phrase?

    Example: Searching for “Looking for this phrase” is apparently translated to searching for “Looking” OR “for” OR “this” OR “phrase” instead of using AND’s or using the actual search text, perhaps in “ “‘s?

    43 votes

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  19. An ability to have a sidebar for thumbnails etc so these are always available as a quick way to jump around a document rather than always having to open the separate window which is currently used. This would massively speed up workflow when working with large documents. Similar feature to what exists in Notability.

    12 votes

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  20. Suggestion: Have the opposite corner as the pivot point when adjusting the size (how all document editors have it)

    Currently: Center of the image as the pivot point.

    Reasoning: To adjust images to the same size as the one next to it without having to constantly reposition the item

    13 votes

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