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  1. I have many pdf blueprint sheets in a blueprint of a building. I would like to be able to select 1 or many, duplicate just those selected, modify accordingly, move them to a new folder either in the master folder or in a new folder and then send the folder to others. This way only the relevant blueprints are being viewed by the recipient and I can keep my original blueprint unchanged. Would be very handy for questions and answers.

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  2. I'm using the backup feature together with my dropbox. Whenever I'm commenting a PDF, after each edit, Goodnotes saves a backup on dropbox, which after a while leads to +30GB of dropbox cache. (That is, it fills my free hard disk space completely.) This can only be solved deleting the cache manually. There is no such problem with my dropbox using any other app. Please help! (I'm on a Mac, using Goodnotes for iPad, all OS updated to newest version.)

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    It sounds like you have enabled the “Automatic Backup” feature to Dropbox, which is expected to exactly what you described. You can disable it in Menu > Settings > Automatic Backup.

  3. There should be a way to stop pages from floating within the app window as we scroll up or down (in reading mode). Very frustrating.

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  4. Not to look a “gift horse I’m the mouth” but though this has been addressed via changing a setting in the highlight tool each time, it’s not like in Notability, where you can erase the highlight without having to change a setting each time. The Eraser automatically recognizes there’s highlight and erases it.

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    There is no need to change the setting of the eraser every time you want to erase highlighting. If “Erase Highlighter Only” is disabled, then GoodNotes will erase highlighting and ink strokes. If it is enabled, GoodNotes will only erase highlighter strokes, which allows you to remove highlighting on top of your ink without also removing the ink.

  5. I’d like a note app that will improve my hand writing (hand printing). Converting to typed text takes too long. I would like the app to recognize a letter; a, b, c, A, B, C then reshape it and align it. I use this app for presentations. A written sentence is accompanied by a hand drawn diagram to the right of the text.

    If a competitor has this feature, can you please notify me?

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  6. iPadOS 13.4 provides trackpad support (I’m using the 13.4 GM beta). In GoodNotes 5, however, the trackpad is not fully supported. For example, a two-finger swipe on the iPad changes pages, but a two-finger swipe on the trackpad does not. In the tab view, a touch on the “x” with your finger closes the document, but clicking on the “x” with the trackpad does nothing.

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  7. it would be great to have an interface, that you can circle around handwritten text in Goodnotes and send this as a new task to your task manager.

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    GoodNotes already supports the necessary technology for this but it depends on your task managers if they support the format.
    You can try dragging an dropping your handwriting in the task manager or sharing it directly via the share sheet after converting your handwriting.
    Check out this article to learn how to do it: https://medium.goodnotes.com/6-examples-of-how-to-use-the-ipads-drag-and-drop-features-to-boost-your-productivity-ec32a50b5052

  8. I really want the highlighter works of text on a dark or a black page. Try to fix it ASAP.

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  9. I am one of the large majority of users that only uses the pen tool, highlighter, eraser, & lasso tool. I have no use for the images, photo, laser, or text-box tools and thus, would much prefer to be able to add more colors and pen sizes (which I constantly change and use a lot). It would be amazing if the Goodnotes team would add this ability to an upcoming update!

    Keep up the great work! :)

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  10. I use Goodnotes to present incremental slides: Each slide contains the previous slide plus some additional items. The Next Page Animation (old page moves out, new page moves in) is disturbing here. It would be nice to have a scroll mode without animation, i.e., the next page simply replaces the current page . Concretely: Add one more Scroll direction: Horizontal without animation.

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  11. Customisable covers (imported image, photo, pdf, for example)

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  12. Wir nutzen ihre Software um die schulhefte zu ersetzten und leider fehlt die Lineatur für Schulklassen

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  13. I like to use the legal page for notes since it mimics notebook paper with the left margin line, but would love to have it in different colors, such as the white pages. I think all the page templates should have the same color options.

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  14. I need to move a photo to a page, can I do that?

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    You can add photos to any page using the image tool or using drag and drop. If the photo has already been added to a page, use the lasso tool to copy/cut and paste it to another page.

  15. I use GoodNotes for my lectures. I wish GoodNotes had an option where the pages transition like a presentation (just a clean jump to the next page rather than a page-turn effect), as if I were presenting from a pdf viewer, Google slides, etc. That way, I would be able to use GoodNotes for all my presentations where I uncover blocks of texts across slides.

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    This can be done by setting the preference of the presentation mode to “always show full page”. Page transitions won’t be visible for your audience which allows you to create “powerpoint-like” transitions or even flipbook animations where each page is one frame of an animation.

  16. Would be great if imported PDF files can be searchable just like scanned pictures and handwritings. In my notebooks I import PDF more often than I take a picture.

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    Most PDFs that have been digitally created are already searchable in GoodNotes. There are some PDFs that have been scanned by older scanners which don’t support OCR which means they will not be searchable. We’re interested to make this possible in the future too.

  17. Hey everyone,
    I have a technical issue with goodnotes, but it is not listed in the FAQ. It is not possible to file a question e.g. to a support chat. This should be improved. Other apps offer direct contact to the developers support, some through the App-Store some through an implemented help center in the application.
    I have placed my request now below a blog post and hope to receive an answer (topic: flashcards). If there is another way, please tell me.
    Thanks
    Hannes

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  18. It annoys me that you have to change the template by yourself each time you want to swipe to add a new page after a pdf. Because when swiping a new page, behind a pdf dokument, to write on you get the template of the pdf dokument and you have to change the template to a writeable page.

    So please let us self-define the template after EACH (pdf) page!

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    In case you want to select a different template than the previous page’s template, please tap on the + button in the navigation bar. You can add new templates from frequently used ones or from the template library if you scroll all the way to the end in the horizontal list of templates.

  19. And then be able to remove the gridlines afterwards. This would be super helpful on homework that we have to write on. Or, add light gridlines/squares to the zoom feature.

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    It sounds like you will only need to remove the grind lines to submit it. In this case, please consider writing on paper with grid or lines first and then just use “change paper template” in … menu when you’re done. Alternatively, you can also disable “Include Page Background” in the export options.

  20. It would be very usefull to be able to export intervals of pages in a document instead of only entire document of the current page.

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