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  1. I’d like for Goodnotes to have the ability to scan handwritten text on paper and copy into Goodnotes pages. For instance, using Goodnotes to take a picture scan of handwritten notes in a notebook, and turning that scan into a handwritten page in an existing or new document in Goodnotes. I often find that I don’t always have my iPad with me, and may need to jot something down on paper quickly. Being able to import these notes as something other than pictured would be an amazing feature and time-saver.

    17 votes

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  2. Now notability has the capability to type directly into the notes like a document, without a text box. This would be extremely useful to combine the two capabilities. Currently, the typing is the only reason I still use notability.

    20 votes

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  3. Hi! I would love to have the possibility to use 2 accounts on one device.
    For example business and private.

    Are there any plans on that?

    3 votes

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  4. Make sparkly, metallic, and rainbow inks!

    4 votes

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  5. Sometimes we import a whole pdf into goodnotes and annotate some of the pages. it would be nice to be able to easily search and extract all the pages that have annotation to serve as a quick reviewer.

    7 votes

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  6. Synchronisation from mac to Ipad is really slow. Need to restart app or turn on shared document to synch them faster.. a reload button or faster synch time would be great!

    4 votes

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  7. Ich benutze GoodNotes für mein Studium und es wäre eine hilfreiche Funktion wenn man die Gliederung von Notizbüchern einrücken bzw. in ein- und ausklappbare Ordner Sortieren könnte. So würde vor allem die Navigation und Übersichtlichkeit von besonders langen Notizbüchern verbessert werden.

    6 votes

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  8. Can we get metallic pen colours and some new templates with interesting textures please?

    2 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. It would be great if something like a 2 page scrollling view could be added so that when we scroll through PDF version of our notes, especially exported slides, a better overview of the set of notes could be seen. This is in comparision to what we have now, where we scroll through the document page by page. Going through each set of notes might take quite some time when there are many pages in a document.

    28 votes

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  11. Hello,

    I want to export a leveled PDF whilst preserving the outline I created using GoodNotes.
    I am aware that when exporting an editable PDF the outline is preserved, but this is not ideal because an editable pdf has a considerable size and the text isn't searchable, which makes it a bad choice to share the PDF online or with others.

    Best regards,

    15 votes

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  12. In GoodNotes for Mac, enable 'page up' and 'page down' keys to quickly flip through the pages. The up/down arrow keys are performing continuous scrolling and they are too slow.

    11 votes

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  13. A similar idea has been posted, but I want to make another point. Given you’re current framework where each page is a separate file, it should be relatively simple to add a way (probably the Share drawer icon) to copy that page file address link and paste it in other apps where if i click the link it would open GoodNotes up and show me that page.

    Bonus points if this link could be SHARED to other GoodNotes users (who do not even have the file) and it could open up that page on THEIR Mac/iPad/iPhone etc. This would be…

    8 votes

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  14. The app is amazing. I just got it today BUT I can think of a feature that would be very useful - locking individual pages so that you can’t write on it until you unlock it. I’m a very clumsy person and I always end up accidentally writing/drawing on things on accident even when I am done with them.
    I see a request to lock all pages but I would also like the function to lock them individually so that I finish them I don’t put something on there that I don’t want.

    46 votes

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  15. I have GoodNotes 5 installed on my M1 MacBook Air, but rarely have it running. I see network connection attempts in Little Snitch made from the app all the time, including after booting and before I've opened GoodNotes for the session. I've also tried killing all related processes, but the connections still attempt to spawn.

    Is there a reason for this persistent leakage of telemetry when the application is dormant?

    1 vote

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  16. Please add the standard function of filling and signing PDF forms.

    Filling forms with text, not scribbling.

    Choosing options from a dropdown menu of a form.

    Signing PDF forms with legally binding signatures.

    Thank you!

    7 votes

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  17. I am a new user and am trying to report a problem I’m having. I can’t find anything about it in the existing support information and cannot find any way to submit an error report. Do you not have a way to submit an error? I’ve been pretty happy with my free version and am considering buying the upgrade but I can’t abide any software that doesn’t have a way to report errors. Nobody’s perfect and there needs to be a way to submit them.

    1 vote

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  18. If you draw and hold a line or something else, it should snap to the paper like in notability it’s just time saving if you are trying to make a diagram.

    6 votes

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  19. sort files in the order I want without date type or name, because if there are many files I want it to be close to each other but without having to create more folders because it is difficult to find again when opening too many messages item

    15 votes

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  20. Allow saving my own favorites text box styles. Allow choosing a saved style from a list when creating a text box. Allow changing the style of an existing box to one of my favorites.

    48 votes

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