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  1. Hi, I am a mechanical engineering student and use good notes a lot for lecture notes and calculations. For quick drawings of periodic functions it would be nice, if good notes would recognize sin-/cos- shaped drawings of functions. Like the spline recognition, you could add control points to adjust phase, amplitude etc. and number of displayed periods.
    Kind regards, Simon

    7 votes

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  2. After selecting something, you have to tap inside the lasso area to get the options menu to open (to let you take screenshot, resize, etc). This menu should open immediately after selecting something so you don't have to tap again. (This is how the menu on Noteshelf works)

    4 votes

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  3. Hello,
    it would be great, to get GoodNotes (iOS) in other MDM-stores (not Apple), for example "relution", to offer an additional managing of Apps for divices on other platforms.

    1 vote

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  4. I do not know why but every time I use a text box and type vs. using my apple pen to write. IT DELETES. All my notes are gone. It's very frustrating.

    2 votes

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  5. 4 votes

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  6. 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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  7. We use Nextcloud in our company.

    I work on 15 - 20 Projekts and they are all available via nextcloud in common folder structure.

    I open the working plans on the construction site now in good-notes and do my comments and notes.

    What I need is not only a full goodnotes Backup. I want, that the file is stored back to my original folder, so I could save the double structure.

    This would be a great invention!

    54 votes

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  8. As a teacher, I use GoodNotes as a smart board and do work in class, I upload notes to Google Drive for students to see later. I continually upload notes as certain parts of a document. I would love if at the start I upload the note to Google Drive, and part way through the lesson I export again to Google Drive, that the orginal one in drive is overwritten so that the new one is there for students. This way I don't end up with 3-4 files with the same name and have different things in them and students…

    5 votes

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Sometimes a PowerPoint slide or PDF file might not have enough room to write notes on, or gets too cluttered.

    I like to create a new blank page and write notes on that. The issue is the fact that sometimes these additional notes do not take up the whole page so I just have a huge blank area beneath the notes.

    I'd like a way to resize each individual page, if needed. That way, I can cut out all the blank, wasted space and keep my notes seamless.

    4 votes

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  12. I like to annotate the articles I read with scribbles, notes, sketches, etc.

    So when I find an interesting story, rather than reading the online version, I screenshot it on my iPad, and then select the option to save the whole page as one long single-page PDF, rather than just saving the PNG of the screenshotted image.

    Ufortunatly, on some web pages this doesn’t capture the whole page, an so the last few paragaphs might be missing.

    Here’s what I’d like to be able to do when that happens.

    First, take screenshots of the material that’s missing and save these…

    18 votes

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  13. 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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  14. having the function to export highlights in a list in pdf with page numbers (like kindle highlights)

    10 votes

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  15. When making diagram I use shapes, I often need to have multiple circles or squares of the same size, since it is inconvenient and hard to draw each one in the exact same size my only option is to copy and then paste them, which is ok but if we can have two in one option (duplicate) the workflow would be faster. Duplication would be great for everything, not just shapes though.

    5 votes

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  16. 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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  17. Hello,

    I like GoodNotes concept of having multiple pages instead of one infinite one, but I find it too hard to quickly move text between pages.

    This is why I suggest adding a "Move to next page" button that pops up once I move part of the selection outside of the page's borders (see attached image for a demonstration of how this could work).

    9 votes

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  18. 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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  19. For formatting reasons, I would love to be able to keep my images, tables etc. in the same spot. Even a 'send to back' 'bring forward' option. It's so difficult at the moment.

    4 votes

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  20. Drag and drop pdfs in Mac OS is annoying because you have to export, save, and then drag (or export to mail and drag, etc). Then rename the document.... I’ve noticed other 3rd party apps have extensions which would allow import through the share icon in Preview or other apps like Safari. Would love to see that feature! Would make workflow a lot smoother.

    6 votes

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