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  1. When I squeeze the Apple Pencil Pro, the floating toolbar (Palette) appears. It currently contains many tools I rarely use, while the Lasso tool — which I use constantly — is placed almost at the end of the list.
    Please add an option to customize/reorder the tools in the Apple Pencil Pro squeeze toolbar (Palette).

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    1. The text tool should be pinned all the time and not having to pin it each time.

    2. A lock function or layer function. Noteful has this and they are significantly cheaper than goodnotes.

    3. Move the stupid back button back on the toolbar. It takes up space for my document. And covers the document. For us digital planner people the space is important.

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  2. Zurücktaste bei Mac hinzufügen.
    Diese fehlt komplett. Im Notfall kann man seIne gelöschten Texte nicht zurückholen, ziemlich blöd :(

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  3. Saw this idea online and thought it was brilliant, please implement something! We use this app EVERYDAY. Listen to the voices of the customers dev team!!

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  4. Create a toggle to turn highlighter overlay on or off.

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  5. I recently learned about your experimental Audio Transcription feature, and I think it is an excellent tool for enhancing productivity and learning. However, I noticed that it currently does not support Chinese transcription. As a Chinese-speaking user, I believe adding Chinese support would significantly improve the accessibility and usability of this feature for a broader audience.

    For users like me, who frequently study in a multilingual environment, having Chinese transcription is essential. Many of my lectures, discussions, and study materials are conducted in Chinese, and the lack of this capability limits my ability to make full use of GoodNotes. Adding…

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  6. We really need to provide an online image feature similar to the one shown in the picture. It needs to be like a GIF, and it's very much needed.

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  7. Ability to connect sticky notes with connectors to enable true mindmapping experience.
    Currently it's available only for shapes, which allows building quick diagrams and flowcharts. But it's not powerfull and flexible enough for true mindmapping, which requires sticky notes and content that they store.
    Apps like Miro, Apple Freeform have this feature, for example.

    3 votes

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  8. So that an a4 paper can maximize in the screen

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  9. I am left handed and with the undo/redo arrows on the top left corner in Goodnotes 7 I can (and occasionally have) involuntarily touch the buttons. An option for left handed persons to move the buttons on the right top corner would be great

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    1. I would like a dedicated section for all audio recordings linked in one area instead of only being able to hunt them down in a bunch of different folders. Also provide a pathway to show where the audio was stored.
    2. Option to select a specific audio instead of just the running audio.
    3. Easier way to export audio
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  10. Ich fände es super, wenn man beim Bearbeiten mehrere Seiten gleichzeitig anschauen könnte. Es würde bereits helfen, wenn man aufeinanderfolgende Seiten nebeneinander hat. Noch besser wäre es allerdings, wenn man ohne, dass sich die Reihenfolge ändert auch bspw. immer die letzte Seite mit sichtbar hat.
    An einem Beispiel wird es vielleicht deutlicher:
    Ich korrigiere viele Aufgaben und habe auf der letzten Seite meinen Erwartungshorizont in den ich für jede Aufgabe Notizen mache. Aktuell muss ich immer auf die letzte Seite scrollen und wieder zurück. Da die richtige Stelle zu finden dauert teilweise relativ lange. Wenn ich aber die letzte Seite…

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  11. An option to manually set the rotation of fountain pen tip. When you turn off the recognize pen rotation option, which is a nice feature, it sets in an oblique angle. It would be nice to be able to manually rotate the pen tip and set it whichever angle you want it.

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  12. Gerade ist es so, dass wenn ich eine PDF eingefügt habe ich nur sehr umständlich
    einzelne Wörter markieren kann um diese dann z.B. zu kopieren.

    Ich muss erst das Textfeld erstellen Symbol auswählen
    Dann kurz die linke Maustaste gedrückt halten und kann dann erst markieren.
    Und wenn ich das Wort dann markiert habe funktioniert die Tastenkombination Str + C nur bedingt.

    Und außerdem ist es sehr schwer die richtige Zeit zum Mauszeiger bewegen zu finden da oft einfach ein Textfeld erstellt wird oder garnicht markiert.
    (Keine Ahnung wieso das so kompliziert ist)

    Kann ich nicht einfach wie in einer PDF…

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  13. Post making a study Set of any Main Topic, which which will have ‘n’ number of subtopics. But the next day when we get notification to study our study set, and when we open it, it gives us prompts showing one of the subtopics. If we don't want to answer it, if we want to skip it, there is NO option of "Skip".

    If we close our Study Set and open it again, we will again be given the same subtopic which we have shown earlier which we wanted to skip earlier. There is no switching to a new subtopic.

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    1. the drawing straight line correction, Maybe I draw a box but I sometimes I don’t need it to be too big, after update u fixed a minimum size which is not even useful, so as draw small triangle it minimum size is an isosceles triangle which I was only try to draw a better look, Delta for maths……
    2. Same problem to Arrow which is a triangle, I know you add new thing to show arrow but u should try try yourself I think it still need more update to be user funny, like I can’t even change to arrow’s aim…
    2 votes

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  14. Not only having the option to transcribe live but rather adding the option to have a audio files or am MP3 file transcribed within a text doc would make many students lifes easier.

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  15. Can we please get a Note Editing Format Reset window when we have text lassoed.

    For example; If we lasso a word(s) and the edit options come up, one of the options can be a list of formatting presets to change the formatting of the “type” of text lassoed.

    The presets should include formatting for Heading, Sub Heading, Key Term, °2 Key Term, Definition, Key Point, and Examples.

    That way all of our note editing is uniformed and streamlined.

    If I select the Editing Format Preset for Key Term, the size, font and color of the word would automatically change…

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  16. Please improve the search feature, at present it misses most of the searches which are already present in the document, are are searchable on other apps like pdfexpert and noteful, please improve the search feature and improve it to make it like pdfexpert app search functionality or noteful

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  17. After the update ,goodnotes 6 is missing a feature to lock the text box. This is very inconveinet now. I like to handwritting over a tex box, but the tex box is keep moving around while i‘m handwriting whithout the feature. Or maybe I can‘t find that after the update. Could you let me know where I can find that feature? This is very essential feature to me.

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