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  1. I hope I can see more documents on the home page at the same time by merging some options to the same line. And, change the create new document to a circle with Plus like what we see in social media. It may looks a weird and unnecessary request, but that's what you do when you give a 'hide status bar' option, right? And I keep that open all the time. Thank you.

    1 vote

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  2. Beeing able to leave certain files locked in read only mode while having others in editing mode would be a nice adition to the app. For example when I have both a textbook and a writing page opened I would like to scroll with my pencil on the textbook and write normally on the page, without having to turn on and off the edit mode.

    3 votes

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  3. To be able to have a deck of flash cards as an option when creating new files. Would be great for studying ! keeping everything localized on goodnotes is optimal and removes the need of users to relocate to other sites/apps

    5 votes

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  4. Flashcard Update! Please make this a permanent feature. There should be an outline so you can quickly find a card without flipping through the full size ones. Also have a way for you to save your progress. If i make a deck of 120 cards I may not have time to make it all the way through and want to come back where I left off. Also a feature to let you study only the ones you missed. And a feature to let you view them in order or randomly.

    14 votes

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  5. It’s not always easy to know what page u are currently on just based off of the page number itself, especially when you have higher quantity of pages within a notebook. It would be helpful to have a small picture of my current page (maybe under the page number or somewhere else) to ensure I am actually on the page I think I am so that I don’t accidentally delete/ copy/ insert the wrong page/ location. Currently I have to click the 3 dots first to verify the page I’m on bc 77 out of 120 doesn’t tell me much…

    1 vote

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  6. I love your software and love how I can highlight text. However, I miss that highlighting the text wont mark it as a note so that it would appear as such in GoodNotes or any other PDF viewer such as Mac Preview, Adobe etc.

    There seems to be a note standard format that is not used by Goodnotes.

    This is bad because only with this internal format, notes as such can be collected, aggregated in an overview-function and even be extracted content-wise (some PDF-software such as PDF expert can do this — very helpful to re-read what was relevant).

    Summary:…

    2 votes

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  7. When we shrink the note size, there are a lot of margins on the sides. I'd like to be able to take notes on these side margins, please! My lecture slides are not big enough, so it'd be so nice to be able to create some extended margins to the sides to make notes. Thank you! please please please ❤️

    4 votes

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  8. Be able to type directly into the document without having to use a text box. Like a word document for example. But still be able to write or annotate if wanted.

    7 votes

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  9. please, please, please, the writing on notability is so smooth, please make it just like notability, and please add options to adjust the margins and space between lines within templates to suit or styles of writing

    4 votes

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  10. A good notes account is a good idea as iCloud sync is not reliable. Making a username and password to have all folders and notebooks safe in a “goodnotes account” is the best way to ensure nothing is lost, and is an easy way to access these notes on other compatible devices (like iPad to MacBook).

    8 votes

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  11. Accessibility options for those with disabilities that may affect motor control as well as those just wanting to have better handwriting as it shows up in the app.
    Similar to procreate or lazy nezumi.

    32 votes

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  12. The size settings of pen tool and shape tool should be kept independent of each other. Suppose I want pen tool with a setting of 0.3 and shape tool with some different setting everytime I need to change the setting

    7 votes

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  13. To improve the accuracy of handwriting searches, it would be ideal if the user could edit the recognition results to some extent.
    My handwriting is clean, but sometimes there are spaces in words such as English words, and when this happens, they are not found in searches.
    Also, no matter how many times I rewrite my handwriting, it is always different in GOOD NOTES, so I can't search for it.
    I am a Japanese speaker, so I use hiragana, kanji, and katakana, and I sometimes write in English and other languages. I expect it would be difficult to recognize them…

    1 vote

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  14. When taking notes on a Good Notes 5 - iPad Pro , I take pictures with the iPad camera. I need to use these pictures separately in a MS Word documents, however there does not seem to be a way to export the pictures separately (eg JPG files). Also when exporting the Good Notes document as PDF, the contained pictures do not appear as Pictures in the PDF document, and as a result I cannot save them separately, or even Copy in Clipboard !!! They appear as Comments, or some other item, but not as pictures in the PDF document…

    2 votes

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  15. put sticky notes insted of notes. Also make it easier to idk

    1 vote

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  16. when resizing the image, lines, objects, etc, make it able to flip horizontally and vertically and have the option to fix its proportions while doing so and show degrees when simply just rotating.

    14 votes

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  17. Please add the option to prevent accidental closure of tabs.

    1 vote

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  18. feature to add page numbers automatically (not just show but make it physically appear on notes). E.g. page numbers will appear when sprinting the PDF version.

    26 votes

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  19. I like using the blank page for my note taking as it allows me the freedom of note taking style. However, when I start writing paragraphs I end up with slanted, is there any chance you add a toggle switch that allows the user to toggle lines on the page temporary and switch them off when done, so we can have straight paragraphs please. Thanks! I seriously can’t live without GoodNotes!

    1 vote

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  20. It would be great, and useful for my organisation, if we could change the colours of files instead of having them all blue!

    8 votes

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