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  1. At the moment if I am in the vertical scrolling and I have in my exercise book pages with different sizes, like A5, A4 and A4 rotated, the maximum scrolling edge in horizontal is big as the biggest page in the hole document. So if I am writing on a A5 paper (because image was A5) GoodNotes let me scroll further than the page size. Also if I import an image and this is not perfect in A4 format it would be helpful and nice, if I could resize it to A4 for example.

    2 votes

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  2. To remove a certain personalized color from colors set instead of initialize the color set. And a color picker to pick color from picture or PDF or pen marks. Thanks.

    2 votes

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  3. Hi Goodnotes
    I have tried using Goodnotes 5 on my M1 macbook Air, and well it is just about useless, I love using Goodnotes 4.13.5 on my 2013 mini 2 ipad, it is just so uselful, with the text suggestions, easy to move text around on the ipad, to change the font size, it is just a brilliant experience.

    When I bought my M1 mac air, and I bought Goodnotes 5, I thought if Goodnotes 4 was brilliant, GN 5 must be a factor better, it is 100 times worse, and I just cannot understand why....

    I would spend $50…

    1 vote

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  4. The flashcards tool is a really great way to study vocabulary or Theorems, but please make the window bigger whilst studying!

    11 votes

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  5. Please add a tool that helps translate different languages using the lasso tool!!

    27 votes

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  6. I am left-handed and use GoodNotes on my iPad for taking notes. When you're editing a document and zoomed in so that the entire width of the document can not be displayed and scroll all the way to the edge of the document, GoodNotes forces the edge of the document to the edge of the display and does not allow you to scroll off the page. This makes it difficult for me when writing at the beginning of a line, since I'm left-handed, my hand is often hovering off the edge of my iPad or I need to set something…

    7 votes

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  7. Currently I can only save one default setting for a text field. This is very inconvenient when using multiple fonts and font sizes in the notes. It would be nice to be able to save between 10-15 different text field variations.

    46 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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