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  1. I kept being annoyed at auto advance everytime I use it… It sorts of breaks my concentration as I write small words into the page. Right now, I have it disabled. It would be nice if we can have the option available as an icon since most people likes to use it.

    The blue frame for auto advance should be bigger as it is easier to see the flow of words towards the edge of the page, rather than it being way in edge of left side. Even left-handed people will benefit it too.

    2 votes

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  2. Can you please add the ability to highlight content as it is spoken this feature works on other iPad apps such as web browsers and Notability but for some reason does not work in GoodNotes? Thanks looking forward to future updates.

    2 votes

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  3. Among the basic apps, if you look at Books, there is a scroll that allows you to move quickly along with a horizontal preview.

    However, in good notes5, vertical scrolling is required, but you can move by pressing the scroll button.

    In horizontal scrolling mode, you can only move one page at a time.

    If this is improved when writing in landscape mode, not only vertical scroll users but also horizontal scroll users will be very satisfied.

    Thank you.

    1 vote

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  4. write the text aligned with the selected page format

    8 votes

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  5. It would be great to have a feature that allows users to have manual control over which documents are to be downloaded onto the device and which are to remain in the iCloud (assuming that iCloud Sync is already enabled), just like some cloud storage services like OneDrive. For users in the possession of multiple gigabytes of documents or some storage-intensive documents like numerous scanned PDFs, an on-demand downloading feature would be a great help to save disk space on their devices.

    4 votes

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  6. Added function to the selection method of lasso tool.

    From right to left → Select if you touch even a part.

    From left to right → Select only objects that include the entire object.

    1 vote

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  7. I want function to change the transparency of markers and fills color!

    59 votes

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  8. It appears that we're STILL waiting for this feature.

    It would be helpful to everyone to be able to resize images to exact sizes whether it be my pixel, inches, cm, etc. At the very least we should be able to add images at their original size. When I pull images into my Goodnotes notebook, even if they are the exact same size, come in at all sorts of sizes then I have to resize them manually. This is a big pain and a bigger time waster.

    Please fix this. We've been asking for it for years.

    20 votes

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  9. Also to select many pictures and insert at once, later or being able to also drag to the next page the extra photos withoung having to copy and paste

    3 votes

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  10. It would be fantastic if there was a feature that hides a part of a note into a toggle button, which will expand the hided section when clicked, similar to the toggle function in notion. Perhaps the lasso tool could be used to select the content that is to be hided into toggle. This would tremendously boost the ability for active recall while reviewing through notes, without the need of creating flashcards, or using other apps that has the toggle feature.

    6 votes

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  11. I hope when I switch to the other pages, the state of the pencil of my previous page is changeless. For example, the color of the pencil of my previous page is red. When I use other pages, I change the color of the pencil as blue. I hope when I switch to my previous page, the color of the pencil is still red instead of blue. Others tools like eraser and highlight are in way.Thank you!

    4 votes

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  12. Add an option to show starred folders at the top.
    Use case: I have a folder for every class at university in the root folder and star classes that I attend at the current semester.
    Having a single sub-folder for every semester is not an option for me, because some classes span multiple semesters and often I need quick access to old classes and dont want to click every sub-folder to search for the correct folder.

    4 votes

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  13. This has been asked time and time again. Seriously, why have you not added it yet? People have been asking for YEARS to have a pen stabiliser.

    Add pen stabilising settings to make your app actually useable.

    It’s especially hard for those with disabilities that affect their ability to write.

    3 votes

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  14. Allow for in-app purchases of custom templates created by users or professional designers.

    2 votes

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  15. When selecting text in "read mode", the options that pop-up are "highlight" "strikeout" "define" "speak" "copy" "add comment".

    It would be great if there was an option for "highlight and copy", so I don't have to select the text twice.

    4 votes

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  16. I love reading and studying on goodnotes but the only downside is while reading is immersive thanks to full screen. Writing introduces an unnecessary number of button clicks to start writing, and distracts from the material

    If there was a Focus Mode, which was full screen and only allowed writing in one stroke type and erasing using the Apple Pencil. That would drastically improve my focus and ability to study.

    6 votes

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  17. As the community of goodnotes has many research focused students, adding some features like extracting highlights to markdown and a side bar to see all the comments would be really helpful to aid the reasearch efforts.
    Some features suggestions that we really need in goodnotes to make it one stop solution
    - highlights extraction (to txt, markdown etc)
    - side bar to see all the comments
    - tags feature to tag the notes/books

    10 votes

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  18. When inserting a picture taken by camera at real time, I need the scanned version, rather than the original picture. This function is supported by OneNote a long time ago, and they call it "Blackboard" mode in the camera. I hope this can be added to GoodNotes as well. Thank you~

    9 votes

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  19. inputted text/emojis should easily be able to be rotated and sized

    2 votes

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  20. once items are lasso’d, add the ability to deselect the items that are accidentally selected as well

    3 votes

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