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  1. If you notice, the sticker expansion and edit ‘square’ is a lot bigger than the sticker itself. It does allow you to write right below the sticker, but if you try to ‘lasso’ the text, it ends up selecting the sticker too.

    I hope the screenshot can help.

    3 votes

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  2. For students or person(s) in STEM programs, adding the ability to use math and chemistry symbols is needed. Notability came out with the features that support subscripts, superscripts, and other text inputs that help with this.

    17 votes

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  3. I would love to be able to write or add text on the folders icon, or have different patterns or colours. This would be helpful to quickly and easily distinguish folders from each other

    4 votes

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  4. Add Restore Page to the top right (...) menu (rather than requiring that we go back to the trash bin to restore (to make it quicker and easier to restore if the wrong page is deleted inadvertently).

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  5. This will help those of us who can't draw a straight line. The function would work by tapping two points, then everything would be highlighted in between and would default to a straight line in a horizontal, or vertical manner.

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  6. With the recent update, a pop-up window started to appear whenever I drag my GoodNote note to add a page. This new change is extremely uncomfortable whenever I am in a rush to write down professors' comments. Please remove this feature ASAP.

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  7. There is a glitch when I am using my IPad air and writing notes. White blocks appear covering the content when I am zooming into the notes. I didn't pay good money to get these weird glitches.

    2 votes

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  8. Auf unseren Lehrer iPads steht uns die iCloud wegen Einschränkungen leider nicht zur Verfügung. Es wäre super, wenn man auch über andere Cloud Dienste synchronisieren könnte.

    4 votes

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  9. The number of grid spaces vertically (# of columns) should be a mutiple of 6 (or 12 would be even better). That way we can use it to divide our notes into however many columns as we see fit!

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  10. I think that overall, good notes is excellent. However, I tend to have difficulties in accessibility between my devices and when trying to type on one device and write on the other. Sometimes my laptop won't even let me type and I will have to completely shut down the app and start it up again, losing my progress at times. It is incredibly frustrating and I wish it could be easier to use when I want to switch from handwriting to text. Also, bullet points!

    1 vote

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  11. A toggle setting for handwriting to be automatically aligned (moved to be written in a straight line) and letter height adjustment so they appear more even.

    10 votes

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    1. Select handwritten text and convert it directly to typed format.
    2. Convert objects (Text) as separate entities/objects
    3. Allow selection and movement of text similar to handwritten notes (where you can lasso a letter, word, sentence, or paragraph and move only that section as opposed to the whole text box
    1 vote

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  12. Renaming notes while it's open became an issue after the last iPad OS update. Most of the time it opens multiple tab-opening options. It will be great if GoodNotes align their renaming option a bit far from those three horizontal dots.

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  13. Wouldn't it be great if we could make a single notebook with multiple divider tabs along the edge? Each one could be named for a different subject and have its own paper template. I'd love to have a single notebook called "Fall 2023 Semester" for example, and then have all my notes in one notebook.

    I believe OneNote has a similar functionality but it's... OneNote. :-)

    3 votes

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  14. The flash card feature is great. Improving on that I would suggest questions tab. It is basically a feature linked with Highlighter. When we read a PDF document we mark important lines with the Highlighter. The new feature let's you add a question to the highlited segment and the question is displayed on the side. When revision of the topic is required and flashcard or in this case questions revision tab is activated the highlited portion (I.e. The answer to the question) should be opaque and the reviewer needs to attempt questions like a flash card. Based on his satisfaction…

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  15. I (and many writers) want to sell E-Book on Goodnotes platform. So let Goodnotes open Goodnotes market to be the place where every writer can do.

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Applies to teaching with PDFs slides. When a slide have several bullets, you can create one page for each bullet (incrementally), but this kind or PDF slides works very bad with scrolling.
    Please add a three fingers slide (or similar) for 'instant' page change.

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  19. 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…

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