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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. I have a surface pro that i use to take all my university notes and would love to use this app!

    2 votes

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

    1 vote

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  8. 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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  9. Please add the option to prevent accidental closure of tabs.

    1 vote

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  10. 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.

    17 votes

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. I suggest to add a continous writing turn off/on button in a writing mode. Because when i use it, sometimes i don’t use that continuous writing mode. But now it is able to go features tab and turn off it. So it is useful to add switch on that writing mode

    1 vote

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  14. The ability to import a pdf as a smaller file/image similar to the way Notability lets you import scanned pdfs by giving you two options of either importing it as an image or importing it as a full-scale pdf would be an amazing feature. GoodNotes seems to make it imperative that something must be scanned instead of imported from another source in order to recognize text. This is the case at least when importing images or pdfs that were not OCR'd and have unrendered text in them.

    I feel like this proposal would be helpful, in that, it would allow…

    16 votes

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  15. I wish the uploading to iCloud of fast enough to be able to make edits to the same notebook on my iPad and Mac at the same time. Like with Google Docs, multiple people or accounts can edit the same document without one having to stop/wait for the other.

    1 vote

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  16. It would be cool to have access to my GoodNotes across different devices by logging in to the app/website with a username and password in case I don’t want to/can’t use iCloud.

    7 votes

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  17. It would be cool to have the option of logging into the app and have everything saved in my account in case I don’t want to/can’t use iCloud.

    5 votes

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  18. Now:
    - When want to add new blank page, can only choose from preset sizes (not same size as document).
    - Or, copy 'current template' and insert blank image onto page.

    Suggestion:
    - New 'current template' with blank page (white or black or sample color from background) with the SAME SIZE as previous document page

    2 votes

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  19. Please add the ability to scale the size of the paper on the screen so that it is the same size as the actual paper.
    The story of how I came to this conclusion is below.

    GoodNote's convenient scaling function makes it easy to draw fine text and figures. But at the same time that functionality takes you away from writing on actual paper.
    For example, in reality, writing letters with a 0.3mm ballpoint pen on A4 size paper means that 0.3mm letters are written in a 210mm x 297mm sheet of paper. However, on GoodNote, the same thing is…

    2 votes

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  20. While I enjoy the rotate and resize tool, I feel that inverting images should be implemented! It's useful for drawing (take chemical figures) or plain symmetry for digital note-taking.

    10 votes

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