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  1. Sometimes when users want to open a new document. They have to tap return multiple times to all folders if they have more folders inside folders for classification, and finally they can open the document they want. This severely decrease productivity and annoy users.

    To make tab logic easier to understand, one tap for the “+” button can open a new tab for all documents and open the document they want faster.

    Also for the text tool, we hope that users can set three default style for better visual hierarchy in text notes.

    3 votes

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  2. All the things at one place - in GoodNotes

    Please add support to as much formats as you can. Even links with just preview would be awesome. I don’t want to have some type of stuff in files and other in GoodNotes. I all the time struggle to find what I have and where.

    3 votes

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  3. Please add the function: so that the highlighter can be kept straight, instead of being held for a few seconds and turning into a straight line. This would increase the speed of working, which is often very annoying when it turns into a curve...
    please apply it

    3 votes

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  4. Be able to choose the presets for the textbox colors
    Arrange like Canva
    -allow grouping textboxes and aligning the centers/to the left/to the right
    be more compatabile with shortcuts like commandA or holding the shift key on the keyboard to select multiple boxes

    18 votes

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  5. People have been asking for this since at least 2019. I felt the need to report since it is halfway through 2022 and there still is only 3 colours. There is a lot of unused space in the top par, even in smaller iPad models. There is space for at minimum 6 colours. Having to switch back and forth makes note taking a lot less efficient. GoodNotes is far behind. Notability allows us to add a large numb of favourite pens/highlighters and dag the fact bar across the screen. It is difficult to justify using GoodNotes when colour coding while…

    13 votes

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  6. As I work often with large PDF documents I miss a feature where I can only see the pages I made marks on to reread or print.
    Notability has such a feature, would be great if you could integrate that, can not always search hundrets of pages for markings.

    Read a few similar requests online.

    The feature sould be kind of „show only pages with marks on“ and so you dont see the hundrets of pages of a PDF but only the ones of the script where you made annotations on.

    2 votes

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  7. Please consider a feature to add URL links to images or elements on notes.

    A link feature is a very good feature for digital notebooks.
    Currently GoodNotes 5 supports link feature only inline text links.

    When we want to link a URL to an image to create a button to jump to a website, paste an image, add an invisible text (whitespaces) onto it. and create a link on it.
    It makes a lot of trouble since invisible text is tough to handle.

    It will be very nice if attaching links directly onto images or elements on page.

    Thanks for…

    18 votes

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  8. On outlines page Currently when you long press an outline you can only delete it or change its name, an option to go to the that page could be really useful.

    Right now the only way to this to go to the thumbnails, then to the outlines, then to the page, then to the thumbnails again.

    Something like the one in the picture could be small thing to add and could be pretty useful

    3 votes

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  9. While scrolling you can see the page number. The app could also show the page outline next to the page number

    3 votes

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  10. Just like the title says. App should automatically capitalize first letter of each word of the outline just like it does for notebook names. Or at least there should be an option in settings.

    2 votes

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  11. When in the Miniature view and on Favorites, let users swipe right and left for next and previous Favorites, this small feature would make finding important stuff way easier.

    6 votes

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  12. A lot of apps (other than the MS Office suite) out there can edit Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

    Given that a lot of class notes are given by professors in these formats, having the ability to modify them within the app would allow users to replace MS Office apps for basic note editing work.

    I already keep all PDF docs in GoodNotes. Having the option to properly import and edit Word and PowerPoint files here would make it much more convenient.

    This would make GoodNotes more attractive for working professionals as well.

    Hope to see this feature sometime…

    6 votes

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  13. 8 votes

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  14. Sometimes it's better to take notes on the computer(with the keyboard) rather than by hand. Some features that are available on Microsoft Word such as automatic capital letters, bullets, and grammar control would be great to make this easier. Then you can use GoodNotes for everything rather than use different "apps" for different things within the same subject.

    Also make the app compatible with the regular shortcuts and touchbar on mac pro.

    3 votes

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  15. When I read, the large amount of text on the page made it inconvenient for me to add annotations and notes, especially when I needed to quote passages from other works and had no space. Adding blank pages at the bottom of the page makes turning pages difficult and text cannot be joined.
    If a new feature could be added to add blank pages to the left and right of the page, capped at two pages, that would work even better and I would not want to use another notes app.

    4 votes

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  16. When I read, the large amount of text on the page made it inconvenient for me to add annotations and notes, especially when I needed to quote passages from other works and had no space. Adding blank pages at the bottom of the page makes turning pages difficult and text cannot be joined.
    If a new feature could be added to add blank pages to the left and right of the page, capped at two pages, that would work even better and I would not want to use another note taking app.

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    1 vote

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  17. It would be helpful to add (duplicate) the pen tools to the Zoom bar and provide the ability to have some preset favorites. This would increase efficiency and user experience when using the Zoom function.

    1 vote

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  18. As an engineering student, I often find myself shuffling through old notes to find a quick summary of a topic or a concept that I use in other problems. This becomes quite tedious, as I tend to copy-paste what I wrote into the new notebook where I reference this note. I think that it would be nice to work in a virtual window that shows a cutout of the older notebook which has the notes that are relevant written down, and i can resize said window to fit in the newer notebook. As far as I understand, this would also…

    1 vote

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  19. The MagicKeyboard works really badly on GN. Sometimes you can't scroll back and forth on the trackpad at all or it just jumps back and forth.
    As soon as you open a second window, you sometimes can't write at all and have to close the app completely so that it doesn't work again after 2 minutes.
    You should also be able to write on the line and not always in between.

    3 votes

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  20. Can you try to make the highlighter tool also draw shapes with fill colors?

    12 votes

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