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  1. Dear Goodnotes4 Developers

    How are you?
    I am a Goodnotes 4 user from Thailand and I have a question for you. I can't open Goodnote4 after updating my iOS version to 14.6. I have important files in the app and I tried importing them to Goodnotes 5 but to no avail. Is there any way I can get my files and documents back?
    Thank you for taking the time to read this and I am patiently looking forward to your reply.

    Thank you.
    Charles

    1 vote

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  2. For example, when I highlight “carboxyl” I can click on the highlight, and BANG—a picture of carboxyl (that I drew in the annotation) pops up. Not only that, but in a pdf, when I highlight a text I can create my own comments in the small annotation box.

    This resembles closely to the google docs Suggestion tool, except Goodnotes!

    5 votes

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  3. Lovely app! Would be even better if it detected hand written å ä ö when transforming to typed text.

    6 votes

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  4. Making flashcards takes time.
    We could save a lot of time by just flipping the pages with notes.
    By doing so we could use our notes as answers and we only need to come up with some questions for that specific slide.

    4 votes

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  5. I would really love to see a lot more theme based icons which can be directly imported in a notebook. They would save a lot of time, since you don’t have to draw them manually anymore and they would improve learning by visualizing the topic!
    This could be easily located in the new Sticker menu (with a search function).
    A really good example is the icons menu in PowerPoint.
    Example:
    You type „school“
    Icons: School Building Icon, Classroom icon, calculator icon etc.
    I think it would be Important that these icons look very simple (Not fancy and colorful) just like…

    4 votes

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  6. My physical paper has smaller squares per piece of paper. It would be great if i could customise the size of the squares on GoodNotes :)

    10 votes

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  7. I want to manage the storage

    3 votes

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  8. I use good notes to hand write paragraphs poems and stories I find myself selecting lines and moving them around to reorganize. Some time ther is not enough space between the lines. I would love to see a feature that selects the paragraph then a similar feature like the resize feature that allows the line spacing between line to be increased. I envision this being similar to an explode feature on a cad drawing but much more simplified

    1 vote

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  9. I wish your app could allow Video and Audio Recording and producing nice tutoring videos similar to what possible in Doceri.
    Your app is much more user-friendly and performs way better than Doceri in any aspect, but unfortunately, it misses that feature.

    23 votes

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  10. Just dragging the pencil over the txt should select and allow drag and drop

    Copy , cut and paste - the Text must be from the PDF and not what’s added by goodnotes.

    1 vote

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  11. I'd love to be able to write in full screen mode - sometimes I'm just doing maths exercises, all I need is a black pen and double tap to erase. I just wish we could have the read-only mode screen real estate, while writing. I don't need the toolbar or document tabs most of the time!

    12 votes

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  12. I'd love the ability to hyperlink text or icons within a note to certain sections of a pdf for quick reference.

    For instance, if I am writing a note about a project, I would like the ability to add hyperlinked text or icons, where when pressed, I am taken directly to a specific section of a pdf.

    Of the hundreds of pdfs I have saved in my iphone/ipad, there's ever only about a single page within the pdf that's relevant. If I were able to introduce those pages within Goodreads by hyperlinking text, I'd be able to put into context…

    20 votes

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  13. A feature where you can filter Outline topics for example if I created an Outline and called it "Javascript Variables" and pages 2-6 are related to "Javascript Variables" I'd like to filter by that topic only.

    4 votes

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  14. 1 vote

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  15. Other than just the lasso tool to select pieces of a Goodnotes document, I’d like to see a “smart select” option that would let you highlight written or typed text (like LiquidText can do for PDFs), so that you can move and edit the properties of the selected handwritten text. This would also help avoid erroneous selection of text and/or objects with the lasso tool and make the application more user-friendly.

    5 votes

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  16. I’d like for Goodnotes to have the ability to scan handwritten text on paper and copy into Goodnotes pages. For instance, using Goodnotes to take a picture scan of handwritten notes in a notebook, and turning that scan into a handwritten page in an existing or new document in Goodnotes. I often find that I don’t always have my iPad with me, and may need to jot something down on paper quickly. Being able to import these notes as something other than pictured would be an amazing feature and time-saver.

    18 votes

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  17. I need to read lots of PDF documents for my work. However every page of PDF document is always occupied by tons of words and almost no empty space for making handwriting note because it needs lots of space.

    I switch to GoodNotes from GoodReader, and I really need this function, if what I described is not clear enough, please check the screenshot I upload.

    3 votes

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  18. I would like to highlight while I read a pdf and have the highlights exported as plain text.

    7 votes

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  19. Hi Guys,

    Firstsly i absolutny love Your app. There is so much that it can be used for or more.
    But having to work in remotely so much now ones does realise that graphic representation of a meeting or an idea, design or a product is the best notes ever.
    Thus I started learning sketchnoting. There is no app for it yet, there are books of course, and most people would choose the paper and pencil. But we in digital product design prefer apps. I see this as part of GoodNotes.

    You show so much with sketchnotes as capabilities of…

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  20. Hello,
    I´m one of the new M1 Ipad Pro user´s and the new Ipad has 8GB of Ram (or 16) and the goodnotes app still can´t have 4 tabs loaded at the same time.

    If I have 3 Tabs open I can swap between them without them loading again but if I open a fourth tab every other tab needs to reload again and that shouldn´t be the case since the new Ipad has way more RAM and so goodnotes should make us of that

    2 votes

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