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  1. It would be very helpful if you improve the tab option for example: The tabs which are opened out of one folder could be included in 1 Tab like a dropdown list. I have opened lots of pages at the same time From different folders.
    Thank you very much and best regards

    3 votes

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  2. I would like to suggest you a little improvement: bring up the option of the lasso tool (circled in purple in the photo) on the unused space of the toolbar (circled in red in the photo). That would make the use of the lasso tool much faster.

    4 votes

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  3. when clicking on text, the keyboard automatically pops up and covers half the screen which makes it really hard to navigate or choose fonts and sizes etc. because the windows are super small. When deactivating the keyboard, the text edition mode also deactivates. It would be great if the keyboard could be deactivated while still in text editing mode. :)

    2 votes

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  4. I think it would be very useful to have the ability to see and reorganize the list of open tabs. This way, when I have 20+ tabs open and I’m viewing the last document but also need to access the first tab I don’t need to swipe all the way to the first tab but can pull open the list view and click directly two the desired tab. If I find that I need to consistently switch between the two, I can reorganize the tabs and place them right next to each other.

    8 votes

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  5. I would love the ability to have shared notebooks between users, in a "read only" or "read and write" capacity such as the sharing available on the native "notes" app for iOS and MacOS. This way we could share class/work notes with our colleagues in live time.

    2 votes

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  6. (for example tables, better graphics, be able to do graphics from table, lines, EASY CIRCLES and other geometrical figures)

    23 votes

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  7. While editing a note on my iPad, there is a row of tab's at the top showing other notebooks. I don't understand how those are sorted. Anyhow, I suggest to sort the tabs by the date when those documents have been edited last. This would be, IMO, the most useful sorting.

    3 votes

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  8. I really hate the organizaiton choices of this application. It feels a lot like how windows does it vs how apple does it. For instance when you go to finder and click something like documents and click on a folder in documents you get this nice tree light distribution of the files that your in and what you have looked through. In my pc if you do this it takes you into the next folder but doesn't give you that nice overview. You do this with the my pc but it acts exactly like how how goodnotes 5 currently operates.…

    4 votes

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  9. I have two different App Store accounts! I got a new IPad and had no idea I was using a separate account from my phone. How can I switch between accounts within the app to access everything I have on my iPad when I am using my phone?

    5 votes

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  10. Not a suggestion, but complaint. Unable to set a file name to exclude from the auto-backup. I can't click on the section, and there is no where for me to set a file name to exclude.

    1 vote

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  11. Automatic Evernote backup

    3 votes

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  12. I was wondering if you can add a feature?

    I would love it if you could make it that you can scroll the page you are working on up the screen further than just to the bottom of the screen. What I mean by this is rather than have the bottom of the page you are writing on stay at the bottom of the screen, it would be great if you could actually scroll the page up so the bottom of the page you are writing on is actually half way up the screen so you can still rest your…

    1 vote

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  13. Maybe offer a wider selection of highlighters instead of just the rounded tip one! Visually, sometimes it looks nicer for my notes if the highlighter rip were slanted or simply had a flat end to it.

    10 votes

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  14. I have downloaded and imported a PDF which has a structure which is visible in goodnotes and makes it easier to navigate. However, when I check the PDF which is automatically synced to my Dropbox, it does not have the structure which is unfortunate as I see no reason for it to be omitted when you're already able to successfully import it.

    2 votes

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  15. I’m a new user, so this might be a clarification request rather than a feature request, but I’m doing something that makes the tool switch randomly from pen to eraser. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to make it stop doing this? If I want the eraser I’ll pick the eraser.

    3 votes

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  16. It would be so awsome for the autobackup feature to have an option to backup all docs to pdf but without the background template. i know it can be tricky if you wrote on a black template with white ink, but for all people using templates just as a guide to keep sentences straight and a yellowish paper colour to avoid eye strain it would be the best feature ever

    2 votes

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  17. In this app the lasso tool is almost flawless, exept when you use it to copy an image from one note to the other.. you have to take a screenshot and then drag it or copy and past, when you could just lasso it and all those option would appear as floating options and we wouldnt be moved to a new page with only the screenshot of the image. Think about it ;)

    7 votes

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  18. Option to keep adding new pages to a file when we get current page half written, like instead of being always swiping up or manually adding a new page when we need it is a waste of time, with a simple option you could auto add new pages as getting to the bottom of the current page

    2 votes

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  19. The tool bar is where most magic starts, so it should be something really simple, easy access and unintrusive but yours has too many items and takes valuable space from the screen, mainly if we are landscape. Could use the top bar wheres the document title to integrate the toolbar there and the title of the document would be somewhere else, again, notability does this perfectly
    And also plz, let us move the tool bar to the bottom without moving the entire top bar with it

    2 votes

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  20. Also, making the highlighters brighter in dark paper? Like making it stay like when you are applying it? Or a bigger pen instead, to use that.
    Thank you sosososo much and keep up the great work, I love it ❤️

    3 votes

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