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  1. Hi, Can you please put the option to remove auto-smoothening of my handwriting? Because when I write quickly it makes my handwriting more me

    4 votes

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  2. The left margin (where the text box begins) is customizable, which is great for indenting on the left side. However, I like to write in two columns, so it would be great if we could also adjust the margin that is on the right of the screen to narrow it to out liking. That way I do not have to continuously move the text box down a line when I reach the end of my column.

    If I’m not mistaken, this is a feature that was on an earlier version of the app and it was super useful.

    20 votes

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  3. I review alot of technical documents with goodnotes and often times, there will be updates to the underlying PDF Document from time to time. I would like the ability to move my annotated notes to the latest PDF.

    In my situation, almost all of the time, the underlying PDF would have the same format, number of pages etc. So the ability of export only annotations (which you current support) and merge the exported PDF annotates with a new PDF would solve my problem.

    5 votes

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  4. Instead of the new mirror mode and presentation mode, the old display button should come back since multiple apps can be used w/o the screen shifting and allows more control during presentations. I lecture in front of 1~200 people and use a mixture of apps.

    I need the control so that I can seamlessly zoom in and out on key info without making people feel sick and use apps without having to readjust the screen all the time. Afterall, this is an app for the ipad.

    Everything is done thru finger input and pen so the current mode is not…

    1 vote

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  5. 2 votes

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  6. While there is a "clear page" option for clearing annotations for individual pages, it would be helpful if there was a "clear all annotations". This way, one could clear all annotations on every page in that notebook/file, rather than scrolling through each page one by one and manually clicking the current "clear page". I ask for this feature because as a college student, I like using Goodnotes for my practice exams, and it would be helpful if I could clear all my annotations from all the pages in my practice exam and start it fresh again.

    78 votes

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  7. To avoid ambiguity, there could be a button that creates a resizable box for entering formulas.

    1. For mathematical formulas, it would be great if GoodNotes could recognize special characters such as Greek letters or things like "x" with a bar over it (used to denote the mean of numerical data) or x^a (x to the power a)

    2. For such formulas, GoodNotes should support MathML export. What I mean is, GoodNotes would save both the formula as I entered it, plus the MathML form.

    This feature would be very useful for scientists, engineers, mathematicians and computer science professionals.

    13 votes

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  8. Presenting pdf slides on the iPad is important when screencasting lectures. Usually, animations are implemented by advancing pages seamlessly in the pdf file. Presenting such pdf slides is possible in full-screen presentation mode on an external screen using flip-book style page transitions. During screencasting, a flip-book style scroll mode on the iPad screen would allow the pdf animations (or any other prepared flip-book style animations) to appear correctly in the screencast.

    Alternatively, support screencasting directly using the options from presentation mode on the external screens, i.e., screencasting with audio what one would see on the external monitor.

    2 votes

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  9. Add a keyboard shortcuts to change the pen size.
    Consider "Cmd -" and "Cmd =" as done in many apps for text size

    7 votes

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  10. The lasso tool grabs either the picture or the converted text, unpredictably. Using it with other apps (Keynote presentation), the sketch is what I want, the text is unusable. A choice from the right click would be a smart solution, “copy, graphic” or “copy, converted”

    1 vote

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  11. I have two devices. One at home for personal usage and one at work. I use different documents in each iPad and I’d like to be able to set different favorites docs in each.

    2 votes

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  12. 2 votes

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  13. Please can you add “view action history” and allowing us to undo function please.
    I find it so frustrating when I can only redo a limited number of times, yet my previous notes have been accidental deleted.

    To make it clear, I meant that I have accidentally make new notes on my previous document and deleted something that I previously had in the same document. And I couldn’t recover what I have in the same old document. The “undo” function the app provided is not rally user-friendly... :( and I find it disappointing... I hope that you may improve more…

    17 votes

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  14. Please provide a paper size that exactly matches the viewing area assuming that the toolbar is not hidden.

    As it is, we always have to waste some screen real estate on margins (why?) and deal with zooming (why?). My notes will never be printed, so I don't need them to be on "A4 paper", I need them to be sized to my screen, which is where they live.

    4 votes

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  15. I found a nice pen in the procreate which is much more comfortable during writing words in Chinese and English.

    4 votes

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  16. Organizing notes in date created instead of date modified

    6 votes

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  17. I have a really good idea and I would be very happy if it really came to fruition.
    Full Screen Mode - Most of the iPad's screen looks relatively small and you should utilize the entire screen for neat and optimized writing.
    In addition to this is another tool control button idea,
      Instead of changing the tool from pen to pen every moment and then to pen again and then to marker and then to pen and then to eraser and pen again to do just such a large frost float that it can be swapped quickly saves a…

    23 votes

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  18. on iOS version, after selecting test, I would like a shortcut to search for other instances of this text string.

    1 vote

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  19. I would like the be able to pin the search sidebar to quickly look thru search results. Also, I would like to be able to double click on text (Mac version) to select text that I can paste in the search query.

    7 votes

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  20. Right now, Automatic Backups requires connecting to a Cloud Storage provider, of which only 3 are supported, and iCloud is not even one of them. However, "Backup Now" supports saving backups to an Files.app location, which supports any cloud service that is integrated with Files.app.

    What I would like to see is Automatic Backup have support for closing a location in Files.app (either local on device, or cloud service provider).

    5 votes

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