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  1. There is this button on the top left corner with four squares, where we could shift the pages around, flag pages, save them into the content page. But its stupid how we can't select multiple pages (or maybe its just that i cant figure out how). So if i want to select some ten pages and move them up, or delete them altogether, or export them, I can't.

    But overall, I really like Goodnotes and the feature I love the most about them, is them constantly listening to our feedbacks and improving their interface.

    4 votes

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  2. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pdfkit/pdfdisplaymode/twoup

    Apple's PDFKit allows to show two pages of a PDF side by side. PSPDFKIT (which is what Good Notes 5 uses) should support the same option.

    I'm currently using the iPad 12.9 and typically have it in the horizontal orientation and there's soooo much wasted screen real estate. When making notes on a book or a large report, it's helpful to have more context on what is before and after the content. PDF books are often typeset such that content being read on a left hand side has images or quotes from the right hand side, and context is…

    5 votes

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  3. Please add auto backup compatibility with Box in addition to your newly added options.

    3 votes

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  4. When I convert handwriting to text, every line of handwriting has a hard line break after it in the resulting text. When handwriting a longer report, this is quite troublesome because my handwritten lines have fewer words than my typed work does. I have to go back in later to remove all of those breaks manually. Is there any way to get around this so that it is by paragraph instead?

    6 votes

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  5. Add Afrikaans language

    7 votes

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  6. Not sure if this could be done with pre-drawn shapes or with a font, but it'd be really cool to have music note shapes available within the app. The shape drawing function doesn't work too well for music notation, and it's pretty difficult to try to draw them freehand with an apple pencil.

    8 votes

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  7. I'd like to have the opportunity to create Symbolic Links in folders. This feature would let us use folders as an index for subjects comprised by notebooks or other folders without having to duplicate it.

    13 votes

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  8. Add a page flip option to make it look more like an actual notebook when continuing on to a new page instead of only swiping.

    7 votes

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  9. I have no idea where to tell them that the highlighter tool is not going behind the text anymore for me, I don't know if anybody else is having this same problem.

    4 votes

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  10. When adding new page while being zoomed in, the page automatically jumps down to the new page. It’s better to not change position on page, it would feel more natural

    6 votes

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  11. Adding the detection of trigonometric functions (sin, cos, ....) with upsetting and stretching function of the shape to represent the amplitude and different frequencies.

    9 votes

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  12. I use good notes for digital planning like many others and would love two things new inks such as glitter and metallic and a feature where you can change the brightness of a picture so it can become more of a background for the page

    8 votes

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  13. When handwrite bullets, it would be cool, if GoodNotes recognizes them and you could search for certain bullets in the Global Search

    7 votes

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  14. I would love the ability to customize the highlighter and pen default options to my favorite choices so they are quickly available with out having to go into the color picker every time. The ability to add additional pen/highlighter choices to the toolbar would be great too.

    5 votes

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  15. Like PDFExpert, a Scrollbar which you can drag and jump very fast to a specific spot. Unique would be that the scrollbar appears on the opposide of what you setted regarding right-or left-handed.
    Thanks GoodNotes time great job, I'm looking forward for all the new features.

    10 votes

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  16. I need to save images into MS Windows word / desktop. For this I 'Export' the GoodNotes5 doc into PDF Editable file. However when trying to save images in a MS Windows PDF Editor , no PDF Editor recognises the images as objects (I tried four different PDF editors), and they cannot see layers, or image objects. As a result images cannot be copied and paste directly in a different application like Word.

    8 votes

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  17. Since iOS 13 there is the possibility to hold and drag the scroll bar on the right to scroll. This does not seem to be the case in GoodNotes 5. It‘s a very small but useful feature to get a quick glance at the document or finding a page in a big document. Once you get used to it in other apps like OneNote, you start to miss it in GoodNotes 5.

    475 votes

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  18. Would be super helpful to be able to view notes in a web browser. there are times when i don't have access to my ipad and need to see something i wrote previously don't need editing capabilities, just ability to view. since notes are stored in the cloud hopefully having this would be straightforward.

    8 votes

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  19. Should be able to move the toolbars to anywhere on the page

    3 votes

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  20. Insert horizontal and vertical extra paper note for dropping note down on top of your document.

    2 votes

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