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  1. I used Goodnotes 4 in my iPad. When Goodnotes 5 was released, I installed it and I just loved it. But one feature I miss that was useful in Goodnotes 4 is the color palate on the zoom and write box. Every time I have to change color, I’ll have to move all the way to the right upper portion of screen to change it. It was much easier in Goodnotes 4 where it was right on top of the zoom and write box. Please bring that option in Goodnotes 5.

    7 votes

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  2. Zoom window behaviour was changed in GN5. Previously, it included tool bars and better snap functionality. GN4 behaviour was superior, please revert this feature set.

    GN5 zoom window is more visually appealing, but now the user must swing their at, all over the place to change tools :(

    8 votes

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  3. Add the option to persist a sidebar with thumbnail previews of the entire document for quicker skimming and bookmarking. Similar to what Preview on Mac has, as well as Notability 5 for iPad. This makes it easier to quickly go through a document to find a specific page, and bookmark specific pages. The current process for finding a specific page opens up an overlay that covers the entire screen and removes me from my current context, which is really cumbersome.

    11 votes

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  4. I am a undergraduate student and I always use GoodNotes for notes during the class. I just import all PPT I have and sometimes find there do not have enough space while the whole PPT have my instructors’ notes. And If I just add another page to write, the information and the whole PPT will be much more messy. I just cannot find the important points from my professor and my own by add like 10 pages own notes with 3~50 pages of PPT. Add a "semi-hidden" tab, it will be very helpful to add my own notes without destroying…

    2 votes

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  5. Please allow for import of folders (and directory trees), not just individual files in a single folder

    19 votes

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  6. It would be better if I could select any part of an image (imported to GoodNotes 5 ) to cut/ copy it so that I could delete/paste it anywhere else on the page/pages. I am attaching a video to convey my point. If this feature is available please let me know how to use it.

    2 votes

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  7. The new font feature is amazing. But what would be an even better addition would be the ability to star (favorite) fonts so they always appear at the top of the list. It would also be nice if we were able to sort the favorites freely. There are so many fonts I don’t use but come installed on iPad anyway, would save us so much scrolling time!

    28 votes

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  8. Templates with specific characteristics would be great.
    Like a kind of mixture of the current functions with an interactive pdf / word / pppt document:
    As such you could:
    - tic boxes (e.g. for to-do / participant lists)
    - interactive table templates that adapt in size to handwritten notes
    - computer text adapts to lines of template (that would look awesome)
    - certain areas cannot be written on (makes for cleaner notes)

    8 votes

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  9. I switch between pen and lasso probably about 10 times minimum in 5 minutes, if not more. I write things and like to continuously organise my content, my thoughts as I go. This is especially useful in process diagraming and mind mapping.

    Automatically turning off lasso once used would be annoying if you have to organise multiple things sequentially.

    I would like to see this feature improved by being able to swap the double-tap Apple Pencil 2 gesture for Pen --> Lasso --> Pen, rather than Pen --> Eraser --> Pen as it is by default.

    An additional option to…

    7 votes

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  10. Apple Watch version. Even if it’s just to be able to see flagged pages that you can see quickly on the run or be able to dictate to a quick notes page that you can write up later when at your other devices.

    8 votes

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  11. It would be grate to be able to make our own covers inside the app, personalise the cover to our own style!

    6 votes

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  12. When exporting files to my dropbox from goodnotes 5, the zip file produced by goodnotes contains file names with erroneous characters, if the file names contain special characters like æ, ø and å particular to the Danish alphabet.

    Unfortunately this renders your app unusuable in conjunction with the LMS that my employer (an upper secondary school) requires that I use for student exercise collection and correction. The students' names are included in all filenames, and quite many of them have names including æ, ø or å.

    The zip file produced by goodnotes and exported to Drawbox CAN be opened by…

    24 votes

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  13. It would be really nice to be able to use/write/paste text that uses the Markdown format as it becomes the norm in most of the other apps. It would make it easier to import/copy text and have it rendered nicely.

    54 votes

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  14. When the lines of handwriting are converted to text, why do the lines not go all the way to the right of the Convert to Text box? The text jumps down to the next line before reaching the natural end of that line, so that when I copy and paste to Word, I have to go line-by-line and delete as if ‘return’ had been hit, bringing text back up to the previous line. For example, in the attachment (link conversion: https://support.goodnotes.com/attachments/token/G90PVVHrZHtH8siCOx6uxt8Se/?name=94D251A5-B4CA-44AC-A660-9FD99CAF8ADB.png), why does only the fourth line of text go all the way to the right hand side of…

    7 votes

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  15. A way to create outline by using a color recognition that show you all the titles you wrote or fluoted in that color so that you just have to click to make an outline of it

    3 votes

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  16. 35 votes

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  17. When I write on a pdf I imported, I cannot add lines in the background to make sure I write straight when adding additional notes by hand.
    It would be great to have a filter that simply puts lines all over the document so I can write straight and then be able to remove these lines and only keep my added written notes on that pdf doc.

    9 votes

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  18. When the current page is not blank, a blank page is automatically added, no more pulling to add pages.

    4 votes

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  19. Just insert an auto-outline function — as given in Microsoft Word — so you can declare a style (e.g. Blue color, 3.5 mm pencil) as a title or subtitle and the written will be added to the outline of the document automatically.
    That would be awesome, I love the feature in imported pdf files.
    Thanks!

    13 votes

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  20. I would like to drag and drop pages within one notebook

    6 votes

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