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  1. if support text-overflow.. it will help in copying multiple pages from web to goodnotes in one go.
    thankyou

    3 votes

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  2. goodnotes 5 has just one type of front and colour can be saved as "defeat" and for user tying their doc using this setting evertime.

    I want to ask for more "defeat setting" maybe 2 to 3
    and just like the setting from notability

    2 votes

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  3. One of my most used tools is the selection tool.

    However when resizing, it also rotates the selection which is really annoying.

    Would prefer if rotation occurred through pinching or separate box in another corner.

    Also add the Rectangular Selection.

    6 votes

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  4. Low data usage mode for Automatic Backups on external cloud providers (Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive...). Sometimes these servers don't allow constant updates and may cause problems on the already existing backups. Low data usage mode, when enabled, will only summit changes to those servers every day (for example). This will reduce cellular data and battery usage, as well as problems with service providers

    As my screenshot shows, my Student Onedrive provided by my University cannot handle constant updates from GoodNotes 5, so my backups keep stuck with that error message.

    Not sure if every one experience this errors (i tested…

    7 votes

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  5. My idea goes about the Date-Name option that we have to organize Folders and Docs. In my case it’s useful to organize my folders in Name mode, but inside my folders I usually create documents with Dates as their name. I wonder if you can develop the possibility to order like folders with one option (ie Name) and inside the folder order docs by date. Thanks and I’m enjoying GoodNotes 5 very much.

    7 votes

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  6. to put a pdf document on a Goodnotes document. This document is will be show as a pdf image (I attach an example). When the user click on the document will be opened as a normal Goodnotes page.

    2 votes

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  7. Add a toggle that just the start and end points of a line get connected
    Without it, lines often get crooked

    4 votes

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  8. Remove the banner on top after undo, as ist distracts while working, without any benefit. As soon as I undo, I notice the change in the content anyways.

    2 votes

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  9. Please make the zoom out feature for import pdf, It’s really bother me to read, I like all the features about GN, but no zoom out makes me use notability right now, cause I couldn’t read when the font size too big.....

    4 votes

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  10. Thank you for developing such an useful app! I use goodnotes to take notes for my lecture. I write on my books or ppts and sometimes I want to add same-size template but with plain background so that it look like a continous work. So, I manually add present template and then add plain white image.

    Can you please add an extra fuction such as adding same-size template with plain white background??

    2 votes

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  11. The range of colors that GoodNotes offers is amazing, but it can be difficult in practice to fluidly incorporate them into documents. This could be streamlined considerably by having a coloring tool that allows the user to change the color of pen and highlighter marks by stroking over them with their pencil.

    Motivation:
    There are a lot of use cases where it is useful to have multi-colored diagrams and writing. For example, is often helpful to color certain variables and subscripts in mathematical equations to intuitively link equations together. As it is, doing this either requires changing the pen color…

    6 votes

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  12. I’m a maths teacher and would like to see a wide variety of shapes that can be easily drawn, than having to draw it line by line. The inclusion of 2D and 3D number planes would also be great.

    1 vote

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  13. I think it would be an awesome idea to implement a color search! I often use different colors to represent different elements in my notes. For example, I use blue to write new equations or formulas and yellow to write important terminology. It would be so useful to be able to search for words by the color they are written in! Of course, it’s probably a difficult thing to accomplish (what with the ability for users to choose their color from the wheel), but I think if we were allowed to search for our presets, that might help fix that!

    17 votes

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  14. I tried searching for (as a specific example) “3919” (without quotes) when looking for a note I had hand written with the text “003919” (again without quotes).

    Search didn’t find it until I searched very specifically for “0039” (no quotes).

    It would be great if you could enable search of a string within words / text.

    Incidentally, searching “003919” also gave zero results.

    3 votes

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  15. Would be great if the textbox function did more to convert the page to a full word processing document rather than being restricted to the paramaters of a word doc. This would mean automatically going to the next line when typing, font/formatting automatically adjusting to the page template (i.e. actually typing in the lines when I'm using lined paper instead of me having to resize the box and font to try to get them aligned), adding strikethrough and other functionality, etc. Especially for goodnotes desktop! This would completely eliminate onenote for me if I could markup pdfs and take handwritten…

    45 votes

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  16. Since I am using Apple Pencil, switching the pen to eraser need to click on the eraser icon on the tab.
    I suggest that there is a floating eraser icon on the screen, so I can drag that icon to my left hand side( I am right hand user). When I need to erase something, I can just tap the floating eraser icon using my left hand. Then it will be more efficient to user who are using Apple Pencil.
    This idea might be useful to other pen functions too.

    2 votes

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  17. I think that apple’s File app has some bugs, so every time I upload a file to my google drive from PC, I cannot see that file via import button.
    Looks like it didn’t sync well on the File app.
    In my opinion, GoodNotes should request user permission directly to access the file from google drive.

    2 votes

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  18. The image tool has a long drag copy built in, I wish the lasso had that as well, I draw a lot of graphs and using the iOS Paste shortcut is hard, having the lasso work the same way as the image would be perfect

    4 votes

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  19. 開發者您好:

    我是貴產品的愛用者。感謝貴公司創造這樣好的產品,嚷我可以在生活上以及工作上,有效率又可以輕鬆地生活。
    有一點使用上的建議,也許不容易做到,但是,還是以一個使用者角度與需求,向貴公司提出建議。
    我是在居住在台灣的使用者,但是,中文的使用環境上,是繁體中文的。但是,生活或工作上,都會有很多機會是使用簡體中文,如果在軟體中內建簡體字轉換繁體字的功能,這會讓我在使用得到更好的體驗。word的軟體上有這樣的功能,我知道在PDF的檔案上,也許需要很大的工程,但是,我還是提出我以上的建議與需求。希望有一天可以達到這樣的效果,
    感謝您的聆聽

    陳翰璋
    敬上

    5 votes

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  20. The current automatic backup attempts to backup your files after every edit and thus (based on my settings) attempts to render to pdf after every single edit. This constant rendering and uploading rapidly drains the iPad battery to the point where I lose about 20-30% per hour of use and as a side effect makes the device very hot and uncomfortable to use.

    Instead, it would be good to have an option to either schedule a backup (i.e. once an hour, once a day, etc) or have a cooldown option where a document won't be backed up until say 5…

    22 votes

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