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  1. Hello dear GoodNotes team, I have been using your app for a long time and am thrilled. I would still have 2 change requests that would make my work easier. 1. Fixed zoom level when writing, so that you always have the same writing feeling or typeface. At the moment the typeface is constantly changing, because you can write at different zoom levels. 2. Always offer the last storage location when importing and also always offer importing as a new document (do not insert it because you happen to have a document open) (possibly adjustable). These two points would considerably…

    2 votes

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  2. Scaling and rotating selections are very useful for making diagrams, but reflections and scaling only horizontally (or only vertically) are missing.

    3 votes

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  3. We use Nextcloud in our company.

    I work on 15 - 20 Projekts and they are all available via nextcloud in common folder structure.

    I open the working plans on the construction site now in good-notes and do my comments and notes.

    What I need is not only a full goodnotes Backup. I want, that the file is stored back to my original folder, so I could save the double structure.

    This would be a great invention!

    54 votes

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  4. 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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  5. I was wondering if there can be an option to select a page element and “Bring Forward” or “Send Back” so that I wouldn’t have to worry about layers being obscured. This would be especially helpful for inserting images on top of preexisting text when I want the text to be visible on top of the images.

    28 votes

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  6. I'm Korean high school student. So, I have to use superscript fuction when i have to do some assignments. - especially in math, geometry - I really hope that I would be able to use 'superscript fuction' asap. Thx :)

    92 votes

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

    3 votes

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  9. 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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  10. Add Afrikaans language

    7 votes

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. When handwrite bullets, it would be cool, if GoodNotes recognizes them and you could search for certain bullets in the Global Search

    6 votes

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  19. It's much harder to crop a photo after it's been added and downsized and the crop tool buried in UI menus. There is no reason for undesired information to ever appear in a notebook. Undesired information should be able to be cropped out of a photo before ever appearing in the notebook.

    This would be a better workflow than how GoodNotes currently works:

    -Add photo/Take photo
    -In photo screen display crop tools so you can CROP UP FRONT
    -Then already cropped image appears on notes page for quick positioning and resizing.

    7 votes

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  20. Yesterday, Auto-Backup functionality arrived in the iOS App.
    It would be nice, if you could extend this functionality to support an instance of Nextcloud, because Nextcloud is used in a broad variety of companies and associations.

    80 votes

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