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  1. Right now, there is only "free-form" select.

    It would be convenient to have a "box-select" option that selected everything in the window. Similar to a cropping tool.

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    8 votes

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Please allow the shapes to detect a perfect hexagon. It detects uneven hexagons but not hexagons with equal sides... This is very important for chemistry and biochemistry majors

    8 votes

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  10. When you have a lengthy document, e.g. 10 pages, and you need to add text/graph/diagram on the first page you would have to move everything down from that point onwards.
    Please add a menu to add a predefined amount of space at a certain point (2 cm ?)

    8 votes

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  11. Can you please add the opportunity to "freeze" while presentation-mode. Like you did in GN4. This was great, because you could take a look foreward without confusing the audience by scrolling.

    8 votes

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  12. Currently, when I use the text feature with a ruled background, the texts will overlap the lines of the background. It will be perfect if we can adjust the spacing such that the text can fit perfectly between the space.

    I would like to add if possible that the shape tool can be enhanced to recognise the shapes better. Occasionally the shape tool will correct my input into a warped shape.

    8 votes

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  13. Could Goodnotes 5 allow export to PDF or image without the template background? Whenever I select export without background, it remove all my inserted or imported picture/pdf.

    I would like to export without template background for printing, because it is waste of ink.

    Also, can we export selected pages too ?
    Can Goodnotes auto convert the light colour ink in dark mode to dark ink when exporting without background? (like Notes App in iOS13)

    8 votes

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  14. Hallo, ich fände es sehr hilfreich, wenn man Dateien (wie zum Beispiel Bilder, Textfelder, oder die eigene Schrift) mit Hilfe des cut Tools zwischen zwei Seiten hin und her bewegen könnte (bei Vertical scrolling) außerdem fände ich eine Lineal Funktion und eine Bibliothek aus bereits vorgefertigten Formen sehr sinnvoll.

    Manchmal hat man ebenfalls das Problem, dass Linien parallel zu den blatträndern ausgerichtet werden, was sehr hinderlich ist wenn man auf beispielsweise fotografierten Folien gerade Linien ziehen möchte zum unterstreichen von Text oder ähnlichem.

    Außerdem erkennt das shape Tool leider oft die Formen nicht oder erkennt Formen welche man eher selten…

    8 votes

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  15. Instead of having a ruler or a protractor one might simply have the ability to reference past lines. with the use of a reference tool, one could establish relationships relevant in the file. It might tell you what angle two lines form and set up a scale internal to the document. I mainly use Goodnotes to draw geometry because of its wonderful shape tool. It is much easier to use rather than constraining to the grid which feels awful, much like other programs. The drawback in goodnotes is there is no sense of scale or relationships.

    8 votes

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  16. Ladies and Gentlemen,

    an idea:

    • it would be very practical and helpful for students and teachers if the folder structure were structured like a kind of TAB structure (similar to the pages in GoodNotes)

    • so one would have a better overview

    See photo in appendix.

    Yours sincerely
    Yavuz Ata

    8 votes

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  17. 8 votes

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  18. Goodnotes used to open to the last notebook I viewed. Now it constantly goes back to the main document screen and I have to find and open the document I want every Time. Is there a way to make it stop doing that?

    8 votes

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  19. It would be great if you could add medical dictionaries for us to download so we can easily define the terms we encounter

    8 votes

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  20. Please add ‘palm-rest’ on Goodnotes 5. Or any other feautire that can move up the bottom of the page for easy writing

    8 votes

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