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  1. I am an engineer.
    I use GoodNotes all the time to produce flow diagrams at a professional level, good enough for tender documents.
    It has become a much more useful tool than AutoCAD for this purpose.
    I also use it to produce preliminary MEP drawings.
    Basic measurement tool with a simple calibration Tool could help a lot.

    Thanks.
    David.

    6 votes

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  2. Ability to create indented pages....
    (As seen in Microsoft OneNote )

    6 votes

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  3. The current eraser generally erases everything. However, this is a problem with complex text that is possibly highlighted or circled in different colors, for example, with mathematical equations or problems. An eraser that is able to selectively erase a certain color will make it easier to remove unwanted colored text instead of having to erase everything and rewrite it.

    6 votes

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  4. I think split view is a useful tool to take advantage of but still not as efficient/user friendly as I’d like it to be.

    Example: I want to read a pdf document and take notes of that content as I’m reading through the document. While split view can facilitate this situation, it takes too much screen space with all the tools. It’s also two separate documents that aren’t really linked/associated with each other.

    Solution A: add a sticky note tool option to the toolbar so that we can have a floating sticky note on whatever page we’re on. This has…

    6 votes

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  5. Hi, I would prefer it if we were able to use different pens for pens and shapes. I personally like to write in a fountain pen font and draw shapes with a ballpoint pen, however, changing the pen style for shapes also changes it for the pen itself. Would appreciate having these two operate independently.

    6 votes

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  6. Currently, when selecting text in a PDF, you have the option to "strikeout" or "highlight" the selected text. As far as I can tell, when selecting one of these options, the only available color for highlighting is yellow and the only available color for strikeout is red. Please add a feature to allow users to choose the highlight color and the strikeout color for selected text.

    6 votes

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  7. Sorry, if I missed an existing feature request or if this feature is already available.
    I love GoodNotes for digitally signing documents; for this, it would be great to have a feature like "Mark as final" for protecting documents or notes from further modifications.

    6 votes

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  8. I would like to be able to set the default option when importing to GoodNotes to be “Import as New Document” rather than “Import to Current Document” to help prevent, for example, accidentally inserting large documents to the middle of other large documents.

    6 votes

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  9. Al igual que estan personalizados los documentos con muchas portadas o pudiendo poner nosotros las fotos que queramos, sería estupendo poder hacerlo tambien con las capetas.
    Gracias por esta aplicación tan estupenda.

    6 votes

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  10. Organizing notes in date created instead of date modified

    6 votes

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  11. I would like the be able to pin the search sidebar to quickly look thru search results. Also, I would like to be able to double click on text (Mac version) to select text that I can paste in the search query.

    6 votes

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  12. Dear GoodNotes Team,

    I am writing to you trying to support the development of your app. I’m a pretty big fan of GoodNotes 5 as I have been of GoodNotes 4. I’m using it for over 2 years now but sadly there are still things I considered a downgrade between the applications and some things not only I but as I was reading through the feature requests many people wishes that seemed to be ignored. I also read many same opinions that have repeatedly been suggested so I think it is very difficult for you to answer them all or…

    6 votes

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  13. Having to crop, then click screenshot, then click export, and then click copy just to copy images of a pdf or other items is time consuming.

    A more direct to the point action of being able to copy once in the crop box would be better instead of 4 actions to do one thing

    6 votes

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  14. Simple: instead of just having the lasso that you have to painstakingly use to circle handwriting, convert each page to text, and then export to another program to edit, why not...
    ...have a button that instantly converts the entire handwritten document into text, ready to edit/export?

    6 votes

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  15. I am a Maths teacher from Vietnam. I love technology. About 2 years ago, I came across your Goodnotes application, which was the number one paid application in AppStore and I felt lucky that I bought it. I got excited and engrossed in your app at the very first time I used it. I work with Mathematics problems very frequently. When using Goodnotes, the problems become much easier and more intriguing. I learned a lot from these and thanks to it, my students got many prizes in local competitions. I wrote a “long essay” to you in the reviews section…

    6 votes

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  16. the latest version of goodnotes seem to have made a little bit of change on the handwriting improvement algorithm to make the end of the writing thicker, which makes it less comfortable. Also, there is more delay of the writing. Please resume the previous algorithm.

    6 votes

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  17. I use good notes for teaching. But when I’m explaining with both of my hands, my students don’t get to see which screen area to focus on. Laser pointer is amazing feature but it needs activity from instructor.

    We can use mouse cursor as an ‘idle-state’ highlighter in presentation mode. Should be easy to implement. And if we can control the colour, size and opacity of the cursor in presentation mode, it would be awesome.

    6 votes

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  18. I sometimes face the problem that the app only suggests to jump to the next line in zoom window when I reach the last centimeter of the line I am currently writing on, so my idea is adding a setting which lets you choose how far on the page you have to write for the zoom window to jump to the next line.

    Also, I want to be able to control where it jumps to in the next line, not only the start.

    It would be even better if you could set a default in the app settings, but are…

    6 votes

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  19. Allow the zoom feature to have gridlines or writing lings (horizontal only) (decided by the writer) in the zoom box even if the document is blank; this will make annotations neater (as they will be following straight lines). This would improve annotations massively.

    Thank you

    6 votes

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  20. Pre-Recorded Hands Writing Letters Shape Recognition !

    For Students Notes with Apple Pencil

    To have a Nice uniform handwriting looking clean, swell and Exactly as you want your lettres shapes to be.

    It would be the possibility of combining handwriting recognition and personal writing Pre-Recording.

    Be able to record the personal calligraphy of each letter (lowercase and uppercase) written by yourself.

    Explanation:
    I write with my Apple pencil an "A", as I would always like to see it appear on my screen when I write by hand. Once my '' A '' saved / programmed, Notability recognizes every time I…

    6 votes

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