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

    6 votes

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  3. It would be great if I can navigate to the folder where the document came from when select back option. It’s difficult when you have a massive nested file system. On the other hand, it would be even better to able navigate where you want in the level of nested file by pressing the file address on the top.

    6 votes

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  4. When you are about to write on the edge of a page, GoodNotes doesn't support moving the blue frame beyond the edge so that you could comfortable write in the middle of the screen, while the text is being written on the edge.
    The image shows how I imagined it.

    Unfortunately when not longer holding the frame with a finger the blue frame just goes back.
    Adding this feature would remove the need of having to move the frame to a place where it would auto advance into a comfortable writing position

    6 votes

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  5. My mani issue is when I edit a page, type can go all done to page button without continuing to a new page, sometimes i cant see my text at the button of the page till I select all and move it around ! It should reach page button and stop to continue to a new page

    6 votes

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  6. Implement the ability to have the option to single tap a tool to enable auto deselect and long press to disable auto deselect. The user can have the option to enable auto deselect as is now. If it’s enabled, then a single tap of that tool will activate the tool with auto deselect but a long press would activate the tool and temporarily disable the auto deselect until the user switches back to another tool. Going into sub menus to enable and disable this feature each time is time consuming and distracting.

    6 votes

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  7. Please allow sharing to goodnotes. I just bought the new app to support you, but on IOS I can share a webpage as pdf to goodnotes, it's not great but at least something.
    On macOS the productivity is broken really.
    it doesn't make sense for me to keep Evernote and GoodNotes together

    please integrate to the OS properly
    Also allowing to "clip" webpages in simplified view for later annotation is a MUST in 2019

    6 votes

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  8. As a user, I would like to be able to export some or all pages of a notebook to plain text, so that I can process the resulting text further.

    Why would you want to convert handwritten notes to plain text?:

    • can be more easily manipulated by text editors
    • more readable
    • easier to share

    Existing functionality:

    You can already lasso a page, and convert it to plain text. This is great for when you want export only a part of a page. However, converting multiple pages or even an entire notebook to plain text using this feature, will fatigue the…

    6 votes

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  9. I want a feature when I duplicate an image with drag and drop. (duplicate from the same page.)
    I want it keeps its size.

    Now it doesn't keep its size, duplicated item will be original size.

    6 votes

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  10. opening a PDF in iPads Documents shows me a scrollable small list of thumbnails of every page (see the picture, you'll know, what I mean)
    Need this in GoodNotes5!

    6 votes

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  11. Right now, split view supports the GoodNotes to be placed on left and right hand sides of iPad. Could you please include the option of placing the GoodNotes on top and bottom sides. It will be very useful to read and annotate the pdf documents. I can use the same pdf document on top and bottom sides and see the different pages of it simultaneously.

    6 votes

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  12. I‘m using multiple PDF documents in one notebook with each document having around 30 pages. So let’s say with 5 PDFs I‘d have 150 pages. Sometimes I‘d like to move PDF document B in front of document A. For now I have to rearrange (move) all 30 pages one by one. Many times I mess up the order of the pages, because it‘s just hard to see the content, yet alone the page number, in thumbnail view. Grouping all 30 pages from that PDF document would make them stay together - in the correct order - and I could move…

    6 votes

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  13. You can copy an object to the clipboard or a toolbox. The clipboard would function as normal but the toolbox would allow for multiple objects to be pasted into the document without needing to re-copy. Would be helpful for repeated objects like graphing coordinate systems. Example workflow: select objects as normal using lasso, select “copy to toolbox” instead of copy. Select the toolbox icon from the menu in which a drop down list of objects is visible. Select and hold the object and drag into notebook.

    6 votes

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  14. Create an email to notebook function to allow users to add documents directly to notebooks via email.

    Ex. Emailing bob@gn.com allows user to send to their GoodNotes files. Adding the name of a specific folder or notebook adds the document or body content to that notebook. Flag new items when a user next opens the app.

    6 votes

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  15. I find the conversions from handwriting to text very slow and annoying. I would love to have a faster way for the conversion. Please look at the sketches.

    6 votes

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  16. E.g.
    - insert on same place as previous page (esp. useful for headlines or bulletpoints)
    - insert on several pages at once

    6 votes

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  17. As a student/foreign language learner, I want to show/hide keywords or explanations from my written notes, so that I could review and recite the keywords/explanations.

    As a UI designer, I want to hide/reveal annotations, so that I could a) differentiate the annotating remark from the wireframe / structured notes and b) present notes (to myself and others) with clarity.

    I believe note-reviewing is an essential part of the note-taking experience, I try to be more proactive to learn through my notes. Some alternative apps I used are margin notes 3, and liquid text. Margin note 3 in particular, has a…

    6 votes

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  18. I have a brain injury that makes reading extremely laborious and stops me cold after a minute or so. I have a need to “read” and annotate PDF docs, but don’t want to use a different app to speak the text and GoodNotes to annotate. It’s too unwieldy even with multitasking windows because the text does not sync.

    6 votes

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  19. @GoodNotesApp plz. plz..add palm rest in horizontal scrolling.. otherwise no use in horizontal scrolling since it become very difficult to write in bottom of the page..,add go to last page and previous page option.. which are already present in goodnotes 4..

    6 votes

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  20. A column view like on MacOS or the coming iPadOS. This increase the complete overview of all the documents. Adding some tags would also be nice.

    6 votes

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