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  1. On outlines page Currently when you long press an outline you can only delete it or change its name, an option to go to the that page could be really useful.

    Right now the only way to this to go to the thumbnails, then to the outlines, then to the page, then to the thumbnails again.

    Something like the one in the picture could be small thing to add and could be pretty useful

    3 votes

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  2. While scrolling you can see the page number. The app could also show the page outline next to the page number

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  3. Sometimes it's better to take notes on the computer(with the keyboard) rather than by hand. Some features that are available on Microsoft Word such as automatic capital letters, bullets, and grammar control would be great to make this easier. Then you can use GoodNotes for everything rather than use different "apps" for different things within the same subject.

    Also make the app compatible with the regular shortcuts and touchbar on mac pro.

    3 votes

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  4. The MagicKeyboard works really badly on GN. Sometimes you can't scroll back and forth on the trackpad at all or it just jumps back and forth.
    As soon as you open a second window, you sometimes can't write at all and have to close the app completely so that it doesn't work again after 2 minutes.
    You should also be able to write on the line and not always in between.

    3 votes

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  5. Please allow tabs to have their own settings, colour, pen, pen on/off, etc so we don’t have to change settings every time I flip between tabs. Thanks

    3 votes

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  6. When opening the page grid view, and clicking on the outline section (as opposed to thumbnails section), it would be awesome if the outline section would automatically scroll down (and highlight/bolden) the outline that is closest to (but before or on) the current page the user is editing/looking at in the documents view page. Currently, every time the outline section of the page grid view is selected, the list shows the very top of the outline list, and the user has to scroll down to outlines that are relevant to the current page, as opposed to the outline section automatically…

    3 votes

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  7. I would like the following features for pens and markers:
    (1)Please be able to draw a dotted line.
    (2)Make it possible to change the transparency of the marker color.
    (3)Make it possible to change the thickness of the line after drawing. (It's not a size change, it's a thickness change. When you scale down it, the line becomes too thin.)

    3 votes

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  8. 3 votes

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  9. As of today, Goodnotes offers two ways of highlighting. One can either select the text manually, and click on 'Highlight' or use the Highlighter tool with a stylus/finger and freehand it.

    I propose a method that is highly common and immensely popular with other simple pdf editing apps. Clicking on a Highlighter tool, which then enables the user to drag across text to highlight precisely. Clicking on a word with the tool engaged highlights only the word; dragging across words highlights the words, sentences, paragraphs, etc. The difference between freestyle/freehand method and this is that this tool enables one to…

    3 votes

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  10. Especially with the fountain or brush pen, some darkening of the color on a downstroke or with more pressure applied so it looks more like those pens in real life. Kind of like in the example, which came from procreate

    3 votes

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  11. It would be cool if you could also edit the colors in the text box

    3 votes

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  12. It would be nice to have the ability to digit text on the whole page so that it gets aligned automatically to the template rows (I always use the squared template), kinda like in word. I’d rather use only GoodNotes to take notes instead of writing the whole thing on word and then importing it in GoodNotes because I would have a lot more flexibility with the pen and all the other GoodNotes functions. However, with the text tool as it is now, you can only write in the text box which you can move and align to the margins…

    3 votes

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  13. The default scroll button is too tiny to use

    3 votes

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  14. Also to select many pictures and insert at once, later or being able to also drag to the next page the extra photos withoung having to copy and paste

    3 votes

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  15. This has been asked time and time again. Seriously, why have you not added it yet? People have been asking for YEARS to have a pen stabiliser.

    Add pen stabilising settings to make your app actually useable.

    It’s especially hard for those with disabilities that affect their ability to write.

    3 votes

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  16. once items are lasso’d, add the ability to deselect the items that are accidentally selected as well

    3 votes

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  17. 希望可以把笔记或pdf中文字、图片链接到本笔记或其他的pdf页、行处

    3 votes

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  18. Writing on the edges of the paper is difficult as the sheet auto centers. Please let me shift the page off-center.

    3 votes

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  19. When taking notes, it would be helpful if there was a way to create flashcard desks automatically from a document. I envision is being something where we could select the text that we want, and then there would be an option within the menu to automatically turn that text into a flash card. It could also be something where we could take a screenshot like we normally can with the lasso tool and then have an option there to turn it into a flashcard and then have the ability to select what we want blocked out on the front of…

    3 votes

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  20. Under the continuous page scrolling with the pdf slides under 16:9 ratio, pages are auto enlarge out of the screen edges, causing me to have to keep scrolling also left to right to view the whole content on a page. Please fix this.

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