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  1. Would be great to be able to change the colour of different notebook tabs to speed up switching between them. When I study, I only close tabs after the course is finished so I sometimes have 20+ tabs open at a time. Would be awesome if I could, for example, have lecture slides in one colour, reference notes another and notebooks in yet another etc. or different modules in different colours.

    16 votes

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  2. I like using the flash card feature of GoodNotes and it works just fine on my iPad. However, on Mac, the window is so small, I cannot properly read my answers.

    I'd like the window size to be adjusted so one can comfortably read the entire flash card on a large display. There's enough room for it.

    16 votes

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  3. Hi,

    i would be good if we can import and manage the layers inside PDF.
    (show and hide function)

    We definitly need a layer system inside Goodnotes to create, delete, move
    custom layers and the option to move our notes to a specific layer.

    I have a brand new iPad Pro M1 and my imported PDF are very slow to handle
    (it takes a lot of time to show them sharp!).

    We need a ruler, triangle ruler and protractor.
    and the abibility to force specific alignments for lines (0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, ...)

    We need a grid a…

    16 votes

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  4. GoodNotes is a killer app for taking notes by hand but it’s really weak in the typing department.

    Things that would make GoodNotes perfect:
    - pre-set text formatting (title, headings, subheadings, normals text)
    - text alignment (right, left, center, etc.)
    - lists (bullet, number, checkbox)
    - toggles (like in Notion)

    GoodNotes is wonderful for annotating PDFs, pictures and books and for drawing diagrams. However, it’s impossible to write all my notes by hand so I have to use Notion for typing and just insert the pictures I annotated or diagrams I drew in GoodNotes into Notion. So I now use…

    16 votes

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  5. For people who do a lot of math (and love clean notes) it would be super helpful if there was something like an automatic recognition for {curly brackets}!

    16 votes

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  6. I love GN5, however, I can't use it as much as I would like to since for my classes I annotate the PDF lecture slides and need more space than the PDF slide themselves. Therefore, I have to use OneNote which allows me to insert a printout of the PDF and I can write on both the slides and have notes specific to the slide on the side. I would love to be able to have this in GN since GN5 has so many more features I prefer to OneNote.

    16 votes

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  7. We need to be able to have continuous scrolling in this app. And I get super annoyed when I have to do 10 things to select and move text. It goes under the GoodNotes pages because they are hard page breaks. Please fix soon!!!

    16 votes

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  8. When text is added on one page, Goodnotes could automatically add another page below the current one, so we don't need to pull to add page as we go. Although the pull feature works, it would be nicer if this was done automatically so the user can continually write without breaking up their flow to add a page. The last blank page could be excluded from page exports as well.

    16 votes

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  9. 16 votes

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  10. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

    16 votes

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  11. I have dyslexia and it would be wonderful if I could listen to the notes I take. Right now I have to copy it and paste is a page that could read it for me. So it would help me a lot if an option for reading out loud is added

    16 votes

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  12. A keyboard shortcut to toggle between read-only and edit modes. (⌘R perhaps?)

    For both the Mac and iPad versions

    I use a planner with hyperlinks and frequently have to toggle between the two modes, as the hyperlinks are easier to use in Read-only mode

    16 votes

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  13. I was reading the document and making flashcards. But when reading it again, i had to go through like 20 flashcards while reading my document, which i felt was annoying. Either there could be option to hide flashcards, or a separate tab for them as there is for outline, thumbnail etc

    16 votes

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  14. I don't want to see all outcome of all folders, In folder searching tool must be!!!

    16 votes

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  15. GoodNotes allows export files via image only like JPG file, but PNG is better quality format. It would be helpful if GoodNotes allowed to choose an exporting image format

    16 votes

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    • Button in the transform dialog to replace the selected handwriting directly with the transformed text

    • Recognition of mathematical formulas/symbols/etc.

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  16. Suggestion: in the options menu (per document), there should be an option to see the location and go to original folder.

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  17. The ability to write on the images then when I select the image again the text will move with it. Without using the lasso tool bec when I use the lasso tool if there any text behind the image or near it may be moved with the image.( simple explain add an option to the image to act as sticky notes)

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  18. It would be nice to be able to flip or reverse images.

    16 votes

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  19. I would love to have the ability to move a photo across page boundaries (especially in continuous vertical scroll mode) so that one doesn't have to lasso, copy, paste to move the photo to the next or previous page.

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