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  1. Import Excel Docs, formulas, boards
    Add Ruler, new pens and colors for the pages

    16 votes

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  2. I think it would be an awesome idea to implement a color search! I often use different colors to represent different elements in my notes. For example, I use blue to write new equations or formulas and yellow to write important terminology. It would be so useful to be able to search for words by the color they are written in! Of course, it’s probably a difficult thing to accomplish (what with the ability for users to choose their color from the wheel), but I think if we were allowed to search for our presets, that might help fix that!

    16 votes

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  3. I just want to rotate my selection a little but it over rotates or snaps back into its original position.

    I hope GoodNotes can have some kind of function to disable snapping or make it possible to rotate selections like how some photo apps do it. (Sliding a bar left to right to rotate to the exact degree you want.)

    Thanks!

    16 votes

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  4. Scientific articles come with references at the end. Looking simultaneously at the end of the document while reading the content would be helpful. Hence being able to split the screen horizontally (not just vertically) would be nice!

    17 votes

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  5. I love the new GoodNotes 5, but I miss the zoom window from GoodNotes 4. I liked how the zoom window had an undo button and the three color change boxes right there. When writing in the zoom window now, it’s a bit tedious to have to reach all the way to the top of the screen to undo or change color.

    16 votes

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  6. It is such a waste of screen space only showing what is inside one folder. I have many folders under folders and it is a nightmare navigating through them. It would be way easier if I could see the entire path at once. If for example I have a file under a/a/a/a/file1 and i want to go to b/a/file2 I take ages.

    Please please change this please

    16 votes

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  7. Enable local storage in files app, with cloud backup.

    16 votes

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  8. I would like to toggle between ascending and descending sort order after selection name or date.

    I would suggest being able to tap again on the same sort type (Name/Date) to switch between ascending and descending order as this is already a common option in iOS software.

    16 votes

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  9. I suggest a document tree navigation in the left side to improve the navigation.

    16 votes

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  10. save tabs in groups for later use and close all tabs

    16 votes

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  11. I love Goodnotes 5 and use it to annotate the lecture powerpoint pdfs. However, I always found it difficult to write on the right edges since I cannot place my hand comfortably on the ipad screen.

    It will be great if the minimum zoom size of a page is not limited to the height or width of the page and the position of the page is not snapped to the edge of the screen. Then, I can move the right edge of the page to the center of the screen and write on it with my right hand placed on…

    16 votes

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  12. A function which allows you to have a seamless page in vertical scroll directiont, not like the one right now where we have to add always a new page.. it should just add them automatically without a "hard" scroll at the pages end.

    16 votes

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  13. Please reintroduce the go back option that was present in goodnotes 4 in goodnotes 5. That allowed us to go back to an initial page if we clicked on a internal link. It’s so annoying to be forced to scroll back the full document once a link has been clicked.

    16 votes

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  14. It would be great to resize imported pages. For example, I import a lot of PowerPoint PDF pages, it would be nice to resize page canvas size to allow more room for sidebar notes.

    16 votes

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  15. Addition of switching colors while in zoom-in mode; GoodNotes 4 had the 3 color feature for fast color switching. GoodNotes 5 should implement this as well!

    16 votes

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  16. Most of other viewers or handwriting app supports automatic Fit to Width and Fit to Page(Height) when pinch to zooming in/out page.
    It will be awesome if GoondNotes 5 have this feature too!
    For now it’s quite bothersome to zoom in/out to fit to width or page manually.

    16 votes

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  17. GN5 has LESS functionality in the zoom bar...

    Going back and forth to the top of the screen is adding a TON of time whenever I just want to switch a pen color for emphasis, or delete a mistake.

    I was really hoping the zoom bar in GN5 would have MORE options!
    (*There really isn't much reason you couldn't add the ability to duplicate the entire main menu, or select elements we use often).

    16 votes

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  18. Make text in a photo searchable, for instance taking a picture of a lecture handout or meeting notes and importing it into GoodNotes. It would be nice if the app could register that there is text and make that searchable too like it does for PDFs. Even if it can do that with pictures of handwritten note I think that would be better. That way if you have to take notes on regular paper and want it in your GoodNotes file all you need to do is take a picture instead of transcribing it into GoodNotes to have searchable text.…

    16 votes

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  19. My favourite feature from GoodNotes 4 (and the reason why I use GoodNotes more than Notability) was the ability to create my own document outline by adding named bookmarks.

    Please bring back that feature!

    16 votes

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  20. I need an efficient way to add voice notes

    16 votes

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