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  1. Like to be able to change the colours for goodnotes and having only 3 options for the colours with one usually being black is quite restrictive and changing it every time can be tedious. Would be very nice if we could have more pen colour options on the toolbar. Thanks for considering my idea!

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  2. Add the option to increase/reduce stabilization of hand-drawn strokes and as this would help make a lot of people's handwriting less jittery and MUCH MUCH neater.
    For reference, Procreate has a great stabilization feature and I absolutely love using that to write down important titles.

    .. If not customizable stabilization, then a stabilization of around 30% to 35% on the Procreate standard would be absolutely wonderful :D

    13 votes

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  3. *no send to back/bring to front options
    *no table creation options
    *no way of editing hyperlinks within goodnotes, you have to do it externally
    *no layer tool (adding this would solve the send to back issue)
    *no opacity settings for pens
    *no bullet point options for typing

    These are such basic tools in other apps and I’m actually astounded GoodNotes does not have them. Even word 2007 had some of these options, let’s not pretend they’re innovative tools. Without them GoodNotes is frustrating to use and frankly just a poor way of organising information, I really expect better, come on…

    13 votes

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  4. 1 - There should be at least different types of tables available.
    2- mind mapping should a must have thing for students for making and remembering notes very easily.
    3 - shifting of documents ,notes , and pictures automatic to next page if added in between will be very helpful for us.

    13 votes

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  5. Give users an option to not snap the main view to the zoom window whenever the zoom window moves: just have the main view stay on content

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  6. It would be nice to see what flashcards you have gotten right and which ones you have trouble with. Also being able to choose the specific notecards you want to study once you make a set. I love the flashcards on goodnotes but there is lots more that can be done.

    13 votes

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  7. 13 votes

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  8. Please add a option to the searching feature that you can type in a date and you only get results that you wrote at this date

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  9. I've found that when I have Goodnotes open on my Mac and iPad, the syncing is very slow - I like to add pictures on my computer and then write notes on my iPad; however, it can take up to 30 minutes for the pictures I paste from my computer to show up in the iPad version of the app... would it be possible to add a button/feature for us to sync in real-time for the specific documents we're working on?

    13 votes

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  10. Having a hexagonal would make chemistry note taking so much easier. Especially in higher level chemistry since there are so many different compounds you have to learn.

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  11. I liked the sticky note, but there should be system of pop up like sticky note because in most of the pdf documents , there is no space to write anything. If pop up like sticky note will available there then it will more convenient to take short note.

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  12. Add a "glow" style to the pen types or color options, or the option to keep laser pointer markings permanently.

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  13. I hope that I can directly select multiple pages and rearrange their order in the thumbnails like what I can do in Notability.

    I know that I can copy and paste page to rearrange the page order. But it's not convenient.

    I'd appreciate it if you could add this feature.

    13 votes

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  14. I like to have my notes very densely packed, so I typically use the finest thickness pen and zoom in nearly all the way.

    However, when zoomed in, the lasso tool thickness (the blue dotted lines) becomes extremely thick and selecting small items is difficult.

    Suggestion: When zoomed in, make the lasso line width thinner.

    13 votes

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  15. A template with an automatic numbering system. The template would have a positionable "page number" feature, with the option to have the total page count as well. I wouldn't have to manually add "1 of 6", "2 of 6" to my pages, then change them all if I add a 7th page.

    13 votes

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  16. Please give us an option to enable to sync our application configurations (i.e. pen strokes, pen/highlighter color pallets, favourite text configuration and etc.) across devices.

    13 votes

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  17. Not only could you translate the format, but this could really work well with the "Send to Kindle" feature.

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  18. Get rid of the “Save as default” in font styling and just have the font set automatically to the font when it’s adjusted. Just like how when you work in word document, google docs, when you set the font, it stays at that font every time you work. I constantly have to change fonts and reclick the “Save as default” Font, and it’s really annoying because it doesn’t appear in split screen. Why not just get rid of it entirely and save the font once it’s set, as it’s much more intuitive.

    In Notability, they have the Font Adjuster appearing…

    13 votes

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  19. I recently switched all my notes and flashcards over to GoodNotes because I loved the flash card feature so much. Most flashcards apps randomize the cards which I personally don’t like because the order of the cards can be very important. Now that you have introduced randomization it has severely impacted my ability to use the flashcards (which I just made hundreds of). Please allow users to turn randomization on or off based on their own preferences. Thank you!

    13 votes

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  20. Similar items have been suggested but only after selecting them which is cumbersome. Would love an option to recolor text by using a variant to the highlighter. Just like dragging a highlighter over text would highlight it, the recolor highlighter would instead recolor the text you've drawn a line over to the color selected. Think of it like putting a strike through a sentence, but instead of the line strike, the result would be changing the color of that underlying text from black to red for example. Much better UX than trying to draw a select around text.

    13 votes

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