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  1. I am an engineering student. After trying multiple apps your app has by far been the best for the college student who takes higher level math courses. Every other app that allows to draw decent shapes and lines are way too complicated and targeted more for artists. We need to be able to take neat notes that involve shapes and numbers quickly and efficiently. While I love your shape feature it is time consuming to draw 3D shapes while trying to incorporate dotted lines to show hidden parts of the shape. Having a dotted line feature as well as maybe…

    109 votes

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  2. If I want to search for a sequence of words, for example "plant protein", GoodNotes currently shows me all instances of "plant" and all instances of "protein". These search results are often not useful.

    It would be awesome if I could add quotes to my search " 'plant protein' " to make GoodNotes return the exact sequence of words I searched for.

    This is pretty similar behavior to most search engines so it should be pretty intuitive to most users and it probably would be pretty easy to change

    108 votes

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  3. 107 votes

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  4. As a left hander it often happens that the page jumps or the zoom changes while writing. It would be nice to have a button which locks the zoom and the position of the page. Alternatively I would like to have a sidebar on the left side to put my hand to reduce the page jumps and zoom changes.

    107 votes

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  5. when i import a picture into one of my pages the image quality is really bad! please chance this

    107 votes

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  6. We should be able to add shapes from a predefined set of shapes from the developers. Plus we should be able to save our own custom shapes like for eg a rectangle with different length and breadth or a elliptical shapes etc

    105 votes

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  7. It would be great to be able to select a fill and stroke color for shapes created.

    104 votes

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  8. If there was one thing I could change or add to it would be the library view, I don't particularily like the virtual bookshelf that so many apps use. I'd much prefer a simple expandable folder/file list, ideally sortable on file name and revision date.

    104 votes

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  9. When I type or handwrite something, I would like to adjust the size and direction.

    103 votes

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  10. 103 votes

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  11. GoodNotes provides the best handwriting experience, but the lack of rich text formatting (bold/italics, font sizes, font colors, bullets, numbered lists - you can only do one option per entire text box) makes apps like Notability a better option at the moment (despite the fact that the handwriting really sucks). There's no app that has handwriting at the level that GoodNotes has and also had proper text capabilities

    102 votes

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  12. We should be able to go to links (hot!) in our browsers. The attachments: in the first one, I've copied the link to the source document. If link us live, I can go to my source document to click on links there (this would be the minimum). In the second attachment us the entire pdf with all its highlighted links....which currently go nowhere. We should be able to click on all of these and go to those links.

    102 votes

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  13. Please introduce the possibility of palm gesture removal since the palm detection doesn't work properly when the iPad is used horizontally.
    When we write on an imported picture, every time the palm touches the screen, GoodNotes switches to the lasso tool, and it's kinda annoying.
    This feature is always on even if the iPad settings say to ignore the palm.

    100 votes

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  14. Can w add a shortcuts for "Page Width" (just like what we have in Microsoft Word) to zoom the page so that the width of the page match the width of the screen?

    This is very useful when you want switch the iPad Mini to landscape view (to have bigger text size or get bigger keyboard to type faster).

    This is also useful when you want to switch back to a page width zoom level after you zoom it for some purpose.

    100 votes

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  15. Please have a way to edit a document in full-screen mode; i.e. hiding all toolbars but still able to edit a document.

    E.g. double tap with two fingers to hide/show toolbars without leaving edit mode

    This is legitimately the only thing holding me back from using Goodnotes 5 all the time

    99 votes

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  16. I use this app mainly for calc. I am a college student working on my masters in electrical engineering. I would love to see charts, graphs and diagram formats to add to my page, much like how it works on pages and word. also I'd love to see dotted lines, "fill in" shading, different pen affects etc. I love the app, I can;t wait to see what else you guys add to it. Big fan

    99 votes

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  17. Please add romanian language as well, text recognition was the primary reason I have bought the app and I was very disappointed not to find Ro there. Thank you!

    96 votes

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  18. I text a lot and I also like to keep the color tone of my notes but the app doesn’t have the feature to add the color to presets for the text function. It also could be more convenient if there’s the color picker tool so I can keep the tone of my notes whenever I text or write. Lastly, I notice that the hex code of the color is ALWAYS #FFEEFF. As I said before, GoodNotes doesn’t have feature of setting text color to presets so I intent to remember the hex code instead but it’s still FFEEFF... I…

    96 votes

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  19. Add encryption of data. Allow notebooks to be encrypted.

    96 votes

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  20. Add more pen options please! I don't like how my handwriting looks in this app but I love everything else this app has to offer. Notes Plus offers pen types that resembles my handwriting but is limited in areas where this app excels. Adding more pen options would eliminate the competition altogether for me.

    94 votes

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