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  1. Add the possibility to import in a notebook files in .pages format.

    4 votes

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  2. Penultimate has a great feature, similar to GoodNotes’ AutoAdvance, where the screen moves automatically if you’re writing and it stops moving as you stop writing. This was really useful for me as it meant I mainly had to move my hand in one direction- I didn’t need to move it along the page, as the page moved itself. This enabled me to write significantly faster and reduced hand strain. It would be great to see this added into GoodNotes

    4 votes

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  3. When trying to create any sort of graph, the axes need to have graduations at regular intervals. Instead of trying to approximate by hand, there could be an option after the line is selected, to divide it into any number of intervals.

    1 vote

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  4. It will be great if we can customize different scrolling directions for different documents rather than the same for all documents. Since some documents may have a better view in vertical scrolling some may be more convenient in horizontal scrolling.

    23 votes

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  5. I like to write my notes in Landscape mode so I have more room side-side to write, but I like to look over my notes in Portrait mode so I can see the whole page.

    I have the Landscape Zoom to 100%, page fully covering the screen side to side. When I rotate to Portrait mode the zoom stays, and I have to zoom out to see the whole page, zoom back in when I turn to Landscape, in and out, etc. etc.

    It would be an awesome feature, and would help a lot!

    3 votes

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  6. In the multi-page view of a document, the buttons on the top left and top right are "Close" and "Select", respectively. When we press "Select", the buttons on the top left and top right become "Select All" and "Done", respectively. Please swap the positions of the latter buttons so that we can press "Done" and "Close" in quick succession when we try to leave this view.

    3 votes

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  7. I'm using Goodnotes for my Business Plans and Ideas. I only use it with my MacBook. It doesn't work 90% of the time when I try to move the cursor within the text via my keyboard arrows. I have to restart the App so I can use this feature for like 5 minutes again. Very annoying...

    2 votes

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  8. when many tabs are opened, it becomes harder to maintain a good overview. I suggest the option of putting tabs of documents together in a group or stack, so that I can now work on other documents, but still can reopen the other tabs fast without having to close them before.
    For example: I‘m working on my physics homework and my answer and exercise sheets are opened. But also, I do have to take a look from time to time into the maths and physics theory notes, but not often, and still, they are using up a lot of tab…

    5 votes

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  9. I think it would be very useful to have the ability to see and reorganize the list of open tabs. This way, when I have 20+ tabs open and I’m viewing the last document but also need to access the first tab I don’t need to swipe all the way to the first tab but can pull open the list view and click directly two the desired tab. If I find that I need to consistently switch between the two, I can reorganize the tabs and place them right next to each other.

    8 votes

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  10. It would be good if we can add a new page according to the previous page size without copying its content. It will definitely save our time and allow us to use different template in a file.

    2 votes

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  11. 26 votes

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  12. 4 votes

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  13. There is a ton of clicking that is required when utilizing the application, whether on the MAC or iPAD.
    One example: Copying & pasting, clicking to select the text, etc is extremely slow. Mistakes are often made because I am working faster than the application. I have to wait a couple of seconds for the text box to show up and make sure the cursor is active before pasting something. If I paste immediately after I select to place my text box, then the text will randomly be pasted onto the page in the original format requiring to click into…

    2 votes

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  14. I'm currently taking a math class and the exam reviews don't leave sufficient space underneath the text so I can work out the problem. So it would be really efficient if we could add a white space or whatever is preferred, right below where we need space to write in. I know we could just add a page, but there's usually more than like 8 problems per page that I don't want to waste time writing out separately.

    4 votes

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  15. Add the possibility to have more than three standard colors as to allow a faster change in between more than three colors. As I have one "text"- color, I would love to be able to draw more quickly while using more than the other two standard colors that I get to set. Opening the color drop-down menu and choosing one color thus replacing a current standard color is not as fast. There is still space in the top bar for more colors, so that should not be a problem. There could be a tab in the settings that asks how…

    26 votes

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  16. Wenn ein Bild per Screenshot eingefügt wird, wird es nicht automatisch auf dem Mac gespeichert und man muss einen neuen Screenshot erstellen, um das Bild auch woanders einzufügen (zb. bei Lernkarten, einmal die Lösung und einmal das Bild der Lösung nur mit geschwärzten Lösungen). Es wäre super, wenn man das Bild einfach per klick auf das Bild kopieren könnte, wie eine Textpassage.

    1 vote

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  17. Especially with the new GoodNotes 5 for Mac, it would be useful to have 3 different "default" text font/style/size options, similar to how you have three different options for highlight color, thickness, etc.

    62 votes

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  18. 建议可以让文字和手写有相同的颜色!
    在笔记中有时候会用到大段文字输入,和手写不能同一个颜色实在是太难受了!而且输入文字的颜色不可以自由加入保存

    4 votes

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  19. I need functionality to play embedded movies in PDFs for online research presentation.

    6 votes

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  20. please add the ability to create layers and manipulate layers. Second please add the ability to create text like ZN where you can use any test that is in your ipad

    43 votes

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