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  1. Hey! You could you please add the old feature again so that I can sync the app with my Mac? It's super annoying to send all the files to my macbook, with GoodNotes 4 I was able to sync with Google Drive. This would help a lot!! Thanks

    6 votes

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  2. It’s very helpful to easily go between notes which are located in different categories !

    12 votes

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  3. By adding space to the existing page one can make more notes or add pictures on the same page and not on the next

    11 votes

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  4. After importing a calendar book for the New Year, I find that I cannot adjust the height settings for the pages. This is very inconvenient. I take all of my notes in your app and spend way to much effort readjusting the text box position when I want to go to the next line on the page.

    Please give more flexibility to adjusting the "height" - line spacing - for individual pages or at least for a whole document once it is created.

    Thank you! This app is amazing!!!

    14 votes

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  5. The new Goodnotes 5 on iOS has 2 toolbars + tabs, which take up a lot of space on a horizontal iPad, and above all it is too distracting. Please create an option to either morph the 2 toolbars into one or to hide one automatically (probably the top one).

    12 votes

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  6. Please add nextcloud support for backing up notes. The German government is now switching to it and is just a great solution for self hosting clouds. Also many universities (at least in Germany) use it.

    90 votes

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  7. Create word hypolinks - To different page / book or internet

    On selection of text or image, be able to turn it into a hypolink, from here give us the options to select a page from either the same book or a different one, or either insert a url which would load up internet browser.

    8 votes

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  8. Have the ability to write on a second sheet that is superimposed on the page as a layer.
    This would make it possible to add elements on the layer, for example text on an image, and to be able to manipulate them easily.

    18 votes

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  9. On macos, add the possibility of drag& drop a pdf on the application icon to create a note like notability

    6 votes

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  10. Goodnotes 4 had the main folder sorted by name. Every subfolder could by sorted by name or date, according to my decision. I would like to keep sorted the folders included in the main folder by name, and being able to order every subfolder in a different way

    5 votes

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  11. It would be nice, if Good Notes would feature a tool to create geometrical shapes the same way as it is possible in Word or other text editors, so that you can tap a button, choose the shape and place it, since the given tool is often not able to interpret correctly how I want the shape to be exactly. It is often useful as it is easier to use, but both possibilities would be great.

    11 votes

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  12. Since we are writing with one hand (right or left) it is an obvious idea to give us ALL tools in the reach of the other hand. Come on, it’s not that hard to do this. :)

    31 votes

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  13. In GoodNotes 5, when I open more than three larger pdf files in tabs, GN 5 can‘t remember the size of the fourth pdf file.

    On the attached video, you see a comparison of GoodNotes 4 and GoodNotes 5

    6 votes

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  14. 21 votes

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  15. Would love it if in addition to the "fountain pen" option, you could add an Italic pen option for writing Italic and other calligraphies

    17 votes

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  16. I am a teacher and i use GoodNotes as a blackboard. So it would be very useful to have a set Square and a pair of compasses visible to the students to show how to construct geometric forms.

    13 votes

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  17. I have a feature request for PDF presentations with animations. It would be very helpful to have a button, that allows to perform the following three actions in a sequence:

    1) Copy all handwritten notes on the current slide/page.

    1. Move to the next slide/page

    2. Paste all the handwritten notes at the same place as these have been on the previous slide.

    This button would be very helpful for having PDF presentations in lectures.

    6 votes

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  18. Something that Notability has and Goodnotes doesn’t: when selecting a text the option of changing not only color but thickness.

    11 votes

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  19. Guys - the ability to snooze/set a reminder for a note would be amazing. When i'm using notes to generate ideas etc i often want to come back to them but you get busy and forget. A prompt would be invaluable (similar to 'nudges' in gmail) thanks

    8 votes

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  20. Enable a "Back" link. PDF "Back" links work until I import the PDF into GoodNotes. I know there is a "Back" menu item but it would be so much easier to support it via a link on a document.

    14 votes

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