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  1. What it says on the tin. Erase, lasso, OCR all should work on any imported file. For instance, taking a photo of handwritten notes and being able to edit them exactly like if they had been written in Goodnotes.

    I imagine there are technical barriers to this when recognizing what to edit from, say, an image, but it seems like a function that already should be available for text documents.

    1 vote

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  2. Comments are useful for adding details to handwritten notes when you don’t want to take up too much space on the page.

    It would make sense that they would be included in the lasso tool selection with the notes they are located over. As is, it appears it’s impossible even to copy and paste a comment manually to move it from one page to the other, potentially removing critical detail from a note.

    1 vote

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  3. 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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  4. Allow real-time sync with cloud storages like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc so that files occupy less storage on the ipad, while allowing for editing and annotation of the file stored in the cloud. This would save a lot of space for those of us using lower end devices.

    6 votes

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  5. Glad you added comments! Earlier I requested a collapsible post it, it this is better! I wish I could see all comments in one place, like in the outline section. Attached is a place you could do it!

    13 votes

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  6. Provide one-click option to send notebook for hardcover/softcover paper publication directly within the app.

    I’ve been using GoodNotes for a few years now and have created many notebooks of ideas, drawings, and sketches. Would love to turn these into paper notebooks for my library. Sure, I can do this through various third party publication platforms with a little effort. But, to have an option where I could seamlessly send notebooks to a printer from within the app, knowing that the paper size and other features are controlled and synced — without any fiddling — is a big time saver.

    1 vote

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  7. There is a glitch when I am using my IPad air and writing notes. White blocks appear covering the content when I am zooming into the notes. I didn't pay good money to get these weird glitches.

    2 votes

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  8. Would you please add the minimal API (AppleScript, JavaScript, command line interface, or other) required for App Name to work with Hook? I use the macOS productivity app, Hook, to provide the missing links between my favorite apps. Hook enables me to to link items from my favorite apps to each other. This provides many benefits.

    Hook needs AppleScript support to get a name and URL (or other unique identifier) of the frontmost open resource in your app; and
    be able to open this resource later using that same URL/identifier.

    That’s all there is to it. It’s quite easy to…

    6 votes

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  9. To scale imported photos with one point pined and then drag one of the other points to the ideal location. This is more convenient in locating the photo in the place you want than the current scaling photos from the middle.

    9 votes

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  10. Select pen text using the lasso tool, and be able to adjust pen stroke just as you would color. This is a feature on Notability that I'm very jealous of because it makes it much easier to resize notes.

    3 votes

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  11. The shape tool is amazing no doubt but it still lacks some major shapes. If you try to draw a semi circle by a quick stroke it converts it to a straight line, same goes for an arc. This is difficult while taking maths lectures as it requires a lot of shapes. Some shapes that don't work are: semi circle, arc, sector, parabola.

    606 votes

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  12. Instead of just having three line thicknesses for your pen tool, please can we have a plus and minus button with more variations? When I write, the smallest line thickness is too thin and the medium is too thick. There’s no happy medium

    4 votes

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  13. *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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  14. At the moment if I am in the vertical scrolling and I have in my exercise book pages with different sizes, like A5, A4 and A4 rotated, the maximum scrolling edge in horizontal is big as the biggest page in the hole document. So if I am writing on a A5 paper (because image was A5) GoodNotes let me scroll further than the page size. Also if I import an image and this is not perfect in A4 format it would be helpful and nice, if I could resize it to A4 for example.

    2 votes

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  15. In smaller iPads toolbar and document tabs take lot of working space.
    If toolbar can be shifted to left side of screen in landscape mode it will be of great help.

    19 votes

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  16. As the community of goodnotes has many research focused students, adding some features like extracting highlights to markdown and a side bar to see all the comments would be really helpful to aid the reasearch efforts.
    Some features suggestions that we really need in goodnotes to make it one stop solution
    - highlights extraction (to txt, markdown etc)
    - side bar to see all the comments
    - tags feature to tag the notes/books

    10 votes

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  17. For example, I work on my laptop with a document and close it, and then I want to open it on my iPad to continue working with the document, with this button you can force a sync, and I don't need to wait when it happens automatically

    16 votes

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  18. I want to create a new Quick Note and then when finished move it (all pages) to a Notebook. At present I can tap the File name and it only allows me to move to a Folder. The only viable option is to use the page picker, select all pages and then I can move to a Notebook - lots of taps

    3 votes

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  19. I used good notes for many different things, college note taking, filling in pdf documents, bullet journal. Please add an option to save more than one default text.
    The font i use for note taking sometimes is too small for the font required to fill in documents. And my bujo is dark themed so the font needs to be white. It gets tedious having to change it everytime i open a text box depending on the document i am working on

    89 votes

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  20. When importing pdf, goodnote could read or fetch pdf metadata to organize, search, sort documents by author, publication date and stuff like that. That would be extremely useful for scientific papers and managing lots of references.

    1 vote

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