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  1. I really miss the feature that many other pdf viewers (and browsers, eg safari) have, where one presses and holds the scrolling button to move it up/down to a desired page.

    2 votes

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  2. We need an option to choose for the text to fit naturally to the lines of templates that have lines to type on. It would be great that when we change the chosen font, it would adapt and still fit in the line.

    It's too troublesome trying to find the right font to fit into the lines, and I still cant find my perfect font and font size to do that.

    15 votes

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  3. Hello, I'm using GoodNotes to organize the pdfs for my grad school classes and wanted to make two feature requests:

    1. Please make the character length for document titles longer on Mac and iPadOS. When dealing with multiple documents from the same author in a single folder, it quickly becomes confusing because there is very little room to display the document name. I can understand this limitation on iPhone, but it should not be an issue on a Mac.

    Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/XK11jrX

    1. Would an integration with Zotero (Mac app only, sadly) be possible? Ideally, I'd imagine a workflow where I can use…
    9 votes

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  4. Imagine that you are taking notes out of a 1500 pages PDF and you don’t want to go back and forth between outlined pages. You could simply make a link to that page and paste it over one/more of your notebook/s.

    I have this issue because i work with european laws and every manual has a lot of pages. Sometimes instead of writing down an infinite law I prefer to go check it out instantly instead of searching manually or using multitasking in GoodNotes.

    15 votes

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  5. where is the ink color selector in the zoom window in GoodNotes 5? :( Zoom window on GN4 was way better then GN5...
    That's why I'm still on GN4.
    It was your strongest point over others app.... Very sad.. not every one want to haver a big iPad that Don fit on a bag, or have resource to have one... In my case, going all up to the screen change the pen color, to make an obs in diferente Collor, it a sux kind of UX.@

    GoodNotesApp If you want I can make a comparison video showing the difference on…

    4 votes

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  6. I would love it if when using the zoom feature there was a smaller tool bar above the zoom window. It breaks up the flow to have to reach all the way to the other side of the screen to change the pen or color I am using. If it was completely customizable like with the pens, highlighters etc. I choose and able to be moved around the screen that would be great too.

    8 votes

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  7. Is there a way to update the date of the folder after editing the notebooks inside it.

    2 votes

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  8. There are only three colors to choose from in GoodNotes 5. This makes it hard to color code my notes and unlock the full potential the pictures on the AppStore showed. Please allow us to make our own colors and add a color eye dropper. Thank you.

    34 votes

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  9. Since there already is a feature to convert handwritten text.
    It would be very usefully if you could convert the text from pictures of handwritten notes or documents like textbooks to editable text.

    28 votes

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  10. I really wish the last window size were preserved so every time I open the app on my mac it doesn't default to the small screen view

    1 vote

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  11. it would be interesting to have the possibility to insert layers to be able to use them as in photoshop

    (sarebbe interessante avere la possibilità di inserire livelli per poterli usare come in photoshop)

    6 votes

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  12. 13 votes

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  13. I would like to have midpoints and/or axes for shapes. Especially a circle will benefit from this feature. It will make it easier to adjust shapes to each other.
    Currently i need to draw circles in a diagram (imported as page template) and it’s a mess to adjust the circles accurate around the midpoint of this diagram (Smith Chart)

    3 votes

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  14. I'm using goodnotes on a mac over zoom for teaching. It would be very helpful to have a keyboard shortcut for the laser pointer similar to the keyboard shortcuts to the pen, lasso, images, etc (it is weird that the laser pointer is the only one of these tools without a shortcut). I'm constantly needing to switch between pen and laser pointer, and this make it a lot smoother. Thanks

    18 votes

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  15. I would love to have the option to have a "magnetic grid" used in combination with a geometric form tool to draw some lines that start exactly at the corners of the grid.

    10 votes

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  16. When highlighting notes or docs, I have a system based on the color of highlight.
    Example:
    Yellow - todo later
    Orange - look into further
    Green - Note about dev tools
    Blue - Note about software process

    Would love to see all highlights gathered onto one page for quick reference
    Ability to select highlighted entry and link back to source.
    Filter highlighted entries by color.

    53 votes

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  17. Add wide ruled options for the multi column templates. I love using the multicolumn templates when I'm taking notes but find the line spacing to be to narrow to be practical. I know I can zoom in but this takes away from me seeing the "big picture" (i.e., the other notes on the document) without constantly having to zoom in and out. It should be a relatively simple update, please make this happen!

    1 vote

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  18. Be able to use sub- and superscript like in word.

    21 votes

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  19. There are two toolbars unnecessarily. Top toolbar for browsing slides, searching for specific words, undo button and the add page button. Bottom toolbar for writing tools. Top one only uses up the left and right side (with the title taking up a huge amount of space in the middle) and the bottom toolbar only uses the middle so they would merge perfectly if you just moved the title elsewhere, thus giving us the users more space to write/draw on.

    3 votes

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  20. 是否可以在工具栏加上一个锁定当前页面不可编辑的功能?因为页面长期处于可编辑状态很多时候在复习阅读笔记的时候会不小心触碰到里面的内容,有时还会误删一些东西或者不小心打乱了当前页面的排版。这样笔记还要从新编辑一下。如果有一个当前页面锁定功能就可以防止这些误操作。希望得到贵公司回复。谢谢。

    9 votes

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