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  1. Goodnote 7 feels like Badnotes.
    To improve it, I suggest restoring the following features:

    • The smooth performance of Goodnotes 5 (especially the instant PDF rendering)

    • The toolbar layout from Goodnotes 5

    • Keeping the “crumple-to-erase” feature from Goodnotes 6

    • Keeping the folder organization feature from Goodnotes 6

    I propose releasing “Goodnotes 11,” combining the best features of Goodnotes 5 and 6.

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  2. A new option has been added to mark pages in a document that contain handwriting, making them easier to find when reviewing notes.

    This is a current feature of Notability.

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  3. Hey goodnotes
    I have a problem that please make available .apkg format to import for study set(flashcards)
    Because it is 2nd most priority of study that is active recall and
    Majority of medical scholar student uses already formed anki(.apkg) flashcards
    That is actual too much time taking and also anki community has already made cards of very vast range of subjects and also from many sources so it is more efficient and beneficial to direct import readymade flashcards
    And also most of medical student using ipad
    And anki for ipad is for 30$
    I was purchasing goodnotes for me i…

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  4. I would like to see some basic keyboard shortcuts implemented, examples are in the title. Most annoyingly Cmd + W doesn't close a tab but rather exits the document and leaves it open.

    Below are some suggestions for shortcuts (shortcuts marked with '*' can be considered extra):

    Window/Tab management:
    - Cmd + W: closes the current tab
    - *Cmd + Opt + W: closes all tabs
    - Cmd + Shift + Esc: exits document view
    - Cmd + Opt + Left/Right: Go to previous/next tab

    File management:
    - Cmd + Opt + N: Creates new File
    - Cmd + Opt…

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  5. I use keyboard shortcuts quite extensively and would like to see some better support on keyboard navigation, especially in the documents view. So opening, renaming, etc. files can be done without a mouse/trackpad. Maybe implement a toggle for this option, so regular users are not affected by default.

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  6. In a Txt-Doc there should be more tools in the toolbar for important actions like setting the background color of selected Text to a color by just clicking on the color symbol.

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  7. When I leave my iPad on Goodnotes it never closes by itself despite my iPad being on the 2 minute shut off time. On every other app it shuts down by itself but Goodnotes. Can we implement something that hinders this? It wastes a lot of battery

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  8. Please make the templates editable. For example I like a margin but I find it's too wide. I'd like the templates to be editable such that you can have a smaller or larger margin as needed.

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  9. I’m a heavy GoodNotes user on a 13″ iPad with a Pencil-first workflow, and I keep running into two related navigation issues:

    1.  The left sidebar is fixed and cannot host pinned content.
    

    On large iPads, this leaves valuable space unused and forces users to rely on Favorites for navigation.

    2.  There is no true global bookmark system.
    

    Because page bookmarks and navigation shortcuts both appear in Favorites, Favorites becomes cluttered and difficult to use for either purpose.

    These two issues reinforce each other: since the sidebar can’t hold pinned folders or notebooks, Favorites is forced to do double duty.

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  10. I really miss the consistent style of the pen before the most recent update, the new pen is thicker and thinner in different places and its honestly unusable for me. I also miss the feature that you guys had a little while ago with the magnified writing box, it really helped with writing long sentences and streamlining note taking :)

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  11. When I use the text box, the line height keeps changing. I have to and adjust the line height for each sentence, despite having a set default. I also hate how it goes to Lasso all the time, I never use Lasso. I miss Goodnotes 6 as it was easier to use for someone who struggles with technology.

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  12. Love the new shapes tool but it would very useful if shapes (or in a broader sense also all other objects like images, text, stickers, etc.) could be aligned and spaced out evenly to make notes look more professional.

    Also the option to eg. center elements on the page via an x/y axis. There could be an option to turn automatic snapping/ guidelines on or off.

    It is very difficult to eyeball objects to be consistently spaced and aligned and often results in pages not looking consistent.

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    • Enable the full toolbar on flashcards
      Allow users to use the same tools as on regular pages: highlighting in color, underlining, bold text, and free writing/drawing. This would make it much easier to emphasize important content and quickly add notes or markings.

    • Support combined text and images on a single flashcard
      Make it possible to place both images and text together on one flashcard for better visual learning and more flexible study methods.

    • Detect and indicate duplicate flashcards:
      Show a clear warning or indicator when a flashcard is created twice, to avoid unnecessary duplicates and keep decks organized.

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  13. This update is seriously frustrating.
    Why does the tool automatically switch to the lasso tool after using a text box?
    The previous version was much smoother and easier to use — now it just feels unnecessarily inconvenient and irritating.
    It honestly looks like this change was made without any real consideration for users.

    And if you’re not even reading App Store reviews but just telling people to “send feedback,”
    it really makes us wonder if you actually care about what users are saying.

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  14. I hope to add support for game controllers(gamepads) and the ability to customize key mappings, so that we can use the controller(gamepads) with my left hand to control which tool to use, and use Apple Pencil with my right hand to write. Not everyone has the latest Apple Pencil Pro, which makes it difficult for those without Apple Pencil Pro to experience the quick switching of pen tools.

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  15. When I am using the lasso tool I would like to rotate the handwritten text with my fingers or pencil and resize it as well but it seems very restricted at the moment. When I use two fingers it duplicates which there is no need for as there is a copy and paste function and the only way to rotate is the box icon which is very restricted and not free as in like free motion.

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  16. The option to add page numbers to the notebook in a selected font/size and to also add an Index/ Table of Contents that shows up within the document. Similar to how it is in word or other word processing Programs, just a bit simplified.

    Basically the option to add the "outline" as a "table of contents page" within the note book and to show numbers on each page correspondingly.

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  17. Hi, goodnotes! Can we get a pen that look like this? Also, I think it is time to update the pens, highlighter, and pencils. I would definitely want a new and improved fountain pen. The pencil most definitely needs a new update.

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  18. There are multiple ways of doing this:
    (A) Chop each page in half: top half becomes the ‘image’ for question, bottom half becomes the ‘image’ for answer.
    (B) Two pages per flashcard, one for question and one for answer (maybe do this if pdf is in landscape mode).

    This would be immensely helpful as currently you can only import text, which is an issue if your flash cards have diagrams or render LaTeX.

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  19. Request to Add a Feature for Converting Regular Documents into Text Documents

    Currently, there is a feature that allows regular documents to be converted into whiteboard documents, but there is no option to convert them into text documents. I believe it would be very helpful to add a feature that allows regular documents to be converted directly into text documents.

    For example, when working with scanned documents, some characters are not always correctly recognized by OCR. In such cases, it becomes difficult to search the content or effectively use AI features. If users could convert a regular document into a…

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