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  1. It would be great if you had an option to password protect a selected notebook in case you have to create one that would contain sensitive information.

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    Introducing Password Protection for your documents


    To lock a document, tap on the context menu for the document in the library view and set a password. Anytime you try to open, export, duplicate, or delete the document, Goodnotes will ask you for the set password. If you’re using a device that supports FaceID or TouchID, you can use these instead of your password to unlock a document. Please note that you can have only one password that will apply to all locked notebooks and that Password Protection is only available in Goodnotes 6. Learn more


    Update to version 6.4.2 in App Store to use Password Protection.

  2. Would be nice to have the possibility, to create auto-backups in two file formats at the same time (pdf and GoddNotes file).

    11 votes

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  3. It would be great if you could paste a URL and it be clickable from within a page!

    1,655 votes

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  4. I like being able to read my pdf's that I annotate on my desktop, but also want to back up the original goodnotes source. This would require minimal programming changes and would be a really nice change. Just allow us to select from checkboxes whether we want goodnotes, pdf, or both formats. (Or none)

    8 votes

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  5. Provide a search box in the notebooks view

    22 votes

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  6. I love taking notes and drawing in GoodNotes and it would be great if I could rotate the objects I've drawn on the page. We can already change the color and scale the object, so it would be nice to be able to rotate these objects.

    2,513 votes

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    Rotation of handwritten objects is possible in GoodNotes 5. Select the objects with the lasso tool and tap on “resize”. You’ll also find the option to rotate the selection.

  7. Have the ability to create a task and have it show up in the Reminders app in iOS. A lot of times I take notes and need to create tasks to follow up on them. It would be nice to be able to schedule a reminder.

    62 votes

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    This is possible thanks to drag and drop support on iOS 11 or higher. Select handwriting with the lasso tool and then drag and drop it into another app, for example, reminders. A task will be created from the recognized text.

  8. Provide small library of ideally scaleable stickers that can be placed on page... Stars,light bulbs, flags, people, '.', men@work, Alerts etc

    This would help with being able to visually tag drawings and text (in page) with favourite 'standard' icon-stickers to draw attention when flipping through pages.

    Also provide the ability to then search through book to find pages with selected stickers so that I could find all my ideas, thoughts, questions, important items etc
    Simple idea with powerful results

    26 votes

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  9. I'd love to be able to have sub folders and be able to add tags to my documents to make it easier to sort them

    873 votes

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  10. In good notes 4 we can only have subfolders in a masterfolder, i would like to be able to create as many subfolders inside subfolders as i wish

    233 votes

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  11. Make it possible to make a straight line between two or more points. Would be great to draw graphs with. Also would be nice to have the ability to make a dotted line, maybe choose space between the dots and so on.

    3,874 votes

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  12. It is nice to be able to go to the next page going down instead of going left. It would also be nice if scrolling down to the next page continuous without jumping to the next page, so you can see the bottom of one page and the top of the next page.

    1,514 votes

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  13. Please please pleaseeeee give me the option to highlight in a straight line as the default way to highlight. It is INCREDIBLY frustrating to be writing in freestyle when I'm taking notes in class then I have to press the shapes button and then press the highlighter button to switch to highlighter in order to highlight in a straight line. It would make my notes not look like a hot mess when I'm done. PLEASEEEEE!! At least allow there to be an option to default the highlighter to highlight in a straight line.

    19 votes

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  14. Would be great having a feature that allows you to write stuff with a stylus pen or finger and then, if wanted, convert it to text.

    790 votes

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  15. 489 votes

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  16. Adding white document templates.

    22 votes

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  17. 427 votes

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  18. Having highlighted some hand-written notes, the eraser will delete both the highlight and the text. Please give an option for the eraser to delete only the highlight, leaving the notes "underneath" intact.

    134 votes

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    In GoodNotes 5, the eraser can be set to “erase highlighter only”. Tap and hold on the eraser icon to access the settings.

    Don’t forget to deactivate it afterward to also erase regular ink strokes again.

  19. GoodNotes is brilliant for taking notes on my iPad while I'm away, but it would be extremly helpful to have a version for mac where documents could be synced between both devices and modified on computer.

    9 votes

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  20. It would be great if you can see the number of the page you are in and how manu pages the notebook has

    16 votes

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    The latest update GoodNotes 5.5 is now available on the App Store. While scrolling through your document, you can now see the current page number and the total number of pages in this document. If you don’t like to see the page numbers, you can disable it in Menu > Settings > Document Editing.

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