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  1. It would be efficient and productive to be able to set a default font. Perhaps there is a way and I don’t know how to navigate it yet. But right now, every time I use the text box, and while I’ve already changed the font, it will default back to Helvetica Neue. Not a bad font, I just have work & schoolwork that requires a different font. It would be nice to just pick that font and stay until I decide otherwise.

    2 votes

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  2. Good Notes 4's shape tool was significantly better than Good Notes 5's tool. On Good Notes 5 it is almost always imperfect. Can you please add an option in the shape tool that allows for a subset of perfect shapes, like circles, squares, rectangles, etc... Another suggestion is that you could make it so that when we draw a shape using the pen tool and hold it the shape automatically snaps to a perfect shape. This would be incredibly useful for making graphs and charts that need precise lines. Not everyones hand is as steady as an artists and for…

    98 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, and curve drawing.

  3. I could not find a way to add page numbers to my notebook. Is this feature already available or can it be added, including automatic page renumbering when pages are moved? Thanks

    74 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.

  4. Instead of copying and pasting, I should be able to lasso text, and drag it to another page.

    75 votes

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  5. When I connect the presentation of reflection through AirPlay, found that in the Good Note application, can be extended or zoom the screen at the iPad normally. But the image that is reflected through AirPlay, found that the image drawing board of Good Note also shows only the full screen. And display the expansion or zoom screen, not same the screen of the IPad So Making it difficult for presentation. Please update as well.

    1 vote

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  6. We need to be able to select certain pages when exporting. Selecting only one page or all pages is annoying and if we have to submit homework or notes, some pages we don't need to submit. It would be helpful and practical.

    2 votes

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    To export selected pages, open the thumbnail view with the overview of all pages in your document. Tap on the select button, then tap on the pages you want to export. You can now tap the “export” button at the top.

  7. I'd love to have the possibility of having larger than A4 paper templates.
    A2, A1 and even A0 templates would be awesome when you have to create flow charts.

    2 votes

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    Hi there 👋 Thanks for the suggestion. GoodNotes allows you to add any PDF or image as a custom paper template to your template library and you can easily create your desired paper template size using a text editor like Word or Pages. Alternatively, you can find many additional paper templates for free (or a low price) online.

    https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000115295-Adding-custom-templates-to-the-template-library

  8. I'm starting to doubt that GoodNotes 5 team even visits this Feature Request page; there are MANY great, INTUITIVE features that have been suggested here YEARS ago and didn't come to life. Like, come on!

    This is a paid app; it should get more attention than free ones. Before I purchased the app, I was really confused between which app to get, GoodNotes 5 or Notability? I chose GoodNotes 5 because I saw the potential this app could become. I read the requested features here and I believed it's a good investment if these requests later came to life. I…

    2 votes

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    Hi there 👋 Please be assured that we’re reviewing the ideas in our feedback forum on a regular basis. In fact, we do visit it multiple times per week. The stories and ideas our users share with us are important factors that help us deciding on what to build, though there are other factors we also consider. We’re working hard and are constantly updating GoodNotes to improve it step by step! Thanks for being a fan!

  9. please add scrolling support for physical mouses like mx master 3.
    Add the moment just nothing happens.

    25 votes

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  10. Here is a common inconvenience: I am writing in a notebook. I hit the "<" icon in the top left and enter the "Documents" view where I can see all the folder structure. From here, there is no easy way to return to the notebook view - I must open a notebook or create a new one just to get back to my current notebook to carry on writing.

    This is a particularly annoying problem when your position in the folder hierarchy in the "Documents" view does not contain your current notebook. Then you have to open a notebook you…

    1 vote

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  11. It’s a bit tedious to switch to the shape tool every time you want to draw e.g. a perfect line. What about having GoodNotes draw a perfect shape when you hold your stroke like in Procreate or Notability? Bonus points when it’s possible to edit the shape size and anchor points.

    107 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.

  12. Please add mouse scroll wheel support. This makes scrolling through pages using a mouse (aside from Magic Mouse / trackpad) much more convenient than having to hold and drag to scroll.

    15 votes

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  13. I play guitar on the music team for my church, and instead of using printed sheet music I would like to use digital music and an AirTurn bluetooth device to change pages/songs with my feet.

    It would be great if GoodNotes supported AirTurn for going forward/back a page. Then I could scan my music into a notebook in GoodNotes and turn pages using my bluetooth pedal so my hands are free to play the instrument.

    1 vote

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    GoodNotes already supports this. You can flip pages using the arrow keys on any external keyboards. Make sure that your footpedal is correctly mapped to the arrow keys of the keyboard.

  14. please allow users to enable swiping with one finger and only writing with apple pencil (also second generation) for more convenient usage

    2 votes

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  15. In M1 iPad Pro, there is a missing option in settings called ‘stylus and anti-false touch’ (don’t know the exact English word for that). Please fix that bug ASAP, thanks

    2 votes

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  16. In M1 iPad Pro, there is a missing option in settings called ‘stylus and anti-false touch’ (don’t know the exact English word for that). Please fix that bug ASAP, thanks

    2 votes

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  17. A white color version of the legal writing papers would be great. I've been using the white single column but a margin would make note taking more efficient.

    2 votes

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  18. With the new dark mode, it would be nice to have the highlighter be more visible, it almost becomes invisible on dark paper

    191 votes

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  19. With the new trackpad support with iPadOS 13.4, it would be really nice to be able to scroll through notes with the trackpad like one would scroll through other things such as documents or websites.

    37 votes

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  20. Dear Goodnotes sales team.

    Thank you for your great service.
    I`ve used Goodnotes 4 for 7 years from 2014 and I was really satisfied with your app before I knew released new version in App Store in the middle of 2020 and finished free upgrade service when I knew it.

    Unforturnately, I missed free upgrade service you provided to Goodnote4 user. But I sometimes thought it is really I am unluckly because I missed free upgrade service or Goodnote team is very unkind and unfriendly compared your other competitor like Flexcil.

    I try to use Flexcil app resently, this app…

    1 vote

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    Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback and sorry to hear that you missed the free upgrade period. We did show the information about the free upgrade for an entire year but it was only shown for people who had updated GoodNotes 4 to the latest version back then. Would you mind reaching out to our support and explain your case to them? We’d hate to lose someone who has been a loyal user for such a long time. Here’s how you can contact our support team: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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