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  1. Now it is very difficult to make a perfect square with the shape tool. It would be nice if you add pre defined shapes or improve the shape recognition.
    Also a two fingers gestures to resize and rotate the figures would be awesome.

    10 votes

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    Thanks for your feedback!

    With the September update, we’ve improved shape recognition and introduced a set of default shapes that you can easily add to your notes.

    Make sure to update to the latest version of the app to access these enhancements.

    More details here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/13682939148943-Improved-Shape-Tool#improved-shape-tool-0-0

  2. Please help & allow us to change the size of inserted page !
    Thanks !

    2 votes

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  3. How About, We Have Students In Our Class Use GoodNotes?

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    Thanks for the suggestion. There is no limitation on who can use GoodNotes. The app is available through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program for educational institutions, so you can even get it at a cheaper price when you buy multiple licenses for your students.

  4. Title is pretty much straightforward. I'm tired of exporting my notes into One Note just so that I can see them on my PC. I would like this to be automatic and I don't think I'm the only one out there who would like this feature.

    2 votes

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  5. I'm a Japanese YouTuber who introduces how to use the iPad.
    There are about 70,000 subscribers.

    Here is my YouTube channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9D8vopYTSvGIdzyH6e_3oA?view_as=subscriber

    I took a survey on YouTube about the features I want to add to GoodNotes 5.
    The number of votes in the questionnaire was 5363.
    The most popular vote was the ability to display pages in a two-page spread.
    Would you please consider this spread display function?

    Breakdown of the questionnaire (5363 votes)
    ① Open the page with a spread (40%)
    ② Voice recording (8%)
    ③ Both (52%)

    GoodNotes 5 is the best app.
    Thank you for making…

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    Thanks a lot for sharing the feedback with us here. We have implemented the ability to view two documents or pages side by side a while ago. You can read more about it here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001118635-Opening-GoodNotes-in-multiple-windows-on-iPadOS

    It allows for a great deal of flexibility and there are many different ways how you can accomplish this. It would be awesome if you could educate your followers about that too, so that more people know about it. We have noted the request about audio recording.

    Would you mind sending us an email to press@goodnotes.com? We’d love to connect you with our marketing team so that we could talk about some possible promotions or giveaways.

  6. Even if the corresponding page is deleted, the PDF outline remains as it is.And it making the outline difficult to see. I want you to be able to add or delete new PDF outlines as well as custom outlines.

    2 votes

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  7. Hi, could you introduce a Cornell model without the writing line? Online the cornell setting lines. I would be nice if i need to print some page for study or share with my professor at university, and i can't print all the grey ruled lines for help writing.
    It would be fantastic and help full for other people like me that loves cornell.
    Greatings

    1 vote

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  8. To be able to write a document on a single page, a very long page. Because when you write a mathematical demonstration and you always have to go from one page to another to see what you have written, it is not practical. Whereas if it were a single page, you would always have what you have just written above what you want to write, and not on a previous page. Digital technology makes it possible to have very long pages. It's a shame to be limited by the page length that exists in the physical world.

    2 votes

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    From what we read it sounds like you should be able to accomplish what you want by setting the scrolling direction to “vertical” in the … menu. This will allow you to see the page above while you already write on the next page.

  9. I'm teacher with several classes and I have many folders and documents, buy sometimes I need tyo return home or root to fins another doc.

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  10. Would be nice for students to have the ability to draw organic chemistry molecules on a template

    It would save us a lot of time and would look much much better

    Please add it 🙏🏻

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  11. Wir nutzen ihre Software um die schulhefte zu ersetzten und leider fehlt die Lineatur für Schulklassen

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  12. I sometimes encounter a situation in which I'm located at the homescreen (eg after restarting the app on another day) but i can't since there seems no easy option to do so. I always have to open a new document (and close it afterwards since) to get back to the documents I've already opened. It would be great to have a simple option (eg a button) to switch directly to opened documents from the main screen.

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  13. When I revise my notes on my PC (with files exported as pdf), I loose all the index that I placed in the app and it’s very frustrating.
    If the index could be saved even in the pdf exported version of the files it would be much easier to revise documents on pc and would give the index more sense to be used.

    1 vote

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  14. Allow certain parts of paper to be overlayed in a specific colour, this makes it easier for notes to stand out in areas they are needed, sort of like a text box

    2 votes

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    This is either possible by using the highlighter or adding a filled shape with the border removed. Enable color fill in the shape options > draw a shape (i.e. a large rectangle) > tap the undo button to remove the border.

  15. I can’t find any tutorials on using GoodNotes as my home electronic filing system. I want to replace a filing cabinet of letters (in and out), invoices, contracts etc.

    A typical issue is stapling together a covering letter and a few attachments. I don’t see how to do this. There will probably be more things I get stumped on that someone else has understood a good way to do.

    1 vote

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    We’re not sure if there is a single tutorial online that explains your exact use case as your requirements could be quite specific. We definitely recommend searching for something like “paperless organization with GoodNotes”, which should bring you closer to helpful tutorials that other people have produced. From our end, there are a couple of things we would recommend checking out in particular as it could help you to understand more on how to use GoodNotes’ features to accomplish what you would like to do.

    Visit our help center on support.goodnotes.com and read through the guides for the following features:
    - Importing files into GoodNotes
    - Copying or moving pages from one document to another in GoodNotes 5
    - Reordering pages in a document
    - Deleting pages and covers in GoodNotes 5
    - Creating a folder in GoodNotes 5

    Understanding these should enable you to creating single files that consist…

  16. Some times we need to reference different pages of the same document at the same time and will switch among these pages. Could you show multiple pages of the same document and each page is in a different tab so that we can jump to these pages easily and quickly? A simple implementation is to allow a document to be opened in multiple windows. A better implementation is to alllow multiple pages to be sticked on different tabs.

    3 votes

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  17. Templates for cursive writing or “how to make your handwriting better “ ..

    Column Organizational structure like Mac finder

    1 vote

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  18. 1 vote

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    GoodNotes already supports the same scanning feature like the Notes app. To scan a document, tap on the + button in the library view and select “Scan”. You can also add scanned pages to an existing document by tapping on the “add page” button in the navigation bar and choosing “scan”.

    1. Straight line and geometric shapes drawing should be easy like Notability.

    2. Pencil cursor option should be there for presentation mode, so that while writing pencil appears at that point.

    3. Shape editing should be there and it should be easy.

    4. Page transitions.

    4 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.

  19. Hello, it would be great to update GoodNotes on Mac to work natively on Apple Silicon.
    I know that it works great with the translation thanks to Rosetta 2 but I would like to know if you plan to release an Universal version ?

    Thank you !

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