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  1. Currently keyboard shortcut for Element is not enabled. even though it is stated as M upon hovering over the button.

    also an option to not leave element tool after adding an element will be nice. it'll be useful when catching up on the older task during bullet journalling.

    5 votes

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  2. I would like to have the feature that the drop menu "add site" not only contains the last used standard sizes, but also a page suggestion depending on the previous page size. This would make it much easier to insert a suitable page of the same format in pdf documents or presentations to make notes without having to guess or try out the correct format of the document.

    2 votes

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  3. The only thing goodnotes is lacking is the ability to lock images so you can not move it, say i have a background image, notes on top and another image on top of the notes i could not lock the background image and just move the top notes and image, it's so frustrating for journaling.

    53 votes

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  4. There’s a bug where when you resize text with the lasso tool and it snaps to a diagonal angle at all when resizing it will then not snap back to being straight again. It always has a slight slant and this drives me crazy! Also, if we could freely resize without it snapping that would be great!

    1 vote

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  5. If you want to add some extra points to your note, but you don't have that much space left, you can use the “insert note” feature, where a small icon can be placed anywhere in the note. When the icon is touched a small note pops up , where one can write. This feature is already there in other pdf annotating apps. I have attached screenshots of another app.

    13 votes

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  6. I’m a scientist and wanted to be able to trade a list of document titles, sizes, and dates with a colleague so we could be sure we were working from the same source documents.

    Academic publishing is often paywalled. If you need access to a document and you don’t have access to the journal, it’s accepted that you’ll fire off an email for a copy, and not publicly share it, so two folks from different institutions may not have access to the same journals.

    So we need title, origin date, last date changed, and file size, preferably in both Numbers…

    1 vote

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  7. part of what makes fountain pen writing look personal and nice to look at it the subtle shades of colour variation in each stroke. You get pooling around the heavy press areas and lighter colour in the lighter press, less corner-y/curvy strokes. No other note taking app does this as far as I am aware and would give GN a really personal, beautiful feel.

    This is why I use a fountain pen in real life - the character of it.

    3 votes

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  8. When importing pdfs the page numbering starts on the cover and pages like the contents page are counted which means on things like textbook the page numbers don’t match up with the book in real life which makes it hard to work with especially in class

    1 vote

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  9. When drawing/writing something without lifting the pen, so in one line and then using the eraser to split it in half as example, the selection tool still handles the now separate objects as one.

    As shown in picture 3 both parts are moved although only one is selected.

    1 vote

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  10. Allow saving my own favorites text box styles. Allow choosing a saved style from a list when creating a text box. Allow changing the style of an existing box to one of my favorites.

    35 votes

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  11. Since iOS 13 there is the possibility to hold and drag the scroll bar on the right to scroll. This does not seem to be the case in GoodNotes 5. It‘s a very small but useful feature to get a quick glance at the document or finding a page in a big document. Once you get used to it in other apps like OneNote, you start to miss it in GoodNotes 5.

    444 votes

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  12. I use different size papers for different notebooks and have to change fonts in each one. One size does not fit all. Being able to have a default font for each notebook would be great. Also, some notebooks I use vertical scrolling, and some horizontal. Different defaults there would be great too. Other than that it is perfect for me. . Keep up the good work. .

    9 votes

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  13. When buying paper notebooks the most common page designs are:

    • lines
    • grid SIZE: medium
    • grid SIZE: small

    Please make a template for a small grids, as they are extremely helpful for STEM students. Could even be used by artists by using the template for their creations and later on changing the template t blank.

    6 votes

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  14. For GoodNotes 5 it would be nice to have more than 3 color and line presets on the toolbar. GoodNotes 4 had many easily accessible color presets and up to 4 line presets. It would make switching colors or line weights much easier.

    37 votes

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  15. Hi,

    i would be good if we can import and manage the layers inside PDF.
    (show and hide function)

    We definitly need a layer system inside Goodnotes to create, delete, move
    custom layers and the option to move our notes to a specific layer.

    I have a brand new iPad Pro M1 and my imported PDF are very slow to handle
    (it takes a lot of time to show them sharp!).

    We need a ruler, triangle ruler and protractor.
    and the abibility to force specific alignments for lines (0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, ...)

    We need a grid a…

    12 votes

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  16. Can you allow iCloud only for certain notebooks? I dont want to back up everything on Icloud since I have unlimited google drive storage, but I need to sync a planner between my iphone and goodnotes so this would be really handy! Thanks <3

    11 votes

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  17. Wenn ich beispielsweise einen Text auf einer linierten Vorlage per Tastatur eintippe, möchte ich, dass sich die Schriftgröße und der Zeilenabstand automatisch dieser Seitenvorlage anpasst. Ansonsten überlappen sich die Zeichen mit den Linien, wodurch es sehr unleserlich wird. Eine andere erdenkliche Lösung wäre, dass man den Hintergrund in 2 Teile unterteilen kann, um für den Textbereich einen freien Hintergrund zu haben.
    Mein Ziel ist es, per Hand- und per Tastatur geschriebene Texte auf einer Seite zu kombinieren und dabei alles gerade und leserlich zu behalten.
    Wie kann ich das lösen?
    Vielen Dank
    Herr Riebau

    7 votes

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  18. Ich nutzte das Tool viel um Plakate für eine Ausbildung zu gestalten. Für mich wäre es extrem Hilfreich wenn eine Funktion Keilstift hinzugefügt würde.

    Danke

    1 vote

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  19. Using the IOS 15 native OCR function to improve the search efficiency, you can identify the content of the scanned version of the text when establishing a text index, which will make the software more efficient.I don't know if IOS has open this API.

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  20. Clicking the toolbar in the GN5 Mac app expands the window to large view, and clicking again returns it to standard size.

    Basically, quickening the time it takes to widen the GN view WITHOUT actually going into FULL SCREEN mode.

    Should be a quick fix.

    1 vote

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