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  1. Hi, I would prefer it if we were able to use different pens for pens and shapes. I personally like to write in a fountain pen font and draw shapes with a ballpoint pen, however, changing the pen style for shapes also changes it for the pen itself. Would appreciate having these two operate independently.

    6 votes

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    1. I’d like to be able to select a bunch of different pages and change the template so I don’t have to do it to each individual page.

    2. When changing the template, the writing will stay the same size while the template size gets smaller making the contents go off the page where you can’t see what you’re selecting which seems like a defect. The contents of the page should maintain the same ratio of size in comparison to the new page.

    3. Someone posted something about being about to use the lasso tool on multiple pages so you can select a…

    2 votes

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  2. I just got a new device and all notes were synched from iCloud with no complaints. However, I have noticed that the order my notebooks synced was not what I expected. I am not sure in what order you currently sync the data but I would love it to be based on the notebooks that were last edited. For example, if i get a new device and want to use it right away for taking notes in class, I want my most recent notebooks to sync first so I can use them

    5 votes

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  3. 6 votes

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  4. Add deleting pages to the undo stack so that clicking undo right after deleting a page or pages, will bring them back.

    7 votes

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  5. Please include the option to inactivate the gesture undo — undoes much too often while I am writing.

    7 votes

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  6. Is it possible to "collapse" a text note ? I'm reading a PDF document, making handwritten notes. I want to type a long note, with some text copied from Wikipedia, but I don't want to have the text taking all the space. So, is it possible to make the note collapse like a "yellow sticky note", so I can see it is there but not taking all the space. If I click on the "sticky note" it would "uncollapse" so I can read it or edit it.

    7 votes

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  7. 目前软件可以圈选涂鸦,识别出文本,但有所不便。建议增加选项让用户能直接将圈选的文字转换成含有标准字体文本的文本框存在于文档中。
    此外还建议圈选区域不限于涂鸦,而是任意区域都可以圈选出截图供复制和拖拽到其它笔记或者应用中。

    I am a Chinese user, and the following text is generated by machine translation.

    Currently, software can circle doodles to recognize text, but with some inconvenience. It is suggested that an option be added to allow users to directly convert circled text into text boxes with standard font text to exist in the document.
    It is also suggested that the circled area is not limited to doodles, but any area can be circled to select screenshots for copying and dragging to other notes or applications.

    2 votes

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  8. Often I write something indented and then decide to later to move it somewhere else aligned with the left. However, now it is shorter than the other lines, and so it would be handy if when lasso handwritten text you could also change the horizontal spread. Like how changing margins on a word document will redistribute the text to fit the new margins.

    I imagine this could be simple if the code can already detect and separate individual handwritten words. Otherwise, it would probably be too much work and maybe even require some ML.

    2 votes

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  9. It would be wonderful for view only links of documents. As a teacher teaching during distance learning, I would like to post notes that I’ve written without giving the students the ability to edit it.

    3 votes

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  10. It would be great to be able to have a header seperate to the rest of the page to hand write titles. The you could set he header to duplicate across the next x amount of pages.

    I know you can hand write the title each time, or lasso tool the title and copy it manually, but longer documents can be tedious.

    I would like to be able to write “Lecture 1 - Introduction” on my first page, the set the header to repeat for the next 3 pages. Then write “Lecture 2 - Theory’ on page 4, and set…

    3 votes

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  11. Sometimes when I read and take notes on lecture PowerPoint pdf on GoodNotes, I feel like the pages display are too big (I used an iPad Pro) esp when the content on the slides is not very compact. So I wonder if it’s possible to set how the pdf to be displayed, like for horizontal it can be set to 2x2, 3x2. Or for vertical, it can be set to 2x4, 2x6, or even 3x4 etc instead? To be able to view more pages at a glimpse like the outlines and also able to actually read the content would be…

    1 vote

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  12. Sometimes when I read and take notes on lecture PowerPoint pdf on GoodNotes, I feel like the pages display are too big (I used an iPad Pro) esp when the content on the slides is not very compact. So I wonder if it’s possible to set how the pdf to be displayed, like for horizontal it can be set to 2x2, 3x2. Or for vertical, it can be set to 2x4, 2x6, or even 3x4 etc instead? To be able to view more pages at a glimpse like the outlines and also able to actually read the content would be…

    1 vote

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  13. Hello. thank you for developing Goodnotes app.
    I used to use the Goodnote 4. because I broke down my ipad.
    I didn't get update news. so I feel sad.

    could you give me a chance for update? Please

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  14. It would be great to have a menu bar where you can see all the tabs of the different documents even if you go back to the main document menu.
    Now if you want to go back to your open document you actually have to open another document from the main menu to get back to the view of the different tabs.
    Please keep the tabs on display whereever you are in goodnotes. Would be super helpful

    5 votes

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  15. When you are operating with Black paper and writing in white ink, the application should reverse the colors when printing (if you want to). I run dark mode to make it easier on my eyes. When I go to print I do not think we want to print all black ink over the entire page.

    5 votes

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  16. Goodnotes allows you to set a return line height to match a template's line width, so that when you click the "return" button in the zoom window it moves down the page the right amount to begin writing on the next line.

    However, Goodnotes does not allow one to set a default "indent" setting for that template. Templates with margins -- for instance Cornell -- would be much more useful if the user did not have to manually set the indent each time / on each page of a notebook.

    9 votes

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  17. The text function needs improvement in my opinion. I would like it if there was an option for automatic bullets with an index instead of spacebar + - (see attached image)
    This would make the text more pleasing to write and look at.

    Furthermore, when I copy and paste text boxes e.g. the „bold“ font disappears and i have to turn words/sentences bold again. An improvement would make my work way faster.

    It‘s a small detail, but it seems that whenever i type the text and i want to edit the first word or add a word in front of…

    2 votes

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  18. Maybe being able to click and see like a thumbnail of your „dashboard / homepage“ in order to switch between documents faster instead of returning and and pressing on the „back“ button couple of times to get out of your folders to the main page.

    2 votes

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  19. Create custom margins for a specific template that needs it

    5 votes

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