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  1. When converting a powerpoint to GoodNotes, it would be great if the comments and notes that were attached in the PowerPoint were able to be transferred as well. Since the conversion to online, my professors just post the slides with notes attached to certain slides to elaborate more on the topics. These comments and notes aren’t transferred but it would be nice to get these ported over to GoodNotes.

    8 votes

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  2. I love the feature that if you draw a freehand line and keep your pen on the screen then it snaps to a straight line. But sometimes I draw/write something complicated and leave the pen down too long by mistake. I then have to erase and start again. It would be nice to be able to undo the snapping to a straight line and return to whatever I originally drew rather than return to before I started drawing.

    9 votes

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  3. Layers/shapes/form background/PASSWORD PROTECTION.

    I could go on, buy GN 5 is still quite awesome. Just add the password protection and be done with that silliness already!

    Oh, and sync with iCal / add alarm features for the TO DO list please!

    7 votes

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  4. The motion when switching to another file, change page, or other things is very annoyed. The motion improve the beautifullness of the app, but I use this app for work and study, I think the motion is useless, time consuming, and make the app slower.
    I prefer instant change to another page and reduce all the motion
    It would be best if you put it as a option under setting.

    2 votes

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  5. Please add good notes on windows! I have a surface book and want to use good notes so bad but I can’t. It’s forcing me to use one note instead. I don’t want to buy an iPad when I have a perfectly capable tablet. Please add this to windows software!!

    93 votes

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  6. Highlighting use “click” the word
    And Withdrawals to highlighting many words
    See the video plz ...

    5 votes

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  7. we really really need to be able to resize png stickers from the corner, not from the centre as it work now
    we also need the rotate separated from the resize because its just too easy to accidentally rotate when you do not wish to
    I have heard so many people on the net say they have requested this, please consider in your next update
    thank you

    8 votes

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  8. Would anyone else love to see the pages in Goodnotes have the ability to freely rotate/turn to help with writing fatigue?

    Having my iPad on a stand to not have it flat only allows one angle for my hand. If we could freely rotate the page (as many of the drawing apps can), would help tremendously with writing fatigue and bullet journaling / drawing.

    81 votes

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  9. I suggest to insert a function that allows you to add vocal registration on the notes

    1 vote

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  10. If we are able to cut a page and add some more content editing and annotating will become more easy

    1 vote

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  11. When looking at imported PDF thumbnails, we should have an option to view only thumbnails of pages with annotations (highlights, handwriting). (like in Notability) This is especially useful for very large files, like textbooks.

    26 votes

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  12. Option to export a notebook as a word document
    Like the pdf and GoodNotes and image options

    5 votes

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  13. to see what folders have been opened/clearer view of the folders you have opened I.e. how notability is

    1 vote

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  14. Add text recognition for images and files we paste in our GoodNotes document.

    19 votes

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  15. Since i only have limited size of icloud but i still want to sync just in case to use the collaborative function, i don’t want my entire GoodNotes files to by on my icloud and interfere the collaboration because the icloud is full.

    4 votes

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  16. As a pyhsics student I quite often have to write integral and sum signs and in fact I love the function on the iPad that you can hold down the pen after drawing a shape and it draws it nicely for you. Maybe you could integrate some more shapes such as the ones mentiones above :)

    5 votes

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  17. Add a neutral brown paper please

    1 vote

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  18. I'm usually working with different formats (A4, A5, GN Standard etc.) when creating notes. It always depends on the pdf I'm currently working in, because of their different slide sizes.

    A little icon or indicator in the "add a new page" menu for each last used template (A4, A5 etc.) would make it much more comfortable selecting the right template.

    3 votes

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  19. I've been making stickers to go together to make a whole picture, but I can't put them in the order I choose. They keep covering each other up in the wrong order I would like t put them in the order I choose.

    5 votes

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  20. I don't want to see all outcome of all folders, In folder searching tool must be!!!

    16 votes

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