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  1. when I scroll up to the top, always ask me to add new page which is annoying.

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  2. 2 votes

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  3. When I take a photo of something to insert into my notes, the lighting may not always be great. I’d like to edit a photo within the app to adjust lighting among other things to make the picture clearer.

    I know I can take the photo myself and then edit in my photos app, but it’d be a lot easier to snap a photo in GoodNotes and edit it there instead of editing on my phone and then taking the extra step to insert into my notes. It’s simply a matter of convenience.

    4 votes

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  4. Is it possible to create a ruler to help draw lines at any angle at controlled length? And to measure the size of an object in the PDF file? I use goodnotes to review civil drawings since confinement. Thanks in advance!

    50 votes

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  5. I am using an XP-pen graphics tablet display on MacOS. The recognition of the stylus is frustrating. It sometimes takes a few strokes to have my input recognized, and other times it works great. Other applications (other than MS Onenote, which brought me to Goodnotes) seem to work fine with the tablet/stylus input.

    5 votes

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  6. Sometimes I want to write sentences straight on a blank area from an imported PDF. However, most of the time, my handwriting won’t be straight if sentences are long.

    If implement a gridline function in which the user can click a button on the toolbar and show gridlines on the files. It can let the user write straight handwriting sentences on any place of the PDF easily and neatly.

    6 votes

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  7. It would be great to have a marker, that covers already written text and when you click on it (with the finger, not pen), it shows you what lies beneath!
    This would be very useful for documents where you need to memorise the answers but first want to think of the question without immediately seeing the written solution beneath.

    5 votes

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  8. I need "links to websites", where I can have a closer look for my research.

    5 votes

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  9. Having a ruler like in AppleNotes would be really helpful.

    Besides that, as a student with a lot of maths, something like GeoGebra in a simpler version would help too. Being able to enter a function term and get the function in a coordinate system would be of great help and an even greater addition to GoodNotes.

    Also, being able to select multiple pictures to insert would be helpful, as it would save time from having to select each and every single picture.

    In PowerPoint, the function of print as handnotes gives the user three pictures on the left hand…

    10 votes

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  10. it would be nice i selection of pen, colour etc could vary from open documet to open doc. now changes in pen, colour etc. changes for all tabs if you change them in one tab

    2 votes

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  11. This was addressed partially in:

    https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/38524561-lock-zoom-in-presentation-mode

    But the solution is incomplete.

    The options in presenter mode are:

    • Mirror Entire Screen (can only imagine using this if I was teaching how to use good notes).

    • Mirror Presenter Page - This allows for zooming in, but often leads to some weird scrolling when you've zoomed in on one portion and then bring up the interface box (not sure of its name) and everything scrolls to where the interface box is.

    • Mirror Full Page - This is pretty good. Especially if your page and presentation are both in landscape mode. BUT it is…

    3 votes

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  12. When the option to open documents in a new tab is on, when closing the second to last tab, the option to click x and close the last remaining tab is removed and you can only click the arrow to go back to the document library. When you then open a new document, the tab from the previous work session is also there. You should be able to close the last remaining tab. So that when you open a new document it is the only open document.

    5 votes

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  13. Add divider tabs/sections within a notebook

    7 votes

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  14. Please add the possibility to show the bookmarks or Plan on the left side of the document to navigate easily inside.

    7 votes

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  15. When I scan a document, there are always white bars around it--I guess you're padding it t the aspect ratio of the current template or something. Don't do that (or make it a setting)--it's a waste of screen real estate.

    8 votes

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  16. The shape tool is nice but needs some tweeking/bug fixes

    • shapes should a "first class citizen". Once drawn (or inserted) it should be able to resize, change colour and border thickness. Currently a drawn shape can be scaled and moved but never changed in any other way.
    • sometimes I just want a box but ends up drawing something that isn't 90 degrees in all four corners. I have to undo and redraw and it just kills momentum
    • when I erase hand written text inside a shape and then erase it, I also always erase the background fill.
    • connected arrows. I'd…
    47 votes

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  17. 在MAC上操作时,增加一个快捷键。按住“空格”键,可以移动页面。现在只能按“左”、“右”键进行移动,很不方便。

    1 vote

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    • Button in the transform dialog to replace the selected handwriting directly with the transformed text

    • Recognition of mathematical formulas/symbols/etc.

    16 votes

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  18. Add minimal Applescript support for Hook

    3 votes

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  19. Either code your own or employ a OCR image to text converter. As a student, a lot of the content of my notes are pictures of diagrams or other tables with text. The text on these photos aren’t recognized by the search function but this would be greatly beneficial for being able to find the notes that I need.

    22 votes

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