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  1. Having to crop, then click screenshot, then click export, and then click copy just to copy images of a pdf or other items is time consuming.

    A more direct to the point action of being able to copy once in the crop box would be better instead of 4 actions to do one thing

    6 votes

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  2. If you realize that you want your handwriting in another line thickness you have no option changing it after you already wrote it. You can change the color but not the line.

    12 votes

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  3. The BOOK of PDF version has cover and table of contents, which will lead to the inconsistency between the page number displayed in the software in the bottom right corner and the page number in the book catalog, which will cause great inconvenience to turn the book, so there should be the function of custom page number to customize the first page

    1 vote

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  4. Could you please add a search function into the trash area so we can search trashed notebooks - we search using job numbers so this would be very handy in this area as well.

    1 vote

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  5. In imported PDF drawings generated in autoCAD standard SHX type text is surrounded by a thick black frame, destroying the appearance of the drawing.
    This does not happen in acrobat for iOS.

    2 votes

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  6. Simple: instead of just having the lasso that you have to painstakingly use to circle handwriting, convert each page to text, and then export to another program to edit, why not...
    ...have a button that instantly converts the entire handwritten document into text, ready to edit/export?

    6 votes

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  7. 1 vote

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  8. A way where one could zoom out of the pages, so you could see all of your pages in that file. Like in Word/Pages.

    1 vote

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  9. Could we have a mode that defaults to simple shapes for the shape tool? My handwriting is terrible... but if I draw something that remotely looks like a rectangle, I want it to be a rectangle, not some other weird shape.

    So maybe only allow circles, squares, rectangles, triangles? Something along these lines...

    1 vote

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  10. It's really annoying that text boxes move along my hand when I just wanna edit some contents.

    It would be nice to be able to fix each text boxes, not to move while dragging, editing or sth.

    e.g. when pressing a text box, option for 'fix' and 'unfix' could be possible.

    ((sorry, i'm not good at english.))

    9 votes

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  11. Add more functional adjusting tool, not only from bottom corner but from 4 sides.
    Also recommend to improve Shape tool, maybe have straights line by holding stroke for a second, like Notabilty.
    Last but not list, when selecting a rectangle, one of the needed options is filling color, not only when drawing a new one.

    Hopefully this will be read and enhanced

    4 votes

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  12. change the mouse cursor when the highligher is activated. When the highlighter is yellow, i can barely see it on the screen. Please change it to something more noticeable.

    3 votes

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  13. Can I input powerpoint for mac version,i want copy a part of my powerpoint .

    1 vote

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  14. It would be great to be able to slide over from the left of my iPad and see the folder navigation, to easy open another notebook. OneNote does this very well. candidly their folder structure is the one inferior part of onenote and gives me daily anxiety about using GoodNotes - which I love otherwise.

    7 votes

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  15. When importing pages from an external PDF it would be great to adjust the page width so that unnecessary zooming can be avoided (and scrolling through a file is made easier). See problem also in the attached picture.

    Thanks for your work!

    7 votes

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  16. Could a crowdfunding project support the most asked feature?
    - Audio recording
    - iOS file integration
    - PDF autobackup on other Cloud (like BOX)
    - ....
    and more based on the amount of $ whey get

    2 votes

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  17. I often take notes that are messy, in the wrong folder/document etc, so as you can move writing, it would be useful to be able to cut and paste a whole page into another folder/document

    4 votes

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  18. My main use of GoodNotes is to read academic whitepaper PDFs and annotate them. I'd really like it if I could convert the white backgrounds to a sepia tone to make them easier on the eyes. iOS Night Shift changes too much in my opinion. It'd be awesome if there was a way to naively just change every pixel of one color to another color, say white -> sepia, black -> gray, white -> black, etc.

    6 votes

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  19. I do understand that it makes sense for the document to pop back into central view when dragging to the side, but when handwriting at the document’s edge, this becomes an annoyance.

    How about a new action/feature where the documents still pop back into central view under normal circumstances, but when the user really drags the document far off to the side, the document stays there at the side of the screen. Now the user can handwrite comfortably, with his hand resting on the black part (background) of the screen, and the document on the other side of the screen.…

    2 votes

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  20. I am a Maths teacher from Vietnam. I love technology. About 2 years ago, I came across your Goodnotes application, which was the number one paid application in AppStore and I felt lucky that I bought it. I got excited and engrossed in your app at the very first time I used it. I work with Mathematics problems very frequently. When using Goodnotes, the problems become much easier and more intriguing. I learned a lot from these and thanks to it, my students got many prizes in local competitions. I wrote a “long essay” to you in the reviews section…

    6 votes

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