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  1. Please look at my Suggestions for GoodNotes 5 in the PDF below. My topics:
    - Back button to the currently opened files/tabs
    - More colors in the toolbar
    - Insert geometry templates/shapes
    - Current Bugs

    24 votes

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  2. Please add a way to overlay two PDF sheets for comparison/mapping.

    By default PDF backgrounds are clear - can we get a way to overlay the line information from one PDF sheet on to another? This would be extremely useful for architects, engineers, contractors, fabricators, etc.

    For example, in Bluebeam I can take a snapshot anywhere in a PDF and paste it on to another sheet with no white background.

    One way to accomplish this would be with a layer system. Another would be with the option to do an overlay sheet on top of another sheet, with the upper…

    13 votes

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  3. Automatically created datestamp in filename during Export

    I love to work with GN5 at school as a teacher every day - I can't imagine working without it. Therefore I export the actual content every day to upload it into the cloud and it would be helpful, if I could check a checkbox, that would add the date of the day after the export-filename.

    5 votes

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  4. Would like to see a wider variety of pen/pencil colour options :)

    24 votes

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  5. When we create a new notebook we should be able to choose the number of pages we want added for the paper template we selected. For example, I want fifty pages of the blank paper template automatically added to my new notebook.
    That way we don’t have to manually add page after page or keep pulling on the current page and release to add another page.
    This feature would be the equivalent of buying a physical notebook from the store with a set number of pages.

    7 votes

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  6. When importing pages, you often don't have the writing space you need. Adding an option to cut a page in 2 and expand the writing space that way, or expand a page with paper to the side would be great to solve this problem

    37 votes

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  7. I want to make a digital scrapbook and would love to see some glitter and metallic pens. Microsofts One Note has them but your app is better.

    45 votes

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  8. The sidebar allows you to quickly switch between documents and browse them unobtrusively within your current document.

    34 votes

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  9. I import an image of a text and then I highlight the lines I want, but if I need to move the image, the layer with the highlights does not move with the image. This makes all the highlighting I did useless. BTW Notability locks the two layers together.

    114 votes

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  10. It would be great to have it as it was in goodnotes 4.
    It aus uncomfortable to switch tools only in the upper toolbar while writing in the zoom window

    32 votes

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  11. Good Notes for Microsoft Surface

    14 votes

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  12. Add drop shadows as you can in ZN and Keynote

    12 votes

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  13. 3 votes

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  14. It seams that whenever I use pencil in sidecar (or with Luna display) Goodnotes disable use od mouse: I can select tools, but pencil, laso, eraser do not work with mouse. I need to restart the app to get them back under control. (I use the latest version of iOS, macOS.)

    2 votes

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  15. I believe work flow would be improved if select and copy is quicker.

    Lets say, leave one finger on the screen and select would copy, doing that with two fingers on the screen would past it.

    The time holding the finger down sometimes makes quicker write the sentence again instead of copying it.

    7 votes

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  16. It would be nice if the auto advance box could be placed towards the center right or right side of the zoom window. As a left handed person, it can be difficult and uncomfortable to write neatly given the fact that the iPad has height to it unlike paper. on a flat service. I’m having to resort to manually move the zoom window which disrupts my writing flow.

    24 votes

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  17. If you use GoodNotes with the tool bar at the bottom instead of at the top (being left handed I find it way more comfortable) it’s impossible to edit any typed text.
    When I select some text in order to edit it, the “text edit“ icon is hidden by the keyboard, therefore I’m unable to tap on it. However, if I dismiss the keyboard, the text is not selected anymore, therefore I can’t edit it.
    A floating “text edit“ icon that pops up when text is selected could be a solution.

    4 votes

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  18. Delete only lines and not highlighter option

    2 votes

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  19. If you want to draw a small circle the shape tool doesn‘t draw a perfekt circle, because it always has some notches. Pls fix this problem with the shape tool

    2 votes

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  20. The lasso tool should have a mode (switch?) where it only selects objects that are completely enclosed by the lasso area, not anything that intersects with the lasso area. This is very useful for selecting things in complex drawings.

    11 votes

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