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  1. When I convert handwriting to text, every line of handwriting has a hard line break after it in the resulting text. When handwriting a longer report, this is quite troublesome because my handwritten lines have fewer words than my typed work does. I have to go back in later to remove all of those breaks manually. Is there any way to get around this so that it is by paragraph instead?

    6 votes

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  2. It would be awesome that there was a tool to help us Center things. That marks half the page both in vertical and horizontal.

    3 votes

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  3. Recently I was grading PDF exams in Goodnotes. I grade a lot better if I grade everyone's Problem 1, then go back and grade everyone's Problem 2, and so on.

    Once I have all 50+ of my students' exams open, the tabbed file system makes it very easy to switch between files. (THANK YOU for allowing me to have 50+ tabs open at once!) But on the first pass I have to open the files one by one. Is there a way to open all files in a folder (in separate tabs)?

    2 votes

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  4. Hi! I was reading from a GoodNotes book today and felt that if the window did not move (in both x and y) every time I touched the screen, it would be awesome because I would know that the motion of the page would be restricted to one dimension only. Think of it like adobe acrobat with mouse. This could be accomplished by a button in the UI. I feel it would greatly enhance user reading experience. Thanks!

    2 votes

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  5. Sarebbe utile poter registrare audio e video dello schermo e di poter mettere in pausa qualora ve ne fosse la necessità durante la registrazione stessa. Sebbene vi siano applicazioni che hanno questa funzione mi sentirei più sicuro ad utilizzare qualcosa che appartenga già a GoodNotes! Colgo l’occasione complimentarmi e ringraziarvi per la splendida applicazione!

    2 votes

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  6. Dear Goodnotes team
    As a student, I need your app in my surface pro 6
    please create a version :(

    2 votes

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  7. Please provide a “Feedback” feature in the GoodNotes app.

    I would suggest in [Settings] > [About] page.

    2 votes

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  8. In GoodNotes 4, before the ios print dialogue, there was an option to "fit to page" when printing (And also one to remove backgrounds before printing). In GoodNotes 5, those options are gone, which means that my printer (who can't print the outer 3mm of a page, as do most printers) always cuts off just a little bit of the page. This is a huge problem with tight maths pages, where the last bits of formulas/text are cut-off, see PDF attached.

    17 votes

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  9. Add a page flip option to make it look more like an actual notebook when continuing on to a new page instead of only swiping.

    7 votes

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  10. Add shapes/polygons that can be adjusted (Squares, Arrows, Circles etc.)

    9 votes

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  11. In order to make notes great, I want to you to able to bring in media files including videos. Almost all university has started online programs, so I want to download those and put them into my notes to manage everything just in Goodnote5 apps.

    3 votes

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  12. A toggle that auto-deselects the shape tool after one use, just like the eraser.

    A further enhancement would be turning the whole tool into a toggle, which detects and corrects any shapes if it is turned on. This should ideally work with the highlighter alongside the pen. I understand there might be complications on this improvement, so I put the auto-deselect function in the title, as this toggle will suffice to solve the frustration where a circle would appear unexpectedly while writing a sentence.

    9 votes

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  13. If you have a dark background, writing with white text is usually nicer because of the contrast. However it is a nightmare to print because of all the ink wasted on printing that background.

    Please implement a feature where we can convert background and some other elements into different colours for the sake of printing hard copies. Digital files don’t work for everybody.

    12 votes

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  14. In my paper journals (and in GoodNotes) I have various shorthand icons that I draw next to text (stars, hearts, tiny houses, etc.). It would be great if I could draw these icons into an "icon gallery" and then when I draw them onto a page they would be recognized and the page would be "tagged" with the icon so that I can quickly find it again.

    And I totally get that training your recognition engine to identify arbitrary shapes is a much different beast than recognizing handwriting in general and this may not be technically feasible. But it would…

    3 votes

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  15. Currently in split view, only one side has the option to back out to the previous page (for me it's the folder the notebook is in). The other side only has the option to close the app. I want both sides to have the option to go back to the folder level.

    2 votes

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  16. I get tons pictures from my students’ works.
    So I’d like to open several pictures or documents from Files as pages of one single document.

    So far you can select and share them in GoodNotes, but then I’ll just get many single documents with one page each.
    So here should be a dialog like „Open as separate documents“ or „Open all in a single document“ or „Add to document“.

    You could open a new document in GoodNotes you want to have the pictures in, go to Thumbnail view, go back to Files and share the pictures in GoodNotes (then you’ll…

    2 votes

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  17. A Pen/Pencil Drawing Mode , where it "mirrors" everything you draw along the "x" or "y" axis.

    This would allow for drawing custom symmetrical shapes much faster and easier.

    <3

    6 votes

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  18. The problem I currently face when I export my notes in pdf format is that I can only export it with the outline preserved or with searchable characters but not with both features, which is vexing to say the least as both are essential for me to structure my notes.

    It should not be a huge technological barrier for GoodNotes to break through,right? Thanks, I need this new feature stat.

    5 votes

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  19. Take a picture with iPhone camera instead of iPad camera.
    For better usability it would be easier to use user's iPhone to take picture and it is a feature I need every day. (Apple notes app has the feature)

    5 votes

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  20. Often times I annotate pdf in dropbox/Google Drive. I'd like to use goodnotes a PDF annotation tool rather than use PDF expert because I like the UI. I don't want to have to import PDFs directly into goodnotes and then export it.

    9 votes

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