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  1. Need an option to slide the zoom windows blue shaded continuous writing field away from the far left edge to accommodate left handed writers.

    21 votes

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  2. Hi, since I am left handed, I‘d like to move the current page a bit to the right so i am able to rest my hand on the page. Currently the page snaps to the left hand Side. The only work around is to use the app in landscape mode.
    I‘d like to be able to free position the page on the background.

    10 votes

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  3. Add ascending/descending nu name of date.
    After IPad was lost, I had to restore a Apple backup to a new iPad. Now the original date the notes were taken has been replaced by the date the restore took place.

    My notes all have a name that starts with YYYYMMDD. So sorting on name shouldn’t be a problem. However.... GoodNotes (4) doesn’t offer the option to switch between ascending/decending list view. I have hundreds of notes and the most recent ones are now at the bottom of the list. That’s a pain in the @ss...

    11 votes

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  4. When writing, it is natural to tilt the notebook and place it at angle. Typically people use 45 degree angle with their paper notebooks. Some tilt more, some less.
    On the other hand, when reading, typical notebook and book position is where text is perpendicular to the line of sight.
    It could be really nice if there was a way to tilt notebook inside of Good Notes without tilting the iPad. Tilting entire iPad is even less convenient when iPad stands on a stand (which is how I use it most of the time).

    P.S. Good Notes does recognize tilting…

    5 votes

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  5. To build a special tool (as a highlighter) that allows to highlight all the title of document and creates, automatically, the index of document in order to avoid manually creation titles.

    6 votes

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  6. New brushes and allow for the pen to have more options. Specifically streamline. Writing in GoodNotes is disappointing.

    46 votes

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  7. I use zoom window all the time for taking notes on powerpoint slides but the biggest flaw that always comes up is my written not being straight or the same height due to their not being any guidelines on the powerpoint slides. It would be nice to have guide lines on the zoom window that only appear on the zoom window to help writing in a straight line

    19 votes

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  8. Love this app, but for basic functions while using it, I too often wish for free scaling of objects I draw. What happens is- if I draw the object a little off... instead of being able to free scale it... I have to undo and redraw the object just right. Free scale like this would also mean the objects would be "flippable" which I sometimes would also find very helpful... instead of deleting and redrawing.

    9 votes

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  9. Love the new white pen color. They’d be great to use on black paper templates for when writing outdoors in bright sun. The notebook cover options are great, but being to add my own artwork to notebook covers would make special.

    12 votes

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  10. Make the new gesture control optional (so we can turn it off, if we don't use it and don't want to risk using it by mistake).

    5 votes

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  11. Ability to add comments. For example I often use GoodNotes to take notes during meetings. Near the top I write the initials of the people attending the meeting - writing their full names would take up too much space. Sometimes there are multiple people with the same initials or I forget people’s full names if I don’t know them well.

    I could add notes to each person’s initials and tap on them later to see the person’s full name.

    Another option would be to allow a collapsible writing area.

    Either that or

    4 votes

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  12. Hi, I already like very much GoodNotes as it is ! But here would be a really nice improvement : i would love to study several PDFs inside goodnotes. For this I would like to have on a half of the screen my pdf article I want to study, and on the other side a sheet of manuscript notes. On those notes, I want sometimes to just copy paste a theorem or a formula of the article (I am a mathematician). So it would be really great to be able to have :
    1) split screen option
    2) copy paste…

    4 votes

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  13. I have my subjects divided in folders and more so than often I would have one file open and will want to import another one to the same folder and have it open automatically. The current available options are to either add before or after the current page, or to browse the whole library to get into the folder. Sometimes I have a folder inside another folder, this as you can imagine isn’t the best possible way. So can you please an option to import to the same folder as a separate file and open automatically?
    Thank you.

    4 votes

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  14. In goodnotes4, this button is really useful! However, I can’t find it in the new vision, which confuses me a lot. Please set this button for users to go back where they viewed just now. I believe it helps many people.

    9 votes

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  15. I would like to know when good notes will be available on Microsoft Go? I need to buy a tablet for my work, my job requires goodnote but I would really prefer Microsoft Go over an iPad. Please let me know ASAP. Thank you!

    7 votes

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  16. I like pens of a specific thickness because of my handwriting, but I find it a hassle to have to select my preferred pen size all the time (I feel the smallest default size is too big, so I like 1.0). I would like to be able to set some customized pens as “favorites” to be able to easily switch between them, similar to how we have some default pens. To add to this, I think adding textures to the pens to give it a traditional look would be great, along with a stabilizer setting to make our handwriting smoother.…

    38 votes

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  17. I would like the option in GoodNotes 5 to be able to give a title to a bookmark. This was available in the previous version, and I think it would be a good to reinstate this.

    9 votes

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  18. Notability somehow takes up considerably less amounts of space on the iPad compared to goodnotes. How can we optimise the data to maximise space saving?

    6 votes

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  19. Add a function, like in GoodReader, where there is a “back to reading” button - so you can toggle between a document and the file browser view.

    7 votes

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  20. Would be nice to staple two pages together or flip the page and use the back side.

    3 votes

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