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    1. During writing I need to switch pen’s color and thickness and this slows down me. Make available more than one pen with adjustable color and thickness on both trays at the top and in magnified writing area.
    2. When changing the pen s color ... I need to go all the way to top and adjust it , so I am losing time.
    3. After adjusting color and thickness this setting windows must be closed automatically so we can save time with this too
    10 votes

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  1. It would be great to merge imported sheets and PDFs to one single PDF file.

    23 votes

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  2. Hi, these are my suggestions that I hope you will develop it in this app:

    1- add Cartesian coordinate system because draw it every time is uncomfortable.
    2- I hope that moving from one page to another will be from up to down not from left to right because that gives you sensibility of the connections between the pages or let this as an option in the app.
    3- Support right-to-left languages such as Arabic, please. We are suffering from this.
    4- When we choose to write why don't you put a color box on the top of the page…

    82 votes

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    1. The handwriting recognition works but is limited to sharing. I wish it had an option to convert it to text inside notes.

    2. Mathematical symbols or equations recognition would also be great! :)

    28 votes

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  3. Scrolling notes page. So when you are writing, you don’t have to move your hand, the page moves instead. Penultimate has this feature, but you overall app is much better.

    5 votes

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  4. 23 votes

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  5. When a doucument is imported that has hyperlinks it would be useful for the Hyperlinks to work in the imported document.

    93 votes

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  6. 14 votes

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  7. The ability to make bulleted notes

    60 votes

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  8. add shapes to tool box with straight lines, triangles, squares, circles

    20 votes

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  9. Word Count is important for writers because it lets them keep track of how much they wrote. Thus they can set-up goals and easily measure how much (or little) they have achieved.
    Software-wise, to me as someone with no experience in programming - the easiest way would be to take the code that converts the handwriting to text, and somehow instead of converting, it counts the words.

    52 votes

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  10. chisel Tip look - I do a lot of writing on whiteboard and flipchart at work. a chisel tip instead of round tip on the pen makes all the difference in readability and artistry. it would be great to have the same look of whiteboard with a chisel tip pen - calligraphy style

    20 votes

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  11. A feature to recognize mathematical symbols and equations and to convert them into images inside the recognized text

    22 votes

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  12. Let us open PDF's from anywhere in the Files-App in GoodNotes and then edit them without copying them over to GN.

    19 votes

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  13. It would be useful to have a grid or lines that float above the paper, but are not saved with a PDF. As it is now I use the graph paper template to write on. It helps keep my writing straight and makes it easier to draw lines and boxes. But I’d rather that my audience not see the grid. A better solution for me would be to use the plain paper template but with a grid I can turn on and off as needed. The grid appears on the iPad but is not visible on the AirPlay output.

    350 votes

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  14. Text needs to be improved
    - Bullet points and other text features like tables needed to be added
    - Switching quickly between preset text fonts and sizes
    - Text recognition on pdfs is terrible, some fonts like ones used in some of my text books are hardly searchable
    - Text boxes are annoying, don't mix well with handwriting and do not fit into the lines of the default page

    386 votes

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  15. We would like an option where students could highlight the text and have it read to them to help our low readers with difficult text. Maybe have it coordinate with the iPad Accessibility option of text-to-speech.

    121 votes

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  16. there are just two pens

    I need more pen setting
    I want to save different style pens - thickness and colors
    Make more pens..! thankyou!

    62 votes

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  17. insert of split text function please... so if a user wants to add notes in between lines, s/he could insert a space and write

    174 votes

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  18. Page marker at the bottom (like Adobe Reader) to show you the page number in the PDF, the approximate location out of 100% and something you can grab to move through pages quickly. I often need to move through a PDF with 100's of pages, and since I don't know page I am on or what page I need to get to... using a menu to type in a guessed page number is very cumbersome

    31 votes

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