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  1. Here I am attaching a screen shot
    I have many text books in the app and in GoodNotes 5 I have turned the page indexing on
    But since several days it can just show “ indexing 142 documents for search “ I have reinstalled several time
    Also I have reimported all files
    Basically I have tried any thing that app allows to do to stop the dialogue
    Please improve global search
    Though great it still needs improvement
    My current version is 5.1.5(151443.369311989)

    3 votes

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  2. PDF annotation in GoodNotes 5 uses about 1/5 of the screen real estate that could have been for viewing and reading. This is an particularly for users with 9.7” screen or smaller. I hope PDF annotation will be allowed in reading mode where only a tiny toolbox for pens and eraser is shown.

    6 votes

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  3. I think it would be great if the zoom window toolbar could be customizable.

    For example, I frequently use the shapes tool so it would be convenient if I could move that tool down to the zoom window toolbar. Or for other users, they may want to move the highlighter tool down, etc etc. If the zoom window toolbar could be customizable, it could be made more efficient for each user’s needs.

    Also, I would like to be able to add more than 3 color presets to toolbar. This could be useful for people like me that need to quickly…

    22 votes

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  4. 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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  5. It is fairly easy, at least once I learned how, to drag and drop images into good notes. However, as buggy as it is One Note allows you to copy and paste videos. I feel it would be a great addition to GoodNotes if you could drag and drop embedded videos into notebooks.

    15 votes

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  6. 1) continuous sheets-why the small cards?
    2) a date time stamp is necessary. I would like a command or template to have a start and a stop time;
    3) convert handwriting to text on the page;
    4) save as ,docx or .rtf

    13 votes

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

    46 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. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Import EPUB files and the ability to take notes on them

    43 votes

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  16. Because there are big size of eraser it hard to use
    If it small as point it would easy to use than present erase.

    9 votes

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  17. Synchronisation with other cloud instead of icloud on GoodNotes 5 (like GoodNotes 4)

    13 votes

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  18. 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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  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. Great App!!!
    I use the Zoom Windows to write notes. I encode items like reminders and events with title, date time, list name, and people using delimiters such as '#today$Buy some milk€Shopping' for a reminder or '$Risk meeting for ProjectX#23/7/18t12h30-13h00@Me;Email.address@domain.com' for an event. I then select the writing using the Lasso Tool to convert to text. I then share this text with Workflow extensions I have created which parses the examples into a reminder or event etc. It works great ;-)
    A long-shot... but... Could you create a button which lassos the area between the top and bottom…

    65 votes

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    Definitely a very interesting idea but quite complex and probably only relevant for very tech-savvy power users. We’re not sure but maybe it is already doable using Shortcuts, as other apps can read the converted text.

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