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  1. Say you import a pdf file and only take notes/highlight/annotate on certain pages. It would be great to have a window/overview or something where you can see only those pages you wrote something on instead of having to look through the whole file :) (like in notability)

    29 votes

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  2. Please provide the option to change the thumbnail size of the documents and the pages in the documents.

    48 votes

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  3. I take a ton of notes and produce a lot of todos from meetings, etc.

    OneNote had this feature 15 years ago whereby you would add a todo box next to the line of a handwritten note. It then had a todo notebook that would pull all of the todo boxes from all notebooks. I'm dying to have this feature. I've searched and searched and can't find the feature anywhere! Please please add this!!

    2,602 votes

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  4. Have an option in the highlighter options section to either be darker in the overlapped areas or not to darken the overlapped areas (consistant shade).

    You will blow Notability out of the water once your upcoming additions are implemented!

    It's already a top 5 app that makes the 12.9" iPad useful. Thanks!

    214 votes

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    1. Selection issue: The lasso tool selection is always a problem as it gets de-selected. I think the lasso tools options can pop out when we click inside the selection region and could be de-selected when clicked/tapped outside selection area.

    2. The move/resize: Moving sometimes have to be done by resizing the content. In my opinion, the selected region can have 2 small icons on left and right hand one for move option and one for resize option.

    3. It is not possible to change the colour of highlighter when already done. it changes the colour of text as well. It would be…

    32 votes

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  5. I use GoodNotes App on MAC and IPad to keep my notes. However, when I need to use these two platforms at the same time, it will suffer because the syncing frequency is too low to immediately reflect what I edit on Mac on my IPad. Therefore I have to quit the app and re-open it to continue my work with Apple Pencil on iPad. Same happens on Mac when I need to insert a figure on the computer.

    I understand that it will cost a lot of energy(much more frequent request by the application to sync the current work)…

    12 votes

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  6. Would you please improve the hand writing to be smoother because my hand writing on other application is much much better and beautiful.
    Thank you

    34 votes

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  7. I've recently downloaded Goodnotes. The first thing I missed is that if I copy a link from Safari, copied the link info Goodnotes, and...... it became just flattened text.
    I was hoping for (expecting) that this would be a clickable link.

    23 votes

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  8. 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…

    83 votes

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

    23 votes

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  10. 24 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 14 votes

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  14. The ability to make bulleted notes

    60 votes

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

    20 votes

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  16. 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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  17. 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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