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  1. Add a "drift mode" for writing in zoom mode (not in the zoom window). I hat writing in the zoom window. I much prefer to write directly page, however doing so when zoomed in requires me to manually scroll the page. It should move with me as I write, and I should also have a return button at the edge of the page to advance to the next line automatically.

    15 votes

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  2. Including Custom Templates (most important!), and all other changes to the Template Library...

    22 votes

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  3. The handwriting conversion is excellent, but it could do with a couple changes. Having to lasso the text on each page is tedious. Please enable the ability to convert a single page or an entire notebook with a single click. Also give the option to maintain or ignore single end of line breaks. Maintain double line breaks to keep paragraphs.

    34 votes

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  4. Goodnotes is a huge battery drainer, so I hope the next up date will optimize the app resources so it uses less power

    403 votes

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  5. Ich würde für 3-5 Stift Typen klatt einen Euro zahlen

    11 votes

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  6. I love the pen tool in Goodnotes! But I want more custom pens to chose from on the fly. Currently, only the zoom window gives me the choice of three colors. Why can't we have this in the main toolbar at the top? Also, I'd like to set different thicknesses for my customs pens so I can switch between a fine blue pen and a thick red pen with one tap. This would speed up my grading a lot! Thanks!

    66 votes

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  7. I read and annotate a lot of PDFs. Some of these PDFs although very compressed and have relatively small size (~30MB). Have lots of pages (200 plus). When I attempt to export back to PDFs, for review on my computer, the file becomes too big (>200MB) to transfer to my computer.

    Please incorporate a PDF like editing engine ( e.g.Adobe, Goodreader, etc) to control the size of exported PDFs with large number of pages)

    122 votes

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  8. I would like to know if you could add a function to scan the photos that we take like enhancing the image and cropping automatically (detecting the borders), it would be very useful. I use this app to take notes on the slides provided by the professors during the lectures, however sometimes they change some slide and I usually take a photo of the screen and I import it to my file but the quality is not the same if I use an app that scan images.

    23 votes

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  9. I write notes for meetings and so on and would save this as a daily memory like a daily calendar for note taking.

    11 votes

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  10. As teachers, we use this to take pictures of lessons on which we are working, allowing students to highlight and write on the photos. Students also create short presentations of their work, which we record. It would be awesome to be able to insert video into Goodnotes!

    604 votes

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  11. I'd like to see arrows, for dimensional drawings, in shape recognition mode. Even better would be including the handwriting recognition with this to create something like

    | <------ 3 1/2" ------> |

    Using the stylus. Also curves. I'm sketching some planned remodeling and being able to draw doorways and add dimensions easily would help.

    6 votes

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  12. Wie wäre es mit einer Stempel Funktion um sich eigene Stempel zu erstellen und diese zB mit bei Unterschriften einzufügen?
    Natürlich kann man das via Bilder machen - aber dies zu integrieren wäre natürlich netter

    4 votes

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  13. There is a maximum magnification with the zoom window - please remove the limitation to simply allow to write as small as the user wants

    Remove the fixed proportion of the zoom window because it fixes the line height when performing carriage return

    Alternatively use auto advance functionality in regular zoom mode (not the window). Then you don't need the zoom window any more

    18 votes

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  14. Loading A4 sized scanned pdf with 300dpi takes between 1 and 5 seconds per each page for iPad Retina when continuously viewing next pages, which is very slow. And it shows a blank page until it fully loads a page.

    In contrast, Note-shelf shows low resolution page first then load full resolution image later. This is very convenient when searching for a specific page while scrolling to next pages. Goodreader precaches adjacent pages in advance, therefore there loading speed is very fast.

    It would be nice if Goodnotes improve pdf loading speed by loading low resolution image first or precaching…

    19 votes

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  15. I love this app but Support for languages written right-to-left is essential and exists in other apps

    37 votes

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  16. 37 votes

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  17. Like in Apples Keynote App, when connected to a beamer I have the posibiltiy to make annotations for the current slice. There are different colored pens and a kind of Laserpointer tool (a glowing red dot or so). This is great for demonstrating things, whithout manipulating the current slice.

    Same would be great for GoodNotes - as a teacher I use GoodNotes as a Replacement for the traditional board. At the moment I do a workaround by undoing the pencil strokes I made for showing things on the current sheet.

    7 votes

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  18. Allow users to put comments on different layers. It would be helpful if these could be turned on/ off, or have their transparency % adjusted like in the Photoshop Touch application. Selecting annotations on one layer only or locking others would be useful as well.

    1,976 votes

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  19. I use this app for school and work. From school I would get notes from classmates and add them to my notes. It would be great to merge those together. For work it would be nice to other peoples notes with mine.

    26 votes

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  20. It would be a great deal, if it would be possible to tag all documents and (possibly) each position within each note with one or more tags. There should be a tag list for each shelf of notes, such that I can have different sets of tags for each shelf. It should then be possible to open the tag list for a shelf, click on a tag, and get a list of all usages of this tag with all documents and all locations within documents. Clicking on a usage should open the document (in case it is the tag of…

    2,945 votes

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