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  1. If the AI could read the PDF background/template, the annotations could be put into context. This would be very helpful for planner, journals or almost any document.

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  2. 1 vote

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  3. When you take a photo with Goodnotes, the photo is imported directly into GoodNotes. The image data is compressed in the process.
    If you want to export the photos from GoodNotes afterwards, then
    you will unfortunately only receive the compressed photo data.
    The original quality of the photos is unfortunately lost.
    It would be good if the photos were also saved as original files in the iOS or PadOS library in addition to being imported into GoodNotes.
    This would give you both the compressed photos in GoodNotes AND the original photo data.
    Often you need both data!
    Greetings Tobi

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  4. Hi Goodnotes Team,

    As an architect, I take a lot of measurements on construction sites with GoodNotes and my iPad.
    I take a lot of photos for the measurements, which I then label with GoodNotes.
    Unfortunately, I have to reset the desired camera settings for each photo, e.g. flash on or zoom setting of the camera.
    It would be nice if there was an option to save the last camera settings.
    Greetings Tobi

    2 votes

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  5. I am using Study Sets to learn Japanese.
    I would like to be able to record Japanese word as the Study set question.

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  6. Dear GoodNotes Team,

    Hello, my name is Tami, and I have been using GoodNotes since its initial release. I believe you must have tried the app CollaNote at some point.

    Today, I have a request. In the CollaNote app, when you write, it automatically adjusts the shape of the letters to keep them from looking uneven, almost like a magnetic effect. As a left-handed person with tremors, I often struggle with keeping my writing neat.

    I would greatly appreciate it if GoodNotes could add a similar feature that automatically adjusts the shape of letters in your next update. This feature…

    2 votes

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  7. Please change the current erase options system (Erase highlighter/tape only), into this sort of mechanism;

    Eraser Style

    (Precision/Standard/Stroke...)

    Pen-erasible [toggle_switch]
    Highlight-erasible ["]
    Tape-erasible ["]

    I had experienced situations so much in which I wanted to erase only pen traces, and perhaps along with other types of traces.
    In one instance, I was using tapes to make my own fill-in-the-blank questions. However, I couldn't dare to write any letter with a pen because you can't just erase them without removing the tapes along, and it is really frustrating.
    At other times, I had to struggle erasing pen marks overlapped with highlights,…

    3 votes

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  8. Just like how it is done for images, which, when selected, if pressed longer can be duplicated, for the pen. It already does the "effect" of duplicating it with a grayer color, but when you release it it vanishes. It would be great and a lot faster than copy-pasting. Thanks

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  9. just as we can “play recording” from the contextual menu for handwritten notes; it would be highly beneficial to have the same in typing mode

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  10. Being able to change emails.due to update I had realise that I had purchased the onetime deal on my school email I through it would be under my Apple ID which was a stupid mistake.due to going to university now I would like to change it to my own personal email as the school email may soon be deleted.i try to find anything related but no answer so far

    6 votes

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  11. In the pages tab can we select multiple pages and then choose “paste into” to then paste the clipboard contents into all selected pages in the same place as the item was copied from. Eg boxes, shapes, text for tabs etc

    I know we can paste pages but paste INTO pages would be amazing.

    4 votes

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    • Show all/hide all of tape in one click
    • darken the tape color when hide tape, so it can act as highlight as well
    28 votes

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  12. I loved the new keyboard option for writing, like in “Word.” But I would like more options to modify the font and other aspects, other tools, to improve the writing part. Another suggestion is that when I paste something I copied from ChatGPT, it comes with symbols like * and #. There could be an option to locate these symbols and remove them all. Add more features to the study cards (you can borrow some ideas from Anki) haha. Thank you, I look forward to it! I love the app <3

    1 vote

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  13. auto-improve hand writting using apple pencil, like new IpadOS 18 notes app do it

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  14. I was using Good Notes for a while, it was great. However, I can't stand the blue color of the ribbon in the UI any more (it's the same for me as with the OneNote, I can't stand their purple color). The white and blue UI in the reading mode is alright, however in the writing mode it becomes very annoying. Could you add an option in the settings to change the color scheme to white and gray (or some smooth black), at least make an option to preserve the reading mode scheme all the time even in the editing…

    5 votes

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  15. Return, please!! the removed functionality to insert PDF snippets in PDF format !! on Mac.

    Before I could insert snippets from PDF documents without them being converted to a low resolution image format. Just rectangle selection in the Preview app, and paste in the GoodNotes, without the text being distorted and in Vector PDF format.

    Now, the snippets are being converted to low res images and all the text and quality is distorted.

    Please, change it back or add such an option.

    That was the best feature in GoodNotes for me.

    1 vote

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  16. I really like Goodnotes as a tool - it is visual supporting and not loaded with too many options. But, I barely use Good Notes. It is so inconvenient to write and organize a notebook, because the pages are not automatically included while writing or pasting a text. Instead, I have to add intentionally a new page - otherwise the text continues to be written on the same page … hidden. Organizing a note book with ideas and content becomes so inconvenient and annoying, that I often use to start with Goodnotes, but switch to another alternative when (again) encountering…

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  17. Currently, even though only PNG and JPEG seem to be officially supported, I can rename (not converting!) any BMP / WEBP image to ".png" and then I can paste the file into Goodnotes without any problems.

    If Goodnotes supported pasting these file formats without first renaming them to PNG, I would be a very happy person :)

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  18. OCR cannot dittect other languages hand writting correctly.

    but an app called "CamScanner" has a filter called "Magic" it makes any photo and process it to look like scanned file. it removes unwanted reflection, shadow and make all the white areas total white. makes all the black text total black, alsocorrects other colors.

    to match the goodnotes white background i use "camscanner" to proccess photo, then saves it, then imports it.

    if Goodnotes has that filter, ican just click photo and apply the filter. it will save me a lot of time

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  19. I want to be able to import a pdf and have the pdf pages appear as pages in the existing notebook, scaled to the size of the notebook pages. Also, the form fields in the imported pdfs appear blank when they shoulf be filled. This needs to be fixed.

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