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  1. It’d be really nice if we had the option to move one Audio clip from one journal to another, I know we can import an existing .Goodnotes file with audio into a journal, but it would be nice to be able to just move the audio itself, and none of the pages.

    or copy and move that audio file from one journal to another. Sometimes when learning complex processes that relate to each other but are in separate classes, it’s nice to have the audio clip that references from another subject next to the second subject in the same journal…

    2 votes

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  2. I have had multiple documents that needs to be synced but they generally take their own time before syncing. If there can be a button to force sync all files to cloud that would save me so much headache and time.

    9 votes

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  3. currently it allows the selection of line color and line thickness, but they are isolated from each other, if they can be combined as a "compound style", and have multiple of them, it will be perfect.

    e.g. compound style 1 = "red line + thickness in 1mm"
    compound style 2 = "green line + thickness in 2mm"

    if i can select directly between compound style 1 & 2, instead of keep selecting between red / green AND 1mm/2mm, it will be very very handy.

    4 votes

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    1. allow custom template on studyset, just like other notes ;
    2. allow customization on studyset background, especially in hand-drawn / freehand mode, currently it must be white and it's pretty annoying ;
    5 votes

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  4. I tried the text feature on the flashcard part of goodnotes and i like the way it looks. but it's really annoying that I can't add photos to it with text. Only if I write out my cards am i able to add photos.

    4 votes

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  5. can we keep the dark/light theme from goodnotes 5? the new tabs are so square and the blue reminds me of windows xp.

    3 votes

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  6. Currently there are two ways to highlight text from an imported PDF: using the highlight tool and highlighting freely the document with the aid of a pencil, or manually selecting the text and clicking on the highlight option.
    The latter method is more flexible for tasks such as studying on a textbook, as the highlight adjusts in size with the underlying text. Unfortunately, it is a very time consuming approach as it requires to first select the text, wait for a menu popup and then select highlight.
    It would be convenient to have an alternate behavior for the highlight tool,…

    10 votes

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  7. I use many different types of devices such as Mac computer, Windows PC, iPad, Android. I know this seems weird but I do use them daily. And I need an app/program other than One Note from Microsoft. If my notes can be synchronized and loaded from all the different types of devices I would appreciate so much. Since there are not many that supports Mac/Windows/iOS/iPad OS/Android and you are one of the few, I really hope to see you supporting this feature. Thank you.

    3 votes

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  8. 1 vote

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  9. When I write on a sticker, like a memo or post-it note, my handwriting doesn't stay on the sticker when I move the sticker. The sticker separate from the handwriting when I move the sticker. Notability does this beautifully. In Notability, when I write on a sticker, and when I move the sticker, the sticker moved together with my handwriting on it. When I rotate the sticker, my handwriting rotate together with the sticker. In Goodnotes, I have to lasso both my handwriting and sticker in order to move it, which is cumbersome and not natural (i.e. not how I…

    5 votes

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  10. Welcome
    Goodnotes is my favorite app
    I hope to develop a fountain pen to be similar to the fountain pen in the " Nebo " app
    He is much better at writing
    I hope so and then I will upgrade forever
    My sincere respect to you

    3 votes

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  11. When you circle an object with the pen and hold on the circle, the circle turns into a selection. You can then move the object around. Once you are done moving the selection disappears and you can automatically keep writing with the pen.

    I would prefer if the selection did not disappear after you are done moving the object. Because you often need to zoom out or in and let go of the selection in order to place it where you want to. Using the "Circle to Lasso" feature does not work well with that in mind. Thus it would…

    3 votes

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  12. An integrated speech to text, still keeping editing features and functions the same as written/typed, would be fabulous! Especially for the neuro divergent community!

    11 votes

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  13. Can we have even more colours for the folders, ie dark blue for instance. Can we also have more icons for the folders, suggestions such as a movie icon, different sports (balls etc), travel (i.e aeroplane, train, car, bicycle etc), domestic appliances, nature symbols (trees etc). Thanks.

    3 votes

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  14. TLDR: I would like to have an"Included Folders/File Names" option so I can backup only a small selection of notes.

    I use Auto Backup to access notes from my computer (running Linux). I usually only want to automatically backup some folders and notes so I can reference them, e.g. via Google Drive link, in other note-taking apps, in my case Joplin.

    As of now, there is an Auto Backup option named "Excluded Folders/File Names". But using this is very tedious since I have add practically all my notes to the excluded list.

    @devs please consider adding this feature.

    @fellow_users please…

    3 votes

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  15. Similar to bookmarks or outline, make it possible to see higlighted quotes / pages.
    For easier referencing and reading important - highlighted information.

    2 votes

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  16. To set the thickness of the pen/highlighter, the manual line space (when you deactivate "Automatic") etc. you have to move a slider to the left/right.
    Left to the slider is a number showing the current setting. The number updates, when you move the slider or press on the "minus"/"plus" symbol next to it.

    It would be great, if you could add an additional feature, where I can just tap on the number left to the slider and change the value by typing in the desired number.

    This would save a lot of time. Specially when you want to set the…

    2 votes

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  17. create a voice record link when i click the voice record logo will show me what i have recorded, sometime we can wrote properly but we can do a voice record to explain better

    2 votes

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  18. I have spoken to many fellow students who all use GoodNotes and agree that an option to have highlights not overlap when continuing marks would be amazing. It is incredibly annoying when I want to continue highlighting after lifting my pen that when I go to highlight more I get a little discolored section because of the highlight marks overlapping. I think it would be an easy quality of life improvement for users of the app like me who like to take clean and beautiful notes.

    6 votes

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  19. Let us being able to add LaTeX expressions as a TEXT input.
    You can either render it using mathjax, katex, ...

    Reason :
    The recognition gets really confused and is pretty much unusable for serious mathematics ( people who study mathematics ) : integrals, sets with subscripts, norms, ...

    27 votes

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