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  1. Just got on the beta for Goodnotes windows. Would love if I can sync both my Windows account and IOS account as I use both Windows and IOS devices.

    36 votes

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  2. Currently when I search a keyword, it will show the search features of both my handwritten keywords + the typed keywords. But I want to search keywords quickly without showing the handwritten contents. In another words I can add some typed label for some sections header for clearer structure.

    Can the search function allow the options to search ONLY typed words?

    1 vote

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  3. While writing, my palm touches the screen and most often the "Zoom | Add comment" option pops up. It would be great if this menu can be made optional.

    16 votes

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  4. I have currently switched to goodnotes from notability. The problem I am facing in Goodnotes is, while writing my palm touches the bottom navaigation bar (big bar to naavigate to home screen and recent apps) and the pen doesn't work while my palm touches the bar. It happens quite happen. And it is creating very disturbance for me.
    In notability, while the pen is active and writing is on, the navigation bar stops rendering touch and it fades as pen is working on the screen.
    So my request is, Please add the feature to auto hide the bottom navigation bar…

    6 votes

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  5. When jumping to a specific page, Good notes is using its own count of page numbers, which often differs from the count the document is using, especially for scientific literature. This leads to the reader having to write down two page numbers for reference, one for the scientific quote and one to actually find the quote again using the "jump to page" option. A great option would be to adjust this manually, e.g. telling good notes "this is Page 72", so the actual page numbers of the document can be used as reference.

    9 votes

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  6. Make sure that receive push notifications on the next review day with the Smart Run feature.

    3 votes

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  7. "Any Notebook that includes audio can be shared with a friend making it easy for them to listen back and follow your notes at the same time with Note Replay."

    This should also include the possibility of sharing your notes and recordings to other devices as separate files. I recorded a lecture today, and I assumed that this feature was also available. When I use Notability, I am able to share both the recording and notes as separate files to my Mac.

    4 votes

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  8. Please, let us choose custom color for toolbar or add some options. I know its purely aesthetic feature but I pay huge attention to my work environment and this weird toolbar color of Goodnotes is driving me crazy :) At least please add pure white option so I could make it more minimalistic, like Instapaper looks for example.

    27 votes

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  9. A highlighter or a tool that transforms text into bold text (just in PDF or similar, not in raster images), to stand out without background color

    3 votes

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  10. I would like to suggest adding more options for manual backup such as adding more formats like instead of just backup it with .goodnotes, we have the option to choose the format as same as the automated backup

    1 vote

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  11. Could the color palette in text or highlighter tools have a feature where a press and hold, or a hover shows the name (in large text) of the color so that our color blind learners can still follow the directions that involve colors for school work?

    1 vote

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  12. I would really like to be able to delete notebooks when they are open, rather than having to go back to the document menu view. I often have many notebook tabs open and find that some are not needed anymore. It would be more efficient if I could delete those notebooks directly, rather than having to first locate where they are stored.

    2 votes

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  13. Changing the color of all a specific color. An example being able to change all the color red on a page/throughout the notebook into blue. Having to lasso colors to change it can be a slow process, so it would be nice if we could do it with a few clicks.

    5 votes

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  14. Order notes in a way other than by date or name i.e. by topic, in a particular order for a presentation or with musical scores

    1 vote

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  15. I use GoodNotes daily in landscape and the toolbar takes up nearly 20% of the screen.

    A piece of paper doesn't have a toolbar, and already has much more area than an iPad screen.

    I want to click an arrow to bring it down when I need it as a lot of the time I don't.

    Please implement this as soon as possible so I can get the most out of this brilliant application. Thanks.

    28 votes

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  16. Can a security training organization provide safe and unobstructed screening services?

    1 vote

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  17. When highlighting a text you are already able to hit speech and it will be read to you. It would be great if there were speed options 0.5x, .75x, 1x, 2x, etc...
    I am an auditory learner so this would help with all my e-textbooks. It would also be great if you can pause it while it is being read to you, in case you have to get up or move for a second.

    25 votes

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  18. Use-Case: I use one document for all my call minutes. Then I take over some content into different systems or actions and mark the page as done with the green highlighter on one of the top corners.

    Problem: When searching my minutes, I can't see if a page is done or filter done pages.

    Ideas: Allow me to
    - set a tag per page and have search show/ignore specific tags
    - show a full preview of the page beside the zoomed hit are, so I can spot my marker

    1 vote

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  19. I really hope that this app will also enter the Google Store. I'd like to know if there's any plan to do that.

    Additionally, it would be nice to use various pens, such as sign pens and pencils.

    1 vote

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  20. Please add Color Presets for the Text Styling feature. I constantly have to refer back to handwriting feature to fetch the color hex code to use to the text styling ( text box) / hand writing to text features.

    22 votes

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