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  1. When batch importing images / files (via icloud) they are placed in random page order and need to be manually sorted.

    Example. I photograph my hand drawn Moleskine note books into Goodnotes as a reference and archive. BUT, the images in Icloud are all in a numbered order, but they are randomly imported in Goodnotes and I need to spend a considerable time putting them in order.

    3 votes

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  2. It is VERY ANNOYING for me to use text box if we can’t save our favorites colors like what we are doing for those writing tools.
    I HATE to change the size and color and the style EVERYTIME!

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  3. Please add the square root symbol (aka the radical) to the recognized shapes so when you draw one freehand it snaps to the correct shape. It can be difficult drawing one without the top part getting squiggly. (tags: math, algebra, calculus, statistics, science, engineering, shapes)

    5 votes

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  4. Please add a toggle to highlighter to disable converting drawn lines to rounded curves (Not to toggle shapes in general, just, like, boomerang shapes).

    I use GoodNotes for all my text book reading, annotating, and long text and drawing heavy physics homework assignments. My hand isn't the most steady and one of my biggest frustrations when using the highlighter with "Draw in Straight Line" toggle activated is when an actual ~1/3 of all my highlighted lines turn into swoopy curves instead of straight lines; which I then need to undo and redraw at least one more time instead of continuing…

    4 votes

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  5. Glad you added comments! Earlier I requested a collapsible post it, it this is better! I wish I could see all comments in one place, like in the outline section. Attached is a place you could do it!

    13 votes

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  6. Whenever I use the app and wear a long sleeved piece of clothing (Shirt, long T-shirt, hoddie...) the app detects the clothing as if it were a finger moving the screen or zooming in and out. This should not happen.

    I also want to add another palm rejection mode. In which the app only allows 2 fingers at a time. The rest of the fingers (if used more) will get rejected. For example, if the app detects 3 fingers at the same time, it will do nothing (since every action requires only 2 fingers).
    I use the palm rejection mode…

    1 vote

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  7. Sometimes I want to jot notes , but there isn’t enough space , however I don’t want to add new page but just write next to the words. Is it possible to add memo ( like the add comment feature) , so when I click the little memo icon , it will expend into large memo . Or just to add space between lines. Thank you .

    3 votes

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  8. Please add engineering paper

    3 votes

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  9. Please add a feature so that you can change the name of a file/document when you use shareable link. It will only show “GoodNotes”. Which makes it very confusing to know what’s what. I have attached a photo of what I’m talking about.

    2 votes

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  10. When importing a PDF of slides (say of class notes, or a presentation) it would have an option to put three slides per page with lines on the side or bottom for taking notes.

    3 votes

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  11. so we can use other apps while taking notes and it wouldn't get lost under other windows/tabs, It would really help with workflow!

    Maybe opacity settings for the floating window too :>
    please consider adding this feature thank youuu

    3 votes

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  12. I'd love to have the option to put the tool bar (the bar with the pen options, eraser, lasso, colors, highlighter etc.) on the side of my screen or maybe the bottom. It gets a little frustrating to always have to reach up to change my pen color or to switch to the eraser. It's much more natural to have the tool bar on the side so that you can easily reach it while you're taking notes!

    22 votes

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  13. I love the flashcard feature in Good Notes! But, I have an idea for how to make it more user-friendly. What if you could put 'tags' on certain cards? For example, in my bio flashcards, I would love to tag which chapters the card is from (e.g., "Ch. 1", "Ch. 2", "Ch. 3"). Then when I launch the flashcard feature, I can select which tags I would like to review. If I feel comfortable with the content from chapter 1, I would leave those cards out. You could also tag cards by their level of difficulty, kind of question (true/false,…

    6 votes

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  14. It would be amazing if it was possible to edit an existing PDF. Right not, Goodnotes can't, and the only way to actually have the modified PDF as output, is to manually export all of it.
    Imagine you have a sync folder (maybe with Dropbox, or Syncthings, etc), and you open a PDF (that is inside that sync folder) with Goodnotes. You start to edit the PDF with Goodnotes and everybody that has that sync folder, have the edits updated almost in real time. This is not possible right now, while it is possible in other PDF apps like PDF…

    5 votes

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  15. Please update the feature where you can export your goodnotes 5 book to an PDF and still be able to get the organization done.

    Sadly it is not possible to maintain the right Structure, because when exporting it to an PDF your structure will get reorganize to the date you added each structure. (see my examples in the Pictures)

    Also this feature only works if you export your document as an editable PDF. BUT Sadly then you are also not able to search your hand written text any more, because it does not get recognized.

    So try to implement that…

    1 vote

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  16. It would be convenient to add blocks from several sheets to the structure so that they can then be dragged together inside the document.

    2 votes

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  17. I love using the highlighter option but it’s incredibly dull compared to other notes apps. All the colours need to be more vibrant because I constantly find myself highlighting over the same thing multiple times to get the colour I want to appear. Also please increase the max size of the highlighter feature. Most of the notes I download to the app have text too big for the highlighter and It looks terrible and takes too much time to go over it again and again. Thanks

    12 votes

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  18. Make us able to drag the page further in zoom window. It’s hard to write at the end of the page.

    4 votes

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  20. how can i import notability files and still be able to edit my handwritten notes?

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