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  1. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

    16 votes

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  2. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

    9 votes

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  3. When already written a page on white paper in black pen for example and then switching to black paper I would like if you have to option to automatically change the color of everything written in black would change into white ( and also other way around)

    3 votes

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  4. If you open a note or a folder from your favorites when you close the note or folder it goes back to your favorites. Can you make it so it goes to the folder that the note or folder was in?

    6 votes

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  5. When I highlight text, I want the option to add a comment/explanation that then hides in the comment icon next to the highlighted text. When I click on the icon, that explanation then appears underneath the text. And when I click on the background, it goes back to the way it is.

    11 votes

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  6. It will be much more convenient if Goodnotes allows users to add personal colours to the presets section for text boxes. This feature is available for highlights and handwritings but not the text boxes!! :(

    11 votes

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  7. I like to have my notes very densely packed, so I typically use the finest thickness pen and zoom in nearly all the way.

    However, when zoomed in, the lasso tool thickness (the blue dotted lines) becomes extremely thick and selecting small items is difficult.

    Suggestion: When zoomed in, make the lasso line width thinner.

    13 votes

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  8. It would be great to have a marker, that covers already written text and when you click on it (with the finger, not pen), it shows you what lies beneath!
    This would be very useful for documents where you need to memorise the answers but first want to think of the question without immediately seeing the written solution beneath.

    5 votes

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  9. I need "links to websites", where I can have a closer look for my research.

    5 votes

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  10. Hello,
    In my opinion the UI needs a refresh, it takes too much space on the screen when taking notes, we should have the option to hides things we don't use, thus clearing the menu bar for things we actually need, for example If I use a pen and marker only, I do not need to see the magnifier, shapes, text,laser icons, and also we need more than 3 pen\marker sizes & colors. to up the productivity for people who have to take fast notes (engineering), and want to save time with 1 quick click do it rather than do…

    6 votes

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  11. Hello:

    As you may know, in education epub formarts are very useful to make digital and shareable content between student's and teachers and to make projects in wich studen's can learn and express theirselves creatively. The issue is that there ain't no very useful apps to make annotations or to grade these kind of assignmets. Could you please consider this suggestion?

    Thank you for letting me share this idea with you.

    7 votes

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  12. Hello:

    I would really appreciate it if you could allow the users to add a watermark or put a lock in pdfs, because I'm a teacher and i grade all my student's assignments on GooNotes.

    I can add a logo image or a draw and put it as a watermark but it' would save me a lot of time if i could edit the position and/or transparency of certain objects and images, because i have a ton of documents to grade.

    Thank you for your attention.

    3 votes

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  13. Hi. I use a dot grid background for all my planner pages. I love having that bullet journal feel.
    However, pasting onto dot grid paper is a nightmare. If you use stickers, are moving content around, or copying and pasting, when you long press on dot grid paper, the only option you get is "Highlight, Strikeout, Define, Copy". Ahhhh. It's maddening! I always have to hunt for a space on the page that doesn't have the dot grid, and long press to paste there. For some reason, the apple copy and paste doesn't function well in Goodnotes. Three finger press…

    1 vote

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  14. Add an ability to add a little area to the sides of the page so we can maybe write more notes or draw according to the slides we're on

    2 votes

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  15. My iPad gets really hot on the middle of the right side and uses all my battery very fast when i use GoodNotes, what is going on here?

    3 votes

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  16. When converting handwriting to text it would be preferable not to add a return automatically at the end of each handwritten line. Instead, add a special symbol to insert a return, like a capital “J” rotated 90° counter-clockwise. I’m thinking of the “return” symbol on BBEdit’s default font.

    That one feature could save a great amount of tedium removing returns and adding spaces.

    1 vote

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  17. Uni student here. It’s a pain to look through all the documents in my ipad when I’m only looking for notes on a particular subject.

    3 votes

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  18. Use case: I use a "scratch pad" note for general note taking (meetings, phone calls, random thoughts throughout the day), since I find that quicker and easier than creating (and naming) new notes for every little occurrence.

    Sometimes the notes are useful and I need to "file" them away for future reference. Currently what I do is copy the range of pages I want, navigate away from the first note, create a new note, and paste in the pages.
    That definitely works, but the navigating around part makes for a bit of a clunky process.

    I think an "Export as…

    3 votes

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  19. オレンジ、赤等で書いた字を見えなくすることができる機能が欲しい。

    2 votes

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  20. an option to export pages in "print mode" where you can change the page's colour to white and ink colour to black when working with dark templates for pages.

    19 votes

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