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  1. Il love the fact that we can define a default setup for our textboxes. I use it to quickly write important things in red boxes.

    Althought it would be great to have 3 or 4 default setup instead of only one.

    Thank you !

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  2. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

    3 votes

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  3. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

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  4. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

    1 vote

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  5. When using the lasso to select drawn items, there's an option to change the color and "resize" the selection. It would be convenient to also have an option to change the line thickness, as well.

    33 votes

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  6. When copying/pasting a picture from my MacBook to my iPad, the size of the image is inconsistent. For instance, I could copy a certain image from a website and it'll paste as 400x200. Another image from the same site that's about the same size will paste as 800x400. It seems to depend on the amount I'm zoomed in when pasting, but the option to maintain the size would be awesome.

    7 votes

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  7. It would be great if mind maps were integrated into the features set for your app! Something sort of like MindNode. I like how easy it is to use their app for those things, but I use Goodnotes for everything else

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  8. When creating a note in a box and you want to move it, you always have to make sure that your lasso ist around everything. It would be a very useful feature if one could just merge the text and the box togehter so you only have to move the box and the text will automatically be moved with it. Also, you should be able to undo the merging in case you want to edit the text.

    1 vote

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  9. lined flashcards + more color cards + more colored paper + lined flashcards?? Like, real flashcards? With wide, medium, and narrow options

    35 votes

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  10. anki style flashcards with better revision methods, reminders given test date, better UI (sleeker/cleaner), separate page for flashcard decks, revision history and records of progress

    5 votes

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  11. Sometimes I want to copy an area of a pdf file. The current workflow ist:

    lasso it -> click screenshot -> click share button -> click copy -> paste.

    What about lasso -> copy [as image] -> paste?

    The current state is really annoying. In Notability, you can do that with one tap. That shouldn't be too hard to implement, since the screenshot feature is already implemented. After copying something, a pencil tap should instantly open the copy-paste menu instead of holding.

    18 votes

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  12. It would be very helpful if there was a "mark as read" option in GoodNotes, especially when you have a lot of texts to be read so you can see at a glance which ones you have read and which ones are still to be read. Currently, I am using the "tick emoji" in the document name which is an alternative but being able to actually tick off documents and mark them as read would be so helpful!

    6 votes

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  13. Make it so that the color of the text stays the same until you change it. If I'm annotating a page in all red text, I don't want to have to change each individual textbox red after typing.

    1 vote

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  14. Being able to move and edit documents within the app will greatly enhance the functionality and productivity.

    The Lasso Tool should be able to edit imported documents like it is with notes. This is also applicable to the text box function.

    Currently, editing imported documents in GoodNotes feels like using Snapchat. We should be able to move and edit the text as we like.

    I strongly believe this will make GoodNotes the best notes app out there and choosing it instead of Notability would become a no brainier.

    7 votes

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  15. I think the 'draw and hold' feature is amazing for putting emphasis on different parts of my notes, but it's always really frustrating when I'm trying to 'box' something but I don't get the lines perfectly perpendicular so the box comes out wonky. I don't even understand why anyone would want to have a rectangle with a wonky diagonal line ever?

    My suggestion (which seems in theory to be a really easy to implement update) is another toggle in the 'draw and hold' section where, once toggled, it only allows basic shapes i.e. only rectangles without wonky diagonal sides, maybe…

    1 vote

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  16. ファイルを開くためのパスワードを設定できるようにして欲しい。

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  17. First of all: I love Goodnotes!

    Problem: when structuring a PDF presentation/ storyline I'm missing a Slidesorter - similar to Powerpoint. "Thumbnails" already provides a great basis for this, but in horizontal mode (as most presentations), you only see 12 slides with lots of space between the rows and the slides so small that you can't even read the title of the slides.

    Proposition: Kill the vertical space b/w the slide rows and add a feature to scale the zoom, i.e. the size of the slides at expense of the number of slides visible.

    That would be fantastic and super…

    1 vote

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  18. Make scanned documents or photos of handwriting able to be manipulated or changed to editable features on phone apps. Make photo or document scan able to be rotated and cropped like photo file. This should be easy stuff to setup.

    8 votes

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  19. If you do your pages vertically, imagine if you could add notes on a horizontally added page. This would be significantly helpful for PDFs which take up the entire page for each page so you can create summaries, pointers or organize what is in the particular page.

    On a separate note, it would be a nice addition to have this horizontal page be floating and following you as you scroll so you can continue to update this one page to potentially summarize the entire document in that one page (this could be an alternative option to adding a single fixed…

    4 votes

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  20. Sometimes I remember the full word but sometimes I don't. I may only remember a segment of it. So, it would be helpful to have the option to find a word just by searching for a piece of it. For example, let's say I want to search for the word "perforated" but I only remember a portion of it, such as that it ends with "rated" or that the middle part is "for". I'd like to be able to find that word just by typing little parts of it if I don't quite remember the full word.

    2 votes

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