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  1. Allows user to create and add their own custom paper templates. Maybe even allow to browse web gallery so can share with others.

    1 vote

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  2. I want to create templates for GoodNotes that have definable areas I can write in. If my template has a bounding box, I should be able to define the box’s borders and not allow handwriting outside that bounding box. It’s the difference between actual templates and just applying an image or pdf as a background

    3 votes

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  3. I would love for the highlighter tool to have the option of having a straight end instead of a rounded end. Additionally, I wish there was an option to draw with dashed or dotted lines instead of having to make a solid line and then erase to get dashes

    25 votes

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  4. Have the partial eraser tool erase by pixel instead of sections

    8 votes

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  5. As automatic backup or icloud sync copy directly of the modification into the backup, it could be useful to have a backup option to allow different backups in time. So that if an error is made (file deletion, bad document modifications), it can be possible ot restore from an old backup.

    Ideally like timemachine for apple or more basically different backups with the delta of modification.

    Thank you for your great job!

    5 votes

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  6. Presently it is not possible to restore directly from an automatic backup (oneway backup function to a distant drive different than icloud). You have to first download all the files and folder from the distant drive (ex google drive) then zip them and then send them via airdrop to the ipad and open it with Goodnotes.
    And it’s even more difficult if you have selected the option to backup .goodnotes and .pdf files because you need to delete the .pdf files ...

    Please add a restore function simple to use

    4 votes

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  7. Lines to locate the different elements in the page. When you want to align two elements is really difficult because there aren’t any guides that assure you the correct position.

    This feature would be optional, I mean, if you want, you could use it and if you didn’t want, you wouldn’t use.

    87 votes

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  8. Hi
    Could you please add Persian and Arabic languages and alphabet and numbers
    My frist language is Persian and if you add it's alphabet it's same as many languages
    Like Arabic and Urdu or Pashto
    The application gonna be so useful for more people

    35 votes

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  9. I'm left-handed, I cannot physically write on the left side of the screen like the whole left third is uncomfortable to write on as the edge of my iPad gets in the way. The inability to move the page around freely beyond frustrating - It doesn't let me move the left-hand side of the page to the middle of the screen so a lot of the time I have to write something on the right-hand side and use the lasso tool to move it to the left.

    23 votes

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  10. There is often the need to change the colour of a handwritten note or a marker sign through the lasso/lazo instrument, but we can’t choose between our personally customized colours: instead there are only a few default ones, that never match the ones that we have been using for the rest of the document.
    It would be very handy of you add this functionality to the said instrument.

    1 vote

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  11. I would love to have the zoom window tool on the mac version of the application. I use the ipad version and the zoom window tool really helps me take notes but sometimes I need to use the mac for certain note taking situations in the classroom. This would greatly improve my ability to take notes in any circumstance. Thanks.

    9 votes

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  12. Instantly Convert handwritten text to doc text on the same page without needing to "copy" and then "paste" within Goodnotes.

    6 votes

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  13. I know that some people like the more simplistic aspect of a lighter weight organisation system, but I know many more users including myself who would love to have a comprehensive and neatly sewn-together file sorting system where we can visually class, group and reference our notes.

    I much prefer the features and dynamic of GoodNotes, however, the organisation is a major dealbreaker for many as to why they pick Notability. I think many people will value such a feature greatly. Thanks! :)

    4 votes

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  14. Allow us to make a custom watermark. For example i make legendary notes on my ipad and i send them to my classmates, but i want to add a watermark in app so they cant use it elsewhere. Right now i use some third party software where i have to put my pdf in and it gives me a pdf with watermark. With the built in watermark feature it will be very easy.

    7 votes

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  15. Being able to overlay a grid that we can toggle on and off and also move around the page would be helpful for writing straight on pdf documents.

    At the moment, all we can do is add a new page with the grid template. But for writing in PDFs (a digital assignment where you handwrite answers to questions, for example), there’s no way to overlay a grid to aid in writing straight.

    Procreate has a similar grid feature where you can toggle the grid on or off and you can draw on top of it.

    11 votes

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  16. Could a crowdfunding project support the most asked feature?
    - Audio recording
    - iOS file integration
    - PDF autobackup on other Cloud (like BOX)
    - ....
    and more based on the amount of $ whey get

    2 votes

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  17. Notability has the feature of partial erase that erase by pixel rather than in blocks as GoodNotes has. This is important to people who draw their notes and make cartoons or diagrams.

    In GoodNotes, the eraser sizes are limited to three, and the smallest is way too large while the largest is too small.

    In GoodNotes, if I am erasing partially, the stroke is erased block by block and this prevents accurate erasure. It should work as accurately as the pens do.

    7 votes

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  18. an option to add columns and rows and cells inside other cells, and can move the width of the cells individually would be really great!

    7 votes

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  19. Can you Add lock notes for more privacy.

    26 votes

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  20. the shape tool needs to be improvised. following are my observation on shape tool limitations and features that require re inventing
    1. the resize option actually make the diagram thicker.
    2. the line do not perfectly align tangentially to other lines and circles
    3. The shapes tools should also have a auto deselect option like eraser.else if someone misses to switch to pen erratic drawing occurs and one needs to undo.
    4. the shapetool can occur some mathematical standard shapes like, ellipse, parabola, graph axes, sine and cosine graphs
    5. ability to move one vertex of polygon to achieve desired…

    5 votes

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