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  1. Goodnotes uses two rows of tools, which is takes up too much screen real estate, especially in landscape mode. This means I cannot use Goodnotes for teaching, which is what I got it for. (It's a shame, because Goodnotes is otherwise well suited for teaching.) It would be great if you could compact to a single row of tools (or even zero), to get more writing area.

    13 votes

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  2. The ability to toggle on and off dark mode and have the paper and ink colors change accordingly.

    Selecting dark paper and white ink looks great but is NOT 'dark mode'. When you go to print something created way you either waste a LOT of ink or you have to manually switch paper and ink color on each page.

    For reference - Onenote does dark mode perfectly.

    165 votes

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  3. 6 votes

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  4. besides Mac ecosystem IF and WHEN someone needs to search and extract or share contents from Goodnote in front of a computer it'd be perfect if there's a web portal or web app allowing one to get access to those and work on a PC or Mac machine as well.

    4 votes

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  5. I would love to have a feature where I could turn on dark mode only in GoodNotes and that I don’t have to turn on dark mode on the whole iPad

    32 votes

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  6. I use to be able to use my Download front and now I can’t be the are still in document and I can change the type with the font but I can see it in my list of font

    1 vote

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  7. Ability to see all documents on one screen - even ones embedded in folders

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  8. Hi it would be great if u could add various geometric instruments to the application, like a ruler, a rounder/compas , a protractor. Thank you

    18 votes

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  9. In other apps when you scroll at speed, and then contact the trackpad with your fingers, the scrolling stops immediately. However, in GoodNotes, scrolling does not stop even when fingers contact the trackpad.

    Having a scrolling behavior that stops exactly when you want it to makes it much easier to quickly see a page as you scroll so that you know whether you’re on the right page yet, and also allows you to quickly scroll a single page down with a flick of the fingers, and then stop it immediately. It may not seem like much in writing, but it…

    2 votes

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  10. Some tools like NotesPlus and Noteshelf seem to improve my handwriting so it is Smoother and more while other tools like GoodNotes don’t do this.

    My writing seems to be more angular and ragged in GoodNotes.

    I wonder if the authors of Good Notes have reviewed these other packages to get a sense of a different writing experience ?

    Is this an area GoodNotes might address?

    14 votes

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  11. I’ve just had a bad experience with NotesPlus in which the app has had a series of really bad software problems.

    In looking for replacements, I am extremely worried about vendor lock in where the editable version of my data is locked away inside a black box.

    My notes are just that, my notes, and reflect many hours of my life’s work.

    Fortunately NotesPlus uses an open data format - a directory structure which includes document names and a tree of sub folders that hold each page of handwritten text as an SVG scalable vector graphics file which I can…

    12 votes

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  12. Enable more colors and styles for the laser pointer. Also provide a feature that gives the option to keep laser writing on the document longer until dismissed by presenter via erasure or some special triple tap, or even a release button at the top.

    24 votes

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  13. Being able to adjust opacity would enable note taking to use a Boldness type feature for important ideas and parenthetical ideas could be more faint.

    9 votes

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  14. This feature is very limited and has become a nuisance as I write my notes. Notes and Nobility have this feature. Hopefully, this can be incorporated into the next update because this app is my go-to for schoolwork.

    3 votes

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  15. create the ability to take notes on a full-screen view

    11 votes

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  16. It would be very helpful if you improve the tab option for example: The tabs which are opened out of one folder could be included in 1 Tab like a dropdown list. I have opened lots of pages at the same time From different folders.
    Thank you very much and best regards

    3 votes

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  17. I would like to suggest you a little improvement: bring up the option of the lasso tool (circled in purple in the photo) on the unused space of the toolbar (circled in red in the photo). That would make the use of the lasso tool much faster.

    4 votes

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  18. sometimes I need a highlighter with an angled shape without rounded ends.

    6 votes

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  19. sometimes I need a highlighter with an angled shape without rounded ends.

    6 votes

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  20. when clicking on text, the keyboard automatically pops up and covers half the screen which makes it really hard to navigate or choose fonts and sizes etc. because the windows are super small. When deactivating the keyboard, the text edition mode also deactivates. It would be great if the keyboard could be deactivated while still in text editing mode. :)

    2 votes

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