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  1. 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.

    24 votes

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Instantly Convert handwritten text to doc text on the same page without needing to "copy" and then "paste" within Goodnotes.

    8 votes

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

    9 votes

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  7. 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.

    13 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Currently, you can only see notes by opening one folder at a time. How about the ability to see “ALL” items that are in every folder. If you take notes all day and you file these notes in separate folders throughout the day, there’s no way to see every note your wrote in the day without opening every folder. If you have an “ALL” option, you will see every note you’ve ever written - no matter what folder they exist in.

    1 vote

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  13. 5 votes

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  14. I do understand that it makes sense for the document to pop back into central view when dragging to the side, but when handwriting at the document’s edge, this becomes an annoyance.

    How about a new action/feature where the documents still pop back into central view under normal circumstances, but when the user really drags the document far off to the side, the document stays there at the side of the screen. Now the user can handwrite comfortably, with his hand resting on the black part (background) of the screen, and the document on the other side of the screen.…

    2 votes

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  15. I do understand that it makes sense for the document to pop back into central view when dragging to the side, but when handwriting at the document’s edge, this becomes an annoyance.

    How about a new action/feature where the documents still pop back into central view under normal circumstances, but when the user really drags the document far off to the side, the document stays there at the side of the screen. Now the user can handwrite comfortably, with his hand resting on the black part (background) of the screen, and the document on the other side of the screen.…

    5 votes

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  16. Respected Sir/Maam,
    I’ve been using Goodnotes 5 lately and I find it really useful, although there is something you could work on for easy accessibility across distant pages of a pdf file of lets say a medical textbook that has thousands of pages.

    You have provided a ‘Go To’ option but at times the exact page number is not known to us and this makes searching for that particular page quite cumbersome. It would be really helpful to us if you could allow an option that can allow us to fast flip across pages...quite the same as present in Adobe…

    1 vote

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  17. Please make corner focused resizing to be an option for pictures and shapes. Resizing them to fit exactly in what I want is a nightmare because it is center focused, and the entire pic/shape changes.

    22 votes

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  18. Handwriting to text--as you write. I love GoodNotes. Total fan. It makes ADD me an organized guy. No easy feat. I like how easy it is to edit a notebook's thumbnails. I love the variety of line width--and the instant undo, which I need so often. But, but, but: Last night my wife showed me Jamboard on her iPad Pro--and I couldn't believe how cool it was that her handwriting got turned into text--as she wrote! So I tried this in GoodNotes. Yes . . . . you DO convert handwriting to text--in 13 easy steps. GoodNotes validates my purchase…

    17 votes

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  19. 1 vote

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  20. As my notes expand to hundreds of pages, I think that having a reverse page view would be helpful to find the latest note without scrolling much.

    3 votes

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