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  1. I wish to be able to choose which documents to share to devices, and which to leave in the clouds. I want my planner on my phone and iPad, but I don’t need my notes from work on my iPad.

    7 votes

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  2. Notes in Goodnotes consume too much storage (as compared to other note-taking apps). Maybe you can use a better compression technique for storing notes.

    8 votes

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  3. Currently I have to crop the image manually every time when I take a picutre of the slide during a presentation. It would be very helpful if there was an option to do the cropping automatically and also do a simple correction for projection effects to make the slide the appropriate aspect ratio.

    2 votes

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  4. After creating a Text Box and adding text it is quite difficult to change the layout again. For example, the text color cannot be changed anymore unless using the lasso tool.

    4 votes

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  5. In the previous edition of Goodnotes 5(5.4.19), the developer seemed to cancel the feature of brush stroke(seen in the following picture), which might be linked to the improvements on algorithm. This change has made the writing experience so weird and unreal, so I wish you can return the brush stroke in the previous editions.

    2 votes

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  6. there are many gestures and keyboard shortcuts. despite searching the web, I have not been able to find a comprehensive list or overview of the various gestures and keyboard shortcuts.
    please show a combined list (list the short cut & the gesture behind the same function in the web or in the app under help
    thank you and keep up the great work
    Kai

    1 vote

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  7. please add a keyboard shortcut for the Mac version to jump to full window size equivalent to double finger tap on iPad, please also add an automatic function to always have the view size follow the window size

    thank you and carry on with the great work

    4 votes

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  8. There are only three colors to choose from in GoodNotes 5. This makes it hard to color code my notes and unlock the full potential the pictures on the AppStore showed. Please allow us to make our own colors and add a color eye dropper. Thank you.

    31 votes

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  9. My intended primary use for Goodnotes is to markup PDFs. These PDFs are already organised in Google Drive, and I would like to edit these files directly (rather than having the edited versions saved elsewhere).

    7 votes

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  10. Ideally, every template is available in every paper color.

    3 votes

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  11. The latest edition of Goodnote has cancelled the brushstrokes. It is really disturbing. Please return the tip of a writing brush or we have no choice but to use other app which can provide the brushstokes function. Please!!!

    3 votes

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  12. I’m a medical student in Japan. I can’t study medicine without good notes!
    Please give me another chance to free upgrade to GoodNotes 5.
    In addition,I’ve paid the full price for GoodNotes 4.
    I truely apologize for not getting the free upgrade before January 15th,2020 in spite of your highly recommendation.
    However, my father purchases GoodNotes 5 today and it made me want to use version 5 notes.
    I would be grateful if you could give me another chance!
    Very much needed! Please!!

    1 vote

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  13. In all other versions of Goodnotes I could import a google doc or google slide directly. Please bring this back. Almost all teachers need this functionality and it will turn us away from the app. I am really disappointed that after updating the app version this functionality has been lost.

    7 votes

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  14. It is very awkward for left-handed people to resize lasso-ed items by dragging the lower left corner. Would be great if the delete and resize buttons (in opposite corners) could be reversed for lefties!

    8 votes

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  15. 現状、iCloudバックアップはGoodNotes5に保存している全てのデータを自動でCloudにアップロードして他のデバイスでファイルに加えた変更が反映されるようになっているがデバイスごとの容量の違いから読み込めないファイルが発生してしまい容量の小さい方のデバイスでiCloudバックアップをオンにできない状況が発生しています。

    例えば自分はiPad Pro(512Gb)とiPad mini(64Gb)を使っています。iPad Pro内のGoodNotes5に保存したデータが100Gbを超えており全てiCloudにアップロードしています。しかしiPadminiの容量が足りないためにiPadmini内のGoodNotes5のiCloudバックアップをオンにできない状況です。

    この解決策としてGoodNotes5内の全てのファイルをiCloudにアップロードする必要はないため、アップロードするファイルを選択して使えるようにできたらより便利になると思います。
    ご検討のほどよろしくお願いします。

    2 votes

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  16. Right now there are only two ways to search the text content of your notes. You can search in the file that is currently open or you can search all of your files at once. I think it would be extremely useful if you could specify which files to perform the search on.

    機能の充実

    今のところ開いているファイル内での文字の検索とGoodnotes5に保存しているファイル全件を貫通して検索する方法のいずれかのみだが、
    いくつかの目的としているファイルを指定してその中のみで文字の検索ができる機能を追加してもらえると非常に便利になると思います。

    1 vote

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  17. It would be great if the highlighter and pen presets could be saved to iCloud. Recently, I accidentally deleted Goodnotes 5 on my iPad and I had to deal with setting my highlighter and pen presets all over again. Some of the colours are different from the set of presets I had earlier on.

    4 votes

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  18. i just wanna recommend eraser option that erase only pens except highlighter.
    could you add this option? thank you.

    33 votes

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  19. Please add function to use other different services instead only iCloud -
    Onedrive - Google Drive - Drop box
    I think it could be a super plus for this already special app!!!

    4 votes

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  20. I cannot scroll the IPad Pro up and down when using Apple Magic KeyBoard like I use in the Notability. It is really inconvenient when reading the documents

    2 votes

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