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  1. Having a way to select the entire screen quickly could be useful if you need to copy everything, change the colo(u)r and delete.

    3 votes

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  2. There are shortcuts built in to iOS and iPadOS for copying and pasting which aren’t supported (three fingers spread out for paste and the fingers pinch for copy) which could help save time for both text and images, especially when using any tool.

    3 votes

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  3. So far so good!
    I’d like to see a new layout implemented. I’m sure most users use Outlines to organize their notebooks so it’d make perfect sense to have a fast way to access the outline of the notebook without having to press on the four Rectangle button and then click on Outline (when being in thumbnails or favorites).
    So my recommendation is to have a button to directly show the notebook outline, since I’m working a lot with lectures slides and I have one notebook for each course. The placement of the button could be near the title on…

    43 votes

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  4. When you lasso something, and then tap to get the options, sometimes the tap shoves the lasso'd material along a little bit. UNDO puts it back exactly where it was but, at the moment, also drops the lasso. It would be great if the lasso remained (and the options, of course) so you don't have to try it again (and again...) to tap without shoving.

    3 votes

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  5. It must be great if you have your own cloud and I can keep all of my file in that and pay monthly or for free at any storage. Don’t need to keep in internal storage!! It will help someone who have less internal storage like me!!!

    9 votes

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  6. There are many PDF files whose page sizes are not A4 or A3-This kind of the standard size. This causes a problem when importing PDF, which is that the pages added to the document are not the same size as the PDF pages imported. Therefore, I think the imported document should be zoomed when it is displayed. For example, when the page is turned vertically, all the pages should be displayed in the same width, and the standard size of the page should be selected when exporting Pdf.

    2 votes

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  7. Sometimes I'm forced to use PDF Expert when annotating PDFs, because I can get a summary of the annotations. Hope you can add to GoodNotes, then I'll be able to use it all the time.

    5 votes

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  8. It is annoying that the last page of an added document keeps copying itself when one is pulling down the last page of a notebook. Please change that - thanks!

    3 votes

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  9. Such as hyperlinks, or video. The idea is to allow the notebook to act as a scrapbook of sorts.

    2 votes

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  10. Independent adjustment of the corner points of the drawn shapes (as in notability)

    1 vote

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  11. Al igual que estan personalizados los documentos con muchas portadas o pudiendo poner nosotros las fotos que queramos, sería estupendo poder hacerlo tambien con las capetas.
    Gracias por esta aplicación tan estupenda.

    6 votes

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  12. I want to be able to add shortcuts to certain notebooks so I can get to them faster. I know I can use stars but then they are all in the same location. I want to add shortcuts in different folders.

    7 votes

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  13. I am a heavy user of the Go Back command in GN4. I I can't really upgrade without it. Why would you have removed it?! Please bring it back!

    2 votes

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  14. Can you make ability to switch tools by shortcut when I not in english language
    It too annoy when I type text in other language and want to switch to some tool

    3 votes

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  15. Is it possible to create a ruler to help draw lines at any angle at controlled length? And to measure the size of an object in the PDF file? I use goodnotes to review civil drawings since confinement. Thanks in advance!

    50 votes

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  16. I am using GoodNotes 5 for PDF annotation.
    I am experiencing some lag or dropped frames when scrolling. GoodNotes 4 had a smoother experience when using two fingers to zoom around.
    The dropped frames also do not happen when using the apple pencil to scroll.
    I would love to see this fixed, as it is really annoying.

    7 votes

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  17. It would be so cool if you could add sticky mage markers (see attachment) to your notebooks and PDF documents – just like in a "real" notebook. If you "click" on a page marker, you jump to that section. But the difference is, this does not have to be a structure point or something.

    Also, I cannot use bookmarks, because I cannot arrange those in several categories which I would definitely need.

    Also, this would be quite handy.

    10 votes

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  18. Thanks for this amazing search tool! There is only one problem: When I am searching within a particular PDF document, I find it a little clumsy because the window that opens containing the findings is so small. Furthermore, when I go to one of the pages found, the window disappears. But mostly I need to open a few other pages found which is quite complicated because I have to search again, remember which pages I have already opened etc. I would need the findings as a list or something, probably even in a new tab, which you can directly export…

    3 votes

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  19. You should be able to resize your selection horizontally only or vertically only. Sometimes I want to make something wider or taller and can’t. I have to just increase it in the 1:1 proportion. Please add this feature! Thank you!

    5 votes

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  20. text fonts and sizes are not convenient to change, and after moving text box, the horizontal length of text box is fixed and this bothers so much.

    plus, there is a storage bug in automatic backup...while writing with backup on, many gigabites of storage disappears

    8 votes

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