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  1. I usually keep two notebooks open on my iPad in tabs. I write in thin black on one notebook, and the other notebook I write on an index card template in a thick marker like pen setting. Moving between tabs, it would be nice if a notebook would remember the last pen setting used inside it. I need to switch back and forth quickly, and having to change pen type, color and thickness every single time gets old fast. Thanks for your great product!

    490 votes

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  2. 2 votes

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  3. For some reason, whenever I upload a pdf to Goodnotes on my iPad, I loose the ability to use my screen reader to help me read the text. This is really awful, as I rely on my screen reader to help me get through my readings for school. I love the flexibility of Goodnotes' highlight, page marking, and page searching functions. This one extra layer of compatibility or trouble shooting would literally make the difference between excelling and falling behind in my classes :/.

    6 votes

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  4. A mini-map or something like it, to tell you where you are on the screen and how much space you have left.

    1 vote

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  5. I would like an Import Action for the Shortcuts app. One use I have for your app is markup for online teaching. Adding this action would allow me to create a shortcut that can automatically import the PDFs that I will use for that day's lesson into a student's folder.

    11 votes

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  6. I want to make my hand-notes from work more searchable and actionable.

    I was thinking of tagging and defining elements: e.g. add in current date/time (press on a handwritten date and tag it OR add in current date) to search it later. Additionally, I can imagine tasks tags, questions tags which then are searchable in a separate list/table etc.

    3 votes

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  7. An Export-Function for handwritten (!!! => not a PDF-Version) notes to Microsoft Teams / OneNote would be GREAT! A direct Sync to the TEAMS-Server would be even better!

    2 votes

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  8. My handwriting is not that good and so the OCR results are not able to recognise most of the time so I couldn't take notes with peace of mind.Each time I write GoodNotes takes it as different letters or words, so when I search back couldn’t find what I want. It would be benefited if OCR Feature can take feedback of individual style of writing to recognise the letters and words. Saddest experience is my brother’s Samsung notes app doing this part well and could recognise my strokes well even though mine is terrible and I was shocked that GoodNotes…

    6 votes

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  9. I would like to have a feature where you can press and hold on any writing in the note and your pen will automatically use that selected formatting, similar to a colour eye dropper tool.

    24 votes

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  10. Please allow users to be able to have the function to sync their custom colours across pen, highlighter, text box to allow users to use the same custom colour and do not need to add again in other tools.

    21 votes

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  11. It would be very useful to get a page numbering option creating page numbers in pdf when exporting to pdf.

    17 votes

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  12. Suggestion: in the options menu (per document), there should be an option to see the location and go to original folder.

    16 votes

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  13. Some of the pdf’s I import have very small margins that do not allow me to write notes on. It would be fantastic if there was a feature that acted as sticky notes like in Apple’s feature in the Books app or how Google docs allow you to add comments.

    27 votes

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  14. As a Goodnotes user on Ipad (+ Pencil) and Iphone I would really like more flexibility with using a keyboard for text imput on both platforms, but primarily on Iphone.

    I would really like to have nested bullet points, dashes, numbering, and indentation features available within the Text Boxes

    4 votes

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  15. Make it possible to set opacity of text box background so underlying items could still be seen.

    17 votes

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  16. Links to Goodnotes pages that you could insert in other sites and apps.
    For example within "Roam Research" or "Notion" it would be amazing if you could have a reference link to a jpeg preview of a particular page that would be updated as the page was updated. Then you could have a link that opened that page in Goodnotes. This way the image would be handy and could be updated when required. This would be an amazing way to extend out Goodnotes usefulness within a broader note-taking ecosystem. Sönke Ahrens book "How to take smart notes" advocates taking literature…

    4 votes

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  17. It would be great to be able to select a fill and stroke color for shapes created.

    102 votes

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  18. Note taking would be much smoother if we could use the selection tool to move text and objects without having to exit the magnification.

    2 votes

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  19. 2 votes

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  20. I have a 1T of storage on my iPad mostly for Goodnotes, but on my phone I only have 64G. I need to be able to have only certain specific notebooks store themselves on my phone.

    5 votes

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