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  1. Scientific articles come with references at the end. Looking simultaneously at the end of the document while reading the content would be helpful. Hence being able to split the screen horizontally (not just vertically) would be nice!

    17 votes

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  2. I would have Intelligent Inserting Options:
    - Inserting something you copied from above I wish to be able to align the Thing I copied from above with those things. To be able to achieve that I would show up a dotted line downward or if I insert it right to the copied one to have a dotted light horizontally to align all the things. Optional the dotted line is "magnetic" so it pull the thing you want to insert to the dotted reference line, but if you pull it away the reference line disappears

    • when you insert something and want…

    2 votes

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  3. It’s good idea to add option to back up on pcloud

    17 votes

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  4. For the lasso tool. The blank space where the colour and size selection is should be toggles for the lasso tool. Like if I want to lasso just the handwriting and not the image/highlights or if I don't want to move textboxes. This would be really useful when adding side notes to annotations

    26 votes

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  5. Please allow us to auto-deselect all tools (highlighter, shapes, and lasso). Thank you!

    9 votes

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  6. Currently, in MacOS, you can only select an element if you are on the appropriate tool. Meaning you have to change tools to select an element.

    IpadOS is better a long press gives you the option to zoom or edit - the zoom option seems a little redundant when it's easy to press the zoom button and drag the box. I feel it would be better if it just defaulted to "edit". Maybe this could be a preference option if there are people who use the zoom box a lot.

    2 votes

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  7. cmd+c cmd+v pretty basic, but super essential.

    7 votes

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  8. Add png functionality so it is possible to import screenshots without copying them to the clipboards

    6 votes

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  9. Search function to find wordparts
    Example:
    Note:
    1234 5678
    12345678

    Searching for 5678 should find both lines. This would be great because i get many pdf files named like productsheetproductname. to search for such a imported pdf i have to search for productsheetxyz with xyz the productname of the sheet im needing.

    7 votes

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  10. Like in the other Big Notes App ;-) it would be great to edit the automatic generated forms after they are generated

    2 votes

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  11. The Mac App seems like a waste of money, because it is exactly like the iPad app's interface, except on a Mac. Please make it more like Pages or other native Mac apps.

    4 votes

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  12. Add the possibility to have more than three standard colors as to allow a faster change in between more than three colors. As I have one "text"- color, I would love to be able to draw more quickly while using more than the other two standard colors that I get to set. Opening the color drop-down menu and choosing one color thus replacing a current standard color is not as fast. There is still space in the top bar for more colors, so that should not be a problem. There could be a tab in the settings that asks how…

    26 votes

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  13. Likewise I can customize several pen colors,
    I want to customize several fonts-size-color in sets.
    (Its possible to customize only one set now)

    eg. A font-32-black / B font-20-red / c font-...

    8 votes

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  14. It's really annoying that text boxes move along my hand when I just wanna edit some contents.

    It would be nice to be able to fix each text boxes, not to move while dragging, editing or sth.

    e.g. when pressing a text box, option for 'fix' and 'unfix' could be possible.

    ((sorry, i'm not good at english.))

    9 votes

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  15. Is it possible to create a combo deal as Apple has allow to have one payment system for both iOS Apps Store and MacOS Apps Store?

    2 votes

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  16. Saving past edits/versions like Google Drive does.

    Recently, things I wrote in GoodNotes have randomly disappeared, and they would only sometimes reappear. It's fine if they disappear when I know exactly what I wrote, but if it's something I copied from another part of a document or from another document altogether, and it randomly disappears, then it becomes a problem. A possible solution would be the ability to access past versions (like Google Drive) to retrieve what I copied/cut.

    3 votes

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  17. Go from 3 to 5 standard pre-set pen weights. I find the jumps between the 3 weights you offer too big and my perfect weight would be between your thinnest and middle one. I suggest to mimic the 5 pen weights Apple offers in the IOS Notes pen integration.

    4 votes

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  18. Some apps (such as TimeZero navigation s'ware) have an in-app configuration option that allows the app to keep the iPad screen active, even without user activity. I think GN needs this feature.

    I often transcribe from my GoodNotes, with the iPad propped up in front of my desktop computer screen (my hand writing is too rough for auto-text conversion and sometimes I write in a private shorthand).

    It's so annoying when the screen keeps going black and I have to wake it up again. And it's a nuisance to have to drop into iPad settings, find Brightness/Display, and defeat the…

    3 votes

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  19. Now we can only copy paste pages
    Provide option to merge notes 2 or more with outline sync

    10 votes

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  20. if the partly lock screen function in GoodNotes 4 (during projection) can be used in GoodNotes 5 as well would be excellent!

    2 votes

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