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  1. Hello everybody,

    I'm new to GoodNotes, great job. Many thanks for this app!

    Following is a feature request:

    What bothers me is the limitation that you can only create pages in one direction. I have attached a PDF to you. Let's assume I have a notebook with vertical orientation (blue path). But now I would like to be able to add pages on the horizontal axes (green path). The export/print view is secondary for me. The optimal solution would be to branch vertically from the secondary pages again, etc., so that you can build paths if needed.

    I am aware…

    2 votes

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  2. Allow the Apple Pencil configurations to include double tapping to switch between the active menu bar and the hidden menu bar. This would quickly allow me to switch between modes when working in a document that has hyperlinks, which require the menu bar to be hidden.

    6 votes

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  3. Have the ability to lock the app to always force a certain orientation. iPad OS is much more productive in landscape mode, so locking the goodnotes app would allow the use of goodnotes portrait mode without having to constantly toggle the apple orientation lock whenever I open and close the app.

    32 votes

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  4. I love the new GoodNotes 5, but I miss the zoom window from GoodNotes 4. I liked how the zoom window had an undo button and the three color change boxes right there. When writing in the zoom window now, it’s a bit tedious to have to reach all the way to the top of the screen to undo or change color.

    15 votes

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  5. It would be great to have predefined art doodles to quickly sketch ideas or presentation slides.

    3 votes

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  6. Erasing has to be sharper. Even if zoomed in, the eraser deletes a huge amount of pixel in go.

    37 votes

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  7. Please update fountain pen add calligraphy pen. I am obsessed w Notes plus pen setup kept me Frm switching to GoodNotes for awhile. Only switched to goodnotes so I can use BabaNana calendar otherwise I prefers pens from notes plus thx.

    27 votes

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  8. It would be great if I can change the order of the icons.

    2 votes

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  9. I need to be able to select text on my mac desktop goodnotes application.

    My workflow:

    I'm writing many papers for school, and do all my research on my mac, downloading pdfs. I then upload all the research articles on my goodnotes 5 for mac application, after which i use the ipad goodnotes 5 application to read, annotate and highlight the papers.

    Examples of copying text from the mac application:
    * When i'm writing my paper, I sometimes have to manually enter the reference into Word. I have to do this by hand and can't copy and paste.
    * When…

    32 votes

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  10. The current drag & drop feature copies notes as a PDF file. (http://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/19716046-export-individual-pages-using-drag-and-drop-mac-a)
    However, It's sometimes desirable (and easier to view) if I copy them as images (to email app, iMessage, other note-taking app like Bear, etc.). I wish there is an option to select images over PDF.

    4 votes

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  11. Add accessibility features built into the ipad to Goodnote. First to add is "Speak Content"

    14 votes

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  12. 现在在竖向滑动的状态下,双指缩放只能看到几个页面竖着排列缩小的缩略图,希望可以使缩略图填充页面,比如缩略浏览可以填充周围的空处,同时看到四个或六个页面的内容,并可以进行编辑书写。

    5 votes

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  13. It would be nice if it were possible to edit images in Good notes, because sometimes I have some dirt on the scanned document due to scanning and I cannot remove it.

    I also often have the problem that I want to remove something that was previously visible on the document I scanned.

    Please add a function to edit images and scanned documents to make this app even more perfect!

    6 votes

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  14. Dear All,

    It would be great if Goodnotes could convert underlined handwriting into text as well. Currently, if you try to convert a word with a letter, whose "tail" intersects with the line underneath, the recognition simply doesn't work. Perhaps you could just exclude objects drawn with shape tool from handwriting recognition. Thanks!

    5 votes

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  15. More pens on the top tool bar -- I like to have a certain color for certain parts of my notes for medical school. I.e. green for treatment, red for disorder, blue for diagnosis, and then I write everything else in black so I keep having to go back and forth. Instead of like 3 choices being available at one time, having 5 or 6 would be awesome

    11 votes

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  16. Please consider making available on PC, there are very few note taking options for students aside from OneNote which is extremely glitchy. I've heard such great things and I'd love to be able to utilize it.

    43 votes

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  17. Two reasons I still prefer Noteshelf over GoodNotes.

    1. The menu bar area in Noteshelf takes on the default Mac colour scheme whereas GoodNotes has this dark blue top bar area for note windows. It's a little think but it's a slight niggle.

    2. While I make my notes on my iPad, I like to see my notes on my Mac and mostly have 2 notes open all the time on an additional monitor; one is my todo list and one is my planner. If I did this with Goodnotes, any time I close the app or restart my computer and then…

    2 votes

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  18. Option to select the 3 most used fonts by the user on the top of the font list. At present, I have to scan the whole list to select the desired font if I am inserting text frequently.

    5 votes

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  19. Im talking like a quick pull coordinates graph, rulers, ability to type equations, make tables, and most importantly a much better shape recognition (it is tough to achieve since GN5 uses vector instead of pixels and this can be solved by making a shape menu that you can drag and drop into the page)

    Also, I would die for a "dublicate" option in the menu like in notability instead of having to copy and paste every single time!

    13 votes

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  20. On computer app, when you press the thumbnails page, it doesn't open to your current slide and display that prominently. I have to scroll and look for what slide I was just studying from / annotating. If this could be fixed and displayed more clearly, it would be very helpful.

    3 votes

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