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  1. Please provide a “Feedback” feature in the GoodNotes app.

    I would suggest in [Settings] > [About] page.

    2 votes

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  2. I would like to export the highlights I make on a PDF as a plain text file. Like Kindle does with highlights on a book.

    11 votes

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  3. I often take notes that are messy, in the wrong folder/document etc, so as you can move writing, it would be useful to be able to cut and paste a whole page into another folder/document

    4 votes

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  4. I want the highlighter function to have option to work like eraser—use once and then automatically ‘snap back’ to writing tool. I often am writing, then want to highlight one thing, and immediately go back to writing, and when I do that a lot, clicking back on writing tool becomes a pain.

    3 votes

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  5. What is the reason of this situation?
    I don’t know what it is, how to remove it and how to prevent it
    Ao please tell me how to do

    1 vote

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  6. If I put the pen on the iPad to charge it, the toolbar for better reading should disappear

    4 votes

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  7. Could you add a top bottom split view similar to left right split view. This would be a great functionality to have for taking notes. This functionality is already available in other apps such as Notes Writer. It is a great help to have a top and bottom split, specially if you are using smaller iPad such as IPad Air or Mini which do not have large display to compare full page side by side. In top bottom split view we can look at PDF/ Book on top view and take down notes in lower screen.

    15 votes

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  8. Provide users the ability to quickly access resizable shapes or stencils when creating notes. This would greatly improve the speed and quality of my handwritten notes. Programs like Visio, OmniGraffle support stencil libraries of resizeable shapes. For example, a) Bullet Journaling uses specific shapes to denote specific meanings for captured text. To be able to drop an object on the page quickly at the start of writing a note would help speed thought capture. b) Predefined shapes would have individual handle/controls to allow the user to quickly take actions (copy, fill color, resize).

    11 votes

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  9. First of all, I wanted to propose an improvement to the pencil, asking for more types of strokes like a real pencil. A good example is the apple notes, which are very realistic and good. Improve compatibility with Apple Pencil, being able to tilt it and make it thicker, the example is the same as the previous one.
    Secondly, I wanted to propose a new tool that can insert links into a note that takes us directly to the browser.
    I also wanted to propose that they join the Apple Files app, so you can open them directly from there.…

    3 votes

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  10. Email to Goodnote 5 is not a good feature.

    I have Goodnote 5 installed on my iPad and home computer Mac. The PDF files are no issue to sync. When I am in the compony which only use the Window 10 computer, I can't easily put the PDF file into the Goodnote easily. The easier method I know is to put the files into the Dropbox or cloud storage. Then, import the PDF files to the Goodnote 5 from Mac or iPad when I go back home. If I annotate the files using other software then follow the same steps…

    1 vote

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  11. Currently in split view, only one side has the option to back out to the previous page (for me it's the folder the notebook is in). The other side only has the option to close the app. I want both sides to have the option to go back to the folder level.

    2 votes

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  12. I get tons pictures from my students’ works.
    So I’d like to open several pictures or documents from Files as pages of one single document.

    So far you can select and share them in GoodNotes, but then I’ll just get many single documents with one page each.
    So here should be a dialog like „Open as separate documents“ or „Open all in a single document“ or „Add to document“.

    You could open a new document in GoodNotes you want to have the pictures in, go to Thumbnail view, go back to Files and share the pictures in GoodNotes (then you’ll…

    2 votes

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  13. I wish that in GN i can choose to add a new note page with the same size of the last PDF page so that all the pages of the book would keep regular.( or just with the same width can also help a lot) It’s important to keep standard by sliding, printing or sharing with others etc.

    1 vote

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  14. In documents packed full with words, it would be really helpful to be able to add sticky notes to annotate. They do not have to be uploaded to the PDF when exported, but I just wanted an option to add a small space to write next to the documents.

    38 votes

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  15. Due to the double two finger tap to undo feature, my work constantly gets undone accidentally by gestures such as laying my palm on the screen.
    I often realise this after I have continued my work so I can no longer redo the lost work.
    Redo with 3 finger double tap does not work AT ALL and usually prompts the confusing actions selection bar (what just happened?) or another undo.
    I understand some users make use of this feature while some experience the same issues so please let users switch shortcut on/off

    5 votes

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  16. when I print my notes from Goodnotes 5, my letters are always cut out from the page. Why is this happening and how do I resolve it. It’s becoming highly annoying. I just don’t understand because my page is in A4 mode. ALSO HOW DO YOU CHANGE AN ENTIRE NOTEBOOK OF NOTES YOU'VE MADE ON GOODNOTES FROM STANDARD GOODNOTES PAPER TO A4 PAPER! Because I need to change my entire notebooks filled with work and it won’t allow me to change it normally. Please get back to me.
    Thank you

    1 vote

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  17. It may not seem important to many, but when doing some tracker marking to fill up rectangle shapes, it is so hard using a rounded highlighter. I end up using Noteshelf when I really want to use goodnotes. It messes up my entire habit tracking that I use everyday.

    18 votes

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  18. For example, tapping the pen icon will open the pen menu. Tapping that icon again does not close the menu, but it should.

    3 votes

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  19. Similar to the outline in powerpoint, I'd like to be able to add a border to images or text boxes. This helps distinguish pictures that are near or on top of each other. You can draw a rectangle around the picture with the shape tool but it's hard to make it precise.

    20 votes

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  20. When I am inserting photos as a new page, I can only insert one photo at a time and could not insert more than one at a single instance.

    It saves lot of time for the users in case they want to insert screenshots of lessons they are going through online.

    2 votes

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