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  1. I’m trying to search for multi-word phrases in GoodNotes on my iPad and the search engine appears to be treating each word as an independent search term. Is it possible to search for the entire phrase?

    Example: Searching for “Looking for this phrase” is apparently translated to searching for “Looking” OR “for” OR “this” OR “phrase” instead of using AND’s or using the actual search text, perhaps in “ “‘s?

    45 votes

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  2. 4 votes

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  3. Lag when using eraser tool and dragging the text-box after long period of using goodnotes5.
    I have to fix it by restarting the app.

    3 votes

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  4. I don't meant that 2in1 pages is shown 2 docs in split view. I mean same doc , but can see previouse pages and next page side by side. Like normal book.
    When use landscape mode view (ipad)

    9 votes

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  5. You can add small pages to the left and right sides of a note page, or just comments, so it's extremely convenient to flip through notes later, as well as PDF revisions. Summary: goodnote page restrictions are very serious
    可以给某个笔记页面的左右侧添加小页面,或者批注就好了,这样的话,后期来翻阅笔记,以及PDF的修订等,都变得极其方便。
    总结:goodnote页面限制非常严重

    12 votes

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  6. Add a way to swap white text with black text when exporting a dark background notebook. That way it can be printed.

    12 votes

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  7. It would be nice to be able to lock a text box in place since sometimes drawings items are referenced to the box items

    28 votes

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  8. I am using goodnotes 5 in an iPad pro 11 inch in a split screen mode, with the lecture slides on the other half of the scree, doing so will optimize the tool bar and i cannot be using the preset three pen colors without directly. I either have to reduce my slides to less than half of the screen which not ideal, or clicking on the pen options to select a different color, which does take sometime. Is there an option where i can edit the items in the toolbar, to select what is used frequently (pen, highlighter, eraser)…

    23 votes

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  9. I wish I had the ability to select a line and change just the thickness of the line (just like you can color). I often draw things and realize the object it too big or small. When I change the size of what I drew, it changes the thickness as well. I'll often misjudge how something looks and not realize the lines are all too narrow or too thick. This would allow me to select them and change them to a new thickness (much like you can color) without changing the size of the object.

    Several years ago, there were…

    47 votes

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  10. 2 votes

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  11. The handwriting experience in GoodNotes is now perfect but texting is not. I suggest that users can select an area of the page and use markdown language (or Latex for academic purposes)to organize formal notes, including mathematical functions. Such feature would be even better if one day we can see a macOS GoodNotes app, cause handwriting is not the primary way we interact with laptop.

    9 votes

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  12. Since ios 13 the notes app with apple pencil has less latency, going to goodnotes again seems so slow in comparison

    19 votes

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    The Apple Pencil latency is also down to 9ms in GoodNotes. However, GoodNotes doesn’t use “stroke prediction” which will make the line look “slower” than in Apple Notes when drawing longer lines quickly. It won’t affect the usual writing experience. Do you notice a higher latency when you’re writing as well?

  13. the text boxes system is outdated, unconfortable and breaks the "note-taking flow". Add tap & type as, for example, notability, or a similar function.

    2 votes

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  14. Automatically created datestamp in filename during Export

    I love to work with GN5 at school as a teacher every day - I can't imagine working without it. Therefore I export the actual content every day to upload it into the cloud and it would be helpful, if I could check a checkbox, that would add the date of the day after the export-filename.

    5 votes

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  15. Organization- That's the point where people sometimes prefer notability over good-notes. Saved file in folder like windows is a very old idea. It's so hard to get the note when It is necessary. Please try to make this feature as it is in notability.

    9 votes

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  16. 6 votes

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  17. In GoodNotes 4, before the ios print dialogue, there was an option to "fit to page" when printing (And also one to remove backgrounds before printing). In GoodNotes 5, those options are gone, which means that my printer (who can't print the outer 3mm of a page, as do most printers) always cuts off just a little bit of the page. This is a huge problem with tight maths pages, where the last bits of formulas/text are cut-off, see PDF attached.

    17 votes

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  18. I have an iPad Pro, there's lots more space in my toolbar for more than 3 "circles"/swatches to quickly select colors. If I could remove icons I never use (such as Detail view, image and presenter mode), there would be even more space. Right now, I'm always using 7-8 colors simulaneously, having to switch constanly is rather annoying.

    14 votes

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  19. I am unable to change the default font. I have a particular font and size preference (19 point Helvetica) but every time I copy-paste text, it automatically goes to 28 points Apple Color Emoji. This could be fixed with a customizable default font and size feature. Also -- when I change the font first, then the size second, the font annoyingly reverts back to Apple Color Emoji again. Somehow changing the font size makes the text revert again back to the undesired default font. It would be a fantastic time-saver if this were fixed.

    29 votes

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  20. Turning pages is really slow/difficult since the function overlaps with moving around the document, and you have to drag your finger a lot to turn a page. I’d like a way to do this much easier, maybe a two finger flick.

    4 votes

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