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  1. I would like to be able to create and edit the outline section, and make it exportable into a PDF document, too!
    That would give me a table of contents at hand which would make it a breeze to navigate around chapters of my documents.

    10 votes

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  2. When you zoom in/out the borders snap to the edges of the ipad.

    It can feel especially cramped when i'm trying to write at the top left of the page or when i'm nearing the bottom of the paper.

    9 votes

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  3. Say you import a pdf file and only take notes/highlight/annotate on certain pages. It would be great to have a window/overview or something where you can see only those pages you wrote something on instead of having to look through the whole file :) (like in notability)

    29 votes

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  4. Sometimes I write an entire word in cursive and when I am done I realize shape recognition was on and the word becomes unreadable. I want to be able to press 'undo' and undo only the shape recognition step, recovering the word I just wrote. This is an intuitive way to make the program more useful without complicating the interface. It would also allow me to use 'undo' and 'redo' repeatedly to compare the results with and without shape recognition and decide if I want to keep them.

    In addition: after I draw a triangle without shape recognition, allow me…

    5 votes

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    1. Selection issue: The lasso tool selection is always a problem as it gets de-selected. I think the lasso tools options can pop out when we click inside the selection region and could be de-selected when clicked/tapped outside selection area.

    2. The move/resize: Moving sometimes have to be done by resizing the content. In my opinion, the selected region can have 2 small icons on left and right hand one for move option and one for resize option.

    3. It is not possible to change the colour of highlighter when already done. it changes the colour of text as well. It would be…

    32 votes

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    1. The handwriting recognition works but is limited to sharing. I wish it had an option to convert it to text inside notes.

    2. Mathematical symbols or equations recognition would also be great! :)

    28 votes

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  5. chisel Tip look - I do a lot of writing on whiteboard and flipchart at work. a chisel tip instead of round tip on the pen makes all the difference in readability and artistry. it would be great to have the same look of whiteboard with a chisel tip pen - calligraphy style

    20 votes

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  6. add shapes to tool box with straight lines, triangles, squares, circles

    20 votes

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  7. like in illustrator when it automatically smooths curves. i am in organic chemistry and drawing a lot of reaction mechanims and everything looks stellar except for my shaky curves

    40 votes

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  8. A feature to recognize mathematical symbols and equations and to convert them into images inside the recognized text

    22 votes

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  9. I use GoodNotes to create revision notes. The ability to add videos and/or embed online videos from sites such as you tube or Vimeo would be a great asset. Moreover, the ability to either link, or embed Microsoft documents such as PowerPoint/excel/word would also be very very useful. That way I could condense 25 thick binders full of info, into one place on my iPad.

    38 votes

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  10. 1 even when images are created at exactly the same resolution (as the PDF it is placed in) you still have to resize the image on import. I would like to have the option to place the image at the original size, instead of having to size it up. #2 resizing is a pain in the butt if you are trying to get absolute perfection. With the new drag and drop feature, if you hold too long on a corner, the entire image want you to drag and drop it somewhere and you have to start the resize over again.

    42 votes

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  11. Would you please improve the hand writing to be smoother because my hand writing on other application is much much better and beautiful.
    Thank you

    34 votes

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  12. If we could have two documents open at the same time within GoodNotes and then use drag and drop for moving, text, ink, etc...

    By split view I mean it needs to be like you get splitview on Safari on the iPad.

    7 votes

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  13. Let us open PDF's from anywhere in the Files-App in GoodNotes and then edit them without copying them over to GN.

    19 votes

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  14. There are lots of comments regarding different colour templates. It would be great if the background colour could simply be changed whilst continuing to use the same template format. Either that or include a spectrum of colours for each template design so changing the paper template doesn't affect the notes already taken.

    43 votes

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  15. I’d like a paper template that uses the solid & dashed lines for handwriting practice. Many of us are new to writing on a tablet, and GoodNotes is sophisticated enough for practice to matter. I’m talking about paper lined like this:

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=handwriting+paper&safe=strict&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7iJezksvWAhXqA8AKHSCDDYMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1366&bih=920#imgrc=m3s_HIkERhVqdM:

    Thank you.

    10 votes

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  16. I want GoodNots i Swedish too, when can I expect that?

    90 votes

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  17. Make an option where it is possible to write formulas/equations etc. like in the app MyScript Calculator, a handwritten calculator

    15 votes

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  18. Show the GoodNotes Files in the new iOS Files App as a pdf-Version to share and edit them easily with Apps like PDF-Expert.
    A two-way sync would be also nice to edit files on any devices from the Cloud and have them automatically updated in GoodNotes

    12 votes

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