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  1. Allow 2 pages view (different than split view)

    28 votes

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  2. Unlike MacOS Preview GoodNotes for MacOS (version 5.4.14) does not seem to support navigation using PageUp and PageDown Buttons (on Macintosh extended Keyboards like with an iMac Pro). It would be good if GoodNotes for MacOS had a more intuitive navigation which would render it more seamless to migrate from Preview to GoodNotes. Thx.

    7 votes

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  3. please make lasso tool available in zoom window
    i want to see all page of a slide when i write something
    it's uncomfortable to see only a part of page when i solve some math problem

    20 votes

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  4. automatic option to add a tick-box

    This would be very useful for lists and check boxes

    2 votes

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  5. Please see attached:

    In this screen - it would be wonderful if you could rearrange the order of your files, just by dragging them. It would greatly improve workflow speed and file management.

    Many thanks,

    Asim

    2 votes

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  6. Right now, the maximum pen size is only 2mm. It would be nice we could have a way bigger size limit like all the way up to 1cm for example.

    1 vote

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  7. It would be nice to be able to edit the text inside a square that the colour has been filled in. What happens now is if you edit the text it removed the filled-in colour and you can't refill in the colour.

    4 votes

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  8. I keep waiting for someone to replicate the Newton MessagePad. You’re getting there, but here are some things I would love you to add:
    - treat handwritten text more like a word processor treats type. I should be able to select streams of words just as I would in a word processor by dragging across the line or block with an i-bar pointer, and then cut, copy, delete. And do wrapping like a word processor too.
    - Have the option for having those blocks of handwritten text in a basic outliner, with drag and drop of points, indenting and outdenting,…

    1 vote

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  9. When I draw a rectangle with the shape tool, I am not able to adjust the width afterwards without changing the height and thickness of the line in the same proportion.

    3 votes

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  10. I study medicine, so I would love to be able to draw out a human outline, and then nest my notes and link them together i.e. a click on the heart would then link to my notes on heart pathophysiology

    1 vote

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  11. Dear GoodNotes Team,

    I am writing to you trying to support the development of your app. I’m a pretty big fan of GoodNotes 5 as I have been of GoodNotes 4. I’m using it for over 2 years now but sadly there are still things I considered a downgrade between the applications and some things not only I but as I was reading through the feature requests many people wishes that seemed to be ignored. I also read many same opinions that have repeatedly been suggested so I think it is very difficult for you to answer them all or…

    6 votes

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  12. Hello,
    I am using Notability as well as Goodnotes 5..
    I want to emphasize on the point that you should make it possible to insert videos in the notes itself or at least give an option of inserting hyperlinks to youtube or websites.
    It becomes so much easy for us to click the link and open it there itself..
    U need to seriously think on this..

    325 votes

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  13. Having the option of changing the whole notebook template with a simple click would be very useful for people who uses a lot of pages with grid template to standardize the writing at first, and wanting to change it to other template for a cleaner look.

    192 votes

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  14. In order to make notes great, I want to you to able to bring in media files including videos. Almost all university has started online programs, so I want to download those and put them into my notes to manage everything just in Goodnote5 apps.

    3 votes

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  15. In order to change the aspect ratio of the little zoom box (by changing the height of the big zoom box), I have to do two things: move the top bar up, then move the bottom bar down to get the wrist guard out of the way. I don't use the wrist guard at all (I rest my wrist on the table), so I don't want to adjust its size. It would be much, much better if the default was that the top bar moved independently of the bottom bar, so that I could enlarge the zoom box in one…

    1 vote

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  16. In my paper journals (and in GoodNotes) I have various shorthand icons that I draw next to text (stars, hearts, tiny houses, etc.). It would be great if I could draw these icons into an "icon gallery" and then when I draw them onto a page they would be recognized and the page would be "tagged" with the icon so that I can quickly find it again.

    And I totally get that training your recognition engine to identify arbitrary shapes is a much different beast than recognizing handwriting in general and this may not be technically feasible. But it would…

    3 votes

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  17. I convert my handwriting to text very very often. After doing so, I have to touch the Share-Arrow and then touch "Copy" — two steps that add friction.

    Please provide a "copy to pasteboard" checkbox on the conversion panel. If checked, the text will be copied after conversion, and also copied (and recopied) as I make edits.

    And, of course, remember the state of the checkbox so I can check it once and never touch it again :-)

    2 votes

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  18. I would like to be able to mark a page or notebook for review and then be able to set a reminder notification.

    7 votes

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  19. I use templates (normally graph paper or ruled pages) when I am writing & drawing — but don't want them when I am reading. I would dearly love to have a button so that with a single gesture I can toggle my page background between the currently-chosen template and "blank".

    I can imagine two ways to do this. Either have the button control a journal-wide setting (so I can go into "reading mode" and get rid of all templates temporarily), or have the setting be preserved (so that after I complete a page I can hide the template with a single…

    4 votes

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  20. I just realized that other people had this idea. But to solve the confusion that may arise you can number the secondary motion pages eg. horizontal as 1.a, 1.b,etc. And one way to limit complexity is that you can't add a page below an a.b.c pages. Only to the main page.

    2 votes

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