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  1. Currently, Dark Mode changes the UI, but not the document area, which is most of the app. Consequently, Penbook is more comfortable than GoodNotes when I want to scrawl out an idea I woke up with at 3AM.

    RGB color inversion usually looks terrible, but preserving hue and saturation while inverting luminance (brightness) in HSV space typically preserves contrast and color-coding while providing the sentiment of “dark mode”.

    Could luminance inversion in the document display area be an option for Dark Mode?

    27 votes

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  2. About changing the mouse cursor
    The cursor shape changes to a pen in the Mac version of Nobility.
    Please change it into a cute pen shape ^^

    11 votes

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  3. I‘m using multiple PDF documents in one notebook with each document having around 30 pages. So let’s say with 5 PDFs I‘d have 150 pages. Sometimes I‘d like to move PDF document B in front of document A. For now I have to rearrange (move) all 30 pages one by one. Many times I mess up the order of the pages, because it‘s just hard to see the content, yet alone the page number, in thumbnail view. Grouping all 30 pages from that PDF document would make them stay together - in the correct order - and I could move…

    6 votes

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  4. The current dark paper template is actually a grey, which makes it harder to read when you're writing with light colours. It would be a lot more legible if the grey were a darker black.

    5 votes

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  5. GoodNotes 5 has adopted the use of very small thumbnails, which almost obviates the intent of being able to easily select a relevant page.

    12 votes

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  6. Es wäre sehr gut, wenn man in GoodNotes - ähnlich wie in Office - die Linienarten einstellen könnte. Also z.B. eine gestrichelte Linie für das Zeichnen von verdeckten Linien. Oder auch die Strich-Punkt-Linie für eine Symmetrieachse.

    64 votes

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  7. We need an option to somewhat invert dark papers with bright colors into white papers with a dark color but in a more controlled way so we can read on a dark mode and print it on a typical paper.

    178 votes

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  8. It would be great to have automatic color changing toggle for dark mode. Adobe Acrobat as such feature.
    https://www.guidingtech.com/pdf-readers-night-mode/

    55 votes

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  9. please add a pen stabilizer so lines don’t appear so squiggly like the streamline feature on procreate.

    163 votes

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  10. If I draw a note and then use Handoff to get it onto my Mac and then try and copy it into Pages it always tries to convert it to text. I just want the drawing. There should be two copy modes, one for drawing, one for text.

    3 votes

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  11. The new ipad Pro (2019) allows you to open Notes by tapping the Apple Pencil to the screen and instantly start writing a Note. Once I have done this, there is no way to efficiently share this content directly to GoodNotes. Allowing GoodNotes into the Share options would help streamline the use of both apps.

    10 votes

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  12. When I import a pdf with large white margins on the sides it would be great if we could set a specific zoom that would “crop out” the white margins and then lock the horizontal panning when scrolling a bit diagonally - that way the text is bigger on the screen and we don’t have to constantly adjust the text column to be centered. Thanks!

    3 votes

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  13. When I paste more text than will fit on a page the text gets cut off. Is there a way to get it all onto one page? Not ability can spread text between as many pages as it takes.

    3 votes

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  14. Immediately after I started using the app to take notes in class, I have found myself wanting a contextual menu that can show up around the pencil.

    My idea would be to use the double tap in the Apple Pencil, or a double tap of the Pencil on a note (or another shortcut), that would open a menu around the last position of the Pencil.

    This menu would have color palette, tool options, and tool selection.

    This could allow the user to have the toolbar off or just have a shortcut to the toolbar options.

    5 votes

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  15. There is enough space left in the toolbar to have 4 (maybe even 5) preset pen-colors and -thicknesses displayed in the toolbar permanently.

    I use for my notes during lectures 4 different colors and I would save quite a lot of time if my 4th color could be displayed permanently as well.

    21 votes

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  16. Can developers put the toolbar of the software on the left and right sides ?instead of just the up and down direction of the screen,i think i will get better use with my lefthand on screen. after solve it ,this app is perfect.

    15 votes

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  17. save tabs in groups for later use and close all tabs

    14 votes

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  18. Goodnotes used to open to the last notebook I viewed. Now it constantly goes back to the main document screen and I have to find and open the document I want every Time. Is there a way to make it stop doing that?

    7 votes

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  19. I have been using Notability for my class notes for over a year and am just now starting to use Goodnotes 5 specifically for bullet journaling. There are a few features I love in Notability that I think would be great in Goodnotes:
    * Clickable bullet lists when typing in Text
    * Alignment guides to show when elements are aligned to each other at right, left, & center

    And one other suggestion (not from Notability that I know of)... an optional line or dot grid that can be projected onto a page to help with alignment. Great if it can…

    24 votes

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  20. 4 votes

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