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  1. Please please please add the keyboard shortcuts from GoodNotes 4 to GoodNotes 5. I love the new updates but I severely miss those shortcuts.

    9 votes

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  2. Sometimes we import a whole pdf into goodnotes and annotate some of the pages. it would be nice to be able to easily search and extract all the pages that have annotation to serve as a quick reviewer.

    17 votes

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  3. Make the new gesture control optional (so we can turn it off, if we don't use it and don't want to risk using it by mistake).

    6 votes

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  4. The following are essential for reading and annotation of scientific papers that have a citation list and internal references:

    Issue: Following an internal PPF link does not reach exact position in target page.

    Feature request i: After following internal PPF link, highlight target line until next user input

    Feature request ii: After following internal PDF link, show button to return to original position.

    31 votes

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  5. In Goodnotes4 I could use my stylus Wacom, but in Goodnotes5 only can only be selected apple pen.

    4 votes

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  6. Please add a way to overlay two PDF sheets for comparison/mapping.

    By default PDF backgrounds are clear - can we get a way to overlay the line information from one PDF sheet on to another? This would be extremely useful for architects, engineers, contractors, fabricators, etc.

    For example, in Bluebeam I can take a snapshot anywhere in a PDF and paste it on to another sheet with no white background.

    One way to accomplish this would be with a layer system. Another would be with the option to do an overlay sheet on top of another sheet, with the upper…

    17 votes

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  7. Considering the high refresh rate of the iPads display, there must be a was to reduce the latency of the Pencil, especially when drawing long lines quickly. Just take a look at Apple's Notes App. There is almost 0 lag, no matter how fast you dran of write.

    19 votes

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  8. The marked text or picture gets mirrored with the selection tool and picture tool.

    74 votes

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  9. First, I love Goodnotes!
    Would it be possible to make a larger Return Button. I'm often taking bullet type notes, so I use the Return often, and when going quickly, it takes a moment to look and make sure I hit the button to create the next bullet, as it's quite small. I know this is a minor issue but it would speed things up for me a lot.
    Thank you very much.
    Cheers,
    Anthony

    3 votes

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  10. The lasso tool should have a mode (switch?) where it only selects objects that are completely enclosed by the lasso area, not anything that intersects with the lasso area. This is very useful for selecting things in complex drawings.

    13 votes

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  11. Some documents are better viewed managed in vertical scrolling other in horizontal. For example, a document I am reading is better in horizontal, with fixed page dimensions, a note that I am jotting down is better in vertical to allow passing through pages. GoodNotes should retain the selection made per document while applying the same selected mode for the open documents. Ditto would be for the pencil and highlight colours.

    18 votes

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  12. I know for long people have requested for a voice recording facility in GoodNotes. I would like to see the possibility to import recordings through the voice memo app from Apple and also the ability to import screen recordings or videos

    41 votes

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  13. Good Notes for Microsoft Surface

    14 votes

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  14. PDF annotation in GoodNotes 5 uses about 1/5 of the screen real estate that could have been for viewing and reading. This is an particularly for users with 9.7” screen or smaller. I hope PDF annotation will be allowed in reading mode where only a tiny toolbox for pens and eraser is shown.

    6 votes

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  15. I think that the quality of hand written characters should be improved.
    when I handwriting, I get to many sharp edge at the start and end of writing. So need to automatic clean-up function.
    also the straight line should be improved automatically when the handwriting characters.

    12 votes

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  16. In GoodNotes 4, 3 colors and the eraser tool were easily accessible at the top of the zoom window. It would be great to have this back. It is a bit inconvenient to reach to the top of the ipad to erase, change tool or undo.

    14 votes

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  17. There is currently no indication of the size of the page I’m editing, which makes it very difficult to change the template without going through an annoying trial-and-error dance to make the page size match the existing page size.

    I’d really like a switch to show ruler markings on the edges of the page to check the page size and, if possible, an indication of the current page size (letter, A6, etc)

    26 votes

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  18. Vielen Dank dafür, dass ihr meinem Wunsch über alle Notizen zu suchen entsprochen habt! Es funktioniert sogar in der Schreibschrift super!! Nun meine nächsten Wünsche:
    Ich möchte gern jederzeit angezeigt bekommen wann und möglicherweise auch wo, ich die Notiz erstellt habe. Ich möchte ausserdem Dokumente suchen bzw. finden, die ich an einem bestimmten Tag und/oder Ort erstellt habe. Ausserdem fehlt mir ein Lineal mit Massangaben um Grundrisse zu zeichnen.

    27 votes

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  19. I downloaded Goodnotes 5 because it promised I could rotate a selection. However every time I rotate the selection is changes the scale of it. Is there any way of separating these two functions. Or when you rotate that your able to lock the scale so it doesn't change?

    67 votes

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  20. I though of adding a cover to my pdf but it replace this page of pdf with cover instead. I lost it permenantly. The undo buttom can't do anything.

    Please add an universeral undo ability to undo ANY change to the document.

    12 votes

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