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  1. Please implement the feature to combine two highlights and to not allow highlight over a highlight. It drives me crazy every day if I mistakenly lift the pencil and highlight again.

    68 votes

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  2. Please add back to reading button from browsing files mode. I don’t want to open any file to go back to reading and close it.

    13 votes

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  3. Please implement a way to export notes to Powerpoint. Shapes should be converted to Powerpoint shapes, hand-written text should be converted to typed text.

    4 votes

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  4. Add the ability to lasso text, click on the lassoed word/section and add a reminder or an event to the calendar.

    14 votes

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  5. It would be very helpful if the OCR capabilities could be extended to include images, such as screenshots of whiteboard sessions.

    71 votes

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  6. For the quicknotes, can the default name be the date/time they were made instead of just "untitled"

    13 votes

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  7. Set Text writing with Keyboard as default or make it so that you can write exactly on the lines of the Paper.
    I want to be able to import new fonts especially: century gothic and Arial Narrow

    10 votes

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  8. 14 votes

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  9. Would like to see a wider variety of pen/pencil colour options :)

    26 votes

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  10. The biggest problem I have with the current version is that the navigation bar can not be hided. For older ipads, especially for 9 inch display ones, every bit of screen space counts, and the nav bar really takes too much space. So it would be really nice to allow users hide the nav bar while keep pen tool bar on display, just like hiding the nav bar when the pen tool bar is not open.

    53 votes

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  11. In goodnotes4, this button is really useful! However, I can’t find it in the new vision, which confuses me a lot. Please set this button for users to go back where they viewed just now. I believe it helps many people.

    9 votes

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  12. Because there are big size of eraser it hard to use
    If it small as point it would easy to use than present erase.

    9 votes

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  13. I use Preview on OS X and highlighting is a pleasure on it because you can just select the text you want to highlight in the PDF by clicking and dragging (like you normally select text in a computer).

    Similarly, it will be extremely useful for me if the highlighter tool automatically snapped to the text in the document instead of working like a sort of painting tool that draws in a straight line above the text.

    22 votes

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  14. At base, Go to Last requires far less clicks compared to Go to Page. For example,

    With Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Last

    Without Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Page to highlight page numbers (“remember” what the last page number is because the number changes to the current page when clicked)
    3) Type first digit (from this point forward one is interfacing with the keyboard)
    4) Type second digit...and so on
    5) Type Enter

    So you can see there are not only more clicks, but there is an…

    34 votes

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  15. Add a function, like in GoodReader, where there is a “back to reading” button - so you can toggle between a document and the file browser view.

    7 votes

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  16. Please look at my Suggestions for GoodNotes 5 in the PDF below. My topics:
    - Back button to the currently opened files/tabs
    - More colors in the toolbar
    - Insert geometry templates/shapes
    - Current Bugs

    26 votes

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  17. The ability to share a notebook with someone else who has good notes and allow editing and updates to it

    I think this can help with using it between co workers and employees and students if someone missed a class.

    5 votes

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  18. Add support for Apple Pages Documents!

    3 votes

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  19. Create word hypolinks - To different page / book or internet

    On selection of text or image, be able to turn it into a hypolink, from here give us the options to select a page from either the same book or a different one, or either insert a url which would load up internet browser.

    8 votes

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  20. It would be nice if you can watch embedded videos in pdf and to add videos to your notes from your library or from a website.

    24 votes

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