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  1. We definitely need to sync data of GoodNotes with other cloud storage services rather than iCloud!
    Since we only have 5GB with default in iCloud, it’s pretty hard to maintain available storage.

    Please add a ability to link with cloud storages that we usually use.(including Box, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox etc.)
    Especially Box would be very nice for me!

    17 votes

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  2. The App "Flow" has a feature that allows the user to assign a tool to be used if the Apple Pen is used while the user holds a finger down anywhere on the screen. This is very handy to quickly switch to "Lasso Tool", or anything else really. It would be great to have this in GoodNotes too.

    4 votes

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  3. It would be really useful to access Zotero/ Citavi or Mendelay Libraries to annotate papers from those libraries

    9 votes

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  4. Often times I annotate pdf in dropbox/Google Drive. I'd like to use goodnotes a PDF annotation tool rather than use PDF expert because I like the UI. I don't want to have to import PDFs directly into goodnotes and then export it.

    8 votes

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  5. So often I find that there are certain tools in the toolbar that I just don't have a lot of use for/only come up once in a blue moon, and I think with the new multi-document feature, this would be more than just a creature comfort.

    It would work by allowing you to have all the tools you don't want on the bar in a "chest," and that would include the colors as well. Since you can drag and drop all the UI elements, you can essentially customize your UI to use the least or most amount of space possible!

    7 votes

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  6. When you have a lengthy document, e.g. 10 pages, and you need to add text/graph/diagram on the first page you would have to move everything down from that point onwards.
    Please add a menu to add a predefined amount of space at a certain point (2 cm ?)

    8 votes

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  7. It would be great if I can navigate to the folder where the document came from when select back option. It’s difficult when you have a massive nested file system. On the other hand, it would be even better to able navigate where you want in the level of nested file by pressing the file address on the top.

    5 votes

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  8. It is such a waste of screen space only showing what is inside one folder. I have many folders under folders and it is a nightmare navigating through them. It would be way easier if I could see the entire path at once. If for example I have a file under a/a/a/a/file1 and i want to go to b/a/file2 I take ages.

    Please please change this please

    16 votes

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  9. When you are about to write on the edge of a page, GoodNotes doesn't support moving the blue frame beyond the edge so that you could comfortable write in the middle of the screen, while the text is being written on the edge.
    The image shows how I imagined it.

    Unfortunately when not longer holding the frame with a finger the blue frame just goes back.
    Adding this feature would remove the need of having to move the frame to a place where it would auto advance into a comfortable writing position

    5 votes

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  10. Using the „open in new Window“ Split Screen Mode should be enabled with just using one window, so you can duplicate your document you actual using without opening another document by unnecessary.

    10 votes

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  11. Can you please add the opportunity to "freeze" while presentation-mode. Like you did in GN4. This was great, because you could take a look foreward without confusing the audience by scrolling.

    7 votes

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  12. Sometimes I want to get an overview of my notes by checking the correlations between them
    Make it more like a pdf reader so I can read two or more pages at one time

    57 votes

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    Thanks for the suggestion. For now, please try opening the same document in two windows side by side. You can drag and drop the page from thumbnail view to the side and navigate both windows independently.

  13. Hi,

    For example, when we're using a red pencil and convert it to text the fond of the text become black. Can you add an option so by default the color of the font is the same as the original handwritten note?

    Thanks

    4 votes

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  14. When I import some PDFs their outlines are imported too. I love this feature. I have noticed that when this happens, the outlines have sub-outlines to make navigating the outlines easier.

    However, I can not create this in my own GoodNotes outlines. It only works when I import a PDF that already has this structure built into it.

    I would like to have a feature in GoodNotes where I can create sub-outlines in my notebooks.

    963 votes

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  15. Currently, when I use the text feature with a ruled background, the texts will overlap the lines of the background. It will be perfect if we can adjust the spacing such that the text can fit perfectly between the space.

    I would like to add if possible that the shape tool can be enhanced to recognise the shapes better. Occasionally the shape tool will correct my input into a warped shape.

    8 votes

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  16. Could Goodnotes 5 allow export to PDF or image without the template background? Whenever I select export without background, it remove all my inserted or imported picture/pdf.

    I would like to export without template background for printing, because it is waste of ink.

    Also, can we export selected pages too ?
    Can Goodnotes auto convert the light colour ink in dark mode to dark ink when exporting without background? (like Notes App in iOS13)

    8 votes

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  17. If I am using the global search I like to edit the found documents (rename, delete, move) like it is possible in the normal view.

    2 votes

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  18. I used GoodNotes a lot for my work and study, but I can’t use that convenient search functionality to search for text I’ve written in Ukrainian 🥺 .

    32 votes

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  19. Please add a “paste in place” option to the pop up that appears when you press and hold on a page. I would like to copy one or more elements from a page and then paste in the same position on a new page.

    I use GN as a planner (on my iPad) and frequently tweak and then reuse layouts I like. This would make quicker work of it.

    14 votes

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  20. There have been topics on having divider tabs. I would like to expand on this and also request the option of sub-divider tabs. For example...

    For something like a planner journal, there would be 12 main divider sections (one per month). Within each month there could be two separate dividers for weekly and daily pages plus any additional dividers for miscellaneous content relative to that month only.

    For student notes, the main dividers could be the classes and the sub-dividers could be for various assignments for each class.

    If a divider is a MAIN divider, it is accessible from any…

    14 votes

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