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  1. I would love to see the feature to edit the icloud drive files directly. I have my mac desktop in the cloud and I would appreciate it if My annotations would be saved directly to the file in the cloud and furthermore on my desktop.

    6 votes

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  2. Please enable users to switch colors of pen or highlighter just like the Apple Notes app or the One Note app ( from Microsoft ) , where I can just tap on the pen icon , and the color options will not dissappear after I selected them , but still stay there even when I write . This will allow users to switch color of Pen much easier without the need to select the pen option 2 times evertime . Thank you !!

    6 votes

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  3. Offer more flexibility to change what you've written afterwards. For example the stroke width should be adjustable after writing and you should be able to pick from your favourite colors instead of only having the option to choose from the whole matrix.

    67 votes

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  4. Change the text setting to make it more flexible for typing such as the app OneNote

    A few things for text I would like to see:
    - be able to change only part of a text to bold etc.
    - be able to edit text boxes
    - bullet points
    - be able to type straight onto ruled paper
    - spacing like a tab button

    102 votes

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  5. For a fully functional editing of longer handwritten notes (with math) I miss inserting things in between (and conversely removing something erased elsewhere). Although tracing with the lasso tool the perimeter around a paragraph is too tedious, a selection tool that can select the whole lines (maybe snap to the text a bit) would be great.

    Although an option for drawing only with Apple pencil but not with hand is needed.

    18 votes

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  6. 14 votes

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  7. GoodNotes has become my default note taking app. However, there are times when I need to work with text but typing directly onto the page. Please include basic text formatting (i.e., bold, italics, underline, bullet list, etc.) in the future.

    49 votes

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  8. I've recently downloaded Goodnotes. The first thing I missed is that if I copy a link from Safari, copied the link info Goodnotes, and...... it became just flattened text.
    I was hoping for (expecting) that this would be a clickable link.

    23 votes

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  9. Allow users to insert new brushes similar to the procreate app. That way we can completely customize our notebooks with calligraphy and other word art.

    6,170 votes

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  10. 24 votes

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  11. An option to add many various shapes and symbols from an existing library (like in word docs) instead of drawing only several shapes.

    56 votes

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  12. It would be great to merge imported sheets and PDFs to one single PDF file.

    23 votes

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  13. I would like to be able to create and edit the outline section, and make it exportable into a PDF document, too!
    That would give me a table of contents at hand which would make it a breeze to navigate around chapters of my documents.

    10 votes

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  14. When you zoom in/out the borders snap to the edges of the ipad.

    It can feel especially cramped when i'm trying to write at the top left of the page or when i'm nearing the bottom of the paper.

    9 votes

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  15. Say you import a pdf file and only take notes/highlight/annotate on certain pages. It would be great to have a window/overview or something where you can see only those pages you wrote something on instead of having to look through the whole file :) (like in notability)

    29 votes

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  16. Sometimes I write an entire word in cursive and when I am done I realize shape recognition was on and the word becomes unreadable. I want to be able to press 'undo' and undo only the shape recognition step, recovering the word I just wrote. This is an intuitive way to make the program more useful without complicating the interface. It would also allow me to use 'undo' and 'redo' repeatedly to compare the results with and without shape recognition and decide if I want to keep them.

    In addition: after I draw a triangle without shape recognition, allow me…

    5 votes

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    1. Selection issue: The lasso tool selection is always a problem as it gets de-selected. I think the lasso tools options can pop out when we click inside the selection region and could be de-selected when clicked/tapped outside selection area.

    2. The move/resize: Moving sometimes have to be done by resizing the content. In my opinion, the selected region can have 2 small icons on left and right hand one for move option and one for resize option.

    3. It is not possible to change the colour of highlighter when already done. it changes the colour of text as well. It would be…

    32 votes

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    1. The handwriting recognition works but is limited to sharing. I wish it had an option to convert it to text inside notes.

    2. Mathematical symbols or equations recognition would also be great! :)

    28 votes

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  17. chisel Tip look - I do a lot of writing on whiteboard and flipchart at work. a chisel tip instead of round tip on the pen makes all the difference in readability and artistry. it would be great to have the same look of whiteboard with a chisel tip pen - calligraphy style

    20 votes

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  18. add shapes to tool box with straight lines, triangles, squares, circles

    20 votes

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