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  1. It looks like you are getting a lot of requests that fall into this category. I write small. The zoom window is magnified just too much for me, so even though my writing looks much better if I use this function it is tiny in the document. Writing in huge big strokes in the zoom window means it takes me longer to write. If I could reduce the zoom window height by 20%, this would help a ton.

    13 votes

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  2. Use Paper templates with a margin..

    7 votes

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  3. We should be able to add shapes from a predefined set of shapes from the developers. Plus we should be able to save our own custom shapes like for eg a rectangle with different length and breadth or a elliptical shapes etc

    103 votes

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  4. It would be so helpful if the app could open with all the notebooks I had open before I accidentally closed the app like Safari will reopen with all the tabs I had open. I work on several notebooks open at a time with work projects for different clients and the times I've closed out of the app entirely...they are not open when I restart the app.

    5 votes

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  5. Enabling strikethrough would give me the option of quickly deleting word(s) that I wrongfully entered. It saves me time compared to when I pick the eraser tool, erase items, and choose the pen tool again and then write.

    7 votes

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  6. I know that the Mac App hasn't been updated recently, and there isn't an app for PCs yet.

    Why not instead make a web app that will allow you to log in through your Apple ID or "GoodNotes code" (something that is generated to all GoodNotes users), so that both Mac and PC users can use it?

    276 votes

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  7. Currently, a keyword search only works within a handwritten note. However, across notebooks, this feature is not available. It would be good if this is integrated into Spotlight Search so that handwritten notes can be retrieved by searching via Spotlight.

    23 votes

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  8. When using the scissor tool, I would like to not only be able to change the color, but also the thickness of the selected drawing.

    33 votes

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  9. The printed page has no margin for binding.
    Please add margins. Best, mirror margins for front/back print

    Printing, two GoodNotes pages fit well in one A-size or A4-size sheet.
    Please include the option of margins for this, with front/back option
    (4 GoodNotes pages in a front/back physical sheet)

    28 votes

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  10. Allmost every book is in djvu available. djvu is opensouce and far superior to pdf!

    20 votes

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  11. At the moment I can automatically backup only to
    - Box
    - Dropbox
    - OneDrive
    - GoogleDrive

    I've my nextcloud. Please add it into the list of automatic backups

    116 votes

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  12. Word Count is important for writers because it lets them keep track of how much they wrote. Thus they can set-up goals and easily measure how much (or little) they have achieved.
    Software-wise, to me as someone with no experience in programming - the easiest way would be to take the code that converts the handwriting to text, and somehow instead of converting, it counts the words.

    52 votes

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  13. How about web access of my notes in any computer devices so I can access my notes anywhere from any device.

    13 votes

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  14. Hi, these are my suggestions that I hope you will develop it in this app:

    1- add Cartesian coordinate system because draw it every time is uncomfortable.
    2- I hope that moving from one page to another will be from up to down not from left to right because that gives you sensibility of the connections between the pages or let this as an option in the app.
    3- Support right-to-left languages such as Arabic, please. We are suffering from this.
    4- When we choose to write why don't you put a color box on the top of the page…

    89 votes

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  15. More templates and paper types would be good. I would love to notes templates with ability to type in the date, a To Do list would be also great. It would also be good to be able to change the colour or style of your notebook once it has been created

    14 votes

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  16. I have a simple idea to provide to pen icons above because during the lecture while changing color of writing pen takes some time . Having 2 pens we dont need to open color menu again and again to select the color. We can do it just by tapping

    42 votes

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  17. To effectively look over the multiple pages, I believe we need a full screen mode for thumbnails. And if it is possible to change the size of each thumbnail, that would be really convenient.

    21 votes

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  18. It is recommended to customize the background color of the PDF document, such as brown or green, to make the visual more comfortable

    11 votes

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  19. In PDFs, normally I highlight the most important information, and at the end I want to see in a list, all the sentences that were highlighted.
    Please make this happen for a next update!
    Thanks

    Rafael

    129 votes

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  20. 727 votes

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