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  1. I would like to have an fast way to undo or redo something without aiming for the small buttons all the time. Maybe it is possible to implement a two-finger-swipe area to cover this function. Even if it would be only active during the editing in the zoomed window mode this would be increase the workflow.

    74 votes

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  2. Please support Boxcryptor. This allows to store files encrypted on Dropbox. You support dropbox - you should support Boxcryptor as well. Never mind - but who wants to store his private stuff in the cloud without encryption ... :).
    Thanks for realization!

    29 votes

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  3. If you create the typing text feature, something that would be useful is syntax highlighting for popular programming languages. I use this app to take notes in all my classes except Computer Science. I would love to be able to write, type, and draw, and this app is the best possibility to do all of the above. Additionally, ability to export code snippets from notes as separate files, with a chosen extension (.c/.cc, etc). This isn't a widely sought feature and would take a lot of time and work, but just putting it out there for CS students.

    61 votes

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  4. I would like the ability to "lock" a finished set of notes. I inevitably end up putting scratch marks across my pages as I am flipping through pages when I review my notes.

    Along the same lines, a quick toolbar button that would enable/disable gestures on the fly would stop the page bounce when I get into writing frenzy mode..

    75 votes

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  5. A few versions ago, the zoom functionality worked so that if you were zoomed more than 100% and zoomed out, it would snap to 100%. And the same goes for being zoomed out less than 100% and zooming in; it would snap to 100%.

    13 votes

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  6. 118 votes

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  7. As a teacher i use the app as an interactive whiteboard with a beamer and Apple TV (Airplay). This offers me a very good and cheap smartboard (interactive whiteboard) The app is almost perfect, but i am missing a simple pointer and a curtain to hide solutions from the pupils, when we are filling out a task sheet together.
    Also nice was a feature to record a lesson, like in doceri or have a timeline.

    75 votes

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  8. If there was one thing I could change or add to it would be the library view, I don't particularily like the virtual bookshelf that so many apps use. I'd much prefer a simple expandable folder/file list, ideally sortable on file name and revision date.

    99 votes

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  9. Can w add a shortcuts for "Page Width" (just like what we have in Microsoft Word) to zoom the page so that the width of the page match the width of the screen?

    This is very useful when you want switch the iPad Mini to landscape view (to have bigger text size or get bigger keyboard to type faster).

    This is also useful when you want to switch back to a page width zoom level after you zoom it for some purpose.

    100 votes

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  10. Today my iPad ran out if storage space. I checked the usage page in Settings and Goodnotes was taking up 4GB of space. A few minutes later the iPad automagically launched into "cleaning" mode for Goodnotes and then, voila, the app's usage had dropped to 65MB. I create a lot of big files in Goodnotes but regularly clean them out when I'm done. It would be great if I could manually trigger a cleaning of the app's cache so that it doesn't grow to several GB again.

    15 votes

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  11. When you change the orientation of your iPad to landscape, the GoodNotes pages (blank template, ruled template, graph paper template, etc) turn to match the landscape orientation. Not the imported documents such as PDF, docx, ppt, etc. Just the GoodNotes papers need to have a landscape mode

    79 votes

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  12. It would be a great deal, if it would be possible to tag all documents and (possibly) each position within each note with one or more tags. There should be a tag list for each shelf of notes, such that I can have different sets of tags for each shelf. It should then be possible to open the tag list for a shelf, click on a tag, and get a list of all usages of this tag with all documents and all locations within documents. Clicking on a usage should open the document (in case it is the tag of…

    2,914 votes

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  13. My language is arabic, we start writing from right side goes to the left
    The writing continuously is a great technique but it just good for whom is writing from left to right

    94 votes

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  14. I am working with lots of pdfs and it's really fun to read an annotate them with GoodNotes. However, I'd like to use keywords and attach them everywhere in my notes (pdfs). Thereafter, I'd would link all keywords for all notes in one or more mindmaps. The, I should be able to access all occurences of a keyword (in all notes resp. pdfs) from my mindmaps. But, it need not to be mind maps. Structured listes (with subitems, subsubitems, and so on) could be a much simpler way to implement the structuring of keywords.

    Crucial in any way would be…

    124 votes

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  15. It would be great to be able to use predefined and custom graphic stamps to annotate a document. I'm thinking 'Rejected!' or "Approved'

    61 votes

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  16. Implement an eraser which size it covers gets bigger as erase strokes are faster and bets smaller when the eraser is moved slowly. Thus we can erase quicker bigger area but still have precise eraser when we move slower.

    47 votes

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  17. Create simple hyperlink to other notebooks within a notebook.

    244 votes

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  18. Maybe I am missing some setting or documentation, but I spend a lot of time marking up documents and bookmarking those notes, only to have the bookmarks not Export with the document. Frustrating.

    30 votes

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  19. While taking notes in meetings I find that tasks end up getting embedded in my notes.

    Without having to switch to another task management app it would be convenient to be able to create a task on the fly and have it inserted into the page where I'm taking the notes.

    Then, please allow me to view/manage tasks across the entire notebook, the entire folder or my entire GoodNotes installation.

    For starters, all I would ask for would be the ability to check a task when it's completed and view/sort tasks by notebook / folder / all GoodNotes, checked/unchecked/either, toggle…

    117 votes

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  20. It appears that when PDFs are exported they are done so as a "flattened" PDF. It would be great if the PDF elements were still editable after export - both the written notes and any fields if they were included in the original PDF.

    22 votes

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