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  1. Comments similar to Excel

    Ability to add comments. For example I often use GoodNotes to take notes during meetings. Near the top I write the initials of the people attending the meeting - writing their full names would take up too much space. Sometimes there are multiple people with the same initials or I forget people’s full names if I don’t know them well.

    I could add notes to each person’s initials and tap on them later to see the person’s full name.

    Another option would be to allow a collapsible writing area.

    Either that or

    4 votes
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  2. Study a document : split screen and copy paste pdf as image for formulas

    Hi, I already like very much GoodNotes as it is ! But here would be a really nice improvement : i would love to study several PDFs inside goodnotes. For this I would like to have on a half of the screen my pdf article I want to study, and on the other side a sheet of manuscript notes. On those notes, I want sometimes to just copy paste a theorem or a formula of the article (I am a mathematician). So it would be really great to be able to have :
    1) split screen option
    2) copy paste…

    4 votes
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  3. Import to same folder and open automatically

    I have my subjects divided in folders and more so than often I would have one file open and will want to import another one to the same folder and have it open automatically. The current available options are to either add before or after the current page, or to browse the whole library to get into the folder. Sometimes I have a folder inside another folder, this as you can imagine isn’t the best possible way. So can you please an option to import to the same folder as a separate file and open automatically?
    Thank you.

    4 votes
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  4. Add Sidebar view outline with pdf files

    Add Sidebar(support pin) to view outline with PDF files.

    27 votes
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  5. Insert videos into notes

    I love the app. But a feel a dire need for you to add this and also the audio feature. If that doesn't happen, i will have to move to notability

    39 votes
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  6. Staple pages together /use back of a page

    Would be nice to staple two pages together or flip the page and use the back side.

    3 votes
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  7. Column view file manager for quicker access to documents

    A column view like on MacOS or the coming iPadOS. This increase the complete overview of all the documents. Adding some tags would also be nice.

    6 votes
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  8. Add drop shadows to images

    Add drop shadows as you can in ZN and Keynote

    12 votes
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  9. shape options/presets

    Studying organic chemistry is already a pain, not mentioning to draw a perfect hexagon... Can we have shapes presets to help drawing in the app

    23 votes
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  10. Insert shapes, perfect circles and squares

    3 votes
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  11. Reintroduce the “go back” navigation option

    Please reintroduce the go back option that was present in goodnotes 4 in goodnotes 5. That allowed us to go back to an initial page if we clicked on a internal link. It’s so annoying to be forced to scroll back the full document once a link has been clicked.

    16 votes
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  12. Margins - for ring binders, book printing etc

    Margins in page settings

    may be also a option to visualise the holes in page

    5 votes
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  13. Embed external video

    Allow user to embed a video in a page and allow playback. support different services such as youtube, vimeo, dropbox, google drive etc.

    57 votes
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  14. Support for multiple platform

    Hi,

    Wahed here. Please take love from Bangladesh. Currently am using GoodNotes almost regularly for my office and personal works. It's been working really great with my iPad and apple pencil. Kudos for the excellent work and execution :)

    However, I really find it annoying when I really need my note's references on a different platform. For example, I took my Credit Card balance calculation on iPad and at Bank, I have my Mac and my Android Phone. But, I have no references with me now. In another occasion, I previously sketched some flow of my office work and later…

    20 votes
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  15. Remember pen options for different documents

    It would be awesome if different documents could remember the pen options for each of them. This feature was available in GoodNotes 4, but I was shocked that it disappeared in 5. I usually need to switch between several documents each requiring a different pen size/color, and I almost went mad after typing the desired pen option for 100 times because it was not remembered for each doc. I have been bearing with Goodnotes 5 for half a year, and I will probably switch to Goodnotes 4 if this simple and useful feature is still not implemented.

    309 votes
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  16. Finger-activation of hyperlinks in edit mode

    Currently, hyperlinks in pdf files seem to be activated only in view mode.
    When using styluses, this kind of limitation is not necessary.

    18 votes
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  17. Add full screen editing

    Please add full screen editing like Notability. This would make your product far superior than theirs.

    27 votes
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  18. Remember tool per document

    Remember the tool I last used in that specific document.
    E.g one document where the highlighter is selected and the other document keeps the pen selected, so the selection isn‘t app wide

    6 votes
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  19. Remember tool per document

    Remember the tool I last used in that specific document.
    E.g one document where the highlighter is selected and the other document keeps the pen selected, so the selection isn‘t app wide

    2 votes
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  20. Open PDF directly instead of import

    Would be great to have the option to open PDF files directly, e.g. from iCloud Drive. After some edits were applied, save the changes in the file directly.

    I‘ve organized all my files in iCloud. Using Good Notes I always have duplicates and there’s a noticeable amount of work to keep them synced, besides that the export flattens the PDF so no further edits are possible.

    8 votes
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