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  1. Love the new voice memos feature, I wish that they were easier to use though. I would appreciate it if the names could be edited after recording, and if they could be linked to and played by a voice memo sticker on the page.

    7 votes

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  2. Allow for the shape, pen, or highlighter snap feature to instinctively recognize an intersection of polygons, lines, or just a plain dot. This feature is mainly focused on imported documents and images. In the image below is a triangle (redrawn for clarity) where at each corner, the blue do for the highlighter snap shape is not at the corner. The snap tool should detect intersections, such as for a grid line or corner of a polygon, and automatically move to the intersection.

    7 votes

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  3. Now it is hard to write near the edge of the page while zooming in.
    For example, writing on the right edge of the page with the right-hand needs your hand to float.
    For another example, using the lasso tool, once the pencil detected released near the edge of the screen, the selection region will be confirmed.

    Adding a scrolling "margin" would be the best solution; allow scroll outside the page.

    7 votes

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  4. Instead of opening a new document to go back, there should be another easier way to go back and forth smoothly

    7 votes

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  5. When a new page is created or a pdf imported into GoodNotes, there is a margin on the sides. Occasionally, students use these pdf slide decks to take notes, but end up marking up the page. Sometimes those pages don’t have room for notes. Being able to write in the free margins of the window would be an excellent way to take notes without writing directly on slides/pages. Either making it a permanent change or an option to make margin notes in documents would be great.

    7 votes

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  6. Currently the flash card is shown in the same document, so one needs to open different notebooks to read flashcards in them.it will be very beneficial if all the flash cards from different notebooks appear at a single place so that space repetition can be utilised at a single place in a better way.

    7 votes

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  7. It would be nice to add an Apple pencil pen function, Mono Line Pen, and Watercolor Pen function, which are installed in iPAD OS 16.1.
    It would be nice to add an Apple pencil pen function, Mono Line Pen, and Watercolor Pen function, which are installed in iPAD OS 16.1. In addition, I would like to add the existing Apple pencil pen function, crayon pen.

    7 votes

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  8. Goodnotes has available in its pop-up store: "Hexagonal Grid: Draft Papers" which features a hexagonal grid. However, because line snapping only works at 45° angles, there is no useful line snapping for this grid, which makes is somewhat useless as a template. It would be great (and I imagine very easy to implement) if there was a toggle in settings to access 30° line snapping.

    7 votes

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  9. I am left-handed and use GoodNotes on my iPad for taking notes. When you're editing a document and zoomed in so that the entire width of the document can not be displayed and scroll all the way to the edge of the document, GoodNotes forces the edge of the document to the edge of the display and does not allow you to scroll off the page. This makes it difficult for me when writing at the beginning of a line, since I'm left-handed, my hand is often hovering off the edge of my iPad or I need to set something…

    7 votes

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  10. Be able to type directly into the document without having to use a text box. Like a word document for example. But still be able to write or annotate if wanted.

    7 votes

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  11. The size settings of pen tool and shape tool should be kept independent of each other. Suppose I want pen tool with a setting of 0.3 and shape tool with some different setting everytime I need to change the setting

    7 votes

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  12. It would be cool to have access to my GoodNotes across different devices by logging in to the app/website with a username and password in case I don’t want to/can’t use iCloud.

    7 votes

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  13. Pen thickness should be able to be bigger and there should be a fill tool please

    7 votes

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  14. The only thing that I don’t like about it ,, is that i cant add videos, website, and voice recording, if u can add those features,, it will be the best study app out there

    7 votes

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  15. Hello, when can I have a setting for quick page turning and page jumping? It is troublesome to slide my fingers when reading a book with many pages. Similar to this design

    7 votes

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  16. I'd love to see an option to add more than 3 pen colors as "quick-access". I often use up to six colors and it is quite displeasing that I have to switch them around so much. I added a screenshot to clarify what I mean by "quick-access".

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  17. Ipad keyboard shorcut key!

    simple like ctrl+c,ctrl+v

    7 votes

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  18. It would be awesome if you could add a method to convert copied text from a pdf to custom handwriting. As a software engineer, I propose adding the capability to enter a custom alphabet where the text is converted by mapping each letter (works in O(n) where n is the length of the text).

    7 votes

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  19. Two things that would make this app even more amazing. First is the ability to hyperlink within the program. If you could link one note to another place anywhere in GoodNotes would be so useful. The other is to be able to add reminders. This would need to work with a hyperlink so a to-do task would notify you and then you could click and be taken right to where the reminder is referring to

    7 votes

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  20. Ability to move the elements collections manually so I can put them in the order I use most instead of scrolling back and forth

    7 votes

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