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  1. I just got a new device and all notes were synched from iCloud with no complaints. However, I have noticed that the order my notebooks synced was not what I expected. I am not sure in what order you currently sync the data but I would love it to be based on the notebooks that were last edited. For example, if i get a new device and want to use it right away for taking notes in class, I want my most recent notebooks to sync first so I can use them

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  2. A common action that I perform in Goodnotes is the "Convert Handwriting to Text” and use that converted text as an Outline in my document. What would be nice is there was an option from the converted text window to save the converted text directly to an outline. I’ve attached a screen recording of the steps I currently go through to add an outline title.

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    1. There should be a function to add text/handwritten notes to highlights/or anywhere in the document in PDF reader. After adding the the text/notes, the text box can minimize into an icon next to the highlighted area.

    2. The notes can be compiled and exported/email/printed with or without the document. Information (page no of document/highlighted passages) can be displayed together with/without the notes when exported. This provides easy reference to the notes.

    5 votes

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  3. 5 votes

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  4. Since handwritten text lists can be broken apart much better than text, I would like to have a ‘convert text to handwritten text’ feature. We could even have nice handwritten ‘fonts’ that we could choose from.

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  5. Sometimes I have a document that's hundreds of pages long and I just want to know if a specific word is used in one chapter without having to see every single time it appears in the whole thing. I would love it if GoodNotes enabled the option to search if a specific phrase is in a specific range of pages (for example, pgs. 62-80 instead of pgs. 1-100)

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  6. If I put the pen on the iPad to charge it, the toolbar for better reading should disappear

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  7. Please support import of LibreOffice odt and ods files as an alternative to MS word and Excel files.

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  8. I cannot search for a single digit number. I have a book imported to goodnotes, but when I search for "3" it says that there is nothing, but obviously there is a page three

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  9. Allow embedding of scanned documents within the page - like we can do with images.

    Sometimes we need to scan a paragraph of text and embed it within the notes. Taking a picture and embedding that instead doesn’t work because the text in the picture is not searchable.

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  10. Sometimes I'm forced to use PDF Expert when annotating PDFs, because I can get a summary of the annotations. Hope you can add to GoodNotes, then I'll be able to use it all the time.

    5 votes

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  11. You should be able to resize your selection horizontally only or vertically only. Sometimes I want to make something wider or taller and can’t. I have to just increase it in the 1:1 proportion. Please add this feature! Thank you!

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  12. (This is not about adding a calligraphy pen itself.)
    I suggest adding a calligraphy mode, that similar to the app Over lets you type something and convert it to a nice style.
    This makes it possible to create good-looking headers easily without having to be a pro.

    5 votes

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  13. I review alot of technical documents with goodnotes and often times, there will be updates to the underlying PDF Document from time to time. I would like the ability to move my annotated notes to the latest PDF.

    In my situation, almost all of the time, the underlying PDF would have the same format, number of pages etc. So the ability of export only annotations (which you current support) and merge the exported PDF annotates with a new PDF would solve my problem.

    5 votes

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  14. Right now, Automatic Backups requires connecting to a Cloud Storage provider, of which only 3 are supported, and iCloud is not even one of them. However, "Backup Now" supports saving backups to an Files.app location, which supports any cloud service that is integrated with Files.app.

    What I would like to see is Automatic Backup have support for closing a location in Files.app (either local on device, or cloud service provider).

    5 votes

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  15. Scenario:
    A user is working within a notebook in the "workspace" (the UI where all of the currently open notebooks' tabs are displayed and a user performs there GoodNote'ing). The user is curious if they have a notebook somewhere titled "Foo" and wants to see where "Foo" lives, but they do not want to open "Foo."

    Current behavior:
    When user navigates to the library, they cannot return to their open notebooks until they select a notebook. In this scenario, the user would be forced to open "Foo" only to immediately close it.

    Ideal behavior:
    User has an intuitive way to…

    5 votes

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  16. It would be great to have the option to design a template that has the same dimensions as the default ones. So that if you import a paper or cover design you can...

    • put it against the original dimensions
    • mark it up
    • rotate the orientation
    • add basic paper types (grids, lines, dots)... Better if you could choose the colour and spacing!
    • change background colour

    This would be absolutely amazing, making it easy and quick to create simple to complex templates specific to their needs and preferences.

    There are images and paper templates I’ve imported but it’s frustrating to have it…

    5 votes

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  17. Gostaria que adicionassem o modo de tela infinita para realização de mapas mentais feitos com Apple Pencil, isso ajudará muito nos estudos, pois nenhum aplicativo faz essa funcionalidade e quando fazer a exportação ou impressão se torna ruim, pelo fato de diminuírem a letra das anotações, a qual não consegue ler nada das anotações e com isso o estudo fica prejudicado. O good notes por ser um excelente aplicativo ao adicionar essa função ele tornará perfeito. Se puder incluir essa opção mais rápido possível, eu agradeceria muito, pelo fato de estar precisando dessa funcionalidade para os estudos.

    5 votes

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  18. Add buttons to jump to beginning and end of of long documents.

    5 votes

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  19. In pen tool and highlighter tool, only three colours can be set at the same time, but is there any way to set four or more colours on the tool bar at the same time? Personally, I use black, red, blue and green frequently, but every time I need to switch one of three colour settings. Since there is still space on the tool bar, the app should allow the users to add more colour settings on the bar (like Microsoft OneNote). What do you think?

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