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  1. I wish I had the ability to select a line and change just the thickness of the line (just like you can color). I often draw things and realize the object it too big or small. When I change the size of what I drew, it changes the thickness as well. I'll often misjudge how something looks and not realize the lines are all too narrow or too thick. This would allow me to select them and change them to a new thickness (much like you can color) without changing the size of the object.

    Several years ago, there were…

    57 votes

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  2. we will not sync our data in a public cloud!!!

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  3. Would be great to
    a) browse my Mendeley.com library
    b) work on a selected PDF (highlighting, annotating)
    c) store the edited PDF on Mendeley again

    57 votes

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  4. A stabilizer setting for pens in GoodNotes!

    Currently, when you go look on the GoodNotes App, on the Apple App Store, the previews show that you're able to easily draw these examples and diagrams for notes.. but it's VERY difficult to do in reality.

    If you talk to any Digital Artist, they'll tell you a stabilizer one of the most important features to have in any drawing program.

    I'm not trying to draw anything fancy, really. It's just really hard to draw remotely anything without the lines being jagged.

    More flexibility with the brush settings, in general, would help users…

    56 votes

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  5. Hello! With the addition of the new gestures (double tap with 2 fingers to undo, double tap with 3 fingers to redo), I keep accidentally activating the "undo" gesture when my hand is just resting on the screen while I'm writing, which is frustrating when I'm trying to keep up with quick notetaking. Is there any way to add an option to disable the tap gestures? Thank you so much!

    (For reference I have an iPad 6th with Apple Pencil 1st Gen)

    56 votes

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  6. Hello! As I use GoodNotes more and more to take notes and adnotate documents, I get a large volume of folders and notebooks that are a bit difficult to navigate through.

    It would be great to be able to archive old items, so that they do not show up in the document browser and they are compressed or even stored in the cloud only, so that they do not take up additional space.

    56 votes

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  7. I'd like to see a "smooth handwriting" option. Something that makes my handwriting a little neater. And more pen options

    56 votes

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  8. To be able to choose between page by page scroll to a continous scroll.

    56 votes

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  9. One day per page journals and planner style calendars would be extra useful especially if you can search by date.

    56 votes

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  10. Since the last update, I'm honestly thinking of quitting goodnotes after 6 years of use.
    The new lasso tool has a lot of glitch, and there is not the possibility to remove the Smart Alignment between handwritten text and figures.
    The new figure tool doesn't admit figures without outlines like in the older version, and this was a great feature. It also can't draw proper lines or figures.
    The new toolbar is so messy, the important icons are less accessible, and it can't really be personalized.

    So please give us back the old version with some improvement such as half…

    55 votes

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  11. I am doing maths and physics and I need a ruler to draw lines etc.

    55 votes

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  12. Drawing shapes such as boxes or ovals around handwritings for highlighting certain words or phrases causes inaccurate handwritings recognition in GN5. The reason seems to be that GN5 treats shapes drawn by the shape tools just like regular handwritings made by the pen tool, unlike Notability.

    The only workaround seems to be only using the highlighter tool for emphasizing certain text since GN5 doesn't consider highlighters as text to be recognized, but the highlighter tool doesn't offer precise thickness control unlike the pen tool.

    Notability seems to treat both the highlighter and the shapes differently to the handwriting made by…

    55 votes

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  13. I use highlighter for marking my notes, if it's possible to search the highlighter, that'll be quite helpful for study. Thx!

    55 votes

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  14. We use Nextcloud in our company.

    I work on 15 - 20 Projekts and they are all available via nextcloud in common folder structure.

    I open the working plans on the construction site now in good-notes and do my comments and notes.

    What I need is not only a full goodnotes Backup. I want, that the file is stored back to my original folder, so I could save the double structure.

    This would be a great invention!

    54 votes

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  15. It would be really nice to be able to use/write/paste text that uses the Markdown format as it becomes the norm in most of the other apps. It would make it easier to import/copy text and have it rendered nicely.

    54 votes

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  16. 54 votes

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  17. Most textbooks today are available electronically, but the MAJOR shortfall is the inability to easily annotate or take notes on them, specifically handwritten ones. Most readers are using not desktops/laptops, but tablets and phones with touch displays. Research shows better learning retention with handwritten over typed notes. If Goodnotes could truly allow this handwritten annotation function somehow, especially in Kindle app which we ALL have and use. Either a way to drag a Kindle book into the Goodnotes app, or an app extension for Kindle. Besides, what a better company to partner with like Amazon. Both companies would win as…

    54 votes

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  18. I use zoom window for all my writing. It allows me to keep my hand in one place and see most of the screen while writing. Currently zoom window is very rigid: it has a fixed aspect ration, limited zoom factor, fixed position and size at bottom of screen. Adding some features would make it a much better tool.

    • Allow to choose both length and width of zoom window (flexible aspect ration) upto half half screen;
    • Allow to zoom starting from 1x magnification;
    • Make the border of zoom window 1 pixel wide to distract less from what is actually on…
    54 votes

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  19. When pen or highlighter is selected, the possible colors should appear in the top toolbar for easy switching. In order to keep it uncluttered, only 5 colors are visible in the toolbar. The rest of the colors are available via the current method of long pressing the pen/highlighter.

    54 votes

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  20. I would like to be able to manipulate a PDF in the same way you would a picture. I find that sometimes I want half of a page in my notes but don't want to insert a screen shot as it doesn't look nearly as nice.

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