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  1. I want you to add the pen pressure adjustment of Apple Pencil.
    Currently, it is difficult to write beautiful characters because the pen pressure is as sensitive.

    Especially characters with many strokes such as kanji cannot be written beautifully.

    Please refer to the setting sample image.

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  2. Use the tools available in the Notes app that has handwriting smoothing.

    5 votes

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  3. For my exams, I have to print out all of my notes because I have access to all of the other apps on my iPad. It would be great if from the app, there was a way to have a professor set a password and time limit to lock me out of the rest of the iPad and prevent me from closing good notes so I could use this during an exam. Then, when you are done with the exam or the timer expires, the lock will end and you can then close the good notes app and use the…

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  4. The problem I currently face when I export my notes in pdf format is that I can only export it with the outline preserved or with searchable characters but not with both features, which is vexing to say the least as both are essential for me to structure my notes.

    It should not be a huge technological barrier for GoodNotes to break through,right? Thanks, I need this new feature stat.

    5 votes

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  5. Take a picture with iPhone camera instead of iPad camera.
    For better usability it would be easier to use user's iPhone to take picture and it is a feature I need every day. (Apple notes app has the feature)

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  6. So there is an overview feature in safari that allows you to view all open tabs in the app as windows in rows and columns. I find that I have a lot of notes open at once.

    If we could have a similar feature, like a button that gives us an overview of all the notes open, as well as seeing their first page. This would make navigation between open notes much faster and more productive

    5 votes

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  7. 现在在竖向滑动的状态下,双指缩放只能看到几个页面竖着排列缩小的缩略图,希望可以使缩略图填充页面,比如缩略浏览可以填充周围的空处,同时看到四个或六个页面的内容,并可以进行编辑书写。

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  8. Dear All,

    It would be great if Goodnotes could convert underlined handwriting into text as well. Currently, if you try to convert a word with a letter, whose "tail" intersects with the line underneath, the recognition simply doesn't work. Perhaps you could just exclude objects drawn with shape tool from handwriting recognition. Thanks!

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  9. Option to select the 3 most used fonts by the user on the top of the font list. At present, I have to scan the whole list to select the desired font if I am inserting text frequently.

    5 votes

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  10. Ability for the lasso tool to select multiple items that are different places on the page. I see this being useful for quickly changing the color of multiple lines of text or moving items at the same time.

    5 votes

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  11. Please ad when i'm writting with the Keyboard, that the text on the end of the page switch automatacly to the new page and you can write a long text without put a new start point on the new page.
    Now i writting over the end of the Page and the text isn't on the paper

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  12. Hi,

    laser pointer is great tool when i want to use my ipad to demonstrate something in real life to someone that can see ipad screen.

    During video conferences, i used to mirror my ipad screen onto my laptop and use laser pointer for online demonstrations.

    I've bought macOS app, hoping that i could do that directly in the app on my laptop rather then mirroring my ipad, only to discover that laser pointer feature is not available on laptops.

    Please add laser pointer feature for macOS app.. otherwise i wasted money paying for the separate app for my laptop.

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  13. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pdfkit/pdfdisplaymode/twoup

    Apple's PDFKit allows to show two pages of a PDF side by side. PSPDFKIT (which is what Good Notes 5 uses) should support the same option.

    I'm currently using the iPad 12.9 and typically have it in the horizontal orientation and there's soooo much wasted screen real estate. When making notes on a book or a large report, it's helpful to have more context on what is before and after the content. PDF books are often typeset such that content being read on a left hand side has images or quotes from the right hand side, and context is…

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  14. I would love the ability to customize the highlighter and pen default options to my favorite choices so they are quickly available with out having to go into the color picker every time. The ability to add additional pen/highlighter choices to the toolbar would be great too.

    5 votes

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  15. I'd like to suggest that you put something like an < and > on either side of the page that can be tapped to turn the page back (if to the left) and forward (if to the right). This would making turning pages much easier. Currently we have to swipe with multiple fingers and it takes multiple swipes to actually turn the page. A directional button like we see in kindle or iBooks would be so simple and make turning pages as easy as tapping the directional icon with the pen tip.

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  16. I work a lot with imported PDF and want to organize them with outlines. I usually select a headline on a page, copy the text, select Add Outline (with two clicks) and insert the copied text.

    I'd really like to select a text and have the option to directly add an outline in the context/selection menu (directly besides marking or copying the text).
    This would mean only 3-4 clicks instead of 8.

    5 votes

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  17. I’d like to have a bar containing my pens where I can customised the colours, type, thickness so that I don’t always have to go back and forth to change the properties. This would indeed increase my productivity while writing a colourful note

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  18. Have a small “x” Icon for deleting text boxes just like you have for images!!! I usually type a lot in textbooks, and I find it very hard to delete them!

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  19. When I import a pdf with large white margins on the sides it would be great if we could set a specific zoom that would “crop out” the white margins and then lock the horizontal panning when scrolling a bit diagonally - that way the text is bigger on the screen and we don’t have to constantly adjust the text column to be centered. Thanks!

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  20. Immediately after I started using the app to take notes in class, I have found myself wanting a contextual menu that can show up around the pencil.

    My idea would be to use the double tap in the Apple Pencil, or a double tap of the Pencil on a note (or another shortcut), that would open a menu around the last position of the Pencil.

    This menu would have color palette, tool options, and tool selection.

    This could allow the user to have the toolbar off or just have a shortcut to the toolbar options.

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