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  1. See two sequential pages from the same notebook on one screen. Similar to 2-page scroll in Adobe Acrobat or Mac Preview.
    Using the split screen mode in iPad OS 13 doesn't work because you have to manually scroll each window two pages at a time which is awkward

    53 votes

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

    53 votes

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  3. (Present) : style of highlighter drawing is circle
    suggestion : Highlighter drawing with rectangle (Parallel)

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  4. It's straightforward.

    Create a set of tools like found in Photoshop ( or any design software ) which allow objects ( text, images, shapes, stamps, etc.) to be selected and aligned to:
    1. an object
    2. the canvas

    Additionally, add a tool for grouping and ungrouping objects and one to "send to the back" or "bring to the front" (practical when objects overlap ).

    GoodNotes is a note-taking app, and it should be equally considered a design app. Missing these simple tools that allow me to organize my content makes GoodNotes less effective and less efficient ( and often frustrating…

    52 votes

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  5. Need a date field for the date I took the note. This date should be static.

    The current sort function looks at “last modified” but is easily tricked (i.e. if you move the note today, the note will move to top of date sort instead of reflecting original date).

    Alternative: just allow date sorting by both created date and last modified date.

    52 votes

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  6. Create hyperlinks from within GoodNotes. It would be nice to be able select some text and create a hyperlink that you could paste into, for example, a table of contents or index.

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  7. 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.

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  8. Word Count is important for writers because it lets them keep track of how much they wrote. Thus they can set-up goals and easily measure how much (or little) they have achieved.
    Software-wise, to me as someone with no experience in programming - the easiest way would be to take the code that converts the handwriting to text, and somehow instead of converting, it counts the words.

    52 votes

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  9. 52 votes

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  10. I frequently find an article on the internet or a pdf on the internet that I want to download and read in GoodNotes so I can annotate what I'm reading. The process I currently use is that I print the article or pdf as a pdf file that I save in Dropbox. Then I go to Dropbox and open the pdf in GoodNotes.

    It would be great to be able to save the document directly into GoodNotes from my browser (which is Chrome) instead of constantly having to go through Dropbox.

    52 votes

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  11. 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

    52 votes

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  12. I love the app! And I really want to use it! But I mostly use Greek and I want to use the app for my notes for university please please please add Greek!

    51 votes

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  13. Would really appreciate if the flashcard feature becomes much more versatile like anki.
    A few suggestions are
    1. Show number of Flashcard left for the day
    2. Integrate several files to form one Flashcard deck without hampering their current progress
    3. SETTING A NEW CARD LIMIT PER DAY
    4. Customising which cards I would like to see first.

    Basically a lot of anki inspired stuff that could help us replace anki cards with handwritten goodnotes cards. Thanks a lot!

    51 votes

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  14. Especially with the new GoodNotes 5 for Mac, it would be useful to have 3 different "default" text font/style/size options, similar to how you have three different options for highlight color, thickness, etc.

    51 votes

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  15. The biggest problem I have with the current version is that the navigation bar can not be hided. For older ipads, especially for 9 inch display ones, every bit of screen space counts, and the nav bar really takes too much space. So it would be really nice to allow users hide the nav bar while keep pen tool bar on display, just like hiding the nav bar when the pen tool bar is not open.

    51 votes

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  16. 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.

    51 votes

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  17. I Need a Lot of Time to Fill out Geometric structures like Triangels for example. A function to Fill them out or just hatch them. with only one Click Would make it Easy and more productive.

    51 votes

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

    51 votes

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  19. I can't edit the iPad notes on the Windows PC because GoodNotes Windows doesn't sync with iOS.

    Maybe it's possible to implement a system where users can sync their notes between GoodNotes client using other cloud storage platforms (OneDrive, GDrive etc.)

    50 votes

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  20. Please add Hebrew support to the application's user interface.

    50 votes

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