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  1. After this new update everything is so much less user freidnly. it makes me so frusterated to use. the shapes tool is critical for me in my coursework and they completely ruined it. I never makes the shape that you want and you are unable to edit it. I dont see one positve or effective change in this update. Pleas allow us to revert back to old good notes it was so much better.

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  2. Add page layout for book reading mode, that is, 2 horizontal pages on the screen.

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  3. There's nothing more satisfying than having calendar templates that actually integrate with most common calendar formats (at least google calendar or Apple iCloud Calendar).
    Some awesome functionality:I would like to DRAW the length of an event and have that correspond to the assigned duration of the event, have Apple Calendar display my written notes on the calendar (similarly to how Apple Notes does it), have some advanced notational features that translate into editing notes or stuff in the calendar.

    Or at least have a weekly or monthly planner template that also allows some "add to calendar" functionality or "get a…

    42 votes

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  4. It would be great if you could add an extension for google chrome where by you can 'send' something to your GoodNotes ios app.

    For example.

    In am currently researching for a large essay. I use chrome on my PC and GoodNotes on my iPad Pro. I would LOVE to be able to look at a PDF, or a section of website and 'import' this into goodnotes in the same way you can do if using chrome on the iPad.

    Currently, i have to find something i like, then 'send' it to chrome on the iPad, then open chrome on…

    42 votes

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  5. Hi!

    Goodnotes is amazing, it transformed my ipad experience. The one gripe I have is that it is really cumbersome to switch between pen and eraser. I suggest that when the stylus is used, and "single finger drag" is turned off, I should be able to turn on "single finger erase". So write with stylus, erase with finger, drag with two fingers.

    Hope this is a small and easy feature... I'd definitely pay for it!

    42 votes

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  6. I have a simple idea to provide to pen icons above because during the lecture while changing color of writing pen takes some time . Having 2 pens we dont need to open color menu again and again to select the color. We can do it just by tapping

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  7. Other sync options (Dropbox, Google, Box, etc..) I have iCloud blocked by a policy installed so I can access my job email in the iPhone. This has completely restricted the sync option for me .. seems like a very good idea to give alternate syncing options for probably even more reasons than just this one that happened to me.

    42 votes

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  8. Ipad Pro 12'' Have two pages open side by side.

    42 votes

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  9. I wonder if you can provide a Custom URL Scheme for iOS developing so that we can limit our user open the material only in GoodNotes.

    42 votes

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  10. Reduce size of PDF option.. I have retina and 1 PDF send is 2 mb!!

    Not zip though... Some tablets cannot open

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  11. It would be nice to be able to lock a text box in place since sometimes drawings items are referenced to the box items

    41 votes

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  12. I know for long people have requested for a voice recording facility in GoodNotes. I would like to see the possibility to import recordings through the voice memo app from Apple and also the ability to import screen recordings or videos

    41 votes

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  13. Add more options to the highlighting function such as
    - square corners (for colouring in)
    - opacity settings
    - turning off the layering when you go over a previously highlighted area

    41 votes

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  14. I think it would be great to support solid background colors. For example black, so I could draw in white. You already have a fabulous palette of colors for the pen. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has laboriously colored in blank space with one color to then drawn on top. Thanks!

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  15. Can you please expand the intelligent GoodNotes 6 AI handwriting Tools with additional tools, showed at Apples WWDC 24 in the Notes App (SmartScript). I would like to see these features in GoodNotes, such as:

    1. My favourite feature: An in GoodNotes integrated AI Model that automatically improves your hand writing style in your personal writing style, as you write with Apple Pencil in GoodNotes.

    2. Also very important for me: An AI Feature that can transform your typed text into your handwritten Notes in your own writing style, if you paste the typed text in GoodNotes.

    3. An feature that enables the…

    40 votes

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  16. The flashcard feature is great but there are a few features that I would like to see:

    1.) Ability to switch the Q&A sections

    After a few weeks of using this feature, there are times when I would like to flip the Q and A section of the flashcards.

    2.) Convert any page into a flashcard

    I've created a PDF file (around 60 pages) to be turned into flashcards and was hoping to be able to import it and just convert it from there. This was not possible and I had to make a template for each page, set it…

    40 votes

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  17. Hi, my feature request is to be able to export highlighted text excerpts. For example, when reading an article or chapter I will highlight important parts. I would love to be able to export the highlighted text bits for later reference. I would like to store them in my personal knowledge management system such as notion, roam or obsidian app. I can then tag and link them to build my second brain, so to speak... Hope this makes sense ;) Anyway, the feature request is “exporting highlighted text excerpts” from OCRed PDFs. Competing apps such as PDFexpert and GoodReader offer…

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  18. Gestures would erase lines without switching to the Eraser. Allow a variety of gestures: scratch back and forth, make a proof-reader's delete stroke etc. Ideal would be a way to define your own gestures.

    This is a feature at least one other (left nameless) drawing app has, and makes writing/drawing really fluid.

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  19. When using links and it comes to selecting page - we should be able to type in the page number instead of scrolling thru the whole document to select page.

    39 votes

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  20. it would be awesome if the text option in study sets supported latex formulas

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