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  1. Some apps (such as TimeZero navigation s'ware) have an in-app configuration option that allows the app to keep the iPad screen active, even without user activity. I think GN needs this feature.

    I often transcribe from my GoodNotes, with the iPad propped up in front of my desktop computer screen (my hand writing is too rough for auto-text conversion and sometimes I write in a private shorthand).

    It's so annoying when the screen keeps going black and I have to wake it up again. And it's a nuisance to have to drop into iPad settings, find Brightness/Display, and defeat the…

    3 votes

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  2. It would be great to have predefined art doodles to quickly sketch ideas or presentation slides.

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  3. On computer app, when you press the thumbnails page, it doesn't open to your current slide and display that prominently. I have to scroll and look for what slide I was just studying from / annotating. If this could be fixed and displayed more clearly, it would be very helpful.

    3 votes

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  4. The multitasking slide over from the left in Notability is super slick. Goodnotes NEEDS this... It's quick, clean, and super smooth.

    3 votes

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  5. Let’s say I have a page for each category moving vertically I would like the ability to also add pages to add to that category horizontally. And when I’m looking at the whole thing it’s like tiles.

    3 votes

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  6. I am using GoodNotes as a teacher to present my lessons. It would be great to have a ‘screen’ that could cover what I have written on a goodnotes page that I could gradually pull down to present the page content as I talk (like smart notes software). Also it would be wonderful if I could I insert live links into my goodnotes page so I can click on it to show a video or math application like Desmos. Are either of these features in the works?

    3 votes

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  7. Scaling and rotating selections are very useful for making diagrams, but reflections and scaling only horizontally (or only vertically) are missing.

    3 votes

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  8. Please add auto backup compatibility with Box in addition to your newly added options.

    3 votes

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  9. Should be able to move the toolbars to anywhere on the page

    3 votes

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  10. enable to mirror a document to your apple tv or other device when modifying another on the iPad.

    3 votes

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  11. 3 votes

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  12. Please consider the option of a bigger (indefinite?) surface under the working sheet - onto which elements/drawings/ scetches can be moved out for later use or rearrangement.
    Right now when you move something out and its partly outside the paper and not connected - you won’t get it back in.

    3 votes

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  13. I would like to be able to select an area of a page and have every non-white pixel change to a color of choice. This would let me change the color of handwritten text.

    3 votes

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  14. PDFs should export as "Editable" by default. Its bad design to have "flattened" as the default. The flatten action is destructive.

    3 votes

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  15. Please make goodnotes 5 notes viewable on goodnotes 4 app, as I have a very old ipad that cannot be upgraded to have goodnotes 5 installed

    3 votes

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  16. If I draw a note and then use Handoff to get it onto my Mac and then try and copy it into Pages it always tries to convert it to text. I just want the drawing. There should be two copy modes, one for drawing, one for text.

    3 votes

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  17. When I paste more text than will fit on a page the text gets cut off. Is there a way to get it all onto one page? Not ability can spread text between as many pages as it takes.

    3 votes

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  18. Cmd+Shift+[ for previous tab, Cmd+Shift+] for next tab, as is the convention in all Apple softwares

    3 votes

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  19. Please improve goodnotes 5 to be able to import zip files as goodnote 4 can.

    3 votes

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  20. Here I am attaching a screen shot
    I have many text books in the app and in GoodNotes 5 I have turned the page indexing on
    But since several days it can just show “ indexing 142 documents for search “ I have reinstalled several time
    Also I have reimported all files
    Basically I have tried any thing that app allows to do to stop the dialogue
    Please improve global search
    Though great it still needs improvement
    My current version is 5.1.5(151443.369311989)

    3 votes

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