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  1. A lot of people would agree that fountain pen in Goodnotes, while still very good, lags behind the competition (Noteshelf, Notability).
    I think adding texture or random shading, similar to what you can see in real fountain pens, to the fountain pen stroke will greatly improve its visual. Addition of stub nib effect will also improve writing experience.
    Thank you,

    3 votes

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  2. 3 votes

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  3. Adding the ability to scroll through notecards in practice mode rather than having to select how we felt we did would be helpful for studying

    3 votes

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  4. Taking notes during a presentation I really need to be able to take a picture of the slide and annotate it. Unfortunately it seems I have only the simple cam (no full scanning feature with rectification canvas-based) so I get a distorted image. Just make it available to use this feature (documents scanner) within the note.

    3 votes

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  5. Currently shapes are only supported and created by scribbled pen input. Sometimes I want to modify the size in height or weight, rotate or color the shape. It would be necessary to offer modifiable shapes like you can do e.g. in Miro or Adobe Illustrator. Set starting point, move the Apple Pencil to desired ending point and voila your rectangle is created. I wished you could also color shapes with border and background color. I think it would help a lot in daily routines.

    3 votes

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  6. Kann man erstellte pdf Dateien zuschneiden. In meinem Falle habe ich Grundrisse als PDF file auf dem iPad liegen und möchte dort unnötige Bereich löschen geht das ?

    3 votes

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  7. The order of the tools (pen, eraser, highlighter, lasso, etc.) is logical but impractical. Pens, erasers and highlighters are on the left, the colors and line widths are on the right. That means a "long" journey every time.
    I would find it better if the tools and options to do so that are used together are also close together.

    Die Reihenfolge der Werkzeuge (Stift, Radiergummi, Textmarker, Lasso usw.) ist zwar logisch aber unpraktisch. Stifte, Radiergummi und Textmarker sind auf der linken Seite, die Farben und die Linienstärke dazu sind auf der rechten Seite. Das bedeutet jedes mal einen "langen" weg. …

    3 votes

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  8. 你们好,good notes的开发者们。首先非常感谢你们开发出了这个笔记app,我已经使用了三年,并且非常喜爱。但是最近遇到的一个问题是,iCloud多客户端同步这个功能会自动同步所有的文档,这占用了我的iPhone很多内存空间。所以我建议,可否让多客户端同步的文档变得可以由用户自己选择呢?而不是自动在所有的客户端上同步所有的笔记文档。
    期待你们的回复:)

    3 votes

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  9. It would be great if you could take notes on resubmission. This would allow you to create a quick note and schedule it for a different date and time for processing. Such functions (e.g. reminder functions) are available in apps that manage documents and since notes are created here, it is similar to managing a document. In my opinion, it would be a great function.

    3 votes

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  10. running good notes on my private AppleID (=iCloud) and using it on my business Mac, too is today not possible. I'd even open to buy it twice, but I habe only 1 mobile device - so basically though I love good notes, I can't use it anymore.

    Solution:
    Allow to accept shared documents also from Mac App. This way I can still use it on my iPad and iPhone and notes I neet @work could simply be shared with my business AppleID.

    This would provide a solution for many other feature requests such as
    https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/40412074-sign-in-icloud-from-goodnotes-app-to-sync-personal
    or the request to use…

    3 votes

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  11. Make us have the option to add 10 different pen colors and 10 different highlighters in the toolbar.

    Also, make the page go longer to make more space (continuous)

    3 votes

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  12. It would be very helpful for a lot of people with bad handwritings if the handwriting to text feature is improved further as a input mean with the support for input on another same as handwritten notes are input now.

    3 votes

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  13. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  14. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  15. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  16. On iPad: pinch page to view to thumbnails. Use entire screen to show thumbnails instead of overlay.

    3 votes

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  17. 3 votes

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  18. Word formula editor input formula display garbled code

    3 votes

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  19. 目前软件可以圈选涂鸦,识别出文本,但有所不便。建议增加选项让用户能直接将圈选的文字转换成含有标准字体文本的文本框存在于文档中。
    此外还建议圈选区域不限于涂鸦,而是任意区域都可以圈选出截图供复制和拖拽到其它笔记或者应用中。

    I am a Chinese user, and the following text is generated by machine translation.

    Currently, software can circle doodles to recognize text, but with some inconvenience. It is suggested that an option be added to allow users to directly convert circled text into text boxes with standard font text to exist in the document.
    It is also suggested that the circled area is not limited to doodles, but any area can be circled to select screenshots for copying and dragging to other notes or applications.

    3 votes

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  20. The text function needs improvement in my opinion. I would like it if there was an option for automatic bullets with an index instead of spacebar + - (see attached image)
    This would make the text more pleasing to write and look at.

    Furthermore, when I copy and paste text boxes e.g. the „bold“ font disappears and i have to turn words/sentences bold again. An improvement would make my work way faster.

    It‘s a small detail, but it seems that whenever i type the text and i want to edit the first word or add a word in front of…

    3 votes

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