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  1. At the moment for copying a screenshot, which is something most people do a lot when taking notes, we need to press the screen 4 different times:
    Long press after marking with lasso tool => Take Screenshot on the menu => share menu => copy.
    It takes a lot of time for something being done pretty a lot and more than the other sharing options so I believe that many people will find it usefull.

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  2. Currently, Dark Mode changes the UI, but not the document area, which is most of the app. Consequently, Penbook is more comfortable than GoodNotes when I want to scrawl out an idea I woke up with at 3AM.

    RGB color inversion usually looks terrible, but preserving hue and saturation while inverting luminance (brightness) in HSV space typically preserves contrast and color-coding while providing the sentiment of “dark mode”.

    Could luminance inversion in the document display area be an option for Dark Mode?

    35 votes

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  3. I would like to see less restrictions with the resizing option of notes/pictures in the app. Firstly, all eight of the resizing nodes behave in the exact same way (with the selected item being resized with the same aspect ratio from the exact center). I think this needs to be swapped out for the ability to distort the image along the x- and y-axis with the appropriate nodes, while keeping the ability to scale it proportionally using the corner nodes. Secondly, I think that the sizing should only occur from the selected node — i.e. not from the center, ever…

    35 votes

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  4. Automatically Date on Top of a new Note, especially for students

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    1. Selection issue: The lasso tool selection is always a problem as it gets de-selected. I think the lasso tools options can pop out when we click inside the selection region and could be de-selected when clicked/tapped outside selection area.

    2. The move/resize: Moving sometimes have to be done by resizing the content. In my opinion, the selected region can have 2 small icons on left and right hand one for move option and one for resize option.

    3. It is not possible to change the colour of highlighter when already done. it changes the colour of text as well. It would be…

    35 votes

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    1. Ablity to select pages to be imported (e.g. importing only 1 page from a whole book)
    2. Import of PDF bookmarks in some form
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  5. If I create new note and I want to insert PDF page into that note I'm working on, this function is not available. The only way is to add the PDF page to your notebook as a separate page.

    Sometimes, we need to create notes and support that notes with a PDF document.

    Regards,
    Yahya

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  6. Hello, I’ve been a user of Goodnotes for some years by now. I love the new feature of flashcards added to Goodnotes. Even so, I have some suggestions for the improvement.
    Currently, the option of smart learning doesn’t have any curve of progress or way to review the progress made with the cards. In Anki there is the option for limiting the amount of cards reviewed in each study session. Having both options, the curve of progress from the decks and the possibility to choose only a specified amount of cards for review, and getting the cards less learned by…

    34 votes

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  7. Please....
    - add dotted and dashed lines
    - add the function, that the lasso tool recognises lines and objects
    - add gifs and sticky notes
    - add the function that you can record an audio while taking notes, so that you can play it afterwards and it shows what you’ve written in this moment
    - add new sizes to the eraser
    - add that you can change the background colour of geometric forms
    - add that you can select, if the text should be a flowing text or not

    34 votes

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  8. It would be nice if there were a way to index all highlights and make the highlights available where one finds Thumbnails / Favorites / Outlines a way to go quickly review and find.

    It would be amazing if one could highlight in different colors and group those in the highlight index. Example: Yellow for remembering phrases, blue for additional research/follow-up, etc.

    34 votes

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  9. At base, Go to Last requires far less clicks compared to Go to Page. For example,

    With Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Last

    Without Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Page to highlight page numbers (“remember” what the last page number is because the number changes to the current page when clicked)
    3) Type first digit (from this point forward one is interfacing with the keyboard)
    4) Type second digit...and so on
    5) Type Enter

    So you can see there are not only more clicks, but there is an…

    34 votes

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  10. The Ability to link a page or text to the iOS calendar , for example writing a date in my pdf planner then hold on the text and get a page uid or url to copy and past in to calendar event, when you open the calendar event you have an url to press to take you to the page in question.

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  11. Having the ability to flatten would create a document that I could continue to write over but then do an "erase all" but not erase the flattened part.

    I am a math teacher and sometime I write down a problem that I would like to keep to show to the next class or use next year. I would like the ability to keep the problem without exporting and re-importing it into GoodNotes as a pdf.

    34 votes

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  12. The handwriting conversion is excellent, but it could do with a couple changes. Having to lasso the text on each page is tedious. Please enable the ability to convert a single page or an entire notebook with a single click. Also give the option to maintain or ignore single end of line breaks. Maintain double line breaks to keep paragraphs.

    34 votes

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  13. I sometimes create PDFs that I then fill in with Goodnotes. Having support for importing PDFs with multiple pages as templates would be very useful.

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  14. It would be nice if we can minimize the toolbar or even hide it. The current toolbar is taking too much space especially in landscape mode.

    33 votes

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  15. Many engineering, computer and data science, maths, and other technical degrees do a great deal of programming. I love writing all my notes in Goodnotes, but all my code snippets are all over the place. Sometimes I do try incorporate code blocks in my notes, but the process of screenshotting, cropping, and pasting is a hassle. Having a feature (even one that can be downloaded) would be a massive convenience for a lot of users. Just a basic block that can be inserted into a note that displays a filename space. The tools tab can be loaded with, say, three…

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  16. okay but. When will Goodnotes 5 be for android? there are people who can't afford to buy an Ipad, but want to have the application for their notes.
    I think your earnings would go up if the app is accepted for android devices. and more this year 2022
    Hopefully, one day they will ask if they can put their application on the playstore. and I am part of those who are eagerly waiting for it to be in the playstore since I don't have enough for an ipad and I really need to make notes in this app
    Without further…

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  17. I find it very inconvenient to write a text. I feel uncomfortable trying to edit the characters because the text box keeps moving. I want a function to fix the movement of the text box.

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  18. I work with both audio and text. For example, when I have a lecture recording, I listen to it but I also prefer to write it down because it makes it easier for me to go back to the information. I'm not able to write down everything because it's a lot to manage but I still get tired of doing it manually. I wish I had a tool that would transcribe the audio for me and I can just copy & paste the parts that I want into my notes. I'm thinking of how Youtube automatically adds subtitles to videos…

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