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  1. It would be great to be able to clip web content from a browser (as in Notability). Often I want to copy an equation from Wikipedia and insert it into my notes, ideally with a reference.

    28 votes

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  2. 28 votes

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  3. The handwriting recognition and the ability to expert searchable PDF's are outstanding features. But I often write notes that include both English and other languages, especially French, that come up in my work, and the current search and export based on only one language at a time significantly limits the usefulness of these features, especially because it leads to significant errors in recognition, because, for instance, if the language is set to English, it will "recognize" a French word as a very different English wood. Thanks for considering this, and for a great app.

    28 votes

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  4. These three things are much needed
    Auto Detection of Arrows is very helpful in many cases
    Dotted Lines/Dashed Lines are very necessary in Making Diagrams especially in mathematics and physics
    Duplicate feels more easy than copy and pasting the thing, adding duplicate with copy will save time
    Inverting PDF too seems necessary sometimes

    Only because of these 4 functions I have to sometime switch to notability and it does not feel good cause I have paid for GoodNotes

    27 votes

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  5. Putting notes in a folder is convenient, but it would also be very convenient to be able to sort or search based on user-defined tags. Apple notes or Gmail are good examples.
    Bye

    27 votes

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  6. I have different font preferences for Title vs Body Text vs diagram labels. It would be good to save 3 or more favourite font settings, rather than just the one.

    27 votes

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  7. Would be awesome to be able to draw curved lines with many curves (concave, convex). The feature should allow the user to draw the line roughly with the apple pencil and smooth out the curve to make it look good. This would be similar to the "free-form" feature in Microsoft Visio.

    An example of such lines is shown in the attached PDF.

    Thanks :)

    27 votes

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  8. This idea is taken from other existing apps like Documents for iOS. When using the highlighter with text the colored line snaps to text automatically, in this way you have not to worry about going outside the line.

    See the GIF to understand what I mean or try the Documents app

    I would maintain the awesome straight line highlighting feature of GoodNote but I would add a new button for this new one or maybe as an option of the actual highlighter.

    Thanks a lot and if you like this feature vote it!

    27 votes

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  9. Hello,
    Do you know while writing with Samsung pencil, it makes sound like writing on paper. I thought this feature might have to do apple updates, but recently, while using ‘Lake’ app, they added this feature that when you use brush, it will make sound like you are using it on paper. It gives overall such a nice feel.
    I do not want to use paperlike because it deteriorate screen appearance but what I do love is the sound of writing on paper. Please please add this feature. If ‘Lake’ people can do it, you too can.
    Thanks a lot.…

    27 votes

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  10. I would love for the highlighter tool to have the option of having a straight end instead of a rounded end. Additionally, I wish there was an option to draw with dashed or dotted lines instead of having to make a solid line and then erase to get dashes

    27 votes

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  11. Vielen Dank dafür, dass ihr meinem Wunsch über alle Notizen zu suchen entsprochen habt! Es funktioniert sogar in der Schreibschrift super!! Nun meine nächsten Wünsche:
    Ich möchte gern jederzeit angezeigt bekommen wann und möglicherweise auch wo, ich die Notiz erstellt habe. Ich möchte ausserdem Dokumente suchen bzw. finden, die ich an einem bestimmten Tag und/oder Ort erstellt habe. Ausserdem fehlt mir ein Lineal mit Massangaben um Grundrisse zu zeichnen.

    27 votes

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  12. Text needs to be improved, like in Noteshelf 2!!!!
    - Bullet points and other text features like tables needed to be added
    - Switching quickly between preset text fonts and sizes, this is really bad at the moment! Often settings just don‘t work.
    - Text boxes are annoying, don't mix well with handwriting and do not fit into the lines of the default page!!!!

    27 votes

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  13. Something similar to Creceed Carbo app. I'd love to be able to import a scan/photo of notes that I actually took in paper but edit them as if I wrote them in GoodNotes.

    27 votes

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  14. Strongly request a way to set the paper size to 100% zoom so that I know how big that my handwriting will be when I actually print it out.

    27 votes

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  15. I really like the ability to lock a page position and zoom when using Goodnotes as an electronic whiteboard for lecturing. However, a rather annoying trait is that the screen lock turns off every time the page advances.

    It would be nice to have an option to "lock all pages".

    27 votes

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  16. This is the only feature that makes Good Reader superior to Good Notes. The ability to have a pop up note allows you to write more things without cluttering up the page. If this was added there would be no need to use another app. Please please!

    27 votes

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  17. Hello, could you all add the ability to have all of our colors be universal across all pens, pencils, sticky notes, text, and etc.? It is annoying trying to use a color that I know I have added with the pen but did not feel like adding to the pencil, text, and highlighter separately. Could we also have the ability to create color pallet groups? Similar to the one in procreate (Picture below). Sometimes it is over whelming trying to find a color. And most of my colors mimic my real life pen colors. So being able to place colors…

    26 votes

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  18. The new features feel unnecessary and almost like bloatware. Other LLMs, such as DeepSeek, Gemini, etc are AI tools that other companies, universities, etc have licenses with. The AI credits are also useless - what is the incentive to use GoodNotes AI vs DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT4, etc, if you need to pay $9.99 more per month.

    There isn't a way to turn off AI in GoodNotes either, which is pretty frustrating.
    A huge motivation for people to switch from Notability to GoodNotes was the better UI and affordability. Paying $9.99/month for AI credits, for a feature I haven't seen many…

    26 votes

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  19. Sorry, dear Goodnotes team, but sth is not cool with the new update 7.0.3 Whenever I want to draw a closed shape, it makes it all wobbly and creates some kind of text field out of it. What’s happening? How can I make it stop? I don’t need text fields, I use always my handwriting.

    26 votes

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  20. It would be great if Apples new MathNotes feature from iPadOS 18 would be integrated in GoodNotes. It is such a useful feature.

    26 votes

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