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  1. 1.When we open a PDF, it always opens at 100% size. If I try to zoom out using two fingers, it automatically snaps back to full screen as soon as I release my fingers. But this doesn’t happen in other apps—zooming out there makes it easier to scroll through the PDF …It should zoom out the same way it does in the second picture, although I took that screenshot while holding it with my fingers

    1. Also, this app doesn’t have a separate option to change the background theme. It automatically uses the device’s theme, but there should be an independent…
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  2. Highlighting is very tedious on this app. I agree with the many other posts that are requesting straight line highlighting and snap to text highlighting (as an option in addition to the current highlighter). However, I would like to take the snap to text feature one step further.

    If I need to highlight 3 lines in a paragraph, I shouldn’t have to make 3 separate highlighter actions. I should only have to put my pencil on the first word, and drag it to the last word. The software should highlight everything in between. In the image I attached, I put…

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  3. When I am working in a large document (several hundred pages), navigating the TOC is cumbersome. If I’m on page 23 of 900, and know I need to go approximately 3/4 of the way into the document to a chart, I have to scroll and scroll and scroll until I get there.

    The app I’m attempting to replace with Goodnotes, GoodReader, has an extremely efficient TOC that you can click through easily. You can see the entire document and just tap where you want to go. If I need to navigate the documents actual TOC, bookmarks, or any annotations I…

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  4. I like reading comics and manga and marking them up. Goodnotes has the best markup I have tried. But there are some panels in the books that join into one, and when I import my PDFs I can only see half of the panel at once. I would like to be able to see two pages at once. Gapless would be ideal, but I imagine it makes sense for there to be a gap. A toggle would help.
    Bonus Points if I can choose to read from right to left as well so I can read both comics and manga,…

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  5. It would be very helpful to have a clear page option that removes handwriting and text but keeps inserted images intact. I frequently take pictures of suggested problems or textbook problems, and after some time i want to resolve then and get rid of my old computations and scribbles.

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  6. Version 7.0.18: At the moment, it's only possible to link notebooks. It would be useful to link text documents, too.

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  7. Allow text boxes to move from page to page without lasso tool. Since the text box is already a moveable item it would be nice to be able to move it from page to page without it disappearing. The lasso seems like an unnecessary extra step

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  8. Please add support for vertical text writing/input for East Asian languages, specifically Chinese and Japanese.
    請新增直行文字輸入框,中文與日文使用者可能會需要。

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  9. There should be a way to reverse the flash card to learn the questions from the answers? Quizlet, a competing app, does this, and I can't find the equivalent on Goodnotes :(

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  10. When using the “Learning resource cards,” there are two modes: “free trial” and “smart learning.” There is a really useful option in the free trial called “random,” which allows you to randomly start from either the question or the answer of a card. I’m wondering why this random setting isn’t available in smart learning yet. It’s really helpful for learning vocabulary in a foreign language and similar things, but we can’t do that in smart learning.
    (And yes, we could just use free training, but there’s no shuffle in it, so we have to review the cards in the same…

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  11. Ich würde mir bei den Lernsets die Funktion wünschen, Text, Handschrift und Bilder kombinieren zu können und sich nicht für eines entscheiden zu müssen.

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  12. 1.תיאום חזק יותר בין הspen לבין המסך. יש דיליי
    2. האפליקציה קצת איטית.
    3. חוויית המשתמש לא טובה. צריך לשפר דברים בארגון ובנראות כדי שיהיה קל ונגיש לתפעל במחברת לסטודנטים.
    4.הכלי של הצורות לא עובד טוב. היה נחמד גם אם היו צורות מוכנות מראש או לפחות שהאפליקציה הייתה קולטת נכון איזו. ורה רציתי לצייר.

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  13. The current behavior makes no sense. Why would I want to go to the end of the new page? Obviously, I want to be at its beginning. Why would adding a page even change my position is beyond me.

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  14. I want to describe my workflow to clarify the feature I'm asking for. I use the Apple Pencil with Goodnotes, and when I double tap the Pencil, it switches to the eraser. After I finish erasing, Goodnotes already has an option to return to the previous tool automatically, which is great.

    The issue is that this behavior only works in some situations. I need a dedicated setting that guarantees the following:

    After I use the eraser in any way (whether through Auto-Deselect or by activating it with the Apple Pencil gesture), the app will always return to the last writing…

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  15. Minimum and Maximum size of the pencil and adaptive size when zooming from very close to far away.

    This would help to have more consisten sizes when workinh on big mind maps.

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  16. After update the new version(7.0.15).
    There's a noticeable delay when I type — the words only appear after a second or two.
    Expecial use 倉頡輸入法 typing Chinese.

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  17. Remettre le bouton pour écrire du texte (au lieu de appui prolongé -> commencer à saisir, remettre le bouton qui permet de directement commencer à saisir)
    Ce serait un gain de temps énorme lors de la prise de note en cours, rédaction, etc

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  18. 레이저포인트 글씨체가 너무 맘에 들어요 색상이랑 글씨체만 추가 부탁드립니다.

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  19. Please create gestures for SHIFT, TAB, RETURN and CAPS LOCK for Apple Pencil in Scribble mode when using textbox.

    If one is trying to keep notes neat by using textbox instead of pen, this system becomes very clunky. If you want to abbreviate, make a list or write notes in an organized fashion on the fly, like in class lectures for instance, you have to use Apple Pencil with assistance from either an external hardware keyboard or the touch screen keyboard. It slows everything down. I sometimes miss valuable information fiddling around with these keyboards.

    I’ve tried using handwriting conversion…

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  20. If you like to use the lasso tool to move - let‘s say - only textboxes, then you have to deselect all other categories manually. When you are done moving textboxes, then you want to select every category, then you have to manually turn on everything.

    It would be great, if you can turn on/off all the categories. There should be a box called „all“ on top of all categories.

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