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  1. The "smart" dark mode will essentially invert the colors of the actual document, not just them them of the app interface. Take a look at how CollaNote handles this on iPad, or how Outlook handles dark mode in emails. It's not a pure inversion of colors, rather, the background goes black and the colors you are using are adjusted to be more visible against a dark background. For example, if you are using a dark blue pen, on the dark-mode background it still shows as blue, but a much lighter blue. As opposed to inverting which would just make it…

    28 votes

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  2. Ability to create sub folders or sections in a study set. I don’t really want to have 20 sets for 1 subject as that means having to move in and out of sets when building them for a single exam with multiple sections. But I’d like the ability to better organise my cards within sets as the nature of flash cards is you need many with bite sized info thus it gets a bit cluttered.

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  3. There should be an option to straighten handwriting, like the one in Apple Notes.

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  4. I hope to support the conversion of handwritten texts in Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic).This is very helpful for our students studying small languages, thank you!

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  5. Hallo,

    ich nutze in der Schule sehr gerne Good notes auf dem IPad, aber Zuhause benutze ich nur Android Geräte würde aber dennoch gerne Good notes benutzen. Also konkret: Mein Wunsch ist Good notes für Android.

    Gruß Lonnie

    28 votes

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  6. Add a simple lock button that will help us stay with the same bevel of zoom of that particular document. And also a button for continuous scrolling. PLEASE!

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  7. My Idea would be that you can Link an document in another Document so you can quickly click on it and get to the document.

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  8. I love using the existing outline in PDFs, but it's tough work to create one if it isn't already implemented. A great feature would be the possiblity to choose the option "set as outline title" for marked text to quickly greate an outline for a document.

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  9. It would be great if something like a 2 page scrollling view could be added so that when we scroll through PDF version of our notes, especially exported slides, a better overview of the set of notes could be seen. This is in comparision to what we have now, where we scroll through the document page by page. Going through each set of notes might take quite some time when there are many pages in a document.

    28 votes

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  10. I want to simply scan parts of a document as a picture, to insert into the middle of my written note instead of as a new page.

    28 votes

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  11. PIN TABS - PIN INDIVIDUAL CHOOSEN TAB - TO AVOID ACCIDENTAL TABS CLOSE

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  12. I think, especially after seeing the recent "favorites bar" on Notability, that we should be allowed to move the toolbar to the right hand side of the screen. As a lefty the bottom toolbar is not close to how useful I find the right handed mini-toolbar that I can throw around my screen in notability now. I'd love to see a more refined and better version of this feature on goodnotes for, not only left handed people, but everyone that doesn't want to reach to the top or bottom of the screen for small reasons

    28 votes

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  13. I love GoodNotes and I use it everyday. One thing that was missing though is the ability to select the text in order iOS/iPadOS to speak it, or ‘swipe down with two fingers to read the page’ feature in the iOS/iPadOS. I just imported a PDF book and I was trying to activate the speak mode of the iPadOS but I couldn’t do it. I actually thought that this implementation would have been already in GoodNotes since its very easy to use Apple’s API for speech synthesis and Apple provides good support for this.
    Text-to-speech implementation with the iOS/iPadOS voices…

    28 votes

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  14. Have mathematical tools like the ruler, protractor, compass, divider, set square etc. For math students as holding a compass or divider over the ipad would damage the screen.

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  15. When I import a PDF to an existing notebook I have been using for handwritten notes, the PDF size is much larger and makes it so I have to keep zooming in and out as I read through my notes. Please make it so that there is an option so scale my imported PDF to standard GoodNotes 5 paper size to match the rest of my notebook!

    28 votes

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  16. Today, when you want to use the fountain pen in Green at a size of 1,5mm for some elements PLUS the ball pen in black at a size of 0,3mm, you have to always switch the 3 characteristics ALL THE TIME :

    1. Tap Pen > switch Fountain / Ball
    2. Tap Colour > switch the colour
    3. Tap Size > switch the size >> In real paper life, you drop the first pen and take the other one... it should the same here

    Solution Needed :
    1. You let us define / save the 3 elements at the same time & allow…

    28 votes

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  17. Since there already is a feature to convert handwritten text.
    It would be very usefully if you could convert the text from pictures of handwritten notes or documents like textbooks to editable text.

    28 votes

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  18. Now we only can save 3 pen colors and 3 pen thickness, but I would love to have more, something like 5, there is place tu put them, and we can have a setting of how many are showed, so who wants to have 3 can have 3 and who needs 5 can have them

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  19. I was wondering if there can be an option to select a page element and “Bring Forward” or “Send Back” so that I wouldn’t have to worry about layers being obscured. This would be especially helpful for inserting images on top of preexisting text when I want the text to be visible on top of the images.

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  20. The new font feature is amazing. But what would be an even better addition would be the ability to star (favorite) fonts so they always appear at the top of the list. It would also be nice if we were able to sort the favorites freely. There are so many fonts I don’t use but come installed on iPad anyway, would save us so much scrolling time!

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