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  1. When filming live, white backgrounds are too bright and interfere with the live stream, so I want to invert white to black.
    Leave other colors unchanged.

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  2. Need to change back to the way it was before the latest update. Drawing straight lines became really ******. The text box sucks big time. Text box before and how you saved the text box settings was way better before. I do like the drawing arrow features. The way it jumps automatically from text box to lasso sucks big time. I use goodnotes a lot at work (electrician) and ive been pushing more and more people to start using goodnotes in the past. But if this continues the way it is, i highly cant recommend people to jump on goodnotes.…

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  3. Please create the option to turn off auto connection of connector lines to pre-defined shapes drawn with the shape tool. I understand this was designed for diagramming but I am picky about my notes being neat, organized, and symmetrical so I really like using this tool to draw my own figures as well as perfect arrows/shapes. However, the auto connect makes it very frustrating and annoying to use because my lines are redirected to connect to nearby shapes and there is no way of detaching them to still draw the lines where I need them to go. They cannot even…

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  4. Please add an option to Automatically backup files of folders in OneDrive in Goodnotes 6 as it was before in Goodnotes 5.
    It is important for me because i have other devices Android and Window and i can not reach for the files saved in iClould if i want to refer to them later on and it is exclusively in my IOS device (iPad)

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  5. ''Continuous Element Sticking Mode" / "Repeat Sticker Placement"

    I request the reintroduction of a feature or an option to enable
    "Continuous Placement Mode"
    for the Elements tool.

    ​Select the Element Tool.​Tap on an element(sticker, image, textbox.)
    from the Elements bar.

    ​The tool should remain active, allowing the user to tap repeatedly on the canvas to place the selected element multiple times until a different tool is selected (e.g., Pen, Lasso).

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  6. Hello Goodnotes Team,
    I am a dedicated user of your app, and I love how it has transformed my note-taking. I have a feature suggestion that I believe would be immensely valuable for students and professionals in mathematics, science, and engineering: the addition of a built-in Cartesian Coordinate System tool.
    The Suggestion
    Currently, users must manually draw or import graph paper to create graphs. My suggestion is to implement a feature that allows users to instantly generate a customizable Cartesian coordinate plane on any page, similar to how the Shape Tool works.
    Key Customization Options
    This tool would be most…

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  7. actually I use baidu cloud instead of iCloud, so it is very important for me that if it has other choices to synchronize my notes, especially if there is a choice that I can synchronize to Baidu cloud.

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  8. I would like to be more specific in what I share over a screen. It would be great to have a Window in my file, especially now with the whiteboards, to Zoom in on an area and drag and drop in Items from outside the view of the shared screen. It's like in the App "Whiteboard Explain Everything".

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  9. 作成したアウトラインの並び替え

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  10. I believe it would be amazing if we could have a document such as a text document and be able to draw on top of it. Now with all the new updates you cannot do that except with text boxes. For example, when you are following a class and need to put explanations and grafs or anatomical drawings etc. you must switch from one doc to another or even from one app to another. I believe text boxes aren’t that practical.
    I saw notability has this option but I prefer Goodnotes so I’ll stick with you <3

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  11. Please disable this automatic line changing or increase the limit of words for line change. It doubles the work as again we have to stretch the box to make while text appear in single line.

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  12. i can see people use the tools in different sequences - I need the eraser to auto-deselect off pen menu when i
    ERASE then
    LASSO something, then go back to
    PEN to keep drawing or writing.
    right now it won’t deselect when i use a tool NOT in the pen menu

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  13. Add the possibility of remove the object area that anchorages writing, forms to a form.
    This new feature doesn't allow drawing over some figures and makes the drawing experience terrible on goodnotes.
    Let the user choose in he needs the area or not.

    It would also be nice to be able to draw geometric shapes that are more similar to those drawn by hand.
    For example, quarters and semicircles, which are currently transformed into parabolas.

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  14. When you draw something and hold, there'll be a faded color of your pen inside the shape. The latest update make me couldn't delete the outline of the shape and that makes taking notes way worseee. I love those more than highlighting. PLEASE BRING IT BACKKKK I BEG.

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  16. Goodnotes has implemented links to websites as well as internal pages for some time now. However, they are still incredibly cumbersome to use, especially for handwriters. I propose the following improvements:

    1) Internal links
    In most cases the page one wants to link to is already open in another tab or window side by side. But to create a link there we still have to navigate to this page again within the link creation dialogue.
    It would be faster and more intuitive to have an additional entry in the document menu and page browser to simply copy a link to…

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  17. Scribble to delete is a nice feature. Unfortunately if turned on, it accidentally deletes drawings. Would it be possible to delete by scribble only at FAST pencil movements?

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  18. Seit dem letzten Windows Update werden bei der automatischen Linienführung Rundungen in den Ecken erstellt. Dies sollte deaktiviert werden können. Ich nutze Goodnotes im Unterricht um Elektroschemas und Elektrosymbole zu zeichnen. Goodnotes ist das einzige mir bekannte Programm, welches diese Funktion so gut beherrscht. Daher empfehle ich es jedem Lernenden und jeder Lehrperson weiter. Bitte mit dem nächsten Update die automatische Linienführung mit Ecken wieder möglich machen.

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  19. Seit dem letzten Windows Update ist die Grösse für geometrische Formen begrenzt. Kreise, Vierecke, Dreiecke können nicht so klein gemacht werden wie früher.

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  20. The latest Goodnotes doesn’t let you type in a hex code to change the TEXT color on a SHAPE. This happens on the Custom tab of the Color Change pop-up window when you select the text on a shape and then click the color dot on the pop-up menu to change the TEXT color. Goodnotes doesn’t let you insert your cursor into the Hex Code box. There are just a bunch of zeroes in the Hex Code box that you can’t overwrite.
    The shapes themselves can be updated using a typed-in hex code, but not their built-in text. This problem…

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