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  1. Assume that I move the zoom box to a position in the middle of the page and start writing. When I hit the end of the line or touch enter, I expect the zoom box to jump to the same horizontal position I moved it to earlier and not to the left end end of the page.
    I know this can be handled by setting left indention manually. But having this kind of auto-detect left border would be a welcome addition.

    Short Version:
    After drag of zoom box, set left indention = x position of zoom box

    29 votes

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  2. Please support Boxcryptor. This allows to store files encrypted on Dropbox. You support dropbox - you should support Boxcryptor as well. Never mind - but who wants to store his private stuff in the cloud without encryption ... :).
    Thanks for realization!

    29 votes

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  3. Would love to be able to retire cards, move cards to a new study set, search study sets, and have a better organizing system for the cards (including a way to zoom into cards while in study mode).

    28 votes

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  4. I would like you to add the Swedish language in your application, it is very complicated to write because we have letters like ö,ä,å that the application does not recognize and so it is difficult to write

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  5. line extension
    Currently zoom box has the option to extend the line only for writers in a language that is from left to right, yes yes that is most of the world, I understand that.
    Except for those of us who write in languages that are right to left like Arabic and Hebrew, we would be happy if there was also a feature that allows us to write and extend the line for us as well.

    28 votes

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  6. 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.

    28 votes

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  7. I find myself opening up many notes at once, sometimes it leads to accidentally deleting some notes and I have to find them to re-open them again. If it were possible to have this function, I think it would be nice. A function similar to how google chrome on pc works, we can group tabs on chrome pc. I’m not really sure about chrome on iPad but if it were possible to use that type of technology with GoodNotes I think it would be helpful.

    28 votes

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  8. When I switch to night mode only status bar becomes dark but PDFs still have white background. Hope there could be a function that can reverse color of PDFs so they can have black backgrounds and white characters.

    My English could be better.

    28 votes

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  9. When I inputted my class Syllabus and other long multiple-page documents to my notebooks they cluttered my notebook. It would be great if we could have a feature that condenses those un-necessary elements to one outline level and separate subsequent pages in the large documents from the rest of the notebook view.

    Maybe utilize the vertical and horizontal scrolling? Have normal pages scroll using the user designated scroll direction (eg vertical) and the sub-outline pages scroll the other scroll direction (eg horizontal).

    You could only add two directions then I suppose

    28 votes

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  10. Useful if someone import pages wrongly.

    Say I want to import a 300-page pdf file into a new file, but I mistakenly chose to import it into the current file. It would be convenient if there was an undo button to delete those new pages in the current file.

    28 votes

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  11. 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.

    28 votes

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  12. 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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  13. I use "GoodNotes 5.4" with iPad Pro 2018, I am totally satisfied, however the geometric tools should be improved. Ideal would be to add predefined geometric figures, triangle, rectangle, square, circle. I have a lot of difficulty creating perfect squares, there are no way to manage the fill separately from the contour line. It is not possible to draw dashed lines. The option adding layers in drawings would also be nice. Are you planning to add these features in the future?
    Best regards

    28 votes

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  14. Right now, we can scroll through the pages (vertical scrolling) only using our fingers. It would be awesome if we could scroll through the pages vertically by using the apple pencil on the non-page areas (the grey areas on the side of the page). Thanks!

    28 votes

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  15. I have entered all my Journal Colors and added them to Presets. When I type something, those colors are not available. I have to manually enter the hex code to get the proper color text .... Every .. Single .. Time!

    28 votes

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  16. 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?

    28 votes

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  17. It could be very useful to have a tool that helps you to draw accurate curves for math graphs on a cartesian plane.

    28 votes

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  18. The following are essential for reading and annotation of scientific papers that have a citation list and internal references:

    Issue: Following an internal PPF link does not reach exact position in target page.

    Feature request i: After following internal PPF link, highlight target line until next user input

    Feature request ii: After following internal PDF link, show button to return to original position.

    28 votes

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  19. 28 votes

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    1. The handwriting recognition works but is limited to sharing. I wish it had an option to convert it to text inside notes.

    2. Mathematical symbols or equations recognition would also be great! :)

    28 votes

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