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  1. It will be great if we can customize different scrolling directions for different documents rather than the same for all documents. Since some documents may have a better view in vertical scrolling some may be more convenient in horizontal scrolling.

    23 votes

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  2. When I select an area and take a screenshot it opens another screen.
    It would be much better to have the option (Maybe in settings) to put a screenshot straight into the clipboard. A lot of the time I just want to quickly copy from an imported PDF document to separate notebook.

    23 votes

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  3. GoodNotes can be used a a great meeting notes tool. It would be nice to see an integration with iOS calendar (similar to Onenote: add meeting details) and with Reminders (add a new task/reminder)

    23 votes

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  4. Currently, the only way to have custom colours that are the same in text and drawing tools is to manually duplicate the hex code for each colour from the drawing tool palette to the text tool palette and vice versa. I do a lot of colour-coding in my notes, and use both text and writing; an option for a shared custom colour palette between text and drawing would be wonderful, and save a LOT of time.

    23 votes

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  5. It is important to record hand written notes and the order the where taken in. For example when writing math notes, you can be working on a problem and write all around it with note or cross something due to elimination process of the problem. When reviewing the notes later on it can easily be confusing when the original problem has been marked up. That’s where stroke recording can come in handy. You can watch your process replay in front of you and see your own problem solving process. This is very important especially for students and STEM field workers

    23 votes

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  6. Goodnotes 5:
    Thumbnail view of the various notebooks as well as the thumbnail view of the pages within a notebook contains a lot of space between the thumbnails - wasting a lot of display area, and making it difficult to read the thumbnail content.
    So: Use much less space between the thumbnails, and make them larger (check noteshelf 2, but make it even better i.e. with even less space than there!).

    23 votes

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  7. iOS - The laser pointer is a fantastic feature. However, as a teacher, switching between the laser pointer and pen tool constantly is very cumbersome. If the laser pointer was activated by a finger touch, while the pen tool is still selected, this would streamline SO much.

    23 votes

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  8. I've recently downloaded Goodnotes. The first thing I missed is that if I copy a link from Safari, copied the link info Goodnotes, and...... it became just flattened text.
    I was hoping for (expecting) that this would be a clickable link.

    23 votes

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  9. It would be great to merge imported sheets and PDFs to one single PDF file.

    23 votes

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  10. A feature to recognize mathematical symbols and equations and to convert them into images inside the recognized text

    23 votes

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  11. Currently, a keyword search only works within a handwritten note. However, across notebooks, this feature is not available. It would be good if this is integrated into Spotlight Search so that handwritten notes can be retrieved by searching via Spotlight.

    23 votes

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  12. Please add the option to have the auto-advance field not start at the very left but an offset that you can setup yourself.
    Following problem is occurring:
    As right-handed writer, you can rest your hand on the middle/right side of the screen (especially in landscape) and only use the left part to write... lets say only writing to the middle and then switch back to the beginning, giving you an option to write without moving your hand.
    As left-hander I can't rest my hand on the left side of the screen. If I could setup an offset for the auto-advance-field…

    23 votes

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  13. Sometimes when I make a mistake while hand writing in good notes I just scribble the word out then have to erase it later. Some sort of feature that recognizes I scribbled out a word and then erases it would be superb.

    23 votes

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  14. It should be able to export with customizable resolutions, since for some notes we do not need high resolution and for dense pages the PDF generated with the current version is heavy and difficult to upload in slow connections.

    23 votes

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  15. 22 votes

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  16. Being able to use Apple Calendar with Integrations. At the moment I can only choose for google calendar. Or Do I Mis Something

    22 votes

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  17. I have been a Goodnotes user for over 5 years, and it is currently my primary note-taking app for my studies in medical school. I have recently noticed a small redundancy that I believe can make the user experience a lot smoother if a slight improvement is made. When accessing the outlines within a notebook composed of imported PDFs, there are both custom outlines and auto-imported PDF outlines. As is the case with many students, the PDF outlines are often cluttered and sometimes irrelevant, so custom outlines are instead used to divide the various subsections (eg. lectures) within a notebook.…

    22 votes

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  18. I am loving the new typing mode, but an important limitation is it does not currently support writing test in at least two columns (even in the default two- and three-column templates).

    Furthermore, the potential workaround of "manually" making columns by tabulating the gap between the desired columns in each line does not work either: after a couple of tabs, the cursor immediately moves down to the next line.

    This would be especially useful for e.g. typing vocabulary lists in two languages (one per column) or making long lists with short entries more compact (in terms of numbers of pages).

    22 votes

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  19. I'd like to be able to connect lines together to create unique shapes and have them recognised as an enclosed shape and be able to fill.

    22 votes

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  20. I'm a bit of a perfectionist with my handwriting, its an issue. But I would love custom pen settings similar to Procreate Brush Studio for smoother pen flow, especially since I have very jittery over-caffeinated hands haha. Specifically for ball point pen! See attachment for my example of what I consider "smooth" pen flow; note starting/ending pressure points. Examples of settings would include stroke properties, jitter, stabilization, pressure sensitivity, streamline, etc.

    22 votes

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