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  1. As someone with hand tremors, it is difficult to get things like text boxes and pictures and doodles into position easily. It would be nice if I could select an item, move it close to the desired position, then nudge it up/down/left/right with the arrows on the keyboard.

    • I know tapping on the screen deselects, so I am not sure how to accomplish this with gestures when there isn’t a keyboard... maybe drag the selection with one finger and hold down another finger to allow you to tap outside the selection to nudge it in that direction...

    The option to…

    24 votes

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  2. I would like to have a feature where you can press and hold on any writing in the note and your pen will automatically use that selected formatting, similar to a colour eye dropper tool.

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  3. Hi ,
    I have switched to your app after about 10 years of using other apps. This app is great, has lots of fantastic features that make it superior to others and is very convenient to use. But it also lacks some features too.

    Voice recording and importing is crucial, especially now that Samsung has added it to its app.
    Also other multimedia formats are cool to be added , like short video clips, gifs and etc...
    Please update, others already have , Samsung has added voice, folders, importing PDFs and a lot of features that they didn’t have, they…

    24 votes

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  4. I'm left-handed, I cannot physically write on the left side of the screen like the whole left third is uncomfortable to write on as the edge of my iPad gets in the way. The inability to move the page around freely beyond frustrating - It doesn't let me move the left-hand side of the page to the middle of the screen so a lot of the time I have to write something on the right-hand side and use the lasso tool to move it to the left.

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  5. If it is too hard to add an in app audio recording functionality. PLEASE allow us to import into our documents audio files similar to how OneNote allows you. The ideal thing would be in app recording that is synced to your hand written or typed notes but since that is harder. We are willing to compromise on this first, but please give us something. It is really inconvenient to have to use other apps to split your notes. It is not efficient for us.

    24 votes

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  6. I'm using a bluetooth keyboard with iPad when I'm writing and I find it really useful to change tools with keyboard shortcuts (instead of clicking the icons)! I think it would be better if you could also add a shortcuts for changing colors (for example command+1, command+2, command+3). I will really appreciate that and thanks in advance!

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  7. I am studying Spanish, and I usually write the English translation of vocabularies in my GoodNotes Notebook. But the notebook can only recognize one of the languages which are sometimes a bit chaotic when I am trying to look for particular vocabularies. Thanks.

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  8. As a left hander it often happens that the page jumps or the zoom changes while writing. It would be nice to have a button which locks the zoom and the position of the page. Alternatively I would like to have a sidebar on the left side to put my hand to reduce the page jumps and zoom changes.

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  9. I have been using Notability for my class notes for over a year and am just now starting to use Goodnotes 5 specifically for bullet journaling. There are a few features I love in Notability that I think would be great in Goodnotes:
    * Clickable bullet lists when typing in Text
    * Alignment guides to show when elements are aligned to each other at right, left, & center

    And one other suggestion (not from Notability that I know of)... an optional line or dot grid that can be projected onto a page to help with alignment. Great if it can…

    24 votes

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  10. Studying organic chemistry is already a pain, not mentioning to draw a perfect hexagon... Can we have shapes presets to help drawing in the app

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  11. It would be nice if you can watch embedded videos in pdf and to add videos to your notes from your library or from a website.

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  12. Need an option to slide the zoom windows blue shaded continuous writing field away from the far left edge to accommodate left handed writers.

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  13. It would be great if we could make a table/chart... just the Form Not all these calculating thing

    Es wäre toll wenn man eine Tabelle machen könnte... nur die Form nicht die Kalkulationsfunktionen. (Das wäre 2.-Rangig)

    For the geometry function would it be nice if we can draw halve circles or bows or something like a sinus-function.

    Für die Geometrie Funktion wäre es toll wenn man halbe Kreise, Bögen oder etwas ähnliches wie eine Sinusfunktion zeichnen könnte.

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  14. Export all the highlighted sections of a PDF or notebook into a new file or notebook so all your important info can be in one place!

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  15. If the user hovers over the shape recognition icon in the tool bar at the top, a window pops up similar to what happens when you hover over the pencil or highlighter. In this window, the user can select "Shape Recognition" which is what we have today or they can select "Shape Pallet". Different pallets could then be selected for things like Flowcharting Shapes, "Architectural Shapes", "Furniture Shapes", etc. A feature like this would enable GoodNotes to morph into a very specific type of note taking tool based on the industry and unique requirements of the user.

    You could also…

    24 votes

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  16. Optimize PDF Export Size, notes with three photos have more than 10 MB in one page! Now we use other Apps to optimize the exported PDF, it would be great to control this in Goodnotes

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  17. Please keep the original full screen reading mode option. Having the menu bar at the top while you are only reading the notes is very distractive and buttons might be pushed unintentionally.

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  18. I would like to know if you could add a function to scan the photos that we take like enhancing the image and cropping automatically (detecting the borders), it would be very useful. I use this app to take notes on the slides provided by the professors during the lectures, however sometimes they change some slide and I usually take a photo of the screen and I import it to my file but the quality is not the same if I use an app that scan images.

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  19. Please go back to the most previous UI. This new UI though more simplified, is more tedious to work with. I like the implementation of when you copy a photo, it directly sizes it from a corner instead of proportionally sizing everything. However, once you click off that image, you have to go back to the pen which wastes time during fast lectures.
    The new text box interaction is also tedious since you have to hold down and click ‘start editing’ instead of just clicking a button to text on the whole page. And if you do just a small…

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  20. I really miss the old version where I could type text and handwrite in the same note. Now I have to choose between typing or writing note, which honestly makes note taking so much harder.

    I know there’s the “text” option in the handwriting mode, but it’s just not the same… it doesn’t sync as neatly, and I waste so much time adjusting font size, boldness, spacing, etc. It totally breaks my focus and I end up missing a lot of info during class.

    Please, please bring back the ability to type and write in the same note again. It…

    23 votes

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