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  1. Although I have automatic updates turned on in the App store, I frequently have to manually update the app on each device. I see that this has something to do with the "phased release" of updates. It would, however, be lovely not to have to take these extra steps on a regular basis.

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  3. Navigating documents in GoodNotes is hardly the most intuitive - the only view button is placed awkwardly on the top left next to an exit document button and a search button! Pinching out currently does nothing, so why not let it change the view to the current thumbnail view? Ideally, this view could also incorporate a scrubbing timeline along the bottom of the screen to allow direct access to positions in a document.

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  4. 能像概念画板那样出一个无限画板的版面吗,需要一个可以无限拓展的笔记本,现在的纸张太限制记录了。。

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  5. Annotation of notes where another sheet pops up to the side of the page I’d like to take more notes on. This way my notes can added to busy slides without having to do a ton of scrolling.

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  6. As a teacher, I use GoodNotes as a smart board by presenting on projector. I usually upload blank template of today's lesson in a Google Drive where students find the notes, this is the blank document to start. As I teach, I like to upload the updated version to the same folder, but want the option to have GoodNotes overwrite or replace the original file with the same name so the new version is what students get. That way I don't have to go in after to delete the original so only the new one is there.

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  8. Considering that Goodnotes is already on iPhone/iPad and the Mac version uses Catalyst, I'm surprised that's it's taking so long to release a Mac universal binary version for the Apple Silicon Macs. What is the timeline for a universal release?

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  9. Love the iPad app for handwriting and the companion Mac version, where I mainly use the text tool. Is it possible to have some helpers for aligning, centering for text box. Thanks

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  10. Il love the fact that we can define a default setup for our textboxes. I use it to quickly write important things in red boxes.

    Althought it would be great to have 3 or 4 default setup instead of only one.

    Thank you !

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  11. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

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  12. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

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  13. When creating a note in a box and you want to move it, you always have to make sure that your lasso ist around everything. It would be a very useful feature if one could just merge the text and the box togehter so you only have to move the box and the text will automatically be moved with it. Also, you should be able to undo the merging in case you want to edit the text.

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  14. Make it so that the color of the text stays the same until you change it. If I'm annotating a page in all red text, I don't want to have to change each individual textbox red after typing.

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  15. I think the 'draw and hold' feature is amazing for putting emphasis on different parts of my notes, but it's always really frustrating when I'm trying to 'box' something but I don't get the lines perfectly perpendicular so the box comes out wonky. I don't even understand why anyone would want to have a rectangle with a wonky diagonal line ever?

    My suggestion (which seems in theory to be a really easy to implement update) is another toggle in the 'draw and hold' section where, once toggled, it only allows basic shapes i.e. only rectangles without wonky diagonal sides, maybe…

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  16. ファイルを開くためのパスワードを設定できるようにして欲しい。

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  17. First of all: I love Goodnotes!

    Problem: when structuring a PDF presentation/ storyline I'm missing a Slidesorter - similar to Powerpoint. "Thumbnails" already provides a great basis for this, but in horizontal mode (as most presentations), you only see 12 slides with lots of space between the rows and the slides so small that you can't even read the title of the slides.

    Proposition: Kill the vertical space b/w the slide rows and add a feature to scale the zoom, i.e. the size of the slides at expense of the number of slides visible.

    That would be fantastic and super…

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  20. The copy/paste from iOS to macOS is an incredible feature, which makes it very easy to create diagrams for slides (e.g., in Keynote) in GoodNotes, but sometimes when copying diagrams that contain handwriting, only the text being recognized is pasted on macOS (instead of the actual image). This is frustrating, especially because it's inconsistent. Can you please fix the copy/paste behavior so that it consistently pastes the image from GoodNotes into the destination Mac application?

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