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  1. 118 votes

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  2. Please create an auto-generated table of contents template, that can also be edited. This should include an option to sort by date, through your outline, or topics.

    Someone else said "Allow me to select the text, eg my page heading like (meeting to discuss projected financial) and then click on a button which shoots the page heading to an automatically generated table of contents in the front of the Notebook. Table of contents will be built using all the specified headings, and should also display the date of that entry for easy reference." THIS IS GREAT AND SO HELPFUL.

    117 votes

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  3. Feature that allows you to insert your pdf with space for your own notes at the side (as in note anytime)

    117 votes

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  4. At the moment I can automatically backup only to
    - Box
    - Dropbox
    - OneDrive
    - GoogleDrive

    I've my nextcloud. Please add it into the list of automatic backups

    116 votes

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  5. An AI model integrated within GoodNotes that enhances and refines users' handwriting in real-time, aligning it with their unique personal writing style as they write with the Apple Pencil.
    -Advantage: This would make handwritten notes look cleaner and more consistent, improving readability while retaining the user's individual writing characteristics.

    115 votes

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  6. In GoodNotes 4, the search function within certain folders was very useful.
    In GoodNotes 5 it is unfortunately not yet possible to search within a specific folder. Instead, there is only a superordinate direct text search. Is it possible to implement a search in a specific folder?
    That would be great!

    112 votes

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  7. Implementation of Gif or short clip would be really helpful for physics and chemistry students studying anharmonic oscillator or streching and bending of different chemical bonds.. Those gif will be really helpful..!!

    111 votes

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  8. Change the text setting to make it more flexible for typing such as the app OneNote

    A few things for text I would like to see:
    - be able to change only part of a text to bold etc.
    - be able to edit text boxes
    - bullet points
    - be able to type straight onto ruled paper
    - spacing like a tab button

    110 votes

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  9. Provide a force-sync option

    When the iCloud sync isn't working, we are stuck waiting for the app itself to recognize that the files are not in sync, a force sync option where we can manually cause the app to sync would be incredibly helpful (like the OneNote option). That way we aren't waiting for the app to recognize, which sometimes requires quitting the whole app and reopening, instead we can just tell the app when we want it to sync in addition to automatically.

    109 votes

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  10. If I want to search for a sequence of words, for example "plant protein", GoodNotes currently shows me all instances of "plant" and all instances of "protein". These search results are often not useful.

    It would be awesome if I could add quotes to my search " 'plant protein' " to make GoodNotes return the exact sequence of words I searched for.

    This is pretty similar behavior to most search engines so it should be pretty intuitive to most users and it probably would be pretty easy to change

    108 votes

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  11. I am an engineering student. After trying multiple apps your app has by far been the best for the college student who takes higher level math courses. Every other app that allows to draw decent shapes and lines are way too complicated and targeted more for artists. We need to be able to take neat notes that involve shapes and numbers quickly and efficiently. While I love your shape feature it is time consuming to draw 3D shapes while trying to incorporate dotted lines to show hidden parts of the shape. Having a dotted line feature as well as maybe…

    107 votes

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  12. when i import a picture into one of my pages the image quality is really bad! please chance this

    105 votes

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  13. It would be great to be able to select a fill and stroke color for shapes created.

    104 votes

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  14. After the latest update, I can’t find a way to set a default font and size for the textbox, unlike before when you can just click the icon and store the current font and size as default. Right now, every time you add a textbox, you have to start typing from blue, size 10, Modern font and change it manually.

    103 votes

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  15. We should be able to add shapes from a predefined set of shapes from the developers. Plus we should be able to save our own custom shapes like for eg a rectangle with different length and breadth or a elliptical shapes etc

    103 votes

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  16. If there was one thing I could change or add to it would be the library view, I don't particularily like the virtual bookshelf that so many apps use. I'd much prefer a simple expandable folder/file list, ideally sortable on file name and revision date.

    103 votes

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  17. We should be able to go to links (hot!) in our browsers. The attachments: in the first one, I've copied the link to the source document. If link us live, I can go to my source document to click on links there (this would be the minimum). In the second attachment us the entire pdf with all its highlighted links....which currently go nowhere. We should be able to click on all of these and go to those links.

    102 votes

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  18. I would like to choose which notebooks / documents get synced through iCloud. I have plenty of documents on my iPad that I don't want to have on my iPhone. Things like PDF manuals or PDF presentations that I just can't use on the smaller iPhone screen.

    101 votes

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  19. GoodNotes provides the best handwriting experience, but the lack of rich text formatting (bold/italics, font sizes, font colors, bullets, numbered lists - you can only do one option per entire text box) makes apps like Notability a better option at the moment (despite the fact that the handwriting really sucks). There's no app that has handwriting at the level that GoodNotes has and also had proper text capabilities

    101 votes

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  20. Can w add a shortcuts for "Page Width" (just like what we have in Microsoft Word) to zoom the page so that the width of the page match the width of the screen?

    This is very useful when you want switch the iPad Mini to landscape view (to have bigger text size or get bigger keyboard to type faster).

    This is also useful when you want to switch back to a page width zoom level after you zoom it for some purpose.

    100 votes

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