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  1. Please make it an option to permanently disable PDF outlines that exist within a document, so that you don't have to go to 'filter' in the outlines view and turn PDF outlines off each time you open up a notebook.
    When you download university readings or just lots of large documents in general it really clutters things up. I would love to be able to turn this off once for all my notebooks and forget about it!

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  2. Please add the ability to export audio from the note-taking separately. It would greatly improve GoodNotes and is currently available in the Notability app.

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  3. Exporting Recording of the notebook can be useful. Please add this feature thank you.

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  4. As I used voice recording function, I suggest two improvements.
    First, it will be better if we can save recorded file out from GoodNotes.
    Second, I suggest that we can adjust speed of the recording when listening.

    Thank you

    11 votes

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    • being able to add bullet points
    • highlighting text
    • having a a overview and management of all Flashcards
    • being able to go back when you accidentally incorrectly swiped a flashcard
    • flashcard shuffle
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  5. Now I have to click then select stroke size, which is make me get slower. Before It appeared in the toolbar and I only do one click, but for now two click is required. For me adding more colors doesn’t necessary (at all), I don’t always change the colors, but I always change the stroke size, so bring it back please 🙏🏼, I’m so upset to click for change stroke size, can you make me change immediately whenever I want to.

    11 votes

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  6. To make the new flashcard feature even more useful, it would be great to be able to insert math equations using inline LaTeX/MathJax notation. (Similar to what’s possible with Anki).

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  7. It would be awesome to have the possibility to save an individual color palette for typed texts just like it is for handwritten texts. At the moment there’s just the option to save one explicit favourite text style respectively text color.

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  8. I think adding a tool for drawing curves for diagrams that for example engineering students must draw for their notes will be very helpful like the one exists in CollaNote.

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  9. Having a version history function would also be helpful like how google docs have theirs. As far as I've seen there isn't a version history function yet, and I haven't seen anyone suggest this idea in this forum.

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  10. I use it very often and now I have to go over the dotted menü and don`t see the current status.
    There seems to be much empty space, so I dont understand, why this buton has been hided.

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  11. Add a sync button on the main bar to the different goodnotes platforms. I simultaneously work between goodnotes on my MacBook and iPad. It rarely auto syncs in real-time. I need back out of my current document in both platforms, go into settings, go into icloud settings, and then click use icloud. I toggle off in both then toggle on in both for my changes to sync real-time. It's a nuisance. I love goodnotes otherwise.

    11 votes

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  12. If I am on slide 50 of a pdf powerpoint but I want to keep referencing slide 9 multiple times quickly, I would like to press one button that would take me to the "previous page". So I could go between slide 50 and 9 at one press of a button

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  13. The flashcards tool is a really great way to study vocabulary or Theorems, but please make the window bigger whilst studying!

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  14. Can we add the option to insert a new blank page, which has exactly the same size as the pages in the PDF?

    As a student, I open various PDF slides everyday. However, when I want to insert a blank page in between for more detailed notes, it's difficult to figure out the exact same width. But using a page with a different width makes scrolling and zooming less fluid.

    11 votes

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  15. When writing out long texts it would be great that when the page is full, the text continues on the next page with the same format, like in Microsoft word.

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  16. Goodnotes is great. It could be SO much better, though with a few quality of life add-ons. Having more pen styles would make the note-taking process so much more enjoyable and streamlined.

    I especially enjoy Microsoft OneNote's pens including glitter, rainbow, etc. Right now, I switch between apps because Goodnotes is lacking in a lot of areas that other apps supply (while still being my go-to note-taking app).

    11 votes

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  17. A tool that changes the colour of existing handwritten strokes in the same way that the stroke eraser removes handwritten strokes. Rather than having to make careful lasso selections around pen strokes then selecting colour, users could use this tool to quickly edit the colour of their text to highlight certain words using different colours really easily. This tool would have a colour pallet much like the pen tool that decides the colour the strokes will be changed to when painted over.

    The attached gif demonstrates the functionality of the proposed tool

    11 votes

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  18. I love using the highlighter option but it’s incredibly dull compared to other notes apps. All the colours need to be more vibrant because I constantly find myself highlighting over the same thing multiple times to get the colour I want to appear. Also please increase the max size of the highlighter feature. Most of the notes I download to the app have text too big for the highlighter and It looks terrible and takes too much time to go over it again and again. Thanks

    11 votes

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  19. It would be handy to be able to scroll beyond the page. This would enable me/us to write on the page bottom while the hand palm is still resting on the screen instead of having it resting uncomfortably on the edge of the device.

    Otherwise I LOVE the app and your pricing. Keep up the good work :)

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