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  1. I name my documents in the following way:

    2020-11-15 Team Discussion
    2020-11-17 Meeting with ...
    2020-11-18 anything

    I would like to see the document with the youngest date string on top. Sorting by date doesn't help in any case, because sometimes I change something in a document - but the sorting shouldn't be affected ...

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  2. the line spacing drag bar under paragraph, is really difficult to get the spacing right. if we could have that... and/or be able to type in the number we need for spacing. that would greatly help. I'm constantly messing with it and when I let go it jumps to another number. >.<

    6 votes

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  3. Hi, goodnotes developers.
    I've been using goodnotes application for years and I think Goodnotes 5 should have a "Categories" shourcut as in goodnotes 4. It's more convenient than tapping "back" again and again until I reach the main documents page. I have many subfolders so that shoutcut is what goodnotes 5/6/7 or whatever should have. Hope you consider this problem. I'm certainly sure that it's not inly me who feel uncomfotable about this. Thank you for your hard working!

    6 votes

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    Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll see what we can do about it in the future. In the meantime, you can avoid having to tap the back button multiple times and instead tap on the “Documents” icon in the tab bar at the bottom to jump straight to the root folder level.

  4. Hi, I am a mechanical engineering student and use good notes a lot for lecture notes and calculations. For quick drawings of periodic functions it would be nice, if good notes would recognize sin-/cos- shaped drawings of functions. Like the spline recognition, you could add control points to adjust phase, amplitude etc. and number of displayed periods.
    Kind regards, Simon

    6 votes

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  5. It would be so great to close multiple tabs at once. When I finished studying a subject, I have to close 10-20 tabs before I begin the next subject. It would be so nice to be able to tap and hold and have an option come up to ‘close all tabs’. Thanks!

    6 votes

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  6. Often time, I want to quickly insert 1 image and go back to the pen tool. It would be great if the image tool auto-deselect and revert back to the pen like the eraser tool could

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  7. I really want goodnotes to ask before closing any tab for more convenient such as "Are you sure you want to close 123.pdf ?". I usually open multiple tabs and I accidentally close some tab that I don't know. (I know that I can find the recent tabs I've opened.) Sometimes I close wrong tab too. Thank you for reading my opinion in advance.

    6 votes

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  8. 6 votes

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  9. 1.在输入科学公式、方程方面软件目前没有好的解决方案,建议支持插入LaTex公式输入,手写识别时能支持将手写内容经过OCR识别直接转化为美观的公式样式。推荐一个在科学公式识别方面做的非常好的公司,他们的服务可以廉价提供,他们的网站是:https://mathpix.com/

    2.在文本框编辑状态下,软件无法兼容苹果笔的“随手写”功能,该功能可以实时进行手写识别完成文本输入。

    I am a Chinese user, and the following text is generated by machine translation.

    1. Currently, there is no good solution for the input of scientific formulas and equations. It is suggested that LaTex formula input should be supported and handwritten content can be directly transformed into a beautiful formula style through OCR recognition. Recommend a company that does a really good job of identifying scientific formulas, and their service is available on the cheap, at https://mathpix.com/

    2. In the state of text box editing, the software is not compatible with apple Pen's "write casually" function, which can realize…

    6 votes

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  10. Not sure how to describe this. But it is a hassle sometimes, that whenever i draw a graph for example and use different colors and sizes etc. to annotate it and then release i need to erase something which happens to cross over the lines of my graph, the graph would get erased as well.

    So maybe an option to pin something like on Canva so it can‘t be edited anymore.

    6 votes

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  11. It would be nice if there were a way to index all pages written and make them available where one finds Thumbnails / Favorites / Outlines a way to go quickly review and find.

    I will use when I have a normal document with a lot of pages, and I have to write some notes, o highlight something, and then quickly find in the documents my notes.

    6 votes

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  12. I like the idea of having a storage on camera button that has a drop-down menu to store clipart a person uses. For example in physics I use this clipart of a car or buildings alot to help quickly have free body diagrams. Having a drop-down menu of tables, pictures, and other tools saved for quick access would nice versus having to constantly copy, paste, or crop

    6 votes

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  13. After drawing a shape it'd be nice if we could have the option to remove its border, leaving only the semi-transparent filling. I draw lots of 3D shapes and the semi-transparent filling helps indicating the object's depth, but the borders make the object look cluttered.

    6 votes

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  14. I'm really supporting Good Notes, but for saving my notes for school, I would like to prefer DS File as my backup application, so that I can use my Synology NAS to do a backup.

    Thank you for reading my Idea.

    6 votes

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  15. Search feature: being able to search within a specific folder, notebook or any document . When we do a search currently it will give you results of all different notes that will match your search description and even tho that is helpful it would be more helpful if you can perform a search on that specific folder currently open....

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  16. My handwriting is not that good and so the OCR results are not able to recognise most of the time so I couldn't take notes with peace of mind.Each time I write GoodNotes takes it as different letters or words, so when I search back couldn’t find what I want. It would be benefited if OCR Feature can take feedback of individual style of writing to recognise the letters and words. Saddest experience is my brother’s Samsung notes app doing this part well and could recognise my strokes well even though mine is terrible and I was shocked that GoodNotes…

    6 votes

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  17. I hope there is an eraser function that can only erase the traces of the strokes on the entire page, but not the traces of the highlighter

    6 votes

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  18. I need functionality to play embedded movies in PDFs for online research presentation.

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  19. Good Day

    quite a few companies use goodnotes on the flight deck. We regularly need to rearrange the pages in a special manner. Right now you can use the overview but you only can move one page by time. It really helps if you can mark several pages and move it to a specific spot.
    That would be a super B add-on :)

    Greetings from Germany
    Lars

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  20. because all files are sync to the cloud (icloud/onedrove...) we should be able to desync some of them so they take less space but are still visible on the app. And re-download them when we need to

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