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  1. This would allow to use other cloud services that are integrated into the Files app, in particular secure, end-to-end encrypted services.

    6 votes

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  2. It would be nice to be able to search for his notes. What has been highlighted or what has been drawn, or written by hand, because global research does not allow it. And / Or have a list of annotations that we made and in which we could do research

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  3. Export files from iOS Notes app to GoodNotes

    6 votes

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  4. There's similar ideas to be able to write over an existing annotation so you can selectively erase.

    This suggestion is different

    I want to be able to flatten an annotation so it's not enormous! I like to do a detailed drawing, and then I'm done! I don't need my exported PDF to be massive, and I'm not going to come back and edit.

    By not flattening, the notebook gets quite sluggish!

    Use case:
    I use GoodNotes as a laboratory notebook

    6 votes

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  5. A tool that allows you to set several ‘Stamp’ point, and when you write something, the same will appear from each ‘Stamp’
    This can make something easier, such as write duplicated words, or draw parallel lines
    Write something once, as if wrote the same many times
    See attachment for more information

    6 votes

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  6. It would be nice if it were possible to edit images in Good notes, because sometimes I have some dirt on the scanned document due to scanning and I cannot remove it.

    I also often have the problem that I want to remove something that was previously visible on the document I scanned.

    Please add a function to edit images and scanned documents to make this app even more perfect!

    6 votes

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  7. Sometimes, I take notes that relate to documents. Currently, I can import those documents within the notebook but that often makes notebooks unnecessarily large and it's not easy to navigate through so many pages.

    Instead, it would be nice to be able to attach files to notebooks, so that they are at hand when reviewing the notes.

    6 votes

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  8. A tool to fill objects with a specific colour

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  9. I use goodnotes on an ipad when teaching large calculus classes. The vertical scroll feature with "mirror presenter page" is great, but currently the projected image is scaled so that the top and bottom of the student view matches the top and bottom of the ipad view. This forces the instructor to turn the ipad sideways (in landscape orientation) to make use of the full width of the projector screen. But then the zoom window interface hides at least 1/3 of the screen on the ipad, obscuring much of what the students see from the instructor's view. It would be…

    6 votes

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  10. As of now, I love the highlighting tool. I love how you can highlight in straight lines and how the highlighter automatically appears behind your writing or text, and doesn’t alter it’s colour.
    However, on all the pictures you post on your website etc, all the hand drawn diagrams are beautifully coloured in.
    THIS IS NOT REALISTIC.
    To get a uniform line, you cannot lift your pen off your screen, otherwise the highlighter’s colour « builds up » to become darker.
    This is very annoying because it makes coloring in simple shapes very difficult.
    If you go outside the lines, you have…

    6 votes

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  11. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pdfkit/pdfdisplaymode/twoup

    Apple's PDFKit allows to show two pages of a PDF side by side. PSPDFKIT (which is what Good Notes 5 uses) should support the same option.

    I'm currently using the iPad 12.9 and typically have it in the horizontal orientation and there's soooo much wasted screen real estate. When making notes on a book or a large report, it's helpful to have more context on what is before and after the content. PDF books are often typeset such that content being read on a left hand side has images or quotes from the right hand side, and context is…

    6 votes

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  12. When I convert handwriting to text, every line of handwriting has a hard line break after it in the resulting text. When handwriting a longer report, this is quite troublesome because my handwritten lines have fewer words than my typed work does. I have to go back in later to remove all of those breaks manually. Is there any way to get around this so that it is by paragraph instead?

    6 votes

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  13. When adding new page while being zoomed in, the page automatically jumps down to the new page. It’s better to not change position on page, it would feel more natural

    6 votes

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  14. When handwrite bullets, it would be cool, if GoodNotes recognizes them and you could search for certain bullets in the Global Search

    6 votes

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  15. Templates with specific characteristics would be great.
    Like a kind of mixture of the current functions with an interactive pdf / word / pppt document:
    As such you could:
    - tic boxes (e.g. for to-do / participant lists)
    - interactive table templates that adapt in size to handwritten notes
    - computer text adapts to lines of template (that would look awesome)
    - certain areas cannot be written on (makes for cleaner notes)

    6 votes

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  16. It would be grate to be able to make our own covers inside the app, personalise the cover to our own style!

    6 votes

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  17. When the lines of handwriting are converted to text, why do the lines not go all the way to the right of the Convert to Text box? The text jumps down to the next line before reaching the natural end of that line, so that when I copy and paste to Word, I have to go line-by-line and delete as if ‘return’ had been hit, bringing text back up to the previous line. For example, in the attachment (link conversion: https://support.goodnotes.com/attachments/token/G90PVVHrZHtH8siCOx6uxt8Se/?name=94D251A5-B4CA-44AC-A660-9FD99CAF8ADB.png), why does only the fourth line of text go all the way to the right hand side of…

    6 votes

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  18. I would like to drag and drop pages within one notebook

    6 votes

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  19. Please allow sharing to goodnotes. I just bought the new app to support you, but on IOS I can share a webpage as pdf to goodnotes, it's not great but at least something.
    On macOS the productivity is broken really.
    it doesn't make sense for me to keep Evernote and GoodNotes together

    please integrate to the OS properly
    Also allowing to "clip" webpages in simplified view for later annotation is a MUST in 2019

    6 votes

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  20. As a user, I would like to be able to export some or all pages of a notebook to plain text, so that I can process the resulting text further.

    Why would you want to convert handwritten notes to plain text?:

    • can be more easily manipulated by text editors
    • more readable
    • easier to share

    Existing functionality:

    You can already lasso a page, and convert it to plain text. This is great for when you want export only a part of a page. However, converting multiple pages or even an entire notebook to plain text using this feature, will fatigue the…

    6 votes

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