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  1. When you import an image as a flash card you can’t write on it at all with a pen. While you could edit the image before importing it, it would help if you could import say a labelled diagram of a cell and you could blackout one individual label and put the label as the answer on the other side of the flash card. This could help you with one diagram making easily 6+ Flashcards in a minute directly from lecture notes making it a lot easier.

    1 vote

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  2. Having either side of the flash card possibly show up in the deck, and you would have to recall the other side. An example would be learning German and you need to know how to translate English to German but also German to English. So you would only have to make one flash card for recalling the word in both “directions”.

    2 votes

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  3. Make the main bar light when the system of the device is light and dark when the system of the device is dark, (by main bar I mean the dark blue bar on the pic)

    12 votes

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  4. I use the stroke thickness A LOT.

    The new update has hidden the stroke width selectors.
    I understand that you need the space for more colors, and am fine with the updated setup.

    A “swipe up/down on icon” gesture to change the stroke’s thickness solves my problem pretty well, without needing a buttons and layout redesign.

    The current 2 tap design has killed off my speed. I didn’t realise that a single additional tap would derail me so much.

    3 votes

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  5. Ability to handwrite a math equation and then circle it using the lasso tool and then convert it to a high-resolution math equation written using the system font.

    10 votes

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  6. Don't always download files from iCloud and then load them back into Goodnotes. Where is the sense? Direct folder linking from iCloud folders in GoodNotes 5 would improve the work process enormously. For example, open PDF files directly and edit them in GN and then close them with one click and everything is saved in iCloud again.

    4 votes

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  7. Detatch the color palette for markers and pens so you can change colors quickly and move wherever you want. The palette could be moved freely and displayed vertically or horizontally. The background could be translucent but the colors in the palette could be shown correctly (rn Night mode shows highlighters colors in a weird way)

    5 votes

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  8. Currently the flash card is shown in the same document, so one needs to open different notebooks to read flashcards in them.it will be very beneficial if all the flash cards from different notebooks appear at a single place so that space repetition can be utilised at a single place in a better way.

    7 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. Goodnote provide 'delete page' now (green box in attached picture).
    It removes all note on the current page.

    I want expanded function.
    1. delete broader range - like delete whole document removal
    2. delete mode - choose between pen or highlighter

    1 vote

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  11. How about making 'non remain pen'?
    Sometimes I solve problems by Goodnote.
    I solve the same problem over and over again for practice.
    I only mark the score, so I want to remove my solution.

    A pen that doesn't remain on the document will help.
    Like 'closing the file without save' pen

    1 vote

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  12. Tool to highlight specific words/phrases/diagrams and back-link them all together. Would work similar to the search function for words but would allow you to create faster connections between ideas by simply clicking on the linked text in the note.

    Could even automatically take all back linked pieces of text and combine into one temporary page.

    3 votes

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  13. I really like how on Super note to erase, you just hold two fingers on the screen and then start erasing anything you want. It is tiring to constantly double tap to erase one character, and it takes too long to tap the eraser icon to erase more than one character.

    2 votes

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  14. If using the color of a highlight as a status indicator (such as low, medium, or high priority, for instance), it would be convenient to be able to change the color of an existing highlight instead of deleting the highlight, changing the color of the highlighter, and then re-highlighting the text or area.

    CLARIFICATION: While it is possible to select the highlight and use the Color option to select a different color, the colors that are presented are NOT the sames colors available as choices when the Highlighter tool is active.

    1 vote

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  15. I use a lot of power point in pdf in just one page to see my class quicker. It would be great if GoodNotes had PDF printout just like the second picture. Also I would like to have more zoom and thinner pencil widths to be able to write more .

    1 vote

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  16. Hello. I am a Korean college student who is using good notes very well. Here's a very good suggestion to improve GoodNote a little bit

    Can't you turn the red beam projector pen (the tool that disappears after a few seconds on screen) at the end of the GoodNote tool selection window into a real pen?

    I love that tool. So I think I'd be very happy if I could write with a pen that has the same sense of writing.

    Thank you for reading it. I look forward to a positive response :)

    1 vote

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  17. I think this can help us organize our learning materials and avoid naming files repeatedly

    1 vote

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  18. I think that an absolute eraser would be beneficial for Goodnotes. It would work with a higher level of erasing than what is currently available, not only erasing annotations but erasing whatever was imported. For example, importing a handout from university, an absolute eraser would allow us to erase a specific paragraph so that we can write and reword it better which fits our understanding better. This is not limited to rephrasing but also making it such that some words may be erased for fill in the blanks to promote active recall without the need to do flash cards. I…

    3 votes

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  19. Add font size change when viewing PDFs (Aa function like Kindle)

    2 votes

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  20. 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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