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  1. I would like to be able to select multiple items on a page like text boxes and then change atributes of the text box like border color or size, or the font size or the formatting of the text. And not just have this capability be restricted to text boxes but anything on the page.

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  2. I love how you have implemented casting the screen to a TV to make presentations. I would like one more feature. I would like to physically turn the TV to portrait mode, have GoodNotes support casting a portrait orientation screen on my iPad to the portrait orientation TV. This means GoodNotes would need to fake out the TV by rotating the image 90 degrees and cast the image to the TV as if it was landscape orientation. This would fake out the TV and enable a portrait screen to be casted to a portrait oriented TV.

    1 vote

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  3. Hello,

    I am a new Goodnotes user and have used Notability for 10+ years. I decided to get Goodnotes for digital planners and noticed that the colors preset on my iPad are not synching to other devices. In notability, the colors I have preset sync to my other devices and it makes the colors more efficient!

    7 votes

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  4. An option to put the Smart Learning into Shuffle like you’re able to do in learning mode would be nice.

    Also, let us learn our cards flipped too! Especially when learning new vocabulary it is crucial to have „question“ and „answer“ to be asked flipped so we learn both ways. New language—mother tongue, mother tongue—new language equally.

    And one more thing: Have the same option as in the previous Learning decks you have in the notebooks> an option to grade with at least 3 buttons on how good you memorized the card.

    7 votes

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  5. I want to be able to erase my writing without erasing the highlighter.

    18 votes

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  6. Please enable macOS typical keyboard shortcuts, which are used by most macOS apps such as
    cmd + for zoom in (currently cmd : which is not intuitive !)
    cmd - for zoom out (currently cmd ; which is not intuitive !)
    cmd ; for settings
    etc...
    Please follow to more widely used standard shorts to make the macOS experience more intuitive
    Thanks a lot

    4 votes

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  7. Preset colors can be specified for both handwriting and highlights.

    However, the preset of the text box is not changed.

    The problems that arise here are:

    It is difficult to change the color of only part of the text box
    -> It is possible to change some colors through customization, but if you try to change it using a color code, the entire text box is selected and some changes are not made.

    If you want to change the color of only some of them, you need to add text boxes, create spaces between sentences, and align the text boxes…

    2 votes

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  8. It would be kinda cool to make audiobuttons, so you can record something (explanation for example) and put it next to a graphic or a math thingy you did. So basically the comment function but for Audioclips.

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. I noticed that I can create a notebook on Android from a picture file. On my iPad I regularly do that and then add more picture files to the notebook. But when I share the notebook and try to open on Android or Windows that does not work. When creating a notebook from a PDF file it works a charm.

    I use Goodnotes as a digital puzzle magazine and copy/past puzzles from a newspaper.

    Maybe I missed something but can't seem to get sharing a notebook made up from picture files working

    2 votes

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  11. Es kann nicht sein, dass man eine Änderung des Formates, zB wenn ich ALLE Seiten auf A4 wechseln will, dass ich das dann auf vielen dutzenden Seiten einzeln händisch machen muss. Das dauert Stunden und reduziert euer 5 Sterne Programm auf ein schlecht durchdachtes 0 Sterne Programm. Ich sehe da bei dem teuren Preis der App einen dringenden Nachholbedarf.

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  12. When eraser tool is selected, the circle image (regardless of size) is often difficult to see on the screen when it is moved around and I sometimes erase items I did not want to lose. Can the contrast of the eraser image on the monitor screen be made brighter or of different colors so it is more easily seen on the screen?

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  13. Like the notebooks has an option to record audio notes
    There should be one for flashcards too

    9 votes

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  14. Manual organization of notebooks would be greatly appreciated. As for school ordering notebooks and files in a custom order would greatly improve ability to organize files and notebooks

    14 votes

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  15. Make the lines give true degree or bearings for mathematical drawing purposes, a compass and a protractor and a ruler too

    3 votes

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  16. I love the new flash cards update! Spaced Repition is perfect. It would be even better, if Flash Cards would use up the whole screen while in Study mode!

    1. Please add a "Zoom in" Function for Flash Cards in Study mode!

    To understand and learn better, it would be so helpul! Sometimes you can't read something, cause it's too small or you wanna simply touch the content or zoom into an illustration!

    1. Also it would be helpful to be able to write or draw something on the Flash cards while in study mode. That would make work flow so much…
    6 votes

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  17. In MacOS, the scroll handle is far too small. It is very hard to "grab" onto using a mouse. Please make it larger and easier to interact with.

    2 votes

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  18. Rather than only having the option to using an AMOLED background, it would be preferable to allow users to set a custom image as the background

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  19. I cannot re-arrange the order of my study set. If i want to add a subsequent new card to a topic on e.g flashcard no.42, I need to delete every flashcard after no.42 to add that new relevant card. This wouldn't be an issue if the feature to re-arrange the cards existed.

    5 votes

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  20. Please give us a fast way of adding notebook pages or purchased papers to our Template Libraries.

    I just bought a number of paper templates from the GoodNotes Store and it seems will now need to waste twenty minutes manually exporting PDFs of each individual page, and manually adding each page separately back in to my Template Library. It won’t import a multi-page pdf and split out the pages. It won’t import an exported GoodNotes notebook. It will only import templates from Files or Photos. It would be nice to just tell it to add page X from notebook Y…

    3 votes

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