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  1. After the latest update that allows the user to add more than 3 colours, the stroke menu has morphed into this menu that you must click on to expand first and only then will it allow you to choose stroke sizes. Nobody has asked for the latter and please restore it. Thank you

    7 votes

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  2. When making a card it would be nice to have all functions available, such as draw, type and pictures.

    One idea could be to have the classical top menu where the pen, eraser, hilighter, etc are found but also include a “Type” option that allows the user to type notes in the center of the card, just like it is in the current version. After that, the other tools can be used to add onto the text, such as hilighting or creating hand written annotations.

    It would also be useful to add both pictures and text to the same card.

    8 votes

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  3. Right now yellow paper, as far as I know, is the only one that has a red margin. It's called legal paper. The other paper colours do not have this. Also make it so there two variants, a wide margin and a narrow margin.

    5 votes

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  4. It would be cool to be able to write down with the apple pencil in the notes even if it was written with the Text option (keyboard)

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  5. If the screen is just split into two, the preset colors will change when changing the pen color. Therefore, I would like to see a unified design where the presets themselves can be changed, like the color selection screen on the full screen.

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  6. Since the last update the 3 sizes of the pencil are under one button. This takes extra time when taking my notes in class. Please incorporate the 3 different sizes back in the button bar!

    6 votes

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  7. I want to read in Goodnotes such as comic books, and I would like to be able to choose between right and left scrolling, as it varies from book to book.

    7 votes

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  8. I've seen your attempt to convert handwriting to equations and I love this idea. A word from a STEM student. Please leave an option to edit output manually using .tex. I will even pay additionally for such an option. Besides, it can improve your ML models, as most of the people that would use that, would probably be professionals which would make error detection far better.

    5 votes

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  9. I would like to point out that the ability to enable or disable scribbling of previously written text and deletion of words or phrases in the GoodNotes 6 settings is an extremely important feature. This feature is much needed as it gives users the flexibility to enable or disable scribbling as needed. Some of us may not want to use this new feature of GoodNotes 6 and would like the ability to customize it according to our own preferences.
    Therefore, we hope that you can consider this request and enable/disable the doodle feature in a future update of GoodNotes 6.…

    1 vote

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  10. It’s been bothering me for a week now since the last update of Goodnotes 6 app that now it has a delay response for 1-2 seconds from apple pencil whenever I write something on Goodnotes. For the other apps I have, all of it works perfectly as the way it used to be. I’m using it with iPad Pro M1. I’ve been using Goodnotes since 2017 and this is the first time it happened to me.

    1 vote

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  11. 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.

    1 vote

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. I want to be able to erase my writing without erasing the highlighter.

    18 votes

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 1 vote

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  20. 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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