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  1. Wanna divide {ONLY Straight Line} button from {Square,Triangle,Circle} button because whenever I write / before conjunction or kinda adverb, it always becomes curve.

    Also, that suggested {ONLY Straight Line} button needs to include Highlighter, too. Because that Highlighter's straight option does not works well and it highlights as curve. But my book in PDF does not curved.

    I want to study in a effective way with fast writing straight lines instead of drawing fine art curve. But currently, Goonotes5 on iPad enforce me art on my textbook PDF.

    So JUST make {ONLY Straight Line} button including pen and highlighter.

    2 votes

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  2. Now the goodnotes on windows beta can only create notes files but can not open the notes files created by ios or share the files to other equipments. Naturally, I know that now the beta version can not sync with iphone or mac, however, the functions I mentioned beyond is also very important.

    3 votes

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  3. Be able to type directly into the document without having to use a text box. Like a word document for example. But still be able to write or annotate if wanted.

    7 votes

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  4. I have a use case where it’d be useful to be able to link the scrolling of Goodnotes on two devices.

    I’d like it to be bi directional so which ever device you scroll on the other would follow.

    And conversely it’d be great to easily temporarily break the link and then link back up.

    One could extend the benefits of this by having one device viewing the outlines and jumping around and the second device hopping to key parts.

    Many thanks

    R

    1 vote

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  5. I used to write with a fountain pen all the time but switched to iPad because I had so many notebooks it was getting a bit ridiculous trying to go back through my notes. One thing I miss so much is the way ink looks on a page, particularly inks with hi sheen and shading. Colours vary in intensity at different points on the page, some completely change depending on the amount of ink laid down and it really makes writing enjoyable and makes revising notes oddly satisfying. Please add some form of this to GoodNotes as an option when…

    2 votes

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  6. When I search after a word in a Document the search line covers the page number at the bottom of the page.

    2 votes

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  7. Could you share with me some of your favorite facial care products?

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  8. I love the tool and have a few of them.
    In order to structure my content I would like to be able to move my notebooks around in my folder.

    I have noted some storting to take place but,

    Tag a set of favourites and show them on top in my folder or a dedicated folder would be good
    - sort by drag would be advanced
    - sort by keywords

    I would also like to be able to merge notebooks in a way that I can drag my source on target and via control question be able to move (merge)…

    1 vote

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  9. Essentially quickly mark a page that enables the user to go back to that page when scrolling to others

    2 votes

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  10. I really like to do my devotionals on here and would really like to be able to have some Christian clipart options to choose from to help decorate. I would also like to have like additional writing utensils I feel like they are very broad as to your choices.

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  11. Make sure that receive push notifications on the next review day with the Smart Run feature.

    3 votes

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  12. It would be great if you could change the fill colour, the frame colour and the transparency of already created objects.

    2 votes

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  13. The size settings of pen tool and shape tool should be kept independent of each other. Suppose I want pen tool with a setting of 0.3 and shape tool with some different setting everytime I need to change the setting

    7 votes

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  14. I hope there's a function for reading the notes or pdfs aloud to improve learning experience. Thank you.

    2 votes

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  15. A highlighter or a tool that transforms text into bold text (just in PDF or similar, not in raster images), to stand out without background color

    3 votes

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  16. Hello,
    when I view or edit my PDFs which are not vertical (e.g. A4 format), GoodNotes does not allow me to zoom out more. This would be necessary sometimes to have a better overview of your PDFs. Instead, one has to use the little page viewer, which is kind of a struggle. Why does GoodNotes not allow more zooming out?
    Best regards,
    Carlo

    2 votes

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  17. While editing a document scrolling is possible only with fingers but doing so smudges the screen. Scrolling should be possible without hiding toolbar.
    To write or edit: select a tool.
    To scroll: tap on last used tool thereby disabling it.

    For reference: try annotation feature of One drive on iPad.

    4 votes

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  18. This app can almost do anything. I find myself often sketching out schematics in it. If there were some simple CAD functions such as new lines snapping to an exiting line or junction, or being able to specify the size of the radius of a circle or length of a line so you could draw things to scale. Think of how AMAZING that would be!

    1 vote

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  19. import a document and export it after editing is a working way, but a bit difficult/ long. it would be nice to open a document directly from an external folder (eg dropbox or box or iCloud) with a possibility to save it directly to this external folder without having to import and export it manually. maybe a way to integrate this is via an background temporary folder, as goodnotes imports and exports the document automatically

    2 votes

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  20. When I try to mark and annotate the imported image with details, I cannot just import the image itself, as this would make it impossible to draw or write in areas other than the image itself. However, when inserting long screenshots into a page, the image's resolution drops significantly compared to when importing the image directly as a page. Hopefully, an option can be added to decide if I want to compress the imported image.

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