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  1. Auto-capitalisation works well in general but within GoodNotes it doesn’t, because every time the enter is pressed, it capitalises the next word. However, pressing the enter doesn’t mean new line here, because the text box is a layered feature, pasted on top of things, it’s not necessarily a margin to margin left to right typing tool. As a result, I’m now having to disable it because it is very annoying in the text box, simply because there is no feature or settings available to do that in GoodNotes text box.

    1 vote

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  2. Lines to locate the different elements in the page. When you want to align two elements is really difficult because there aren’t any guides that assure you the correct position.

    This feature would be optional, I mean, if you want, you could use it and if you didn’t want, you wouldn’t use.

    125 votes

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  3. Allow the ability to reformat/re-color text via simply highlighting with a tool (similar to highlighter) rather than having to lasso and change the color.

    2 votes

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  4. Sometimes reviewing physics equations and organic chemistry mechanisms can be tiresome.

    I have a suggestion, if possible, design a way for the laser to record your writing. Allow the laser pointer to record how you write your notes so when you replay it and you can watch exactly how you drew your mechanism or how you did your physics problem.

    4 votes

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  5. Since many lecturers at the university work with PDF/Powerpoint, I like to import them into Goodnotes to annotate them. I also add new slides to solve exercises or make further notes. Unfortunately there are no exactly fitting templates for this. It would be great if there would be a template that adapts exactly to the slide size of the PDF/Powerpoint.

    4 votes

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  6. I have been using goodnotes for almost three years now. One thing I feel is lacking from GoodNotes is the functionality of cross-platforms compatibility. One note has a chrome browser extension for web grab which adds the web to your notes directly. I think it would be super useful for goodnotes class notes taking

    2 votes

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  7. When buying paper notebooks the most common page designs are:

    • lines
    • grid SIZE: medium
    • grid SIZE: small

    Please make a template for a small grids, as they are extremely helpful for STEM students. Could even be used by artists by using the template for their creations and later on changing the template t blank.

    9 votes

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  8. When we select a text in a pdf in goodnotes, we should get a 'look up' option similar to apple...
    Where we can instantly see meaning or search web!

    4 votes

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  9. The option to create/add a footer or header and an option to display page numbers on all paper templates

    8 votes

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  10. Hi! I would love to have the possibility to use 2 accounts on one device.
    For example business and private.

    Are there any plans on that?

    3 votes

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  11. Sometimes we import a whole pdf into goodnotes and annotate some of the pages. it would be nice to be able to easily search and extract all the pages that have annotation to serve as a quick reviewer.

    7 votes

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  12. Synchronisation from mac to Ipad is really slow. Need to restart app or turn on shared document to synch them faster.. a reload button or faster synch time would be great!

    4 votes

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  13. Can we get metallic pen colours and some new templates with interesting textures please?

    2 votes

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  14. Allow saving my own favorites text box styles. Allow choosing a saved style from a list when creating a text box. Allow changing the style of an existing box to one of my favorites.

    49 votes

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  15. 1 vote

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  16. A similar idea has been posted, but I want to make another point. Given you’re current framework where each page is a separate file, it should be relatively simple to add a way (probably the Share drawer icon) to copy that page file address link and paste it in other apps where if i click the link it would open GoodNotes up and show me that page.

    Bonus points if this link could be SHARED to other GoodNotes users (who do not even have the file) and it could open up that page on THEIR Mac/iPad/iPhone etc. This would be…

    8 votes

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  17. I have GoodNotes 5 installed on my M1 MacBook Air, but rarely have it running. I see network connection attempts in Little Snitch made from the app all the time, including after booting and before I've opened GoodNotes for the session. I've also tried killing all related processes, but the connections still attempt to spawn.

    Is there a reason for this persistent leakage of telemetry when the application is dormant?

    1 vote

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  18. Please add the standard function of filling and signing PDF forms.

    Filling forms with text, not scribbling.

    Choosing options from a dropdown menu of a form.

    Signing PDF forms with legally binding signatures.

    Thank you!

    7 votes

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  19. I am a new user and am trying to report a problem I’m having. I can’t find anything about it in the existing support information and cannot find any way to submit an error report. Do you not have a way to submit an error? I’ve been pretty happy with my free version and am considering buying the upgrade but I can’t abide any software that doesn’t have a way to report errors. Nobody’s perfect and there needs to be a way to submit them.

    1 vote

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  20. If you draw and hold a line or something else, it should snap to the paper like in notability it’s just time saving if you are trying to make a diagram.

    6 votes

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