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  1. Highlight the area inside the drawn shape, just like the “fill color” option in the pen tool. However, the fill highlight color would be the same as the outline.

    10 votes

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  2. iPadなどの画面で、スケールのわかるような、もしくはスケールを固定させる機能が欲しいです。建築デザイナーのエゴです。よろしくお願い致します。

    5 votes

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  3. when external templates are bought , why can't we acces them from the database? i bought the dotted grid to test the process and it end like any pdf you would ad in a folder... not really useful, had to copy and paste instead of adding directly from the "plus" icon.
    anyway, i love that app and use it so much

    1 vote

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  4. It would be amazing if text colour and size can be changed through keyboard shortcuts, and more advanced text features like Markdown can be brought in here. (Please learn from google docs and notion - thanks!)

    6 votes

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  5. Apple recently allows you to hold a photo and turn objects into a sticker element. Imagine how useful it would be to use this feature to edit handwriting notes after they are written.

    To be able to take a photo of my whiteboard full of notes or a concept map... and then able to edit the words/ shift objects just like it was written in my goodnotes instead.

    1 vote

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  6. I hope this gets seen!! It’s been a year!!

    Please let us preset text colours, I use text most of the time as it’s neater.

    I’m sure it’s not that hard to add in presets for text as you’ve already done so for highlighters and pens.

    24 votes

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  7. We are a corporation and it will be easier for us to purchase your app using MDM rather than going to each IPAD at a time and purchase it that way.

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  8. I use Goodnotes for taking notes.
    It would be nice if I could use the relocating function(the red one in the pic) in the zoom window.

    Everytime I move my handwritings I should turn on the zoom window again and it is very annoying.

    1 vote

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  9. It would be great to have the tool in use attached to a page.
    For instance, on one page, I have a pdf open and I use the highlight tool.
    On another page, I take notes with the pen.
    Going back and forth from one page to the other, I have to change the tool each time.
    (It was working this way on the previous version of GoodNotes)

    1 vote

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  10. When using the slider mode on ipad where i have two seperate documents open side by side both occupying half the screen, the highlight colour options are not visible. I have to click on colour menu and change it every time. Please update it so we have colour options even when it's in slider mode.

    1 vote

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  11. hello, you can add: 1) Ruler (for mathematics and graphs). 2) Dictaphone according to the text. 3) Eyedropper and transparency brush. 4) Written by hand in printed text. 5) Drawing tools. 6) Not only straightening lines, but also wavy lines, zigzags. 7) The ability to turn the sheet with your fingers (upside down, sideways, etc.).

    5 votes

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  12. Olá! Algo que me incomoda muito é o fato de o aplicativo liberar apenas 3 cores quando o iPad está em modo horizontal, sendo que há espaço para colocar muito mais cores. Seria muito interessante aumentar esse número de cores para diminuir o tempo gasto para troca de cores

    1 vote

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  13. I would like to have a quicker method of importing PDFs on my Mac into the goodnotes app. Connecting GoodNotes to Apple shortcuts would allow me to program this myself, but a "Watch Folder" for the Mac app would work just as well.

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  14. I have a surface pro that i use to take all my university notes and would love to use this app!

    2 votes

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  15. A fast scrolling option is important for file who have LOTS OF PAGES.

    In PDF EXPERT there’s a similar function very useful.

    3 votes

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  16. I usually screenshot parts of a pdf (i.e. questions) and then move them onto a new page (to solve).

    Right now I have to:
    - Select the region
    - Select "Take a Screenshot"
    - Wait for a pop up window to show up
    - Press the "Share Button"
    - Wait for another pop up window to show up
    - Press the "Copy" button
    - Wait for both pop up windows to close
    - Then hold the lasso tool and press "Paste"

    It would be great if I can just:
    - Select the region
    - Select "Take a Screenshot"
    - Then…

    5 votes

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  17. It would be very useful and would improve a lot the versatility of the app if one could use a smart pen to write with ink on paper and directly (or in some way) transfer on the app what has been written by the real pen

    1 vote

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  18. When taking notes on a Good Notes 5 - iPad Pro , I take pictures with the iPad camera. I need to use these pictures separately in a MS Word documents, however there does not seem to be a way to export the pictures separately (eg JPG files). Also when exporting the Good Notes document as PDF, the contained pictures do not appear as Pictures in the PDF document, and as a result I cannot save them separately, or even Copy in Clipboard !!! They appear as Comments, or some other item, but not as pictures in the PDF document…

    2 votes

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  19. When opening the page grid view, and clicking on the outline section (as opposed to thumbnails section), it would be awesome if the outline section would automatically scroll down (and highlight/bolden) the outline that is closest to (but before or on) the current page the user is editing/looking at in the documents view page. Currently, every time the outline section of the page grid view is selected, the list shows the very top of the outline list, and the user has to scroll down to outlines that are relevant to the current page, as opposed to the outline section automatically…

    5 votes

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  20. I see a few requests for larger buttons in specific use cases. I’d like to see larger tap targets overall, wherever possible. The aim would be to make less mistakes, reduce the concentration required to perform an action, and help people with less steady hands or thicker fingers. I was thinking that across the top, there is plenty of room to create more space between the icons. Maybe it gets tight on smaller iPads. Maybe not. But either way perhaps the spacing could be a little more dynamic, or larger for larger iPads. Not exactly a feature but something to…

    1 vote

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