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  1. Please add Sepia and Dark mode, its just impossible to use goodnotes for long period reading.

    25 votes

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  2. Allow real-time sync with cloud storages like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc so that files occupy less storage on the ipad, while allowing for editing and annotation of the file stored in the cloud. This would save a lot of space for those of us using lower end devices.

    6 votes

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  3. There are latex keyboards i am using to insert equations as images,

    but,

    it is time consuming, and all the equations i just wrote on time when in classroom cannot be converted once this guys are on my notes....

    what about ocr laze to convert those?

    what about a new concept?, make your book from your notes... a beatifull and nice book...

    take your notes just in time and then convert it to a book... a pdf to share with your pals without showing your/my awfull hand writting style...

    lets call it autoedition.... do you remember that when PCs rised…

    6 votes

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  4. Provide one-click option to send notebook for hardcover/softcover paper publication directly within the app.

    I’ve been using GoodNotes for a few years now and have created many notebooks of ideas, drawings, and sketches. Would love to turn these into paper notebooks for my library. Sure, I can do this through various third party publication platforms with a little effort. But, to have an option where I could seamlessly send notebooks to a printer from within the app, knowing that the paper size and other features are controlled and synced — without any fiddling — is a big time saver.

    1 vote

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  5. I find myself opening up many notes at once, sometimes it leads to accidentally deleting some notes and I have to find them to re-open them again. If it were possible to have this function, I think it would be nice. A function similar to how google chrome on pc works, we can group tabs on chrome pc. I’m not really sure about chrome on iPad but if it were possible to use that type of technology with GoodNotes I think it would be helpful.

    40 votes

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  6. I've noticed that a lot of people have already asked for this, but those might land on having the need for more information.

    I'd like to see a feature like this added, because the predictions are wrong so often! I pull a line which I want to be straight, may have wiggled slightly and GN5 in some cases recognises it as a curve.

    A ruler in GN5 would also just help you with sketching up stuff real quick, like a sheet or so without having the need to either import your own paper that has this or rely on the…

    18 votes

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  7. There is a glitch when I am using my IPad air and writing notes. White blocks appear covering the content when I am zooming into the notes. I didn't pay good money to get these weird glitches.

    2 votes

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  8. Would you please add the minimal API (AppleScript, JavaScript, command line interface, or other) required for App Name to work with Hook? I use the macOS productivity app, Hook, to provide the missing links between my favorite apps. Hook enables me to to link items from my favorite apps to each other. This provides many benefits.

    Hook needs AppleScript support to get a name and URL (or other unique identifier) of the frontmost open resource in your app; and
    be able to open this resource later using that same URL/identifier.

    That’s all there is to it. It’s quite easy to…

    6 votes

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  9. To scale imported photos with one point pined and then drag one of the other points to the ideal location. This is more convenient in locating the photo in the place you want than the current scaling photos from the middle.

    9 votes

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  10. Select pen text using the lasso tool, and be able to adjust pen stroke just as you would color. This is a feature on Notability that I'm very jealous of because it makes it much easier to resize notes.

    3 votes

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  11. The shape tool is amazing no doubt but it still lacks some major shapes. If you try to draw a semi circle by a quick stroke it converts it to a straight line, same goes for an arc. This is difficult while taking maths lectures as it requires a lot of shapes. Some shapes that don't work are: semi circle, arc, sector, parabola.

    603 votes

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  12. Instead of just having three line thicknesses for your pen tool, please can we have a plus and minus button with more variations? When I write, the smallest line thickness is too thin and the medium is too thick. There’s no happy medium

    4 votes

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  13. Wouldn't it be great if we could make a single notebook with multiple divider tabs along the edge? Each one could be named for a different subject and have its own paper template. I'd love to have a single notebook called "Fall 2023 Semester" for example, and then have all my notes in one notebook.

    I believe OneNote has a similar functionality but it's... OneNote. :-)

    2 votes

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  14. *no send to back/bring to front options
    *no table creation options
    *no way of editing hyperlinks within goodnotes, you have to do it externally
    *no layer tool (adding this would solve the send to back issue)
    *no opacity settings for pens
    *no bullet point options for typing

    These are such basic tools in other apps and I’m actually astounded GoodNotes does not have them. Even word 2007 had some of these options, let’s not pretend they’re innovative tools. Without them GoodNotes is frustrating to use and frankly just a poor way of organising information, I really expect better, come on…

    13 votes

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  15. At the moment if I am in the vertical scrolling and I have in my exercise book pages with different sizes, like A5, A4 and A4 rotated, the maximum scrolling edge in horizontal is big as the biggest page in the hole document. So if I am writing on a A5 paper (because image was A5) GoodNotes let me scroll further than the page size. Also if I import an image and this is not perfect in A4 format it would be helpful and nice, if I could resize it to A4 for example.

    2 votes

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  16. In smaller iPads toolbar and document tabs take lot of working space.
    If toolbar can be shifted to left side of screen in landscape mode it will be of great help.

    19 votes

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  17. When the app is closed out, the color palette rests on its own. I’d like to keep my palette if possible, even after closing out the app. This can maybe be fixed with the ability to save multiple palettes.

    8 votes

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  18. As the community of goodnotes has many research focused students, adding some features like extracting highlights to markdown and a side bar to see all the comments would be really helpful to aid the reasearch efforts.
    Some features suggestions that we really need in goodnotes to make it one stop solution
    - highlights extraction (to txt, markdown etc)
    - side bar to see all the comments
    - tags feature to tag the notes/books

    10 votes

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  19. There should be at least 5 colors in the toolbar specially for the highlighter feature. It would help instead of tapping a color to change it and then another tap to change it back to the original. 3 colors isn't enough when used in studying notes/books.

    4 votes

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  20. For example, I work on my laptop with a document and close it, and then I want to open it on my iPad to continue working with the document, with this button you can force a sync, and I don't need to wait when it happens automatically

    16 votes

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