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  1. copied objects or texts seems to be rotated ~2°

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  2. Context: Notes contain concepts and theory, and often, these concepts must be applied in examples (especially in engineering where there are tonnes of examples in the lectures). Examples take up a lot of space in the 'theory' document, and makes scrolling through the document more tedious and makes it harder to find the notes you are looking for in a quick and efficient manner.

    Solution: Rather than doing examples in another notebook, it would be nice if you could simply add a page(s) behind or adjacent to the current 'theory' page which you can do examples on. This would make…

    2 votes

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  3. Context: Notes contain concepts and theory, and often, these concepts must be applied in examples (especially in engineering where there are tonnes of examples in the lectures). Examples take up a lot of space in the 'theory' document, and makes scrolling through the document more tedious and makes it harder to find the notes you are looking for in a quick and efficient manner.

    Solution: Rather than doing examples in another notebook, it would be nice if you could simply add a page(s) behind or adjacent to the current 'theory' page which you can do examples on. This would make…

    2 votes

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  4. I often practice for exams with my children. When doing that we take or get pictures or pdfs from the teaching material.

    Today we import each of those a picture, scale it to fit the page and then work with it.

    It would be amazing if we could create a new Notebook by selecting any number of photos and have them imported as a new background.

    It would be almost as good if it could automatically scale the picture to match the page. The reason to have it as background is that we never want anything to be behind it.…

    1 vote

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  5. The GoodNotes on MacBook Air 2022 does not allow shortcuts for files to be sent from safari directly to GoodNotes. It's also very difficult to use this product on MacBook Air since it glitches when you're selecting text to copy and trying to unselect it.

    I truly enjoyed GoodNotes in the past so I'm hoping someone sees this and fixes these bugs on the software.

    1 vote

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  6. I am a student studying in Korea. When studying with a good note, if you move the handwriting with the lasso, I hope that the highlight and handwriting will be separately selected.

    2 votes

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  7. I am using pencil gen 2 with iPad, what I met as following:
    - Use lasso tool to select a section in the page
    - Tap pencil twice (for daily usage, this act will do incautiously)
    - Lasso tool will be switched to eraser tool, and selected section will be lost
    - Even you try to tap pencil twice again, tool will be lasso tool again, however you will have to select the previous section again.

    1 vote

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  8. When I turn on "low power mode" screen turn off after a short while. If tgere was an option to keep tge screen awake when goodnotes is open, it would be a pleasure.

    3 votes

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  9. I hope that the handwritten conversion text can be replaced directly onto the converted text instead of needing to copy and paste.

    4 votes

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  10. When in the Miniature view and on Favorites, let users swipe right and left for next and previous Favorites, this small feature would make finding important stuff way easier.

    6 votes

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  11. A lot of apps (other than the MS Office suite) out there can edit Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

    Given that a lot of class notes are given by professors in these formats, having the ability to modify them within the app would allow users to replace MS Office apps for basic note editing work.

    I already keep all PDF docs in GoodNotes. Having the option to properly import and edit Word and PowerPoint files here would make it much more convenient.

    This would make GoodNotes more attractive for working professionals as well.

    Hope to see this feature sometime…

    6 votes

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  12. Changing color of written or typed notes with lasso tool.
    For example if you color code your notes and accidentally write a paragraph in the wrong color, you can change the color of everything that is encircled in the lasso.

    4 votes

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  13. Dear team of this amazing app, Hi, I would love to see a filing system in away similar to apple files app” a side bar on the side” as shown in this photo. Kind regards

    5 votes

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  14. It would be nice to be able to set the status bar / nav bar on the sides (right or left side).

    1 vote

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  15. The clocks colour is not visible on white backgrounds due to the time beeing in white (same as the charge and wifi icon). It would be great if its colour would be adaptive or atleast not also white.

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  16. I would love to have a way to edit transparency/ opacity of elements and images added to a document. I often make notes on sheet music and would like to be able to see the notes underneath the sticky notes!

    15 votes

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  17. Goodnotes should add more shortcuts for Macbook users. For example to hide or show sidebar, or to transfer from reading type to annotation type.

    3 votes

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  18. like scribble on apple you can write and it changes to a font. similar to notability, you can write and it converts written text to types text.

    3 votes

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  19. This has been brought up a bunch of times in the past couple of years and I don’t see any admin responses to any posts.. why not add a feature that lets you drag and drop text/ images to the next page within the same document?

    5 votes

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  20. When we study Lange text books using good notes navigation is a bit difficult eg we should have the go to previous page option other wise we have a tough time going back and forth between pages. Abo book marks can be made of more than one colour so that book marked pages can be categorized.

    Lastly the long press option to highlight or underline in readonly mode is highly desirable but has been taken of in the updates

    4 votes

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