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  1. Students get slides/notes/etc from multiple professors so they end up being different sizes so my idea is for font size to be a function of the width of the page (as a %) rather than an absolute value like it is now. This would make the text tool much more convenient as I could type notes without worrying about if what I'm writing is too small or too big.

    2 votes

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  2. The performance of writing in GoodNotes 5 for Mac with a third-party drawing tablet/graphic tablet is terrible. I use a Wacom Intuos Pro S with bluetooth function and there is no chance to write properly as it stutters all the time.
    GoodNotes is no use for students/teachers if you can't work with a pen tablet and that's why I hope it will be updated soon.
    Until this happens, I have to use Microsoft OneNote, although I prefer the surface and workflow of GoodNotes.

    4 votes

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  3. The current highlight tool adjusts its position based on how user draws the line. However, lines drawn manually may not perfectly align with text from the PDF file, so the inconsistent gaps between different highlights may look awkward and ugly.

    31 votes

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  4. 3 votes

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  5. After updating the feature for editing stickers is gone. It used to be able to lengthen/ widen the stickers given, now I can only enlarge the whole thing and it does not fit with my notes from time to time.
    there's also issues with the element function, sometimes after deleting one and adding another the previous one would pop up and I cant select to delete it again :/.
    It would be good to have a library of stickers or list of our stickers so we can add in or remove them by group. Able to change the colours of…

    3 votes

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  6. I have shaky hands, and while the straight line feature on the highlighter is helpful, it would be awesome to have the option to change the highlighter color when you select text (i.e, like you would do when you go to copy it to clipboard). You can use the lasso tool to select it after highlighting it, but that is a pain lol.

    1 vote

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  7. Enlarge margins around the page so that notations can be added around the document.

    12 votes

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  8. The colors of the pencil should be able to have transparency, so I can write above diagrams or tables, but can still see the original content.
    The best would be an adjustable alpha channel for each color.

    26 votes

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  9. It'd be amazing if we could toggle on and off the pressure sensitivity entirely and rather the thickness of the strokes be dependent majorly on the speed of the stroke. This would, imo, make the writing experience a whole lot better for a lotta others like me.

    1 vote

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    1. Reverting works for the whole document - even if I on the second page by reverting I can clean up the first one. It’s really annoying.

    Would be nice to have reverting working for each page rather than the whole document

    1. By some accidental reverting or just inaccurate editing I can lose data or put some new edits I was not intended to but I won’t notice it right away.

    Would be nice to have an ability to lock a page from editing or reverting

    122 votes

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  10. writing flashcards takes a lot of time.
    Here are some ideas for improvement:

    When writing a note you can link two entities (word, image, sentence..) for example by "virtually framing" them to tell the app to create a flashcard from these words (the framing will only be displayed when you tell the app to create a flashcard)

    Add tags to the flashcards to better organize them, study only certain tags and see which tags need to be revised more.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

    6 votes

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  11. Having the option of changing the whole notebook template with a simple click would be very useful for people who uses a lot of pages with grid template to standardize the writing at first, and wanting to change it to other template for a cleaner look.

    207 votes

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  12. When having lots of readings for classes such as philosophy and ethics, I think it would be useful to be able to import it into the notebook, but collapse it. Same with images. So, you see the little folder icon in the notebook, click on it, and it opens either the document or image in the full page, so that it's not taking up tons of pages on the notebook.

    1 vote

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  13. I’d like to mix up my flash cards from different folders by selecting which folders to study so I don’t need to go to each folder and study from those flash cards separately.

    33 votes

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  14. I think you should be able to pick your top three most-used colors to be displayed but then have the ability to scroll for faster color change. Often times when I am taking notes in class, if I want to change colors, having to open the whole folder can get me behind. While this doesn't seem like a huge deal, in college-class note-taking, every second counts and even if you miss one small detail, it can cause issues. This would be really really really helpful!

    2 votes

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  15. It would be great if you could add new pages to the right of each page in vertical scrolling mode, like page(3.1).

    3 votes

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  16. I know gesture function for undo has already been introduced.

    But,
    I am grabbing pencil in right hand and ipad in left hand, I usually grab ipad for not to be shaken when I am writing, so I have no additional hand to do gesture!! Even need two finger double tap.

    Rather press undo button is fast and convinient. Eraser button is very useless for me that I have to press pen button again.

    So to press undo button accurately is very important for me to use GoodNotes. But button is very small, even the slightest mislocation woudn’t work. To…

    1 vote

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  17. Most of the time we use the highlighter to make note of something we want to remember/study. It would be cool if I can use the Question highlighter to highlight a term and the Answer highlighter to highlight the answer. By doing this, flashcards are generated automatically. Happy to chat if needed.

    18 votes

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  18. For people who do a lot of math (and love clean notes) it would be super helpful if there was something like an automatic recognition for {curly brackets}!

    16 votes

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  19. Sometimes I want to copy an area of a pdf file. The current workflow ist:

    lasso it -> click screenshot -> click share button -> click copy -> paste.

    What about lasso -> copy [as image] -> paste?

    The current state is really annoying. In Notability, you can do that with one tap. That shouldn't be too hard to implement, since the screenshot feature is already implemented. After copying something, a pencil tap should instantly open the copy-paste menu instead of holding.

    26 votes

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