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  1. I like the new iOS 7 theme in GoodNotes 4, but it has WAY too much glaring white space in the "bookshelf" view and in the menu bars. This is fine during the day for most people, but during night or in a dark room it can cause eye strain which inhibits productivity. For people like me with sensitive eyes, it'd be wonderful to have a "dark/night" theme that could be toggled on or off or even automatically activated based on ambient light. The music app "Ecoute" has a perfect example of this functionality. For me, this is the missing…

    35 votes

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  2. I’d love to see the nav bar color changed to a more neutral, less distracting color.

    You could probably consider this a purist request, but I’ve always found the navy blue navbar to be unappealing and distracting.

    I’m not too interested in offering exact solutions, because I trust that good developers will make good decisions regarding UI and implementation.

    But if I thought about it for a moment, potential solutions could be:

    ● Navbar colors that match the journal cover
    ● Simple user preference w/ preset colors and a custom color swatch option
    ● The ability to change the navbar…

    34 votes

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  3. The rotate, resize objects is currently tied to together, therefore when I just want to rotate an object I can’t unless my hand is really steady otherwise it resizes the object as well - these two functions have to be separate.

    34 votes

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  4. Hello, I’ve been a user of Goodnotes for some years by now. I love the new feature of flashcards added to Goodnotes. Even so, I have some suggestions for the improvement.
    Currently, the option of smart learning doesn’t have any curve of progress or way to review the progress made with the cards. In Anki there is the option for limiting the amount of cards reviewed in each study session. Having both options, the curve of progress from the decks and the possibility to choose only a specified amount of cards for review, and getting the cards less learned by…

    34 votes

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  5. Here’s a suggestion- addition of a feature like “lock/set” where we can lock an object in place on a page, unless it’s unlocked, it can’t be edited. I would love this when I’m writing notes during lecture and create a highlighted text box using shape tool where we get a border+faded shape inside. If I erase something inside it, the highlighted part gets erased totally ]. Adding a lock function would also work great on stickers and photos, so they wont move around using lasso tool unless unlocked.

    34 votes

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  6. I’m Greek student and I can’t use it until you add Greek letter recognition.

    34 votes

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  7. Many of my friends and I use Goodnotes for handwriting in Ukrainian, but we are unable to convert our handwriting to text (only Russian is supported for the Cyrillic alphabet).

    For many Ukrainians, it would be amazing to write in our language and be able to convert it to text. This is especially true during the oppression in current times, when we are working hard to move away from the russian language as a way to preserve our language and our culture in the face of.

    I would be willing to help, maybe to show different handwriting styles, the alphabet,…

    34 votes

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  8. The current flashcard study mode is just a small pop up window. Having a full screen flash card study mode would be VERY helpful in seeing smaller details.

    34 votes

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  9. The ability to open the flashcards as full screen when we are studying them instead of it opening a separate page. Also a function that enlarges the text/ zooms in when you are studying the flashcards. I always zoom in initially to write my text but then I go to study flashcards function and I can't even read what I have written. So I have to go back and enlarge all the text. This is so, so annoying - please change this. And more options to track the cards you've studied and ways to overview/ provide a summary of the…

    34 votes

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  10. The flashcard feature is great but there are a few features that I would like to see:

    1.) Ability to switch the Q&A sections

    After a few weeks of using this feature, there are times when I would like to flip the Q and A section of the flashcards.

    2.) Convert any page into a flashcard

    I've created a PDF file (around 60 pages) to be turned into flashcards and was hoping to be able to import it and just convert it from there. This was not possible and I had to make a template for each page, set it…

    34 votes

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  11. In goodnotes its not possible to change ink thickness after writing.
    To change ink thickness, one has to rewrite it with a different pen thickness.

    This is a basic requirement of a handwritting app

    34 votes

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  12. Please....
    - add dotted and dashed lines
    - add the function, that the lasso tool recognises lines and objects
    - add gifs and sticky notes
    - add the function that you can record an audio while taking notes, so that you can play it afterwards and it shows what you’ve written in this moment
    - add new sizes to the eraser
    - add that you can change the background colour of geometric forms
    - add that you can select, if the text should be a flowing text or not

    34 votes

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  13. Allow users to make actual outlines in the outline tab, with main topics, subtopics, etc.

    This would be especially beneficial for notebooks to allow further organization/structure.

    34 votes

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  14. I'd like the Goodnotes file system to be integrated with the Apple file system such that you could access all the .goodnote files in their relevant folders through the Apple files app. An example of a use case for this would be when transferring many pdfs into the app, a simple drag and drop or creation of folders and files in the Files app, would allow you to import many files or move them quickly.

    34 votes

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  15. it would be great to have a tool that lets you fill in a shape or a diagram, especially for hand drawn pictures that we all love to insert in our notes. Using the highlighter to fill in the shape take too much time and is also imprecise.

    please add it

    34 votes

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  16. Erasing has to be sharper. Even if zoomed in, the eraser deletes a huge amount of pixel in go.

    34 votes

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  17. Add one more default pen/highlighter/etc colour to give you more colour options that you can easily switch between. Similar to using a real 4 colour pen.

    34 votes

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  18. 34 votes

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  19. I would like to see less restrictions with the resizing option of notes/pictures in the app. Firstly, all eight of the resizing nodes behave in the exact same way (with the selected item being resized with the same aspect ratio from the exact center). I think this needs to be swapped out for the ability to distort the image along the x- and y-axis with the appropriate nodes, while keeping the ability to scale it proportionally using the corner nodes. Secondly, I think that the sizing should only occur from the selected node — i.e. not from the center, ever…

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  20. The ability to convert your handwritten notes to the typed version without having to copy and paste every time.

    34 votes

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