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  1. Being able to have multiple documents open at once on the desktop version for mac would be so incredible useful for school

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  2. Writing with a white colored pen on dark paper and later changing the paper color to white, the pen color foesnt change to a darker color making it difficult to see the Writings

    4 votes

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  3. Please allow a setting to save custom colour choices for every time use. I like I have to change the colour palate options everytime to my needed colours before I can write a new note. I mean there should be an option to create on colour palate and save it for later use and not just the default you have provided.

    5 votes

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  4. If expanding the margins isn't possible, maybe there could be an option to have the pdf pages imported as vector images (like .svg) on a goodnotes page. That way you could move around and resize each page of the pdf to create margin space where it is needed. This is different from importing the pdf pages as rasterized images. Text should still be readable even if the imported page is scaled.

    10 votes

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  5. Loving the flashcard feature so far. Only thing that would make it more convenient would be allowing some sort of draw feature so that I can mentally dump the answer onto something I can see. For example I'm trying to memorize chemical structures and would like to draw it out first then compare it to the answer.

    15 votes

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  6. Sorry for the long title; I love the flashcard feature and use it every day in medical school and I am being able to study extremely effectively and learn the material while still having free time in my life.

    But If I could select certain flashcards within a single document by marking them with a certain signal to allowing me to study the flashcards I made for the first lecture before I study the next classes flashcards which build off the first lectures material. And even allowing me to mark certain flashcards "VIP" cards that amalgamate from all the notebook's…

    6 votes

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  7. Many users asked for a ruler but in my opinion it makes more sense to add a triangle ruler as a new funktion, because then you can't only measure lenghts, but also measure angles and draw straight.
    Especially in math or physics classes, you often have to measure or draw angles.
    And putting your physical triangle ruler on the iPad isn't a nice long-term solution, is it?
    Therefore I would be happy about a triangle ruler funktion in GoodNotes 5 :D.

    476 votes

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  8. The same way that you can save three pens I would like to be able to save multiple font settings

    10 votes

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  9. if I draw a shape, and i want to make another one exactly the same, i have to lasso it and copy it and then paste it. There should be a "DUPLICATE" button that appears when you lasso something and it will automatically copy and paste.

    20 votes

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  10. Please fix the following bug: when duplicating a document, the pages in the new document are not in the order of the pages of the original, but rather in the order they were created in the original. I.e. if you inserted a page somewhere in the middle, this page will end up last in the copy. This means that before a copy becomes useful, one has bring the pages back into order.

    2 votes

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  11. It would be convenient to add blocks from several sheets to the structure so that they can then be dragged together inside the document.

    2 votes

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  12. I think it would be a nice add to the app if, every month or year, we would receive a summary of the number of real paper sheets that we saved now that we use digital ones. After some time, it could also tell us how many trees we saved or how many we could save in the future if we continue to use the app. Overall, this could be a good way to promote Goodnotes with friends or family!

    1 vote

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  13. Make it so that when using lasso select, the elements of what you’re lassoing are able to move between page to page

    3 votes

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  14. an option to make a summery out of all highlighted text in the same color.
    so if I'm studying a topic with a lot of terms i would like to highlight the term itself during the classes and notes and after that have the ability to extract all the lets say yellow highlights as flash cards while one side has the term and on the other side have the sentence that followed it...
    that way you could have instant flash card built with your own summery and no need to make a new summery or read everything to study...
    also…

    3 votes

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  15. I already bought the app for 179000VND. But now I can’t use the app. And I need to pay 179000VND to continue edit my note. What is that? Why didn’t you mention it in the first place??????? I’m trying to be polite

    1 vote

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  16. Currently it takes quite a bit of effort to swipe between pages in Goodnotes. I think this was possibly a conscious choice but it has been this way at least since Goodnotes 4. Swiping takes a large travel distance on the screen by the user’s finger, and not just the velocity of the swipe. I feel like the interface should line up with Apple’s native page swiping feel (think pdfs in Books or the App Drawer).

    The current threshold to change pages makes sense for adding new pages, but it makes swiping between pages more difficult than it needs to…

    1 vote

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  17. Allow saving favorite text styles: combination of font, size, color, alignment. Allow choosing which style to use from a list of favorites.

    45 votes

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  18. There are many great templates included in GoodNotes, but many times none of them are right for the format or type of notebook I'd like to create.

    It would be great if there would be some sort of page template design import ability. For instance a vector design of a template page in a SVG or PDF format.

    1 vote

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  19. If you want to add some extra points to your note, but you don't have that much space left, you can use the “insert note” feature, where a small icon can be placed anywhere in the note. When the icon is touched a small note pops up , where one can write. This feature is already there in other pdf annotating apps. I have attached screenshots of another app.

    17 votes

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  20. Add an option to:
    1) Import and save templates.
    2) Control spacing between lines/ squared paper.

    1 vote

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