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  1. TL;DR: Sometimes when bulk-importing, duplicates might be accidentally imported. Catch these potential duplicates and query if we still want to import.

    When performing bulk imports, I occasionally have duplicates present (due to the way my main import source structures PDFs). This ultimately means that what I think might be a unique file actually already exists in GoodNotes. Ideally, this could work at the PDF level, but may only be easily-done on a fuzzy-name basis.

    e.g. say the file I'm importing has the name "Mind Games 40c0de54-120f-0d77-9ae5-e96083fb1f9b" – while the UUID present (the 40c0de54-120f-0d77-9ae5-e96083fb1f9b) is very likely to be unique, I…

    3 votes

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  2. These 3 features are really essential even if you miss the recording features..Otherwise perfect App..Thank you Goodnotes

    5 votes

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  3. 1 vote

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  4. It is VERY ANNOYING for me to use text box if we can’t save our favorites colors like what we are doing for those writing tools.
    I HATE to change the size and color and the style EVERYTIME!

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

    11 votes

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  6. Hi,

    So I haven't used the app consistently in about a year.. Recently I've began using it again. I've uploaded a text i'm studying in pdf form. While I am studying I am taking notes and I thought how nice it would be to include these features. The tinting would be nice for prolonged staring at the screen while reading (Similar to what I think kindle's used to do, maybe). I know I can have blank pages with yellow but, I would recommend adding the option of tinting documents such as my pdf with hundreds of pages with walls of…

    4 votes

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  7. 1Can you get the pen for draw a Dashed line Because I think its hardly to draw and delete point by point .
    2 I want eraser can change size . I think The smallest eraser has little big for me.

    32 votes

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  8. Add a shell window--that can be inserted on Monthly calendars- to show my SYNCED GOOGLE CALENDAR !

    6 votes

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  9. I use the app to teach mathematics and computer science lectures to college students in online mode. One very important feature that is missing at present is that students have to use their attention to determine WHERE on the slide or notebook I am presently writing (i.e. they need to determine where new writing is showing up). Whereas, in a physical classroom, it's easy to see where the professor is and where in the blackboard he/she is writing or modifying a diagram. It would be nice if one could have a big red arrow show up wherever I am writing…

    9 votes

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  10. 在用GoodNotes 打开电子教材的时候,常常有几百页,用手指滑动找起来很麻烦,像n家的可以快速滚动和跳转找到自己想要的那页就很方便啦!希望多多改进。

    2 votes

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  11. For example, I want to see how a sorting algorithm works but it’s hard to see the steps by making a bunch of graphs. So being able to make a small animation will help visualize how something works without having to create a bunch of pages

    5 votes

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  12. 1 vote

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  13. I love GoodNotes. But a feature I’d like to see is one wherein the background and ink colors change when toggling between dark and light modes. The iOS notes apps does this, but it’s just a terrible note taking app. Maybe the option to toggle between date and light mode, with accommodating background and ink color inversions, could be an option within the app. Thanks.

    6 votes

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  14. Undoing a written word or two is a monstrous pain under the double-two-finger-tap system. It might be 10 or 15 strokes that all need undoing, and pounding away on the ipad screen with a double-tap for each individual stroke takes way too long and is cumbersome.

    How about: double-tap and HOLD enters an "undo scrub" mode, where you can drag left and right to move through undo history with a simple two-finger swipe gesture, instead of dozens of fingertip-bruising taps? This would be a marvelous improvement to writing flow.

    4 votes

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  15. Flash cards are too small. On the iPhone, I can barely see the print/diagram and in landscape mode it's nearly impossible. On the iPad, they're large enough that I can make out the diagram.

    The flash card is not taking advantage of the full width of the screen in study mode. It's using the bottom half of the screen to display the answer instead of flipping the card.

    I attached a PDF showing the screens for both the iPhone and iPad. I, also, took screenshots of another flashcard app to compare and contrast.

    47 votes

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  16. I would really enjoy a standard size for imported pictures from my MacBook. For Example imports could always take up the space of 10 Blocks or so. This would really help, because right now I always have to adjust the picture size manually.

    2 votes

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  17. I want to be able to copy a part of the pdf (not just handwritten) and then by using the lasso tool (which is now just has screenshot feature) copy the part and paste it anywhere I want in the pdf. Have a look at attached pictures.

    3 votes

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  18. 因为每次发现文件的目录有不正确的情况,但是导入后又无法对目录进行编辑,每次都只好导入新的文档,重新抄写笔记,非常麻烦,如果可以的话,开发笔记迁移功能也是可以jie shou de

    3 votes

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  19. GoodNotes is a killer app for taking notes by hand but it’s really weak in the typing department.

    Things that would make GoodNotes perfect:
    - pre-set text formatting (title, headings, subheadings, normals text)
    - text alignment (right, left, center, etc.)
    - lists (bullet, number, checkbox)
    - toggles (like in Notion)

    GoodNotes is wonderful for annotating PDFs, pictures and books and for drawing diagrams. However, it’s impossible to write all my notes by hand so I have to use Notion for typing and just insert the pictures I annotated or diagrams I drew in GoodNotes into Notion. So I now use…

    16 votes

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  20. It would be great if there was a mode wherein all the text that you highlight (using a specific tool designated for this mode), would be hidden (the text disappears but you see a blank line in its place). When you click on the blank line again, the word will reappear (then clicking another time will make the word disappear) -- basically it's becomes a mini flash card/ fill in the blank option!

    Also, this would only apply when you turn the mode on. Once its turned off the file is back to normal/original form and you won't see which…

    17 votes

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