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  1. Make scanned documents or photos of handwriting able to be manipulated or changed to editable features on phone apps. Make photo or document scan able to be rotated and cropped like photo file. This should be easy stuff to setup.

    9 votes

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  2. Hey GoodNotes Team,

    I‘m a teacher from Germany and love & use GoodNotes5 for preparing und presenting my lessons.
    The presantation mode is great, but I dream about a function, that would allow me to see the whole script, that my students on the external screen don‘t see. Like a thin layer, so I see points I shouldn‘t forget or where I must draw or write something, without using an extra piece of paper.

    Best Wishes
    Dustin

    8 votes

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  3. Even after hiding the status bar, GoodNotes still consumes screen real estate. Let's add an option to hide the navigation bar with the gallery and search and share button. It's not very useful most of the time while working on one document.

    Likewise, hiding the editing toolbar gains space but then editing is turned off. The toolbar could simply fold itself into one button in the top right corner so that the user can focus on the document and the text they are writing and get it back when they need it by tapping the screen or using a touch…

    75 votes

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  4. Can you add an option to not include the background when using the lasso tool to take a screenshot? I often will use this feature to put diagrams I've made into typed notes (printed on white paper); however, I usually use GoodNotes with yellow dotted paper. Instead of changing the background template, taking a screen shot, and then changing it back, it would be much easier to have this option available when taking a screenshot. Something similar is provided when exporting (i.e., by selecting "don't export background").

    2 votes

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  5. 2 votes

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  6. The share sheet lets us integrate with various apps or shortcuts.
    For example, I often want to translate some sentences in the document to my native language.
    However, right now, I have to copy the sentence, close GoodNotes, open Safari, paste it to some translation website (e.g., DeepL), and then go back to GoodNotes, which is kind of annoying.
    If there were a share sheet, I could simply select the sentence, tap on the "Share" button, and choose whatever shortcuts I want to use.

    2 votes

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    • audio recordings that sync to the handwriting (fundamental)
    • the possibility to use light or dark mode independently from the system
    • have only one color palette for both pens and highlighters
    • the dropper tool to add colors to the palette
    • edit / personalise toolbar with the possibility to hide features that we don’t use often in a little “+” sign where we can find all of them that one time we need to (this would be AWESOME)
    • improvements on the text tool (add the option to write all over the page like in word and not only within text boxes
    • infinite…
    3 votes

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  7. When I open a PDF file, the file is scaled so that I can see a full page as large as possible (usually setting the page to be as tall as my viewing window but somewhat narrower). This is probably the best option when scrolling is set to horizontal.

    However, it is not the correct default behavior for vertical scrolling; in that case, a better default would be for the page to be scaled to occupy the full width of the window, regardless of the page's height.

    1 vote

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  8. I hate having to manually change to eraser each time I make a mistake. I think Nebo has this function.

    8 votes

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  9. Hi,

    I have a lot of folders that contain subfolders.

    It is hard for me to search for documents, as I can only view one folder at a time in the list view mode.

    Can I suggest a multiple-level view in list view mode?

    Its something similar to the native files app on ipad.

    Hope to hear from your team soon.

    Thanks :)

    5 votes

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  10. When using splitscreen, generally if you want a good screenshot you have to zoom in and out to do so. However, if there was a functionality to screenshot the other page that you’re working off of and then import it into the page that you’re working on, you could get much higher quality notes.

    1 vote

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  11. I would like to have a feature where you can press and hold on any writing in the note and your pen will automatically use that selected formatting, similar to a colour eye dropper tool.

    24 votes

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  12. 1 vote

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  13. Please add the feature to duplicate a drawing/item made with the shapes tool so I don't have to draw it again.

    49 votes

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  14. Hello:

    As you may know, in education epub formarts are very useful to make digital and shareable content between student's and teachers and to make projects in wich studen's can learn and express theirselves creatively. The issue is that there ain't no very useful apps to make annotations or to grade these kind of assignmets. Could you please consider this suggestion?

    Thank you for letting me share this idea with you.

    7 votes

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  15. Please fix “keyboard shorcuts” while in text mode. Goodnotes for some weird reason only makes you select a letter to switch between tools instead of “ command and the letter. So when trying to type on a external keyboard i cant type a P,E,H,S,L,I,C,or T with out it completely switching tools and existing out of typing mode. I feel like this is pretty big oversite and is unfortunately the only reason i have to us notability over good notes when typing at times. I can understand if this is a mac feature but as far as an ipad goes its…

    5 votes

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    • Different/flexible colour palates
    • Ruler and compass
    • Dashed Lines
    • Ability to hide navigation panel at the top
    • More templates e.g. dark not grey templates
    • Ability to move the sidebar to the right
    • More pen styles.
    • Password for folders
    • Videos Support

    These are specifically aimed for the MacOS version of GoodNotes5.

    29 votes

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  16. Tapping on an already imported image and being able to replace it with another one, without having to import a new one, with messed up size and not arranged like the one we’d like to update/change.

    12 votes

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  17. sometimes it needs a more detailed explanation of the answer. Zoom would be great.

    9 votes

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  18. I would love support for secondary monitor scrolling. As of now when I have my 4k secondary monitor in portrait or landscape mode the scrolling is very choppy that makes it near impossible to use. If I have my sidebar up it seems to run a little smoother but not well enough for practical use so as of now I always keep my sidebar up and choose the page rather than scrolling.
    Macbook Pro M1 with trackpad and 4k portable monitor.

    Good notes is great notes!

    1 vote

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