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  1. If I’m teaching, I don’t want my photo library to be displayed on the zoom lecture while I’m giving a lecture if I accidentally touch the photos icon. There needs to be an option to deny GoodNotes completely to my photos library. Currently the photos tool will insert an image from your library if you touch the document while it’s selected, which displays your photos for EVERYONE TO SEE!!!!!!!

    1 vote

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  2. Currently, if you look up something, the term is being saved in the search history.

    As far as I know, there is no possibility to disable the search history or to delete either a single entry or all entries art once.

    I miss an option to delete entries or to limit the search history to e.g. three entries.

    3 votes

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  3. Hello,

    please, include a very useful shortcut for zooming in .PDFs or any notes by "option + mouse wheel".

    Especially, when I work without a Touch Bar (external monitor etc.), it becomes quite handy. Many 3rd party Apps use this.

    Thanks for consideration!

    3 votes

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  4. When annotating imported PDFs/PPT slides, have the option to add an blank page that is the same size as the existing PDF or PPT slide size. This is so that the user can add more note-taking space without messing up the sizing of the entire GoodNotes document.

    6 votes

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  5. As medical students, we get a lot of different files to annotate and study. Goodnotes is an awesome app and without it, I couldn't stay organized.

    However, I have noticed two big flaws, and fixing them would greatly grow user satisfaction.

    1st:
    It would be good to get an option for Goodnotes to Mac's share button like in iPadOS. It would be a quicker way to add content to Good note without dragging and importing separate documents.

    2nd:
    It would be awesome to be able to import .pdf files as well as Powerpoint and .docx files to document with and…

    5 votes

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  6. Pen with a solid colour, allowing hiding words (keypoints). After tapping on it, the colour becomes transparent, tap once again then the colour becomes solid. It's definitely more useful and flexible than the flashcard.

    5 votes

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  7. It's been a long time since we've gotten any striking new features (the last one was the addition hold to snap shapes)
    It would be amazing if good notes had a dedicated web page where users could see features that developers are working on.

    Some of the most wanted features I've seen are:

    1) More colors in the tab bar

    2) Adding colors to the tab bar that appears while using the zoom tool

    3) Vertical split zoom tool while using iPad in landscape mode instead of a landscape split zoom while iPad is in landscape mode

    4) Zoom in/…

    2 votes

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  8. When trying to create any sort of graph, the axes need to have graduations at regular intervals. Instead of trying to approximate by hand, there could be an option after the line is selected, to divide it into any number of intervals.

    2 votes

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  9. Please add the possibility to show the bookmarks or Plan on the left side of the document to navigate easily inside.

    4 votes

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  10. Could you add a top bottom split view similar to left right split view. This would be a great functionality to have for taking notes. This functionality is already available in other apps such as Notes Writer. It is a great help to have a top and bottom split, specially if you are using smaller iPad such as IPad Air or Mini which do not have large display to compare full page side by side. In top bottom split view we can look at PDF/ Book on top view and take down notes in lower screen.

    19 votes

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  11. "Duplicate" rather than copy-paste would be a great idea. Already you can do it with a second GN window open (as noted in another comment) by dragging to the other window, dropping, then dragging back (even several times, if you want).

    But why not allow the same facility without a second window? At the moment, dragging the "white box" in the same window looks promising... but disappoints by just snapping back when you let go. Why can't it simply duplicate? That would be a super time-saving feature.

    27 votes

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  12. I'd like to be able to magnify the Page Grid View, i.e., increase the size of the Pages that I see in the Grid View. Yes, I would see less, but I'd be able to read the multiple pages at once.

    It helps me greatly to "see" multiple pages of what I wrote at once wrt to gaining a sense if the story arch I'm going for is there. I dont need to be able to read small words, but I would like to see large print, sketches, and other large objects on a page.

    7 votes

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  13. I’m in favor of ridding the laser pointer icon and placing an Audio recording button instead. Along with only having the master button pop up during presentation mode .

    Could maybe even allow some to choose what icons show preferably over others

    30 votes

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  14. Hi! I'm big fun of GoodNotes5 using everyday!

    Summery

    I want to suggest to implement new function.
    It's file explorer pane like VSCode.

    Why I suggest this.

    When I edit lots of files, it's difficult to move to other file quickly. If there is File Explorer Pane on the left side like IDEs, it's easier to move to other file.
    Regards.

    15 votes

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  15. I like writing on a black paper but then prefer to learn with a white one (also for exporting for my classmates and print). It would be awesome If we could for example set that everything written in white switches to black along with the paper. Bonus If we could set the other colours too.

    7 votes

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  16. It would be awesome if there was a feature letting you move the paper you’re writing on on the side of the screen. So that the paper doesn’t always return to the middle of the screen.

    1 vote

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  17. It would be awesome if different documents could remember the pen options for each of them. This feature was available in GoodNotes 4, but I was shocked that it disappeared in 5. I usually need to switch between several documents each requiring a different pen size/color, and I almost went mad after typing the desired pen option for 100 times because it was not remembered for each doc. I have been bearing with Goodnotes 5 for half a year, and I will probably switch to Goodnotes 4 if this simple and useful feature is still not implemented.

    309 votes

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  18. I use GoodNotes on iPadOS for marking students' work. I normally have the files in a folder "To Mark" and once I mark them I move them to a folder "Marked". I do so by clicking on the name of the document and choosing "Move to a Different Folder" in the menu that opens up. Alas, every time I do this, the file browser starts at the top of the hierarchy. It would very convenient if GoodNotes would default to the previously used folder. It would save me (# students) x 4 clicks!!

    5 votes

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  19. Sometimes when I read and take notes on lecture PowerPoint pdf on GoodNotes, I feel like the pages display are too big (I used an iPad Pro) esp when the content on the slides is not very compact. So I wonder if it’s possible to set how the pdf to be displayed, like for horizontal it can be set to 2x2, 3x2. Or for vertical, it can be set to 2x4, 2x6, or even 3x4 etc instead? To be able to view more pages at a glimpse like the outlines and also able to actually read the content would be…

    5 votes

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  20. create the ability to take notes on a full-screen view

    15 votes

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