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  1. At the moment, any time I reopen the app the outline settings is reset. This is very annoying as some of the imported PDFs contain their outlines which I do not wish to see in my custom outlines. The settings should be remembered for each document.

    5 votes

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  2. Have the ability to lock the app to always force a certain orientation. iPad OS is much more productive in landscape mode, so locking the goodnotes app would allow the use of goodnotes portrait mode without having to constantly toggle the apple orientation lock whenever I open and close the app.

    32 votes

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  3. For some reason, whenever I upload a pdf to Goodnotes on my iPad, I loose the ability to use my screen reader to help me read the text. This is really awful, as I rely on my screen reader to help me get through my readings for school. I love the flexibility of Goodnotes' highlight, page marking, and page searching functions. This one extra layer of compatibility or trouble shooting would literally make the difference between excelling and falling behind in my classes :/.

    7 votes

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  4. When you import custom templates, the zoom window return height doesn't change even when you change its value to a similar value that the other default templates of the same size have. For example, I import A3 templates and even though I change the height to ~30, the zoom window always jumps way lower, a whole unit of its height below, instead of just a line like in the default goodnotes templates.

    Many users import custom made templates and it gets inefficient always having to place the window where it should be.

    4 votes

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  5. It would be helpful if the size of the laser pointer could be adjusted. The current one is pretty small and sometimes hard to recognise.

    2 votes

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  6. Please make pen sizes bigger than 2.0! Please make them go to at least 4.0.

    9 votes

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  7. 6 votes

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  8. 1.在输入科学公式、方程方面软件目前没有好的解决方案,建议支持插入LaTex公式输入,手写识别时能支持将手写内容经过OCR识别直接转化为美观的公式样式。推荐一个在科学公式识别方面做的非常好的公司,他们的服务可以廉价提供,他们的网站是:https://mathpix.com/

    2.在文本框编辑状态下,软件无法兼容苹果笔的“随手写”功能,该功能可以实时进行手写识别完成文本输入。

    I am a Chinese user, and the following text is generated by machine translation.

    1. Currently, there is no good solution for the input of scientific formulas and equations. It is suggested that LaTex formula input should be supported and handwritten content can be directly transformed into a beautiful formula style through OCR recognition. Recommend a company that does a really good job of identifying scientific formulas, and their service is available on the cheap, at https://mathpix.com/

    2. In the state of text box editing, the software is not compatible with apple Pen's "write casually" function, which can realize…

    6 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. It appears the Google Drive current integration is just for "My Drive" and not for Shared team drives. My organization uses shared drives heavily and it would be great to have access to them through GoodNotes. Currently, I have to copy the document from the shared drive to my drive in order to work on it in GoodNotes.

    1 vote

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  11. I love using the Apple Pencil. One nitpick: if we could rotate pages with 2 fingers in any direction it would be great. I tend to write at an angle with page turned slightly clockwise. Having the page be perfectly vertical or horizontal is uncomfortable after a lot of writing. Another app that does this well is Procreate.

    14 votes

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  12. The shape tool does not respond to the undo feature like it should. Resize via the shape tool will not revert to the last size if I hit the undo button. This is an easy fix that should be a thing already.

    2 votes

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  13. It may not seem important to many, but when doing some tracker marking to fill up rectangle shapes, it is so hard using a rounded highlighter. I end up using Noteshelf when I really want to use goodnotes. It messes up my entire habit tracking that I use everyday.

    17 votes

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  14. I hope there is an eraser function that can only erase the traces of the strokes on the entire page, but not the traces of the highlighter

    7 votes

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  15. I’m starting a daily journal/diary on GoodNotes and would like to document special events with videos as well as my notes that I’ve written down. I’m writing a new suggestion instead of voting on a previous one because I noticed that quite a few people might like this feature, but I haven’t seen any confirmation that it’s underway. Is this feature I’m the works? If so, what does the timeline look like for us to get our hands on it??

    13 votes

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  16. Not sure how to describe this. But it is a hassle sometimes, that whenever i draw a graph for example and use different colors and sizes etc. to annotate it and then release i need to erase something which happens to cross over the lines of my graph, the graph would get erased as well.

    So maybe an option to pin something like on Canva so it can‘t be edited anymore.

    6 votes

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  17. It would be nice if there were a way to index all pages written and make them available where one finds Thumbnails / Favorites / Outlines a way to go quickly review and find.

    I will use when I have a normal document with a lot of pages, and I have to write some notes, o highlight something, and then quickly find in the documents my notes.

    6 votes

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  18. GN5 has three tabs to find documents: Documents, Search and Favorite. It would be very convenient to add a new tab to open recently used documents.

    15 votes

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  19. Wenn ich mit dem Apple pen schreibe, bräuchte ich Linien.
    Bei GoodNotes musste ich bisher einzeln Linien zeichnen und darauf schreiben, damit ich einigermaßen gerade schreibe.
    (in notability gibt es beispielsweise die Funktion Haftnotitzen.
    Danke!

    My handwriting isn’t the best, so what I need is a note paper, where I can write on it.
    Notability already got this function...

    1 vote

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  20. Wenn ich mit dem Apple pen schreibe, bräuchte ich Linien.
    (in notability gibt es beispielsweise die Funktion Haftnotitzen.
    Danke!

    1 vote

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