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  1. Implement Kanji paper as draft.
    For learning and writing Japanese / Chinese Characters (Kanji), a specific paper is used (see attached img). Implementing this paper style in GoodNote drafts would be great!

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  2. Kann man erstellte pdf Dateien zuschneiden. In meinem Falle habe ich Grundrisse als PDF file auf dem iPad liegen und möchte dort unnötige Bereich löschen geht das ?

    3 votes

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  3. At the moment for copying a screenshot, which is something most people do a lot when taking notes, we need to press the screen 4 different times:
    Long press after marking with lasso tool => Take Screenshot on the menu => share menu => copy.
    It takes a lot of time for something being done pretty a lot and more than the other sharing options so I believe that many people will find it usefull.

    35 votes

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  4. When creating a note in a box and you want to move it, you always have to make sure that your lasso ist around everything. It would be a very useful feature if one could just merge the text and the box togehter so you only have to move the box and the text will automatically be moved with it. Also, you should be able to undo the merging in case you want to edit the text.

    1 vote

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  5. Adding built in dictionary

    7 votes

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  6. To address the battery drain issue maybe you could implement a feature in which the software transforms strokes into vectors just every 10 seconds or so instead of doing it instantly. Or maybe an option in which one can deactivate vectoring on pdf files, where in my opinion it is not really necessary. This problem is huge! 15-20 % drain in 1 hour of use is unacceptable. Despite preferring GoodNotes, this is the reason I really am considering Switching to Notability.

    10 votes

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  7. Implementation of Gif or short clip would be really helpful for physics and chemistry students studying anharmonic oscillator or streching and bending of different chemical bonds.. Those gif will be really helpful..!!

    112 votes

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  8. It would be useful if Goodnotes could retain the preferred sorting criteria by folder/file list. Personally, I prefer by type for lists of folders or lists of archived notes, but for long list of files including some files which I use daily, I would prefer by date. Right now, I have to manually switch the sort criteria each time I access the different lists.

    4 votes

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  9. In den Textfeldern funktioniert schon das Thema, mit der Tabulatortaste der Tastatur den Text zu verschieben. Nur leider begrenzt. Nur über 5 kleine Schritte, dann springt der Text bereits eine Spalte tiefer und rechts wäre noch soviel Platz frei...

    4 votes

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  10. Make it so that the color of the text stays the same until you change it. If I'm annotating a page in all red text, I don't want to have to change each individual textbox red after typing.

    1 vote

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  11. I think the 'draw and hold' feature is amazing for putting emphasis on different parts of my notes, but it's always really frustrating when I'm trying to 'box' something but I don't get the lines perfectly perpendicular so the box comes out wonky. I don't even understand why anyone would want to have a rectangle with a wonky diagonal line ever?

    My suggestion (which seems in theory to be a really easy to implement update) is another toggle in the 'draw and hold' section where, once toggled, it only allows basic shapes i.e. only rectangles without wonky diagonal sides, maybe…

    1 vote

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  12. ファイルを開くためのパスワードを設定できるようにして欲しい。

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  13. First of all: I love Goodnotes!

    Problem: when structuring a PDF presentation/ storyline I'm missing a Slidesorter - similar to Powerpoint. "Thumbnails" already provides a great basis for this, but in horizontal mode (as most presentations), you only see 12 slides with lots of space between the rows and the slides so small that you can't even read the title of the slides.

    Proposition: Kill the vertical space b/w the slide rows and add a feature to scale the zoom, i.e. the size of the slides at expense of the number of slides visible.

    That would be fantastic and super…

    1 vote

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  14. 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…

    2 votes

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  15. I would love for the App to support full presentation mode for Powerpoint slides with all the animations and transitions

    with the ongoing pandemic, online classes are quite common now and teaching online requires an excellent app that can be used to stream to students.

    it would so awesome to combine the annotation capabilities of good notes and combine that with Microsoft powerpoint for awesome presentations to students.

    6 votes

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  16. I want my hand writing to look the same. For that, I’d like to create templates for each letter. Since GN has hand-writing recognition, it can then use these templates to replace my real-time hand writing with it, resulting a consistent hand-writing.

    12 votes

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  17. I was wondering if there can be an option to select a page element and “Bring Forward” or “Send Back” so that I wouldn’t have to worry about layers being obscured. This would be especially helpful for inserting images on top of preexisting text when I want the text to be visible on top of the images.

    28 votes

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  18. I think Goodnotes would be more functional and enjoyable if the tools and the zoom box were near each other instead separated. It makes it easier to switch from tool to tool while utilizing the zoom function. Having the tools on the same bar where the indent, shift buttons, and x keys are on the zoom box would be so helpful!

    5 votes

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  19. When working with a paper format different from the screen, it is complicated to be able to work in real size (100%), adjusting it manually and by eye, is complex. Some indicator could be shown, to know in which scale you are working and so you can have a better control over the writing size.

    5 votes

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  20. Customizing searches or ability to archive old documents

    When searching I do not have the ability to select which folders to search in. As a medical student, I use goodnotes for every lecture as well as all textbooks and have an excessive amount of files. The ability to search within a selection of folders would limit the amount of search results I have. Another option could be to offer an archive function that removes certain documents/folders from future searches.

    98 votes

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