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  1. Have a pen or an ink that only shows on the iPad, and not on a presentation screen. This would allow presenters to annotate their presentations without the audience seeing the notes. It would be useful for fill in the blanks, presenter notes and comments. A presenter could even "pre-draw" a picture, which could then be redrawn live.

    1 vote

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  2. Right now, we can scroll through the pages (vertical scrolling) only using our fingers. It would be awesome if we could scroll through the pages vertically by using the apple pencil on the non-page areas (the grey areas on the side of the page). Thanks!

    32 votes

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  3. Have a color and their paste equivalent and change between those colors so that you can change the paper from dark to white and that way you can study at night but also print your notes.

    4 votes

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  4. I have many papers in files that can’t be rearranged in the file. Please improve this feature.

    1 vote

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  5. A page where you can write words on the left side and the definition on the right side. The entries will be sorted automatically alphabetical.

    2 votes

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  6. I am trying to print a range of pages in Goodnotes 5.

    I pull up thumbnail view of the pages in my notebook. I click Select, then mark the pages I'd like to print, then export to PDF, then I am not given an option to print the pages. I am only given options to upload to cloud, save to iPad, etc. The only printing features I can find in Goodnotes 5 are to print the current page and to print the entire notebook.

    I had no problems doing this in Goodnotes 4. Please fix.

    9 votes

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  7. For the users who have their Goodnotes app on their personal devices and use Mac at work, it would be great to give them the option of signing in our personal iCloud account on the Mac from Goodnotes (instead of using the system iCloud account, which belongs to the company).

    I could sign in Appstore with my personal Apple ID and download Goodnotes for free on my company Mac but I cant use it since it doesnt sync with my own iCloud account.

    8 votes

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  8. Create an Archive for older notebooks so that homepage is cleaner

    7 votes

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  9. I wish to be able to choose which documents to share to devices, and which to leave in the clouds. I want my planner on my phone and iPad, but I don’t need my notes from work on my iPad.

    7 votes

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  10. I’m trying to search for multi-word phrases in GoodNotes on my iPad and the search engine appears to be treating each word as an independent search term. Is it possible to search for the entire phrase?

    Example: Searching for “Looking for this phrase” is apparently translated to searching for “Looking” OR “for” OR “this” OR “phrase” instead of using AND’s or using the actual search text, perhaps in “ “‘s?

    47 votes

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  11. Pre-Recorded Handwriting Calligraphy Letters Shape Recognition
    Pre-Recorded Hands Writing Letters Shape Recognition !

    To have a Nice uniform handwriting looking clean, swell and Exactly as you want your lettres shapes to be.

    It would be the possibility of combining handwriting recognition and personal writing Pre-Recording.

    Be able to record the personal calligraphy of each letter (lowercase and uppercase) written by yourself.

    Explanation:
    I write with my Apple pencil an "A", as I would always like to see it appear on my screen when I write by hand. Once my '' A '' saved / programmed, Notability recognizes every time I…

    2 votes

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  12. It would be wonderful for view only links of documents. As a teacher teaching during distance learning, I would like to post notes that I’ve written without giving the students the ability to edit it.

    4 votes

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  13. I Struggle a lot with my handwriting and while it’s still legible it’s not always astethic so I would greatly appreciate a feature in which as you write it gets converted to text as you go (you can switch this off in your settings). The most important part is to change the text font, I would love fonts made to look like still handwritten notes. I would also love to be able to change the text font and even download font that many people have put up that looks like writing. This would allow me to still maintain retention and…

    3 votes

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  14. It would be great to be able to have a header seperate to the rest of the page to hand write titles. The you could set he header to duplicate across the next x amount of pages.

    I know you can hand write the title each time, or lasso tool the title and copy it manually, but longer documents can be tedious.

    I would like to be able to write “Lecture 1 - Introduction” on my first page, the set the header to repeat for the next 3 pages. Then write “Lecture 2 - Theory’ on page 4, and set…

    4 votes

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  15. Have a tool similar to a text box, but instead of typing, it recognizes and converts handwriting like with Nebo. I would like a more efficient way to input text through handwriting then the current system. It is very time consuming to have to write, lasso, convert, copy, paste and then delete the original text. Nebo is very limited in it’s formatting ability, but as an input tool it is a great model for what GoodNotes should be able to do.

    13 votes

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  16. This would prevent the difference in font sizes when you close your notes and open them back up again. I always forget how far I zoom in so my notes end up looking messy because of the different sizes of some of my sentences.

    1 vote

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  17. Add an AddOn System where developers can write their own like pens and features.

    2 votes

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  18. Improving the experience of text input much like you are typing in word document with dot points and possibly graphs.
    The current experience of typing text is merely disappointing

    8 votes

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  19. I am studying electrical engineering and i have to draw a lot of shapes and i struggle with the drawing of rectangles and lines a lot because they never seem to align where i want them to be. Often rectangles are made into circles because i drew them to quick and so on. I wish there was a feature like OneNote where i can just drag a rectangle into the note and resize it. Arrows at the end of then line seems to work randomly and not graduated.

    Because of all of this I am constantly looking for other note…

    19 votes

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  20. Suggestion: Have the opposite corner as the pivot point when adjusting the size (how all document editors have it)

    Currently: Center of the image as the pivot point.

    Reasoning: To adjust images to the same size as the one next to it without having to constantly reposition the item

    14 votes

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