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  1. A common action that I perform in Goodnotes is the "Convert Handwriting to Text” and use that converted text as an Outline in my document. What would be nice is there was an option from the converted text window to save the converted text directly to an outline. I’ve attached a screen recording of the steps I currently go through to add an outline title.

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  2. It would be nice to be able to lock a text box in place since sometimes drawings items are referenced to the box items

    41 votes

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  3. I would like to suggest you a little improvement: bring up the option of the lasso tool (circled in purple in the photo) on the unused space of the toolbar (circled in red in the photo). That would make the use of the lasso tool much faster.

    4 votes

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  4. Hello, when working with your APP I like to use the option to write in the focused field (on the very very left) If I now leave the focused field open but change the pages it will jump me back to the original page I was writing on. So as I´m writing in there I like to view a different page for informations but will be jumped back if I note it in the frame, as it begins to jump down on the next line. I hope its understandable, it´ll be easier to explain in German. Please leave me a…

    1 vote

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  5. Ich verwende Goodnotes zum Aufmaß von Baustellen
    Hier muss ich Maßpfeile mit Bemassung einzeichen.
    Es wäre toll wenn man Maßpfeile mit Maßbeschriftung ähnlich wie bei My Measures einfügen könnte.
    Eine Anbindung zur automatischen Übernahme der Messung von einem Bluetooth fähigen Lasermessgerät zb Leica Disto wäre noch die Draufgabe

    1 vote

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  6. When pinching the page to zoom out, lasso selection is removed.
    I want to be able to zoom out in lasso mode while keeping the selection. This is actually possible if I first select resize. Then I can zoom out and keep the selection. Pls allow the same in lasso.

    7 votes

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  7. 8 votes

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  8. I have entered all my Journal Colors and added them to Presets. When I type something, those colors are not available. I have to manually enter the hex code to get the proper color text .... Every .. Single .. Time!

    30 votes

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  9. Imagine you already wrote 5 different combinations on the same page. Color, thickness, pen style.

    I'm thinking of a "picker" button on the left edge which I can press & hold with my finger. (enabling picker mode until I lift my finger)

    When I tap the pen on the document, a zoomed hover-view shows up, I drag onto the pen stroke I want to reuse & lift off both my pen and finger.

    Simple & useful.

    But now when I want to write a title after a black simple text, I have to click red color, increase the thickness, change…

    5 votes

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  10. Goodnotes already has the option to export as image, adding this as an option to auto backup is a great way to cut down the file sizes that can reach hundreds of megabytes for the people who use the auto backup as a notes viewer when using their PC.
    This reduction in file size in my opinion is worth the loss of text search within the document

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  11. Unlike MacOS Preview GoodNotes for MacOS (version 5.4.14) does not seem to support navigation using PageUp and PageDown Buttons (on Macintosh extended Keyboards like with an iMac Pro). It would be good if GoodNotes for MacOS had a more intuitive navigation which would render it more seamless to migrate from Preview to GoodNotes. Thx.

    7 votes

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  12. I really hate the organizaiton choices of this application. It feels a lot like how windows does it vs how apple does it. For instance when you go to finder and click something like documents and click on a folder in documents you get this nice tree light distribution of the files that your in and what you have looked through. In my pc if you do this it takes you into the next folder but doesn't give you that nice overview. You do this with the my pc but it acts exactly like how how goodnotes 5 currently operates.…

    4 votes

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  13. 2 votes

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  14. Just make a calligraphy pen please. Noteshelf is better because they have this.

    The writing experience is everything when you use GoodNotes5 all day. I’m sure you guys can change the pen shape easily if you wanted.

    Make it so.

    Thanks

    13 votes

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  15. Ability to add a background color to a text box, so that it looks like a post-it note. Then, I could easily sort my ideas by color and get a high level snapshot. Thanks!

    11 votes

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  16. It would be very convenient to have a pencil that just exist to write down headlines. I often use one strength of the three options just for headlines so one could expand functionality by implementing more features to this and specify one pen(strength) just to headlines. One feature suggestion might be to automatically add a page on which a headline was written to the outline. The headline itself can then be used as the outline entry's description by using the handwriting recognition software.

    1 vote

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  17. In order to increase data security, I make local backups of my notes every two weeks. As of now, I backup all the notes as I do not know which one I have altered since the last backup. If there is a way to view all my notes at one place, sorted based on latest modified, with also the date of last modification, I can only backup the notes that I have altered since the last backup, hence saving me space and data.

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  18. 2 votes

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  19. I’m a new user, so this might be a clarification request rather than a feature request, but I’m doing something that makes the tool switch randomly from pen to eraser. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to make it stop doing this? If I want the eraser I’ll pick the eraser.

    2 votes

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  20. Allow embedding of scanned documents within the page - like we can do with images.

    Sometimes we need to scan a paragraph of text and embed it within the notes. Taking a picture and embedding that instead doesn’t work because the text in the picture is not searchable.

    5 votes

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