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  1. Colour coding folders!! Maybe just a tab or something in the corner, but it’s so much easier to find a folder by colour than by skimming the names.

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  2. Allow 2 pages view (different than split view)

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  3. Add the possibility to have more than three standard colors as to allow a faster change in between more than three colors. As I have one "text"- color, I would love to be able to draw more quickly while using more than the other two standard colors that I get to set. Opening the color drop-down menu and choosing one color thus replacing a current standard color is not as fast. There is still space in the top bar for more colors, so that should not be a problem. There could be a tab in the settings that asks how…

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  4. 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.

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  5. Would like the option to group a collection of pages within a notebook, and collapse / expand them to make larger notebooks easier to navigate.

    Don’t want to create nested folders as this involves too much clicking around.

    At the moment I create section heading pages and tag them as favourites, the use favourites view as a type of table of contents page like a book.

    Would be better though if from the outline view you could group and collapse pages to make it easier to scroll through the groups, then select them to see the pages in sections to…

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  6. In Microsofts OneNote its possible to import a PDF in a way that there is space next to every page of it. I really miss this in GoodNotes as this is a great feature to really work with texts an take a lot of annotations, event though there is no free space in the PDF. This would work great using landscape mode!

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  7. Please add a countdown timer ⏲ widget in the app that can be displayed on the page. Even if this is not possible, maybe just implement preset 1min, 2min, 3min, 5min etc... Gifs that display a timer.

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  8. Text needs to be improved, like in Noteshelf 2!!!!
    - Bullet points and other text features like tables needed to be added
    - Switching quickly between preset text fonts and sizes, this is really bad at the moment! Often settings just don‘t work.
    - Text boxes are annoying, don't mix well with handwriting and do not fit into the lines of the default page!!!!

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  9. At the moment it seems to be impossible to edit an outline title, please add this feature

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  10. I have an iphone and ipad and I use goodnotes there and im in love with the app, but would also like the idea to read/edit/write my notes on my pc.. pretty please?

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  11. The Battery Drain problem is enhanced sooo much on GoodNotes5. Draining with twice the speed of version 4. Even connecting ipad Pro to my macbook will still result in battery percentage going downhill. With less than 4 hours it consumed 15% power of last 10 days. While GoodNotes4 with 22 hours only consumed 50%.

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  12. Please make the highlighter brighter, right now the brightest highlighter available is still too dull.

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  13. Please allow users to add multiple pen combos to the toolbar up top (like one note allows you to do on the iPad version). I switch often between colors and thicknesses of pens and it would be much more efficient if I could simply add it as a "quick pen". See attached photo for sample.

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  14. I tried out OneNote before I caved and got an iPad just to use this app with a planner PDF. But what I did like about OneNote is the two colorful pens it has. That change colors as you write or draw. One looked like a rainbow and the other was kind of like a galaxy colors. Please add some like those.

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  15. Currently, the dialogue box that appears when editing the color of selected text only allows users to select from the 'Custom' section. If users use their own colors entered in as hex values, and save them in the 'Presets' section then these won't be available to them without memorizing the hex codes. Having the ability to easily change the color of text and highlights to user presets would make recoloring documents much easier.

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  16. Something similar to Creceed Carbo app. I'd love to be able to import a scan/photo of notes that I actually took in paper but edit them as if I wrote them in GoodNotes.

    25 votes

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  17. The printed page has no margin for binding.
    Please add margins. Best, mirror margins for front/back print

    Printing, two GoodNotes pages fit well in one A-size or A4-size sheet.
    Please include the option of margins for this, with front/back option
    (4 GoodNotes pages in a front/back physical sheet)

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  18. While working with an iPad Pro 12" the navbar i kind of empty please add a fast option for color changing. It would be great if you would place about 5 colours directly between the boxwriting and the pen symbol and the pen thickness on the other side!

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  19. allow goodnotes to be integrate with Zapier or IFTTT

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  20. Give the possibility to create own templates such as project plan, meeting minutes or any other use full template. Just provide a empty page, where users are able to draw/create their own templates with the existing tools (Handwriting, Lines, Boxes, Text, ...). Give the possibility to use that page as privat template.
    Additional to the creation of own templates, there should be the possibility to upload the privat templates to a platform, where users can share their experience with others.

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