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  1. One of my most used tools is the selection tool.

    However when resizing, it also rotates the selection which is really annoying.

    Would prefer if rotation occurred through pinching or separate box in another corner.

    Also add the Rectangular Selection.

    6 votes

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  2. Being able to have free movement of the page, e.g. the left corner of the page on the right side of the screen, because currently what is happening is that the page snaps back to the center when you try to do that.

    Say you want to write some text on the far left side of the screen so you want to move the page to the right, well currently you can't...

    9 votes

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  3. As there are different color palettes for the pens and the highlighter, it would be great if the colors displayed when selecting „change color“ over the context menu would adapt to the currently used tool.
    Currently it always displays the color palette from the pens.

    7 votes

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  4. I love the new option with the eraser where it snaps back to the pen or highlighter tool once you are done with it and I think it would be great to see that with the selection tool too.

    Thanks for your consideration.

    1 vote

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  5. Instead of moving your hand up to the top or bottom of the screen to scroll to a new tool or change the color have a wheel that can be placed any where on the screen with just a tap and slide you can change the tool or change the color from presets

    4 votes

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  6. cmd+c cmd+v pretty basic, but super essential.

    7 votes

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  7. It would be nice being able to scroll pages with page up and page down in GoodNotes on a Mac, just like in any other document viewer.

    3 votes

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  8. I review alot of technical documents with goodnotes and often times, there will be updates to the underlying PDF Document from time to time. I would like the ability to move my annotated notes to the latest PDF.

    In my situation, almost all of the time, the underlying PDF would have the same format, number of pages etc. So the ability of export only annotations (which you current support) and merge the exported PDF annotates with a new PDF would solve my problem.

    5 votes

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  9. Please I long to use this on my Microsoft Surface.

    36 votes

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  10. please add a keyboard shortcut for the Mac version to jump to full window size equivalent to double finger tap on iPad, please also add an automatic function to always have the view size follow the window size

    thank you and carry on with the great work

    4 votes

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  11. The range of colors that GoodNotes offers is amazing, but it can be difficult in practice to fluidly incorporate them into documents. This could be streamlined considerably by having a coloring tool that allows the user to change the color of pen and highlighter marks by stroking over them with their pencil.

    Motivation:
    There are a lot of use cases where it is useful to have multi-colored diagrams and writing. For example, is often helpful to color certain variables and subscripts in mathematical equations to intuitively link equations together. As it is, doing this either requires changing the pen color…

    6 votes

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  12. Some of these ideas may have been mentioned before, and maybe they haven’t, but these are some features I would like to see.

    Sending things forward or backward. Or picture layering.

    Being able to select handwriting, photos or text boxes and being able to bring it forward or backward so they can layer. It would be super useful for those who digital planner journals or scrapbook.

    This one I know has been said, but voice recording.

    The ability to convert text directly, rather than a cop and then have to paste, while proceeding to delete the original handwritten text.

    The…

    6 votes

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  13. Please make hexagon/pentagon paper templates! Chemistry students would be very thankful! Thank you & God bless❤️

    19 votes

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  14. Ideally, every template is available in every paper color.

    3 votes

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  15. Right now, there is only "free-form" select.

    It would be convenient to have a "box-select" option that selected everything in the window. Similar to a cropping tool.

    <3

    8 votes

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  16. Please provide a paper size that exactly matches the viewing area assuming that the toolbar is not hidden.

    As it is, we always have to waste some screen real estate on margins (why?) and deal with zooming (why?). My notes will never be printed, so I don't need them to be on "A4 paper", I need them to be sized to my screen, which is where they live.

    4 votes

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  17. Add the option to sort files from Z to A.

    5 votes

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  18. Likewise I can customize several pen colors,
    I want to customize several fonts-size-color in sets.
    (Its possible to customize only one set now)

    eg. A font-32-black / B font-20-red / c font-...

    8 votes

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  19. Please please please make the grid likes actually automatically fit to the text, any text box just kind of floats on top of the lines and you have to resize the text and try to fit it to the lines and it never works. If text worked better I would use it more

    17 votes

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  20. Right now, Automatic Backups requires connecting to a Cloud Storage provider, of which only 3 are supported, and iCloud is not even one of them. However, "Backup Now" supports saving backups to an Files.app location, which supports any cloud service that is integrated with Files.app.

    What I would like to see is Automatic Backup have support for closing a location in Files.app (either local on device, or cloud service provider).

    5 votes

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