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  1. Have an option to have more colour presets instead of only 3

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  2. It would be hugely beneficial to search documents within specific folders instead of searching all of my documents as a whole. Also, it would be helpful to be able to search for exact phrases instead of having the search broken up into single words within the phrase. Notability has both of these functions and makes searching for information a lot more efficient!

    19 votes

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  3. (for example tables, better graphics, be able to do graphics from table, lines, EASY CIRCLES and other geometrical figures)

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  4. As a mathematics student, I wish GoodNotes can implement a graphing function, because it is so difficult to draw a good sine wave.

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  5. Similar to the outline in powerpoint, I'd like to be able to add a border to images or text boxes. This helps distinguish pictures that are near or on top of each other. You can draw a rectangle around the picture with the shape tool but it's hard to make it precise.

    19 votes

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  6. 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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  7. -color picker
    -more colors for templates
    -date and time of file

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  8. Since ios 13 the notes app with apple pencil has less latency, going to goodnotes again seems so slow in comparison

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    The Apple Pencil latency is also down to 9ms in GoodNotes. However, GoodNotes doesn’t use “stroke prediction” which will make the line look “slower” than in Apple Notes when drawing longer lines quickly. It won’t affect the usual writing experience. Do you notice a higher latency when you’re writing as well?

  9. To draw a simple rectangle using the Shape Tool takes too much time and is also prone to error (often not getting straight angles). Much better would be a dedicated rectangle tool, where start at one edge and open diagonally a rectangle. This would be much faster and less annoying to use.

    19 votes

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  10. It was very convenient to use the tools (pen color, eraser, one step back...) in the zoom-in box, but it is gone in GoodNotes 5. Please bring them back, they are critical in writing efficiency! Thanks!

    19 votes

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  11. Add the ability to quickly build a customizable Bullet Journal along with the various signifiers.

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  12. Good Notes is perfect for me as a site manager to take plans to the construction site. What I miss very much is a tool to measure. I would like to measure it out of a plan.
    --> A measuring function!

    19 votes

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  13. I use zoom window all the time for taking notes on powerpoint slides but the biggest flaw that always comes up is my written not being straight or the same height due to their not being any guidelines on the powerpoint slides. It would be nice to have guide lines on the zoom window that only appear on the zoom window to help writing in a straight line

    19 votes

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  14. Let us open PDF's from anywhere in the Files-App in GoodNotes and then edit them without copying them over to GN.

    19 votes

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  15. Have the ability to create a diary like Calendar notebook.

    19 votes

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  16. Please add the possibility to synchronize the documents also with other clouds. In Europe we are forced to store our data on European Servers. So please add some European cloud services. My personal wish would be the MagentaCloud from Deutsche Telekom.
    Another nice Feature would be the synchronisation with private cloud services, e.g. the clouds of the universities.

    19 votes

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  17. I like that there are a fair amount of colors to choose from, but it would be nice to have some way to make and save custom colors. Perhaps some sort of a color wheel.

    19 votes

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  18. Sometimes you highlight or add comments to a PDF using Preview or Adobe Reader on a computer. You then want to use GoodNotes to take additional notes; however, the previous annotations do not appear. This would be extremely helpful when taking notes.

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  19. Loading A4 sized scanned pdf with 300dpi takes between 1 and 5 seconds per each page for iPad Retina when continuously viewing next pages, which is very slow. And it shows a blank page until it fully loads a page.

    In contrast, Note-shelf shows low resolution page first then load full resolution image later. This is very convenient when searching for a specific page while scrolling to next pages. Goodreader precaches adjacent pages in advance, therefore there loading speed is very fast.

    It would be nice if Goodnotes improve pdf loading speed by loading low resolution image first or precaching…

    19 votes

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  20. If good notes has another function which provide web-searching and ipad dictionary for words on PDF, it could be the best notes ever in existence.

    19 votes

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