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  1. Making it more easier to change pen, eraser and various other tools.

    To change colour or intensity click on the tool icon again.

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  2. Hello! My idea for learning a different language is a little bit different than the ones I’ve seen posted. I am trying to learn Korean, more specifically how to read and write the different characters. I think Goodnotes can be a great tool to do that, although I don’t know how that could look. I’m thinking something along the lines of how we learn to write English as children with the big blue lines, and the dotted red line in between…

    From what I’ve learned so far as well, there are certain strokes to different characters to write them.

    Flashcards…

    1 vote

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  3. If you have several custom color swatches set up like I do, scrolling back to the front of your swatches to get to stroke settings to change the style and thickness multiple times over (especially in portrait mode) can be tedious. Heck, even saying that out loud sounds tedious.

    My suggestion is to separate these settings from the color swatch menu and make them have their own editable section on the toolbar. This will keep them easily accessible while still being able to scroll through swatches independently.

    As an extra, I’d also love to be able to make more than…

    1 vote

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  4. The cursor of pen in mac is really annoying. Please change it to a dot. Or atleast give us the option to change it. The plus sign is really annoying

    5 votes

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  5. A cross or small dot in the middle of (standard)shapes.

    It would be great to get an indicator for middlepoints of shapes - especially for circles.

    21 votes

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  6. paper with dots on a equilateral triangular grid.

    12 votes

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  7. 1.First of all, we cannot edit when we are not connected to the internet. This is really bad. We should be able to use the application while offline.
    Also, the writing experience with the stylus pen in the android version is not smooth.

    2.You should make a trash bin.

    3.In order to use pen options more effectively, you should make a floating favorite bar and you should not set a number limit on this feature and we should be able to position this bar horizontally or vertically.

    4.There is a 100 mb file size limit when importing notes. This is…

    28 votes

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  8. ● add a color picker tool, how hard is that?
    ● add more than three colors to your paper templates (pink, blue, green, purple,...etc) THAT DON'T REQUIRE MORE MONEY of course. Add them like it is a default. Not only (dark grey, yellow and white) it would be perfect if we can make the color chosing the color wheel.

    ● add rulers and a protractor 📏 📐
    ●add a way of being able to change the entire app appearance (like the color of the bar and the background, and the shape of the folder, like we can make the folder…

    10 votes

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  9. 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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  10. Like in Apples Keynote App, when connected to a beamer I have the posibiltiy to make annotations for the current slice. There are different colored pens and a kind of Laserpointer tool (a glowing red dot or so). This is great for demonstrating things, whithout manipulating the current slice.

    Same would be great for GoodNotes - as a teacher I use GoodNotes as a Replacement for the traditional board. At the moment I do a workaround by undoing the pencil strokes I made for showing things on the current sheet.

    7 votes

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  11. I have been using Notability for my class notes for over a year and am just now starting to use Goodnotes 5 specifically for bullet journaling. There are a few features I love in Notability that I think would be great in Goodnotes:
    * Clickable bullet lists when typing in Text
    * Alignment guides to show when elements are aligned to each other at right, left, & center

    And one other suggestion (not from Notability that I know of)... an optional line or dot grid that can be projected onto a page to help with alignment. Great if it can…

    24 votes

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  12. It could be good that if the pen cursor of GoodNoted 5 for Mac is changed to the cursor in OneNote (simply a small dot instead of a cross).

    5 votes

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  13. Add the option to have no language selected for text recognition so you won't get the red dots under your handwriting in your own language

    5 votes

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  14. As a neat workaround for the lack of infinitely large docs - give me a (dot) grid that is zoomable. So I zoom in, and instead of loosing orientation because I have to write 4 lines within one element, I want to see a finer grid appear as i zoom in. That helps to put and structure a lot more content on one page. (See figma or others that do this)

    7 votes

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  15. It would be of most use if a specific note on the sheet could be associated with an audio file saved in the notes. For example there could be a dot that prompts to the audio saved (the same way comments work), while also being able to change its name and description!

    6 votes

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  16. Allow for the shape, pen, or highlighter snap feature to instinctively recognize an intersection of polygons, lines, or just a plain dot. This feature is mainly focused on imported documents and images. In the image below is a triangle (redrawn for clarity) where at each corner, the blue do for the highlighter snap shape is not at the corner. The snap tool should detect intersections, such as for a grid line or corner of a polygon, and automatically move to the intersection.

    7 votes

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  17. Make it possible to "Magic Wand"-select a color that you need to crop away on a picture, so that you're left with only the image on the page, no white borders around it. (The same way it can be done in Photoshop or even Apple's Pages & Keynote)

    e.g. Red dot on white square picture, becomes only the red dot that I can freely move around in GoodNotes, without hiding text behind the white border.

    4 votes

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  18. I've been using Good Notes for university and life in general for two years now, and there are several features that would make the app a much better place to study.
    I've thought about them and here they go (my native language isn't english so sorry if i make mistakes):

    -The audio option could be better (it would be great to be able to leave them inserted as stickers in any part of the sheet and thus divide the audio into sections, and that when pressed the previously recorded audio would sound). Also give them names and that they are…

    7 votes

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  19. I'd like to be able to change my default Whiteboard background from Dot Grid & White.

    Could be done by:

    • Saving the last background used
    • Manually saving in the Whiteboard creation screen

    This would be very helpful!

    4 votes

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  20. When zoomed out, the cursor for the pen becomes a plus sign, which is not very easy to write with... It would be easier if the cursor were just a dot when zoomed in or when zoomed out.

    4 votes

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