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  1. When you type in a study set (with keyboard, not with pen) there is no possibility to underline or bold words or letters. This would be very useful. Is there a possibility to adjust this please? Thx.

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  2. I don't see how this already doesn't exist... Goodnotes for android phones. People still wanna view their notes maybe from their iPads on their phones from time to time so a goodnotes android phone app I actually can't believe it doesn't already exist

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  3. Ich hätte sehr gerne die Möglichkeit, nicht nur pauschal EINE Formatvorlage festzulegen, die direkt in einem neuen Dokument erstellt wird, sondern die Vorlage je Ordner festlegen zu können. Ich benutze Goodnotes für die Schule und habe für jedes Schulfach einen einzelnen Ordner. In den eher text-lastigen Fächern (quasi alle außer Naturwissenschaften) tippe ich mit Tastatur und „Blankopapier-Vorlage“, und in Mathe, Physik etc. schreibe ich mit Apple Pencil auf der karrierten Vorlage. Ich fände es daher sehr nützlich, wenn ich für meine Ordner in deutsch, Englisch, Politik usw. als Format-Vorlage eine schlichte weiße Seite und für Mathe, Physik etc. eine karrierte…

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  4. The search tab is really helpful but sometimes it’s hard to see the highlighted word I am looking for. Adding the ability to change this color to something brighter would be very helpful!

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  5. Hallo, ich finde die neue Möglichkteit mit den Leensets echt super. Allerdings hätte ich gerne die Möglichkeit diese zu markieren. Z.B. in einem Ampelachema: rot: noch schwer, gelb: in Ordnung, Grün: leicht. Oder zumindest dass man bestimmte Karten auch wie in normalen Dokumenten mit roten „Einmerkern“ versehen kann. Außerdem wäre so etwas wie eine Gliederung auch sinnvoll.

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  6. Currently, when I try to add a text box on top of an image, Goodnotes enters image edit mode instead of letting me type. This forces me to type elsewhere and drag the text into place, which is very frustrating and inefficient — especially when editing things like sheet music or diagrams.

    Please add the ability to place and type text directly on images without switching to image edit mode. This would greatly improve the workflow for many users.

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  7. When I am working Splitscreen on my IPad I always have to first press the button for the style of the pen to change the colour or size of the line.
    When I am working in full screen, Good Notes shows me my selected favourite colours and line sizes as part of the bar directly able to select.

    There is enough space to enable this function in Split Screen View. It makes work more efficient and fast.

    Thank you so much.

    I have added a picture of the space, where the favourite colours should be added.

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  8. Separate between the pen options (fountain pen, ball pen and brush pen) so each will appear in the tool bar

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  9. 尺子竖过来时刻度没了

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  10. When inside a folder somewhere on the screen can you show the file path similiar to windows file explorer so we can simply drag a file to any part of the path rather than clicking the drop down options and then clicking move. Also, the move menu that shows all your files appears on the side when you open a file so you can directly drag and drop would also be great.

    3 votes

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  11. Ability to search flashcards. Have far too many entries to quickly scroll through to make sure I’m not making a duplicate card.

    Hopefully I’m not missing something and this is actually not a real issue

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  12. add something like google translate inside the app. Also, it will make the work easier for a student like me who speak Arabic and all his subjects in English, so translator will help me if I have any issue with the vocab a lot of apps like callnote have this feature and I’m sure that Goodnotes can do the same

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  13. Currently, Goodnotes does not support searching handwritten text on post-its, limiting their usefulness. Adding this feature would greatly benefit learners by allowing them to quickly find key ideas. Additionally, post-its should serve as more than just comment bubbles—they could function as dynamic, movable notes, similar to Heptabase. Users could categorize, search, and transfer post-its across pages or notebooks, creating meaningful connections between ideas. This enhancement would transform post-its into a powerful tool for organizing and linking knowledge across different subjects.

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  14. I frequently collaborate on projects with colleagues, and I was wondering if GoodNotes plans to implement a feature for real-time note-sharing, similar to Google Docs or Notion? It would be incredibly helpful to edit and annotate notes together without needing to export files or manually sync changes.

    Edited by Stickman Hook 1 day ago

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  15. Option to create a separate color pallette for colors added in the pen, pencil, and highlighter tool

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  16. Have option to layer a semi opaque trace over items so can mark up clearly over images/diagrams etc

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  17. Building flashcards manually in Goodnotes is great but I feel it a bit hectic. There may be an extra tool which can be used to mark sections of a page or whole pages to add them to the Recalling /Memorizing list. This should auto include all the items that we mark with the Recaller tool. One should be able to see all the hard-to-learn stuff at ones from each notebook/folder. In addition, a home screen widget may be created which would periodically display a section of the note for a quick revision which would be scientifically designed like Anki.

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  18. It would be nice to be able to add Excel, Word, etc files to a notebook, similar to how Apple Notes works. It does not need to open in Good Notes it just needs to act like a link to the file so you can pull it up in a separate app.

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  19. It would be really useful to have the option to set a specific page, so that while you’re reading through your notes for example you’ll always see the number of pages you have left until your set page goal. Also navigating through bookmarks would be drastically easier if we had the option to organize them into sections, maybe by creating folders inside of the bookmark option. This would be really useful if for example you want to select and organize pages with end of chapter summaries into a folder inside of the same document you’re using instead of creating a…

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  20. It would be really useful to have the option to set a specific page, so that while you’re reading through your notes for example you’ll always see the number of pages you have left until your set page goal. Also navigating through bookmarks would be drastically easier if we had the option to organize them into sections, maybe by creating folders inside of the bookmark option. This would be really useful if for example you want to select and organize pages with end of chapter summaries into a folder inside of the same document you’re using instead of creating a…

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