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  1. Please consider a feature to add URL links to images or elements on notes.

    A link feature is a very good feature for digital notebooks.
    Currently GoodNotes 5 supports link feature only inline text links.

    When we want to link a URL to an image to create a button to jump to a website, paste an image, add an invisible text (whitespaces) onto it. and create a link on it.
    It makes a lot of trouble since invisible text is tough to handle.

    It will be very nice if attaching links directly onto images or elements on page.

    Thanks for…

    16 votes

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  2. Pasting a large text copied from another source into goodnotes doesn’t automatically moves to the next pages. Only workaround for this is to copying small parts and paste and then move to next page and continue like this. Text should automatically move to next pages if the area is insufficient for that page.

    16 votes

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  3. Image Occlusion is a simple but very useful feature. With Image Occlusion, I can draw a box to cover up labels on a diagram. If I tap on the box, the box becomes invisible and the answer gets revealed. If I tap again, the box becomes opaque and the answer gets covered up again.

    There should also be a button to cover up all of the answers at once or reveal them all at once. When I’m done studying for the day, I want to cover up all of the answers, in order to pick up my studying next time.…

    16 votes

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  4. To add a duplicate button after selected the strokes.

    16 votes

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  5. Using the Apple Pencil Scribble function to convert handwritten words to typed text in realtime works very well, but it automatically converts capital letters (particularly the first letter of a word that is meant to be capitalized) to lowercase letters. For example, writing “Energy” with a capital E changes the word to “energy” with lowercase e. It also underlines the autocorrected word in blue. Tapping or selecting the word underlined in blue gives no option to change it back to the intended capitalization. This does not happen in any default Apple app. I’ve contacted Apple support about this, and I…

    16 votes

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  6. Please add the ability to customise folders and their colours!!!! For example, different coloured folders, add emojis or text to folders etc. That would make the app perfect!

    16 votes

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  7. It would be a lot more useful to make more writing space and less distractions if the tab and document bar would be hidden while writing, I only need the tools bar, not the other bar, it only occupies useful space.

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  8. I've noticed that a lot of people have already asked for this, but those might land on having the need for more information.

    I'd like to see a feature like this added, because the predictions are wrong so often! I pull a line which I want to be straight, may have wiggled slightly and GN5 in some cases recognises it as a curve.

    A ruler in GN5 would also just help you with sketching up stuff real quick, like a sheet or so without having the need to either import your own paper that has this or rely on the…

    16 votes

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  9. Have a feature similar to photoshop, where you can adjust the smoothing of your lines. This would make drawing shapes and diagrams easier, also make handwriting notes easier for those with a shaky hand.

    For both iPad and Mac please

    16 votes

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  10. Please add the feature to add hyperlinks to the pages… so that when we click on it, it opens the web page directly.it is very tedious to copy edit and paste the link in browser. This is very basic feature missing. This is very important feature which is missing please try to add this in next update or so. HYPERLINK TO youtube and other websites

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  11. I think it would be a good feature having the option to organize the pen and highlighter colors into different palettes and having the same colors for both, now we have to type the hex code twice

    16 votes

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  12. While filling out forms one uses the text box tool many times. The default font size should be of the size used in the last text box, and not 24 every time, so that the user doesn’t have to change it every time as per the need.

    16 votes

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  13. I’d like for Goodnotes to have the ability to scan handwritten text on paper and copy into Goodnotes pages. For instance, using Goodnotes to take a picture scan of handwritten notes in a notebook, and turning that scan into a handwritten page in an existing or new document in Goodnotes. I often find that I don’t always have my iPad with me, and may need to jot something down on paper quickly. Being able to import these notes as something other than pictured would be an amazing feature and time-saver.

    16 votes

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  14. When I use my Apple Pencil I can easily scroll through the PDF documents with my finger. That works just amazing! But I can not click links within the PDF to other pages in editing mode. This forces me to change to read mode and then click the link, go back to editing mode and start editing. This takes a tremendous amount of time if you use GoodNotes as a with a digital life planner.

    Thanks.

    16 votes

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  15. GoodNotes is a killer app for taking notes by hand but it’s really weak in the typing department.

    Things that would make GoodNotes perfect:
    - pre-set text formatting (title, headings, subheadings, normals text)
    - text alignment (right, left, center, etc.)
    - lists (bullet, number, checkbox)
    - toggles (like in Notion)

    GoodNotes is wonderful for annotating PDFs, pictures and books and for drawing diagrams. However, it’s impossible to write all my notes by hand so I have to use Notion for typing and just insert the pictures I annotated or diagrams I drew in GoodNotes into Notion. So I now use…

    16 votes

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  16. For people who do a lot of math (and love clean notes) it would be super helpful if there was something like an automatic recognition for {curly brackets}!

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  17. It would be great if something like a 2 page scrollling view could be added so that when we scroll through PDF version of our notes, especially exported slides, a better overview of the set of notes could be seen. This is in comparision to what we have now, where we scroll through the document page by page. Going through each set of notes might take quite some time when there are many pages in a document.

    16 votes

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  18. The outline break is a small feature that would be really appealing to the eyes! More Details in images

    16 votes

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  19. You can’t save or export highlights on PDFs imported into GoodNotes. But given GoodNotes is such a nice PDF reader, I want to do reading in GoodNotes and then be able to use the content I’ve highlighted elsewhere, e.g. combine it with highlights in Pocket or Instapaper, as part of my research workflow. But at the moment the highlights are static and stuck in the app, so you have to go back through each reading 1 at a time. Enabling highlight exporting — especially if automated via Readwise — would be a gamechanger in allowing me to use GoodNotes for…

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  20. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

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