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  1. stop compressing images imported into pdf. Retain the image quality please!

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  2. Whenever I use the flashcards and I accidentally touch the grey area, the flashcard tab closes. It’s very unnecessary feature and frustrating.

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  3. I´m using the option flash cards on the ipad frequently, but it would be really great to improve this tool for usage on laptops. The cards, and shown answers, are really small, so its often impossible to check if you´ve got everything right, especially when the cards are rather full and the textsize is small.

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  4. Enable different search highlight colors. I tend to use orange highlighter (best for multiple layers for emphasis) and the search highlighter gets drowned out with it.

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  5. When I highlight text, I want the option to add a comment/explanation that then hides in the comment icon next to the highlighted text. When I click on the icon, that explanation then appears underneath the text. And when I click on the background, it goes back to the way it is.

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  6. Please allow to offload folders oder large documents from the ipad and just let them be saved in the icloud. So you can save more storage on the device an still have access to the documents that you dont youse a lot (e.g. Textbooks or old Powerpoint slides).

    Just like Apple does it with their icloud documents on a mac.

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  7. A template with an automatic numbering system. The template would have a positionable "page number" feature, with the option to have the total page count as well. I wouldn't have to manually add "1 of 6", "2 of 6" to my pages, then change them all if I add a 7th page.

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  8. 11 votes

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  9. Can yall add a maths conversion tool where when we write an equation, we can select that equation using the lasso tool to convert to a high resolution text

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  10. Similar items have been suggested but only after selecting them which is cumbersome. Would love an option to recolor text by using a variant to the highlighter. Just like dragging a highlighter over text would highlight it, the recolor highlighter would instead recolor the text you've drawn a line over to the color selected. Think of it like putting a strike through a sentence, but instead of the line strike, the result would be changing the color of that underlying text from black to red for example. Much better UX than trying to draw a select around text.

    11 votes

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  11. Would be great to add more keyboard shortcuts on MacOS version but also for iPad with external keyboard.

    missing
    - Clear Page
    - Laser Pointer

    Improvements:
    - custom keyboard shortcuts (defined by user)
    - accessing/selecting different Tools within Tools (f.e. different Pen Types) through keyboard shortcuts
    - accessing/selecting Colors through keyboard shortcuts
    - accessing/selecting different Size of stroke through keyboard shortcuts
    - accessing/selecting different Fonts Types...

    11 votes

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  12. Please add the ability to click pdf links with our fingers without having to disable the stylus everytime.
    Noteshelf has this feature.

    11 votes

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  13. If you've ever used procreate, you know what I'm referring to.

    The zoom out / zoom in is an annoying aspect (I'm an avid Goodnotes user so I mean this without malicious intent) when trying to focus on a specific area of the page to write notes on. Let's say for example I am focusing on a diagram I'm drawing and want to zoom out on that specific area to only see my diagram and focus on that area, it's not possible; when zooming out, the whole page is zoomed out. I would love to have zoom in/ out that…

    11 votes

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  14. Hi there,
    1) In LiquidText, you have the ability to create links not only between different pages of the same book but across different books in the app. I want GoodNotes to implement it in pdf textbooks and digital handwriting notes and it will make study and research very easy.
    2) In LiquidText again there is a feature in which you pinch to collapse the pages so that you could compare the material between two different pages of the same book. It’s awesome and it will make studies very easy and productive. So please work on it
    3) Please either…

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  15. I know a lot of snapping grid request have been proposed but I wanted to propose something more specific.

    One of the feature that I love with GoodNotes is the ability to create our own templates with precise format. I attached a file as an example.

    I created a lot of different templates with grids on them. But depending of the templates the size and the position of the grid differ.

    So what could be great is to have the ability to create snapping grid with :

    • custom colors;
    • toggle hide/show (hiding would be useful for not overlaying existing grid…
    11 votes

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  16. Easy way of writing something and document automatically adds to page outline. For example, if I were to write “Chapter 2: Title”, GoodNotes will take that handwritten text and add it to the page outline. Either do it with a special pen, or a box used to highlight the text that is desired to be added. This way I don’t have write it, then go back and forth between the outline typing what I wrote.

    11 votes

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  17. Sketchbook Pro has some of the best rulers out there and I would love for those rulers to also be implemented on GoodNotes.

    11 votes

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  18. I would like an Import Action for the Shortcuts app. One use I have for your app is markup for online teaching. Adding this action would allow me to create a shortcut that can automatically import the PDFs that I will use for that day's lesson into a student's folder.

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  19. Being able to adjust opacity would enable note taking to use a Boldness type feature for important ideas and parenthetical ideas could be more faint.

    11 votes

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  20. create the ability to take notes on a full-screen view

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