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  1. Please enable macOS typical keyboard shortcuts, which are used by most macOS apps such as
    cmd + for zoom in (currently cmd : which is not intuitive !)
    cmd - for zoom out (currently cmd ; which is not intuitive !)
    cmd ; for settings
    etc...
    Please follow to more widely used standard shorts to make the macOS experience more intuitive
    Thanks a lot

    4 votes

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  2. Preset colors can be specified for both handwriting and highlights.

    However, the preset of the text box is not changed.

    The problems that arise here are:

    It is difficult to change the color of only part of the text box
    -> It is possible to change some colors through customization, but if you try to change it using a color code, the entire text box is selected and some changes are not made.

    If you want to change the color of only some of them, you need to add text boxes, create spaces between sentences, and align the text boxes…

    2 votes

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  3. It would be kinda cool to make audiobuttons, so you can record something (explanation for example) and put it next to a graphic or a math thingy you did. So basically the comment function but for Audioclips.

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  5. I noticed that I can create a notebook on Android from a picture file. On my iPad I regularly do that and then add more picture files to the notebook. But when I share the notebook and try to open on Android or Windows that does not work. When creating a notebook from a PDF file it works a charm.

    I use Goodnotes as a digital puzzle magazine and copy/past puzzles from a newspaper.

    Maybe I missed something but can't seem to get sharing a notebook made up from picture files working

    2 votes

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  6. Es kann nicht sein, dass man eine Änderung des Formates, zB wenn ich ALLE Seiten auf A4 wechseln will, dass ich das dann auf vielen dutzenden Seiten einzeln händisch machen muss. Das dauert Stunden und reduziert euer 5 Sterne Programm auf ein schlecht durchdachtes 0 Sterne Programm. Ich sehe da bei dem teuren Preis der App einen dringenden Nachholbedarf.

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  7. When eraser tool is selected, the circle image (regardless of size) is often difficult to see on the screen when it is moved around and I sometimes erase items I did not want to lose. Can the contrast of the eraser image on the monitor screen be made brighter or of different colors so it is more easily seen on the screen?

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  8. Like the notebooks has an option to record audio notes
    There should be one for flashcards too

    9 votes

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  9. Manual organization of notebooks would be greatly appreciated. As for school ordering notebooks and files in a custom order would greatly improve ability to organize files and notebooks

    14 votes

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  10. Make the lines give true degree or bearings for mathematical drawing purposes, a compass and a protractor and a ruler too

    3 votes

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  11. I love the new flash cards update! Spaced Repition is perfect. It would be even better, if Flash Cards would use up the whole screen while in Study mode!

    1. Please add a "Zoom in" Function for Flash Cards in Study mode!

    To understand and learn better, it would be so helpul! Sometimes you can't read something, cause it's too small or you wanna simply touch the content or zoom into an illustration!

    1. Also it would be helpful to be able to write or draw something on the Flash cards while in study mode. That would make work flow so much…
    6 votes

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  12. In MacOS, the scroll handle is far too small. It is very hard to "grab" onto using a mouse. Please make it larger and easier to interact with.

    2 votes

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  13. Rather than only having the option to using an AMOLED background, it would be preferable to allow users to set a custom image as the background

    1 vote

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  14. I cannot re-arrange the order of my study set. If i want to add a subsequent new card to a topic on e.g flashcard no.42, I need to delete every flashcard after no.42 to add that new relevant card. This wouldn't be an issue if the feature to re-arrange the cards existed.

    5 votes

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  15. Please give us a fast way of adding notebook pages or purchased papers to our Template Libraries.

    I just bought a number of paper templates from the GoodNotes Store and it seems will now need to waste twenty minutes manually exporting PDFs of each individual page, and manually adding each page separately back in to my Template Library. It won’t import a multi-page pdf and split out the pages. It won’t import an exported GoodNotes notebook. It will only import templates from Files or Photos. It would be nice to just tell it to add page X from notebook Y…

    3 votes

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  16. Tap to turn. The app is for ipad, it’s unintuitive then that the flash card starts on typing and you have to tap into a different screen to start writing with stylus. Generally, no one using goodnotes is trying to type their things. I also don’t like having to go in and out in and out to write the question and then it’s answer, I suggest having a double tap feature where the card in question is able to flip for ease of editing either sides.

    4 votes

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  17. At the moment one can switch from the document viewer to the file explorer … but not the other way around. From a UI / UX standpoint, this flaw is very frustrating.

    This problem was raised several years ago but apparently ignored. The currently suggested 'solution' (to use the search button and select a document from there) just does not cut it. A 'hack' is never a good solution to a design flaw.

    4 votes

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  18. I would love to have the ability to search just within a certain folder. I have a folder for each class, but being in vet school my classes overlap a lot. I would like to be able to search within a specific folder to be able to find info from just one class.

    Also with the new study set feature it would be great if we could have a search function within the study set just like any other Notebook

    6 votes

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  19. I would like to suggest that there is a possibility to display the full name of the pdf where something was found in the results of a search.

    1 vote

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  20. Purchased 6 once but cancelled and paid back to me.a few weeks later tried to re-purchase 6 via the store.however can not do it.maybe remain the record (purchased once) still in good note app.Anyway want to re-purchase it ,how should I do for it?

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