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  1. I’m a scientist and wanted to be able to trade a list of document titles, sizes, and dates with a colleague so we could be sure we were working from the same source documents.

    Academic publishing is often paywalled. If you need access to a document and you don’t have access to the journal, it’s accepted that you’ll fire off an email for a copy, and not publicly share it, so two folks from different institutions may not have access to the same journals.

    So we need title, origin date, last date changed, and file size, preferably in both Numbers…

    1 vote

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  2. For example, I work on my laptop with a document and close it, and then I want to open it on my iPad to continue working with the document, with this button you can force a sync, and I don't need to wait when it happens automatically

    16 votes

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  3. Have an option for us to scan document using iPad camera and cropping the image before pasting on our notes, and image pasted could be in PDF or image format. This will tremendously help in note taking

    9 votes

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  4. When using a digital planner one is often switching between writing and navigating. Each switch requires one tap the button in the upper left.
    I am right handed, it would be nice if there was an area on the screen that I could hold with my left hand that would activate the link following options so I could navigate the planner and then when I lift my finger I can write again. For a lefty this would/could be on the right side of the screen.

    For example, it is the weekend, I am reviewing previous week(s) and planning the upcoming…

    3 votes

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  5. The typeface would change when I type 2 languages an I gotta switch it back to the default font from time to time manually and it is really annoying. Hope it can switch back to the default font automatically after the typing the Incompatible language (I mean Chinese).

    1 vote

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  6. I would love to have a way to edit transparency/ opacity of elements and images added to a document. I often make notes on sheet music and would like to be able to see the notes underneath the sticky notes!

    15 votes

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  7. Hi - I love Goodnotes, but it's too cumbersome to repeatedly switch between read-only mode and editing mode and it creates needless cognitive burden (e.g. you have to think about which mode you're in).

    It would be great to have a setting where I can enable hyperlinks (e.g. navigational links) to work AT ALL times - even when I'm in editing mode. In such a scenario, I could happily edit with my Apple Pencil (including scribbling over hyperlinks), but the moment I touch a hyperlink with my finger, Goodnotes would take me to that link.

    This feature alone would help…

    5 votes

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  8. The ability to close the current flashcard while studying it if a modification or edit needs to be made then jump back into study mode. Currently one has to close the study session and search through potentially hundreds of cards to find the one that needs to be edited then start a new session.

    1 vote

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  9. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
    I would be happy if you could add more colours to the tool bar in order to switch between them faster.
    Is this feature already planned in your road map?

    Yours sincerely
    Alexander Gaiduk

    6 votes

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  10. Move the 'move left, right and enter' buttons to the left as the function encourages writers to write only on the left side of the page. This would make it more convenient

    1 vote

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  11. When I download content from the Goodnotes Community tab, I'm not able to edit any of the files. Files don't seem to import into my library as a .goodnotes files but instead as some form of .pdf(?).

    This is really annoying especially when people make things like sticker packs (a bunch of images/icons on a page) where the intent is for you to import the stickers as elements. If it's not a .goodnotes file, you have to screenshot and crop everything yourself AND a lot of the resolution is lost.

    Beyond that, I often like to make tweaks to stuff…

    2 votes

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  12. Goodnotes should have an automatic folder that when opened, contains every note from every folder.

    1 vote

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  13. I would love the ability to change the opacity of imported images or stickers!

    19 votes

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  14. Students get slides/notes/etc from multiple professors so they end up being different sizes so my idea is for font size to be a function of the width of the page (as a %) rather than an absolute value like it is now. This would make the text tool much more convenient as I could type notes without worrying about if what I'm writing is too small or too big.

    2 votes

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  15. 希望可以設定多階乘大綱

    4 votes

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  16. I am using a planner that has the entire square of a day in a calendar hyperlinked… so if I’m trying to tap and hold to edit a sticker, etc. it only lets me open the link. I’d like the option to disable that feature…or at least append the image edit, crop, etc menu to the “open link” menu that is displayed….
    This is also an issue for tapping and holding to paste… Thank you!

    3 votes

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  17. I use a lot of x-callback links, like a link to a DEVONthink document. The new linking feature assumes that it’s an HTTP link, and therefore puts in the HTTP in front of it, which doesn’t work for the x-callback types of links.

    4 votes

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  18. There are many requests posted for this feature but listed under different threads.
    For students and professionals researching and taking notes this is very helpful when compiling or reviewing notes afterwards. Not having this feature defeats the purpose of highlighting and taking notes. Unless GoodNotes wants to just target small documents and sticky notes.

    3 votes

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  19. Please consider the ability to add a new page to the right and/or left (horizontally positioned) to my current page. It would allow for adding quick notes (or long notes) without having to add an unnecessary full (vertical) page which I don’t need, or reposition my current text and pages to make room for said notes. Otherwise, loving Goodnotes 5. Thank you for considering!

    1 vote

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  20. "A selection tool that makes everything inside the selected section permanent, which cannot be erased by an eraser or moved by an lasso pen".

    Add a warning as well to notify the user once made permanent cannot be reverted back. Let it be redone by undo incase of any mistake or whatever suits your logic.

    So the notes we take can be set permanent and if we want to scribble on top of it we can do so!!!

    3 votes

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