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  1. Can you improve or allow us to edit the icon of the folder? It really looked monotonous and boring. Or can you build a knowledge note management system with tags and dividers as the framework?

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  2. There should be a way to edit pdfs or books in full screen mode. Just basic editing capability is needed for eg. a single pen or highlighter option should be there so that we can underline, mark or write something while reading in full screen just like we do for any hardcopy. Reading on full screen mode, the experience is on another level and if basic editing capability is added it will be just perfect( cherry on top of cake).

    4 votes

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  3. In smaller iPads toolbar and document tabs take lot of working space.
    If toolbar can be shifted to left side of screen in landscape mode it will be of great help.

    19 votes

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  4. Make it so that when using lasso select, the elements of what you’re lassoing are able to move between page to page

    3 votes

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  5. Have more sizes for the eraser that we can change and save.

    9 votes

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  6. an option to make a summery out of all highlighted text in the same color.
    so if I'm studying a topic with a lot of terms i would like to highlight the term itself during the classes and notes and after that have the ability to extract all the lets say yellow highlights as flash cards while one side has the term and on the other side have the sentence that followed it...
    that way you could have instant flash card built with your own summery and no need to make a new summery or read everything to study...
    also…

    3 votes

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  7. I think you should be able to pick your top three most-used colors to be displayed but then have the ability to scroll for faster color change. Often times when I am taking notes in class, if I want to change colors, having to open the whole folder can get me behind. While this doesn't seem like a huge deal, in college-class note-taking, every second counts and even if you miss one small detail, it can cause issues. This would be really really really helpful!

    2 votes

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  8. Hiya, I’m dyslexic and find it easier to read and write on “gold” coloured paper, to be honest it looks more like orange but still!
    Would love to see the ability to change the colour of the paper. (- unless there already is and I cant find it? Did try look on google but couldn’t find anything)
    Anyway, so far great app!

    1 vote

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  9. The extra menu bars and tab names just take up much needed screen real estate specially on the budget ipads with not so huge screens. While reading a book, the most i need is just my tool palette so i can highlight occasionally. Other things are just distracting and rarely needed!

    6 votes

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  10. I love the flashcard feature. But the flashcard display has got to be bigger: full screen. I put my maths theorems on flashcards and the text gets quite small.

    I need to be able to zoom in, and treat them like a normal page while I'm doing the flashcards.

    Also, it would be great to have space to write out your attempt at the flashcard before you reveal the answer. At the minute I have to open a document in a new tab.

    29 votes

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  11. Every time I select the eraser tool, it defaults to the largest size. So I end up erasing more than I want to, and then have to undo accidental erasures and then set the eraser to smaller size. I should be able to set the smallest eraser as default size to begin with. I love Goodnotes, but erasing is so common, this is getting to be an important usability issue.

    2 votes

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  12. If i open a lot of pages I accidentally close pages and I want a way to see all of the open pages in a glance and switch between them every time i need then and i will not have to worry about closing page and as a result of that i need to search again for the close page

    1 vote

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  13. I have seen some relatively dangerous behavior regarding notebooks set to auto-backup. When the backup process crashes/fails, the failing notebooks are automatically excluded from subsequent autobackups (see screenshot).

    This behavior is acceptable, and probably even desirable, so that other notebooks can continue backing up just fine.

    What bothers me about this behavior however is that I receive absolutely ZERO notification that one of my notebooks is no longer backing up. The only way that I can find to learn this is to manually navigate to Settings-->Automatic Backup-->View Backup Queue and note the list of excluded notebooks. This seems very dangerous…

    4 votes

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  14. When you draw some shapes on top of each other and you would like to align the shapes perfectly, you can't select the shape you draw afterwards. May you can do it better. E.g. you can select all shapes near the area you have tapped with your finger.

    3 votes

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  15. Allow a thicker textmarker. The 7.7 mm aren't enough for some slides.
    I also use sometimes the textmarker for highlighting something by holding the marker for a perfekt rectangular - and therefore it also should be possible to make a thicker line.

    3 votes

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  16. When you would like to change the colour of the second colour stack an you are already in the first stack you can't double-tab onto the second coulor stack to change it.
    E.g. you already write in the coulour black in your document. Then you would like to have the colour blue (but you don't have it on the other colour stacks) then you would like to change the colour immediately and you doubletab onto the second coulour stack but this does not work.

    1 vote

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  17. I would like a function with which you can get to a specific place in a notebook by clicking on a text box or a shape. That the form or font is linked to the specified position.

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  18. As a user, I'd like to be able to share links to specific pages within a notebook rather than the sharing a link to the entire notebook.

    4 votes

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  19. Please add the ability to copy the sharable link in the Mac OS share menu (managed in System Preferences > Extensions > Share Menu)

    3 votes

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  20. Group and ungroup favorite pages in one same document. For example, when you do literature reviews in academic work is always useful to group information related to one concept or research question. It would also be useful to see group favorite pages from different documents that have been label with the same name

    3 votes

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