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  1. Be able to create and switch between multiple user profiles. For example, you could have a profile for personal notes and another for your classes.

    Alternatively: include options in universal search to restrict results to only notes within certain folders. Offer more search filters. This would essentially achieve the same result as separating notes/folders by profile

    4 votes

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  2. Good notes is one of the most frequently used app in my medicine department for taking notes etc. but tool bar on good notes is very large & space consuming , If good notes team make this tool bar smaller less space consuming it will improve writing experience and give more room for writing things

    19 votes

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  3. 在MAC上操作时,增加一个快捷键。按住“空格”键,可以移动页面。现在只能按“左”、“右”键进行移动,很不方便。

    1 vote

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  4. Allow a video window on a good notes page. And allow a drag and drop of text or graphic item between pages.

    24 votes

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  5. For documents we can easily add an image as first page and it will show up as icon. Plz add something simillar for folders as well. It will be very useful for easier Navigation

    9 votes

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  6. I want to be able to name a page and search title by page name

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    1 vote

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  7. Not all students are goodnotes/apple users. As teachers we should get the opportunity to share link with people so that changes made to that document gets uodated via that link. We don't have to export documents multiple times.

    3 votes

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  8. It could be good that if the pen cursor of GoodNoted 5 for Mac is changed to the cursor in OneNote (simply a small dot instead of a cross).

    5 votes

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  9. Currently, as soon as the GoodNotes is launched, it always opens the note that was last worked on. This is even if all notes were closed before the app was closed.

    I would like to see an option that allows GoodNotes to start in the last case described so that none of the existing notes are opened (and the user gets to see the document overview instead).

    2 votes

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  10. See two sequential pages from the same notebook on one screen. Similar to 2-page scroll in Adobe Acrobat or Mac Preview.
    Using the split screen mode in iPad OS 13 doesn't work because you have to manually scroll each window two pages at a time which is awkward

    67 votes

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  11. When I want to lay out small handwriting and details on a page, the lasso tool expanding the size of my selection makes it harder to place the contents in the exact right place. I want to be able to get it exactly right, I can’t imagine a single situation where the zooming in/expanding thing it does would be useful. If the text was big enough for me to select it, I do not need it to grow and get more confusing. Please turn off that feature.

    2 votes

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  12. If expanding the margins isn't possible, maybe there could be an option to have the pdf pages imported as vector images (like .svg) on a goodnotes page. That way you could move around and resize each page of the pdf to create margin space where it is needed. This is different from importing the pdf pages as rasterized images. Text should still be readable even if the imported page is scaled.

    10 votes

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  13. Please an easier way to upload a Custom notebook cover when creating a new notebook. This should not be an elaborate process of exiting and entering a new window area to edit templates or require a tutorial.
    The cover should be easy to upload from phone or desktop and includes auto cropping /resizing of the image.
    Please compare to Zoho Notes and how easy it is to create custom notebook covers and also how images are stored as templates to re-use for new notebooks as well.

    2 votes

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  14. to have more than 3 colors (maybe 4) on the bar for highlight

    5 votes

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  15. I liked the sticky note, but there should be system of pop up like sticky note because in most of the pdf documents , there is no space to write anything. If pop up like sticky note will available there then it will more convenient to take short note.

    13 votes

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  16. The same way that you can save three pens I would like to be able to save multiple font settings

    10 votes

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  17. Handwriting flashcards is a great idea, but it would be even better if we could print them with proper formatting (double sided) with the question on one side and the answer on the other. This would be really helpful for practicing with physical cards for studying rather than staring at a screen, but also gives the ability to add images / organize diagrams and such more cleanly.

    Thank you for your consideration!

    8 votes

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  18. When teaching I feel I have only two options: 1) Show the completed note set to students all at once or 2) Transfer the notes from another document into a blank goodnotes document. Option 1 can be overwhelming to students and option 2 can lead to mistakes when transferring the messages.

    A feature that could solve these issues would be the option to open a document in "teaching mode". "Teaching mode" would show the students a blank document, however for the teacher on the iPad (or other device) they would see the document they had prepared with all the writing…

    3 votes

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  19. when downloading new apps in Apple os like ios, it shows a blue sign that it's new.

    if a yellow circle shows that it's uploading and disappear after the upload is done. it helps users to know which device is slow in responding.

    2 votes

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  20. The document scan post processing for taking pictures is really good but I commonly take pictures of my notes to insert them into goodnotes using image insert because document scan creates a new page unnecessarily. Would it be possible to implement the post processing to any image after having taken the photo? Or even making it possible to insert images that get post processing using camera insert?

    Did an example of what it would look like by cropping the result from document scan below and comparing to what the camera gets.

    3 votes

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