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  1. Even after updating the app I am unable to see the flash card option in the essentials template it seems to be after the ruled wide template its not there. It's not there anywhere any reason why?

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  2. Leave alone the searching feature in handwritten notes….
    But even in text notes or typed texts, it does not shows up the matches while searching many many a times….
    Even if there are lets say 8/9 matches but it only shows like 1 matches or no matches at all….
    And i have time & again confirmed this fact, it has become so irritating dats why i m requestin u guys…
    Pliz pliz look into these…. As my notes r very bulky i need hav this feature essentially

    1 vote

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  3. Bonjour,
    Est-il possible d'activer la Touch Bar sur le MacBook à fin de pouvoir du crayon à la gomme, texte ,ainsi que changer les couleurs et autres. Notability a déjà intérêt la touch bar mais je préfère good notes.
    Merci de votre retour

    2 votes

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  4. Bonjour,
    Est-il possible d'activer la Touch Bar sur le MacBook à fin de pouvoir du crayon à la gomme, texte ,ainsi que changer les couleurs et autres. Notability a déjà intérêt la touch bar mais je préfère good notes.
    Merci de votre retour

    2 votes

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  5. Bonjour,
    Est-il possible d'activer la Touch Bar sur le MacBook à fin de pouvoir du crayon à la gomme, texte ,ainsi que changer les couleurs et autres. Notability a déjà intérêt la touch bar mais je préfère good notes.
    Merci de votre retour

    2 votes

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  6. Hi, I find sometimes I could not get my files synced. When I launch the app, I sometimes have to wait for sync, which is waste of time. Especially when I use my device to modify my files, I shift to another device. It will do nothing and I really want a button or something like pull down to refresh to sync all my files manually. I think I could be useful, thanks.

    11 votes

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  7. Apple did not introduce a horizontal split view in portrait mode in iPadOS 15 and will probably not care to do so in the coming years.
    Introduce a top-bottom horizontal split view in portrait mode, so that you can show a full-width part of a text book / lecture / exercise sheet at the top and your notes on the bottom on the 12.9 inch iPad.
    Right now you need to switch between tabs. Every. Single. Time.
    This is an essential feature for every student and a must-have for GoodNotes!

    5 votes

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  8. Bring back support for 3rd party styluses! Specifically, SonarPen. According to its Kickstarter, goodnotes was in the beta stage for officially supporting it--what happened?

    2 votes

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  9. Bring back support for 3rd party styluses! Specifically, SonarPen. According to its Kickstarter, goodnotes was in the beta stage for officially supporting it--what happened?

    1 vote

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  10. I'm usually working with different formats (A4, A5, GN Standard etc.) when creating notes. It always depends on the pdf I'm currently working in, because of their different slide sizes.

    A little icon or indicator in the "add a new page" menu for each last used template (A4, A5 etc.) would make it much more comfortable selecting the right template.

    3 votes

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  11. Please add an option to remove the animation when moving through files (i.e. opening folder, opening file) to make it snappier. Sometimes I have to open a file in a whole other directory and it alway takes what feels like ages to get there.

    4 votes

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  12. I write my notes in the black template with some white writing and it's impossible to print my notes this way. Having a feature that automatically identified white text in the selected pages and also changed the template would be so helpful for the process of printing!

    4 votes

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  13. Use machine learning/AI to (optionally) record and catalog handwriting and be able to autocorrect handwritten text. Would be fantastic if it could also match sizes and styles of surrounding texts. After enough cataloging, it could even create a font with your handwriting.

    7 votes

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  14. When i am annotating lecture PDF, I read through one chapter and then want to skip to to the start to make notes into my mac. Being able to skip forward and backward to the closest bookmark would mean a word to me.
    And I am not alone, am I?

    5 votes

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  15. Please I want the feature of converting handwritten notes to text in real time because nowadays First I have to copy the text and then paste it and then erase the handwritten notes.It is a complicated process ,So please add a feature which convert handwritten notes directly into text and only showing text.
    I need this because I have to make my notes clean and it would be also easy for me to read by notes when it is written in text.

    12 votes

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  16. Each folder should save settings for Date/Name/Type and Icon/List settings... for instance, the root folder could be alphabetical list and each sub folder could be icons arranged by date (latest used), or something else

    2 votes

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  17. It would be awesome to have “snap to” guide lines on the page to paste text lined up evenly on the edge (or wherever) on the page. I like to copy inspirational quotes and Bible verses and add them to my “Notebook”…it would be great if they could be lined up easily without adding to existing text boxes so they can easily be rearranged at any time.

    5 votes

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  18. I would love a pressure sensitive ball pen! I cannot make my writing look nice in any of the pens currently offered in GoodNotes - the fountain pen is too pressure sensitive, and the ball pen has no pressure sensitivity at all.

    GoodNotes outdoes every other note taking app I have used in every respect except the pen - my notes look much, much nicer in other apps, but they do not have the functionality I need, which GoodNotes offers.

    I would be sooo grateful for this feature!

    7 votes

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  19. Love Goodnotes! I am Frequently in multiple notebooks in folders when I need to make a new note. Now I have to back out of the notebook and folder to get to the Home Page to get to the New Note button. Having the ability to add a new note while in an existing notebook would be great.

    Thanks

    2 votes

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  20. Text would be able to reshape it's boundaries to allow photos and other objects to remain in place.

    2 votes

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