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  1. I'd like to be able to select multiple images and upload them as templates (paper/cover) as it's a bit tedious when I want to upload many original templates, and having to upload them one by one.

    4 votes

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  2. I really love the good notes app but the experience if often frustating when I'll have to erase something. I think if there is a functionality like strike to erase it will be of lot of ease , it has to be like I scribble on the text and the text gets erased

    10 votes

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  3. With a web client, the app would be absolutely cross-platform. Windows users (often business users) would certainly benefit.

    3 votes

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  4. I suggest to add the tree view for single notebook, just like the “Microsoft OneNote”, now the GoodNotes is the best handwriting app, but it doesn’t have the tree view, I can’t organize content, please, thank you.

    10 votes

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  5. Compared with Notability, the search capability of GoodNotes is relatively poor, 1. I can't find individual letters if I'm trying to sort notes with letters, and that's not an idea. 2. It's also hard to find a word if it's near a highlighter marker or some line. 3. Goodnotes also can't search the middle part of a word, which is very limited.

    6 votes

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  6. When I have more than half of a page left but can't fit my next note, I want to add the next blank page to continue what I did on the previous page without having to re-paste the entire note onto a new page. In addition to taking notes, I also want the roping tool to move across pages, which is faster and easier than copying and pasting. This function works on notability.

    2 votes

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  7. Please add more color slots in the top menu bar. 3 is barely enough. We need more like 5 or 6 or as much as the user wants. Small details mean so much!

    38 votes

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  8. I love GoodNotes and I use it everyday. One thing that was missing though is the ability to select the text in order iOS/iPadOS to speak it, or ‘swipe down with two fingers to read the page’ feature in the iOS/iPadOS. I just imported a PDF book and I was trying to activate the speak mode of the iPadOS but I couldn’t do it. I actually thought that this implementation would have been already in GoodNotes since its very easy to use Apple’s API for speech synthesis and Apple provides good support for this.
    Text-to-speech implementation with the iOS/iPadOS voices…

    28 votes

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  9. Allow use to take a screenshot across two pages. The lasso tool only allows you to select across a single page.
    If there is something on the bottom of one page and something along the top of the next page that you want to select, you are out of luck.

    1 vote

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  10. bookmarking isn't enough and search is ok but another step. could you have feature to link one note to another

    12 votes

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  11. Please add an option to modify imported documents. It would be really helpful if we could edit documents that we import directly, for example change the text.
    Could allow you to fix typos or expand upon what someone else has written in their documents. Or be able to add more space in between the text to write your own text, take notes on the text you imported or add images between the text.
    Another example: if you import an questions sheet it would allow you to add extra space between two questions to show your working right under the question…

    3 votes

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  12. Please add the ability to set margins on both sides of handwriting paper. The auto advance works great, but since you cannot set the margin on the right side of the paper, the handwriting often goes right to the edge of the paper before the auto-return takes you to the next line.

    22 votes

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  13. Allow text to be added directly to the paper rather than using text boxes. This will create a more seamless structure of handwriting and text like Notability. A text box that shifts around the screen has its uses, but as a primary text input method, it is a disappointing experience. Where lined paper is used, the lines should also adapt to the font size and text positioning in a similar way to notability. When pictures are added to the document, the text should wrap around it. Allow text styling, alignment and bullet features that are present in most text editors.…

    25 votes

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  14. When you click the export button to export photos, PDFs, or anything else, if GoodNotes could have an icon in the Apple options menu, that would make exporting documents to GoodNotes much easier! As of right now, I have to save photos to my device, then import them to GoodNotes from the photos or files app.

    1 vote

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  15. The ability to write on the images then when I select the image again the text will move with it. Without using the lasso tool bec when I use the lasso tool if there any text behind the image or near it may be moved with the image.( simple explain add an option to the image to act as sticky notes)

    16 votes

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  16. Hello,
    Do you know while writing with Samsung pencil, it makes sound like writing on paper. I thought this feature might have to do apple updates, but recently, while using ‘Lake’ app, they added this feature that when you use brush, it will make sound like you are using it on paper. It gives overall such a nice feel.
    I do not want to use paperlike because it deteriorate screen appearance but what I do love is the sound of writing on paper. Please please add this feature. If ‘Lake’ people can do it, you too can.
    Thanks a lot.…

    27 votes

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  17. Hello! As I use GoodNotes more and more to take notes and adnotate documents, I get a large volume of folders and notebooks that are a bit difficult to navigate through.

    It would be great to be able to archive old items, so that they do not show up in the document browser and they are compressed or even stored in the cloud only, so that they do not take up additional space.

    57 votes

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  18. It would be wonderful for view only links of documents. As a teacher teaching during distance learning, I would like to post notes that I’ve written without giving the students the ability to edit it.

    4 votes

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  19. I Struggle a lot with my handwriting and while it’s still legible it’s not always astethic so I would greatly appreciate a feature in which as you write it gets converted to text as you go (you can switch this off in your settings). The most important part is to change the text font, I would love fonts made to look like still handwritten notes. I would also love to be able to change the text font and even download font that many people have put up that looks like writing. This would allow me to still maintain retention and…

    3 votes

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  20. I constantly am uploading PDFs to GoodNotes, but unless the PDF comes with OCR, then I cannot search the text within the PDF. Notability has this feature, and automatically makes all of the PDFs OCR compatible. If GoodNotes could add this feature that would be amazing, because as a student, I’m constantly uploading files and needing to search through them.

    15 votes

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