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  1. When you upload a word document have the original text be editable.

    19 votes

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  2. Instead of the current process: Lasso --> Take Screenshot --> Share Menu --> Copy
    Suggestion: Lasso --> Press and hold to lift (screenshot) and drag to desired location

    12 votes

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  3. 2 votes

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  4. I would love an option for more smooth and streamlined handwriting like in procreate. I use GoodNotes mainly for handwriting and sometimes writing on an iPad can get a little wobbly

    47 votes

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  5. Please ad when i'm writting with the Keyboard, that the text on the end of the page switch automatacly to the new page and you can write a long text without put a new start point on the new page.
    Now i writting over the end of the Page and the text isn't on the paper

    5 votes

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  6. Right now, there is only "free-form" select.

    It would be convenient to have a "box-select" option that selected everything in the window. Similar to a cropping tool.

    <3

    8 votes

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  7. A Pen/Pencil Drawing Mode , where it "mirrors" everything you draw along the "x" or "y" axis.

    This would allow for drawing custom symmetrical shapes much faster and easier.

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    6 votes

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  8. I noticed someone that showed me the app, it had symbols to drag and drop (circles, squares, etc) can we not have these on the Mac app (it's what I have)
    I need these to draw cameras, TVs speakers on drawings

    Thanks!
    Nick

    2 votes

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  9. The multitasking slide over from the left in Notability is super slick. Goodnotes NEEDS this... It's quick, clean, and super smooth.

    3 votes

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  10. I always work with several tabs at the same time. A new document appears at the last position on the right site. Before the split screen option - which is really great - it was easy to move a tab. With the split screen option it is difficult to move tabs without opening them in a separate window.
    At the same time it would be great if there would be something like a back to option in the folder view which allows to go back to the tabs without opening a document. Thanks!

    4 votes

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  11. Feature to denote a particular "to do" which will automatically sync with apple reminders across devices. This way, it rounds up all of the "to do" tasks in one spot and brings to your phone/other devices

    7 votes

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  12. Sometimes, I take notes that relate to documents. Currently, I can import those documents within the notebook but that often makes notebooks unnecessarily large and it's not easy to navigate through so many pages.

    Instead, it would be nice to be able to attach files to notebooks, so that they are at hand when reviewing the notes.

    7 votes

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  13. I can’t paste anything in a new file (new planner made from scratch in PowerPoint with pages link)
    Need help

    2 votes

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  14. I am studying electrical engineering and i have to draw a lot of shapes and i struggle with the drawing of rectangles and lines a lot because they never seem to align where i want them to be. Often rectangles are made into circles because i drew them to quick and so on. I wish there was a feature like OneNote where i can just drag a rectangle into the note and resize it. Arrows at the end of then line seems to work randomly and not graduated.

    Because of all of this I am constantly looking for other note…

    19 votes

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  15. On Goodnotes Macbook, I believe that when I want to delete markings in an area, I would use the select function, and circle the area which selects the markings I want to edit and by pressing "delete" on my keyboard. But somehow that doesn't work with goodnotes, and apparently I could only switch to the eraser function. (Somehow the "delete function after double-tap is also greyed out, along with all the other functions including making screenshot, changing colour etc, not sure if its a glitch specifically regarding the macbook version of goodnotes, or is it something im simply not doing…

    2 votes

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  16. Drawing shapes such as boxes or ovals around handwritings for highlighting certain words or phrases causes inaccurate handwritings recognition in GN5. The reason seems to be that GN5 treats shapes drawn by the shape tools just like regular handwritings made by the pen tool, unlike Notability.

    The only workaround seems to be only using the highlighter tool for emphasizing certain text since GN5 doesn't consider highlighters as text to be recognized, but the highlighter tool doesn't offer precise thickness control unlike the pen tool.

    Notability seems to treat both the highlighter and the shapes differently to the handwriting made by…

    55 votes

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  17. When I import goodnotes format to Goodnotes5, it shows an error message "OZZipException" or "GoodNotes4Converter.DocumentReader.ReaderError".

    This happened recently from Jan.23 2020. Before that, importing function worked ok (same document worked normal before but showed error recently)!

    12 votes

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  18. I would like to see a possibility to delete a notebook locally and only save it in the Cloud like it is done in Apple‘s books app. This would be helpful if you have a relatively small device storage and many large documents you don‘t need all the time. You could just download them if you need them to look something up.

    9 votes

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  19. Hi,

    laser pointer is great tool when i want to use my ipad to demonstrate something in real life to someone that can see ipad screen.

    During video conferences, i used to mirror my ipad screen onto my laptop and use laser pointer for online demonstrations.

    I've bought macOS app, hoping that i could do that directly in the app on my laptop rather then mirroring my ipad, only to discover that laser pointer feature is not available on laptops.

    Please add laser pointer feature for macOS app.. otherwise i wasted money paying for the separate app for my laptop.

    5 votes

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  20. It seems that GoodNotes 5 treats shapes drawn by using the shape tools just like regular handwritings made by the pen tools, but this becomes a problem when it comes to handwriting recognition/search.

    When I draw shapes such as boxes or ovals over handwritings for highlighting certain words or phrases, handwritings are not recognized well.

    The only workaround seems to be using the highlighter tools since GN5 doesn't consider highlighters as text to be recognized but highlighter tools don't offer precise thickness control unlike the pen tools.

    Notability seems to treat both the highlighter and the shapes differently to handwriting…

    2 votes

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