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  1. Sorry, i really think that good notes was the best app overall to writing and using as notebook, but there's so much more user friendly features in notability that i cant live without.. and i used both apps arround the same time. Ill say the features you could had to make this app simply perfect:
    — the lack of a dark theme unless we get system wide dark mode is a bummer as i find your dark theme pretty good but i hate to use ios in dark mode
    — the tool bar has too many items and takes valuable…

    7 votes

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  2. On the Mac, make the app remember the last window size. It always open too small on a 1920x1080 screen.

    7 votes

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  3. I usually write notes using the zoomed window at the top of the iPad because I consider more comfortable to rest my wrist on the glass than on the border of the tablet. Due to this position, I often tap the color/thickness/undo/redo/new page controls with my wrist. Could it be possible to have both the zoom window and the toolbar at the top or maybe near the zoom window’s one, or to have a touch rejection feature that disables the toolbar when the Pencil or the wrist are touching the screen?

    7 votes

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  4. I wish to be able to choose which documents to share to devices, and which to leave in the clouds. I want my planner on my phone and iPad, but I don’t need my notes from work on my iPad.

    7 votes

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  5. My intended primary use for Goodnotes is to markup PDFs. These PDFs are already organised in Google Drive, and I would like to edit these files directly (rather than having the edited versions saved elsewhere).

    7 votes

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  6. Add a filter to show only pages with annotations in the document.
    That way we could only export pages with annotations .

    7 votes

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  7. I want to be able to add shortcuts to certain notebooks so I can get to them faster. I know I can use stars but then they are all in the same location. I want to add shortcuts in different folders.

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  8. Add a keyboard shortcuts to change the pen size.
    Consider "Cmd -" and "Cmd =" as done in many apps for text size

    7 votes

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  9. When pinching the page to zoom out, lasso selection is removed.
    I want to be able to zoom out in lasso mode while keeping the selection. This is actually possible if I first select resize. Then I can zoom out and keep the selection. Pls allow the same in lasso.

    7 votes

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  10. Unlike MacOS Preview GoodNotes for MacOS (version 5.4.14) does not seem to support navigation using PageUp and PageDown Buttons (on Macintosh extended Keyboards like with an iMac Pro). It would be good if GoodNotes for MacOS had a more intuitive navigation which would render it more seamless to migrate from Preview to GoodNotes. Thx.

    7 votes

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  11. I would like to be able to mark a page or notebook for review and then be able to set a reminder notification.

    7 votes

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  12. Low data usage mode for Automatic Backups on external cloud providers (Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive...). Sometimes these servers don't allow constant updates and may cause problems on the already existing backups. Low data usage mode, when enabled, will only summit changes to those servers every day (for example). This will reduce cellular data and battery usage, as well as problems with service providers

    As my screenshot shows, my Student Onedrive provided by my University cannot handle constant updates from GoodNotes 5, so my backups keep stuck with that error message.

    Not sure if every one experience this errors (i tested…

    7 votes

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  13. My idea goes about the Date-Name option that we have to organize Folders and Docs. In my case it’s useful to organize my folders in Name mode, but inside my folders I usually create documents with Dates as their name. I wonder if you can develop the possibility to order like folders with one option (ie Name) and inside the folder order docs by date. Thanks and I’m enjoying GoodNotes 5 very much.

    7 votes

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  14. It doesn't always let me switch color when typing. If I switch to a different color in text mode, it always switches back to the previous color I used. Please fix this!!!

    7 votes

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  15. It would be great to be able to slide over from the left of my iPad and see the folder navigation, to easy open another notebook. OneNote does this very well. candidly their folder structure is the one inferior part of onenote and gives me daily anxiety about using GoodNotes - which I love otherwise.

    7 votes

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  16. Need Auto deselect feature in Shape tool...
    It is really helpful for switching between pen and shape seamlessly....

    7 votes

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  17. When importing pages from an external PDF it would be great to adjust the page width so that unnecessary zooming can be avoided (and scrolling through a file is made easier). See problem also in the attached picture.

    Thanks for your work!

    7 votes

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  18. Okay so they did hierarchy but its kind of a pain to navigate. If you have many folders and are in one of the deeper folders you must keep pressing the back button until you get to your desired document. There should be a menu button (for instance near the Bookmarks button) that could be accessed to easily get from one document to another.

    7 votes

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  19. Red sheet is unique to Japanese vocabulary books. As you know from the video, if you can use this sheet, it is definitely way easier to memorize various things such as vocabulary.

    7 votes

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  20. As there are different color palettes for the pens and the highlighter, it would be great if the colors displayed when selecting „change color“ over the context menu would adapt to the currently used tool.
    Currently it always displays the color palette from the pens.

    7 votes

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