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  1. Please add function to use other different services instead only iCloud -
    Onedrive - Google Drive - Drop box
    I think it could be a super plus for this already special app!!!

    4 votes

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  2. I tend to prefer to take notes using the dark background with white ink but this makes it so that if for some reason i need to print my notes, I need to go through by hand and change all the white text to black or some other color before i can export it as a pdf. Does there is any thing which might help in this process ? If not Can you introduce any feature like colour swap feature which is in OneNote or invert colour? In future updates...

    4 votes

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  3. Please add an option to put the highlighter under the writing instead of over it, to make and keep it more colourful. Currently, the highlighter makes the writing black looking.

    4 votes

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  4. Currently, the shape tools in GoodNotes 5 is supported to “draw into shapes”. However, it will be easier to draw some complex shapes (especially coordinate system) by the shape function (with built-in shapes) in OneNote, which is shown in the video in the attachment. This function can also help users to draw shapes more precisely.

    4 votes

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  5. Hi, Can you please put the option to remove auto-smoothening of my handwriting? Because when I write quickly it makes my handwriting more me

    4 votes

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  6. Please provide a paper size that exactly matches the viewing area assuming that the toolbar is not hidden.

    As it is, we always have to waste some screen real estate on margins (why?) and deal with zooming (why?). My notes will never be printed, so I don't need them to be on "A4 paper", I need them to be sized to my screen, which is where they live.

    4 votes

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  7. I found a nice pen in the procreate which is much more comfortable during writing words in Chinese and English.

    4 votes

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  8. It would be nice to be able to edit the text inside a square that the colour has been filled in. What happens now is if you edit the text it removed the filled-in colour and you can't refill in the colour.

    4 votes

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  9. When I draw a rectangle with the shape tool, I am not able to adjust the width afterwards without changing the height and thickness of the line in the same proportion.

    4 votes

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  10. I use templates (normally graph paper or ruled pages) when I am writing & drawing — but don't want them when I am reading. I would dearly love to have a button so that with a single gesture I can toggle my page background between the currently-chosen template and "blank".

    I can imagine two ways to do this. Either have the button control a journal-wide setting (so I can go into "reading mode" and get rid of all templates temporarily), or have the setting be preserved (so that after I complete a page I can hide the template with a single…

    4 votes

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  11. 3 features I would to see in future updates are:
    1. Simply select handwritten text by simple doing a drawing a circle around it with the pencil instead of having to go all the way to the circle icon.
    2. Erase text by simple scratching it back and forth
    3. In order to have our palm staying all the time on the screen the page should be movable all the way up. This would help when you arrive at the bottom of a page (without use of the magnifier) to keep your palm on the iPad and not having on…

    4 votes

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  12. The "Enter" and "Tab" buttons in the zoom window are the most important controls. As such, they are placed on the right side of the zoom window, in order to make them readily-accessible for right-handed writers. However, for left-handed users such as myself, the infrequently-used "indent" buttons are more prominently located.

    Since you know the handedness of users via the "Writing Posture" setting, perhaps that setting would automatically swap the positions of these buttons in the zoom window. Thank you.

    4 votes

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  13. I would like to see the a detailed adjustment setting for the margins in the zoom window similar to Goodnotes 4. It would also help if the margin adjustments are persistent across documents or templates. Having to reset it every time the file is opened is frustrating.

    4 votes

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  14. Text boxes often disappear randomly when clicking them on the iPad. Please fix this, it's time-consuming and annoying.

    4 votes

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  15. When recording a video I would like to be able to pause the recording and then unpause. It is hard to video record all my notes in one go.

    4 votes

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  16. A lot of users of Goodnotes are students in which they use this for studying and reviewing. I suggest that instead of 3 colors of highlighters being readily showed, how about increase them to 5. So that we don’t have to change it from time to time. And sorry but a lot of people uses at least 5 highlighter colors when studying

    4 votes

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  17. Add a toggle that just the start and end points of a line get connected
    Without it, lines often get crooked

    4 votes

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  18. Please make the zoom out feature for import pdf, It’s really bother me to read, I like all the features about GN, but no zoom out makes me use notability right now, cause I couldn’t read when the font size too big.....

    4 votes

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  19. The image tool has a long drag copy built in, I wish the lasso had that as well, I draw a lot of graphs and using the iOS Paste shortcut is hard, having the lasso work the same way as the image would be perfect

    4 votes

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  20. I like a lot the Mac app on the Catalina, but I have an older Mac that runs on High Sierra, and it can't install the app, just like me, I think more people could use the app if it's were made available for older Macs, since is something that you keep for 10 years easily.

    4 votes

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