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  1. 4 votes

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  2. Drawing on PDF files is great and I use Goodnotes all the time to move files from my Box account to the iPad and back. I would really like to be able to do the same thing for PNG files - to be able to annotate pictures with Goodnotes to/from my Box account. Most of the iPad apps that work with pictures only have access to Photos, and not to Box (and other cloud storage).

    4 votes

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  3. Have a button to be able to turn on and off the two finger tap/double tap to under writing. Keep loosing a lot of written notes with this feature on

    4 votes

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  4. As a user, I’d like to be able to delete a page I’m on without having to back out to the thumbnails view.

    While “clear page” is useful, “delete page” would remove the annoyance of having to back out as I’m deciding page by page which to keep.

    An alternative would be allowing zoom in the thumbnails view so I can better see what’s on the page.

    4 votes

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  5. Hard to explain...
    I use alot of screenshots, from textbooks and quizzes for studying..
    When i need to add those screenshots to a page, i lose track of which image ive already added when the thumbnails are all the same.

    Think of a way to keep an eye on recently used images..
    Maybe a check mark or weird highlight if the image is already used in the document.

    I really dont know, but being able to see which screenshot i just used in a pile of 25 nearly identical shots is rough.

    4 votes

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  6. It’s absolutely natural to scroll. For a continuous and lengthy content, like an article or a tutorial note or a book, scrolling provides even better usability than slicing up the text to several separate screens or pages.

    4 votes

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  7. Some people may not have an Apple Pencil but instead have third party Styluses. GoodNotes would make an excellent app if you can add third party Styluses like Wacom, Bamboo or Adonit.

    4 votes

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  8. Instead of having the Goodnotes default tool palette, it'd be good if the new iPadOS Tool Palette was introduced (when it comes out of course) on devices that support the system.

    4 votes

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  9. Ability to add comments. For example I often use GoodNotes to take notes during meetings. Near the top I write the initials of the people attending the meeting - writing their full names would take up too much space. Sometimes there are multiple people with the same initials or I forget people’s full names if I don’t know them well.

    I could add notes to each person’s initials and tap on them later to see the person’s full name.

    Another option would be to allow a collapsible writing area.

    Either that or

    4 votes

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  10. Hi, I already like very much GoodNotes as it is ! But here would be a really nice improvement : i would love to study several PDFs inside goodnotes. For this I would like to have on a half of the screen my pdf article I want to study, and on the other side a sheet of manuscript notes. On those notes, I want sometimes to just copy paste a theorem or a formula of the article (I am a mathematician). So it would be really great to be able to have :
    1) split screen option
    2) copy paste…

    4 votes

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  11. I have my subjects divided in folders and more so than often I would have one file open and will want to import another one to the same folder and have it open automatically. The current available options are to either add before or after the current page, or to browse the whole library to get into the folder. Sometimes I have a folder inside another folder, this as you can imagine isn’t the best possible way. So can you please an option to import to the same folder as a separate file and open automatically?
    Thank you.

    4 votes

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  12. In Goodnotes4 I could use my stylus Wacom, but in Goodnotes5 only can only be selected apple pen.

    4 votes

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  13. Support EPS/PS picture import into notes would be helpful to make a print-ready notes.

    4 votes

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  14. The toolbox now has a set number of options, it would be useful for everyone if there is an option to edit the items in toolbox, so it can be customized to each individual use. For me I never use zoom or camera or text options, but I would like to have some extra pen colors.

    4 votes

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  15. I like to convert hand written notes to text for transfer to Word etc. having to deal with the carriage returns your converter puts in is a pain. It would be much better if the conversion just used word-wrap and let us deal the the txt box shape.

    4 votes

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  16. There is a problem with the shape tool, very often I have to repeat the action, because of missing couloring of the area I marked. It would be very nice, if it would be possible to coulor an area after marking it with the pencil.

    4 votes

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  17. I can't import pictures(JPG files) from Dropbox unlike Goonotes4. Could you improve it? Thanks.

    4 votes

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  18. Please implement a way to export notes to Powerpoint. Shapes should be converted to Powerpoint shapes, hand-written text should be converted to typed text.

    4 votes

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  19. Could you fix the copy and paste issue?
    When I use the rubber band tool
    to convert handwriting into text and
    try to copy to another app there
    are un-wanted line breaks. It's impossible
    to get rid of them too.
    I would love to be able to
    copy right into my other word editor that
    my employer requires I send the final draft
    in.

    4 votes

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  20. It would be nice if I could not only draw perfect circles and other shapes but also draw perfect semicircles and quadrants. That would make a lot of things sooo much easier!

    4 votes

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