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  1. In other apps when you scroll at speed, and then contact the trackpad with your fingers, the scrolling stops immediately. However, in GoodNotes, scrolling does not stop even when fingers contact the trackpad.

    Having a scrolling behavior that stops exactly when you want it to makes it much easier to quickly see a page as you scroll so that you know whether you’re on the right page yet, and also allows you to quickly scroll a single page down with a flick of the fingers, and then stop it immediately. It may not seem like much in writing, but it…

    2 votes

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  2. when clicking on text, the keyboard automatically pops up and covers half the screen which makes it really hard to navigate or choose fonts and sizes etc. because the windows are super small. When deactivating the keyboard, the text edition mode also deactivates. It would be great if the keyboard could be deactivated while still in text editing mode. :)

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  4. I would love the ability to have shared notebooks between users, in a "read only" or "read and write" capacity such as the sharing available on the native "notes" app for iOS and MacOS. This way we could share class/work notes with our colleagues in live time.

    2 votes

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  5. I have downloaded and imported a PDF which has a structure which is visible in goodnotes and makes it easier to navigate. However, when I check the PDF which is automatically synced to my Dropbox, it does not have the structure which is unfortunate as I see no reason for it to be omitted when you're already able to successfully import it.

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  6. It would be so awsome for the autobackup feature to have an option to backup all docs to pdf but without the background template. i know it can be tricky if you wrote on a black template with white ink, but for all people using templates just as a guide to keep sentences straight and a yellowish paper colour to avoid eye strain it would be the best feature ever

    2 votes

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  7. Option to keep adding new pages to a file when we get current page half written, like instead of being always swiping up or manually adding a new page when we need it is a waste of time, with a simple option you could auto add new pages as getting to the bottom of the current page

    2 votes

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  8. The tool bar is where most magic starts, so it should be something really simple, easy access and unintrusive but yours has too many items and takes valuable space from the screen, mainly if we are landscape. Could use the top bar wheres the document title to integrate the toolbar there and the title of the document would be somewhere else, again, notability does this perfectly
    And also plz, let us move the tool bar to the bottom without moving the entire top bar with it

    2 votes

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  9. In imported PDF drawings generated in autoCAD standard SHX type text is surrounded by a thick black frame, destroying the appearance of the drawing.
    This does not happen in acrobat for iOS.

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  10. I believe that you all should do an X-ray feature like kindle does that allows you to view only the highlighted portions of your document. This will allow a more condensed view of the things that you deemed most important in the document. This would be so helpful with students as it would allow them a much quicker way to create summary sheets of lectures by distilling only the things that they highlighted ie. what they found most important.

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  11. When moving things around using the lasso tool in large documents I often experience that some text just randomly disappears. Sometimes it can be entire pages and it is very frustrating as a student when you just finished a page of an assignment and suddenly it is gone. If I restart the document then the text is back. Also I experience a lot of lagging when in a large document. I think these two things have to be fixed because I find GoodNotes the best note taking app on the market except for this rather disturbing error.

    2 votes

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  12. Extremely useful for slowly displaying the contents during a technical lecture

    Select a region. Add option to hide content (In addition to Screenshot). Replace that region with a small square with a number (for sequencing). Tapping the squre again makes content visible.

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  13. If you Click on such an „Dot“ a smal Page will pop up an you can write notes or definitions.

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  14. Change or make some minor changes on the PDF text

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  15. Select the entire note (all of his pages) for resizing, restiling, etc...

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  16. 2 votes

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  17. First of all, i'm not good at English.

    When I enlarge my handwriting, it also get bolder.
    I want to make it only bigger, not bolder.

    My suggestion is to change the boldness? of my handwriting (like notability)

    2 votes

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  18. "Add images from Dropbox, iCloud, etc. "
    This theme is explained to be solved yet.
    Why is there no reaction on my IPad Pro, when choosing "insert from" ?
    Nothing happens...

    2 votes

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  19. Add option to create a sinusoid or other figures and mathematical expressions

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  20. Recently I was grading PDF exams in Goodnotes. I grade a lot better if I grade everyone's Problem 1, then go back and grade everyone's Problem 2, and so on.

    Once I have all 50+ of my students' exams open, the tabbed file system makes it very easy to switch between files. (THANK YOU for allowing me to have 50+ tabs open at once!) But on the first pass I have to open the files one by one. Is there a way to open all files in a folder (in separate tabs)?

    2 votes

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