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  1. Deep links are a game-changing feature of apps like Craft. They allow me to save a link in the form appname://open?fileID=xxxxxx which is fantastic for archiving, planning, references, and other workflows. I don’t want to use shareable links for this purpose because it’s less efficient.

    I hope the suggestion is useful!

    -Ben

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  2. Insert Stickers in the center of the current view. Currently it’s centered on your current page, so you always have to zoom out, lasso it, pull it to your view area and then zoom in to improve the alignment.

    4 votes

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  3. Right now the toolbar is placed at the top or at the bottom. But while working and taking notes, it requires to change the tool from highlighter to pen or vice-versa many a time. And on IPAD PRO 12.9 Inch the reach is not easy to change the tool. So if the toolbar is placed vertically on both the side then it can reduce the efforts of user. Thank you for hearing out! Stay safe :)

    4 votes

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  4. It would be cool if I could search for a drawing in GoodNotes (example shown in the attached image). Currently, GoodNotes' search bar only accepts a text input, since GoodNotes uses Optical Content Recognition (OCR). The search feature would be even more powerful if I could also draw something in the search field, and find matching/similar occurrences of that drawing.

    In addition to helping me search for diagrams, this would also help with searching for handwritten text that wasn't accurately converted using OCR.

    Thank you for taking the time to review this! :)

    4 votes

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  5. 笔记定义的时候只能够基于单种语言进行OCR,在iOS 15发布后留意到Live Text可以实现多语种同时OCR识别,是否有可能调用API实现多语种同时OCR,尤其是对于学科笔记而言,以中文为主体记录,但很难避免会部分出现数字或英文单词,这个时候会识别不到。

    4 votes

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  6. Making flashcards takes time.
    We could save a lot of time by just flipping the pages with notes.
    By doing so we could use our notes as answers and we only need to come up with some questions for that specific slide.

    4 votes

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  7. go to the page in which undo/redo changes are made
    when undo/redo

    sometimes, hard to track where (what page) undo/redo changes are made... don’t want to mistakenly undo actions made at different pages

    4 votes

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  8. A feature where you can filter Outline topics for example if I created an Outline and called it "Javascript Variables" and pages 2-6 are related to "Javascript Variables" I'd like to filter by that topic only.

    4 votes

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  9. Other than just the lasso tool to select pieces of a Goodnotes document, I’d like to see a “smart select” option that would let you highlight written or typed text (like LiquidText can do for PDFs), so that you can move and edit the properties of the selected handwritten text. This would also help avoid erroneous selection of text and/or objects with the lasso tool and make the application more user-friendly.

    4 votes

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  10. Add share and speak options in the selection text

    4 votes

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  11. Since i only have limited size of icloud but i still want to sync just in case to use the collaborative function, i don’t want my entire GoodNotes files to by on my icloud and interfere the collaboration because the icloud is full.

    4 votes

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  12. I saw a couple suggestions to add a zoom lock (hey, palm rejection isn't perfect) and wanted to add an extra suggestion (for touch devices such as iPad). Add a button for locking zoom/horizontal scrolling and change the single-finger double tap from smart zoom to another tool, such as eraser, when the zoom is locked.

    So with the zoom unlocked, double tap would work as smart zoom, just as it currently does. With zoom locked, the double tap could switch tools instead of having to click on the toolbar every time. Could be a massive time saver in the long…

    4 votes

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  13. have a widget for the apple watch. this way, I can always have my planner with me.

    4 votes

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  14. A highlighter option that changes the colour of your notes by just highlighting the text instead of using the colour option on the lasso tool.

    Would be very helpful as I no longer use the normal highlighter because it looks ugly.

    4 votes

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  15. Please make it so that we can multi-select any file when importing. I am trying to use the new collections button to start my own sticker book that can be accessed on any page or notebook but it will not let me select multiple png images from my Files! It also won’t let me upload whole folders with the png images in them. I have to instead save them all to my camera roll and then uplosd them there!

    4 votes

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  16. Currently the actions that can be performed on a selection show up as a horizontal list, which means that they are very spread out and require relatively large movements to reach (for instance "delete" is to the far right).

    I propose replacing it with a wheel-like menu, where the actions are indicated by icons rather than spelled out, like in the attached drawing. This would make all actions easily accessible without moving the pen very far.

    4 votes

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  17. View Folder/location under document in favorites view for easier identification of favorites.

    4 votes

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  18. Using Goodnotes 5 for iPad Pro 2020, I have noticed that the application drains significant battery, especially in the background even though I am certain I have Background App Refresh turned off.
    The competition, which is Notability, drains less battery. As well as this, Goodnotes 5 heats up my iPad quite a bit. I really love Goodnotes as opposed to any other application but please fix this battery drain issue.

    4 votes

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  19. Love the app. I use it to teach computer science and mathematics subjects to college students in online mode. For the math course, at present I start with an empty white background and write on it. I was wondering if it would be possible, using your app, to recreate the experience of teaching on a blackboard by simulating the sound that the chalk makes on the blackboard, so that when I write on a black background template (with white color pen), if I enabled this option, then the students will hear a sound whenever my apple pencil is writing on…

    4 votes

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  20. Currently flashcards aren't full screen so the answers look very tiny

    Also please add the ability to move the line dividing the Question and Answers up and down cause some answers are too big to fit in that small space

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