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  1. Text box positions and fonts should be aligned such that the multi-line typed text will be aligned with the current template's horizontal bars. This alignment should be the default initial behavior whenever a new text box is created.

    70 votes

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  2. I love this new feature added to GoodNotes 5. It can become better by:
    1. Syncing the page with the audio, which is by showing the number of the current page in which the recording is being played.
    2. Adding the ability to Rename the Audio Files.
    3. Adding the ability to export the Audio Files.
    4. Recording pixel by pixel which results in smoother writing when recording is replayed.

    69 votes

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  3. I used good notes for many different things, college note taking, filling in pdf documents, bullet journal. Please add an option to save more than one default text.
    The font i use for note taking sometimes is too small for the font required to fill in documents. And my bujo is dark themed so the font needs to be white. It gets tedious having to change it everytime i open a text box depending on the document i am working on

    69 votes

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  4. There are so many duplicate ideas for hyperlinks the votes are not adding up so I'm submitting another one, hoping you will read this and combine to see the impact on the product requests!!

    PLEASE ENABLE COPY PAST OF A HYPERLINK . I want to have a notebook where I copy paste hyperlinks form a website and I can then come back to my notebook and click the link to launch the website! Please Please Please!! This is such a critical feature if your trying to work in a single note app!

    69 votes

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  5. Even after hiding the status bar, GoodNotes still consumes screen real estate. Let's add an option to hide the navigation bar with the gallery and search and share button. It's not very useful most of the time while working on one document.

    Likewise, hiding the editing toolbar gains space but then editing is turned off. The toolbar could simply fold itself into one button in the top right corner so that the user can focus on the document and the text they are writing and get it back when they need it by tapping the screen or using a touch…

    69 votes

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  6. Labeled ruler [pixels,cm,inches], Drafting Compass, Rotation without scaling , Scaling without rotation, Degree of rotation, Different types of dotted lines, line connector, intersection, LaTeX equation insertion.

    Or at the very least, some of those... We engineers, physicists and mathematicians need it so bad...

    69 votes

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  7. When using Apple Pencil, a terrific combination with GoodNotes and the iPad Pro, there is no difference between the Ball Pen style and the Fountain Pen style. As a result, the beautiful look of handwritten ink with the Fountain Pen style is unavailable, a severe tradeoff for the added precision of the Apple Pencil. Please enable the Fountain Pen style with Apple Pencil. Thanks!

    69 votes

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  8. Please allow for an opt-in to have the notebooks encrypted especially when clouded. This allows for more work related notes to follow good business conduct and will encourage more business support and adoption of your product.

    68 votes

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  9. It would be great if GoodNotes would support screen mirroring for googles chromecast.

    68 votes

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  10. Often, I want to rotate an object but want to it stay the same size. It would be nice to lock the size when rotating. A similar function to lock rotation when resizing would also be very nice.

    67 votes

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  11. Offer more flexibility to change what you've written afterwards. For example the stroke width should be adjustable after writing and you should be able to pick from your favourite colors instead of only having the option to choose from the whole matrix.

    67 votes

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  12. Need a toolkit for ruler, protractor, compass. This is so we can illustrate scaled diagrams.

    66 votes

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  13. I downloaded Goodnotes 5 because it promised I could rotate a selection. However every time I rotate the selection is changes the scale of it. Is there any way of separating these two functions. Or when you rotate that your able to lock the scale so it doesn't change?

    66 votes

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  14. I would like to be able to export a range of pages within a notebook to PDF as handwritten notes. Currently the options are 'whole notebook' and 'current page'.

    66 votes

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  15. I love the pen tool in Goodnotes! But I want more custom pens to chose from on the fly. Currently, only the zoom window gives me the choice of three colors. Why can't we have this in the main toolbar at the top? Also, I'd like to set different thicknesses for my customs pens so I can switch between a fine blue pen and a thick red pen with one tap. This would speed up my grading a lot! Thanks!

    66 votes

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  16. You can add a ruler feature, were you can draw straight lines and see the angle. There could be a centimeter display, which shows how long this line would be in ,,real“ life.

    65 votes

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  17. Hebrew support. Writing from right to left. Sliding from right to left. It would be so helpful to all of the Hebrew speaking student out there

    65 votes

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  18. Please enable search for exact phrase within quotation marks. Right now the engine searches for words separately. When the search phrase contains some common words like “the”, “of”, “a” etc. a pile of irrelevant search results would come out.

    65 votes

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  19. I’d like to be able to enter math equations in text with special characters like in Microsoft word. With special characters and symbols. I use good notes for engineering.If you look a word, it has equation, and symbols, subscripts and super scripts. That would be great.

    65 votes

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  20. I love the new audio recording feature but find a few issues with it and potential improvements.
    1. Once you’ve recorded, to play a recording it plays the first ever recording and you need to find the spot for your latest one. I think it would be more logical to automatically play the latest recording, especially for people with large notebooks who don’t want to skip through hundreds of previous audio recordings.
    2. Be able to rename audio recordings or have GoodNotes use AI to rename the audio recordings (name it the title of the page, or do like voice…

    64 votes

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