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  1. Need favourites form pencil, highlighter, and text

    Need favourites form for pencil, highlighter and text.
    I usually use Good note 5 for Studying, and I feel it is not comfortable to using.
    If you make a form that I can set up my favourites pencil especially a typeof pencil and colour and what ever, It would be very useful for people. Also the Text function has problem. when i want to change the font, it is very inconvenience. Because you even didn't have "recently use".
    I really like Good note5. But some functions are really improved.

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  2. archive

    Create an Archive for older notebooks so that homepage is cleaner

    7 votes
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  3. New to ipad, had to test GoodNotes5 against Notability

    Sorry, i really think that good notes was the best app overall to writing and using as notebook, but there's so much more user friendly features in notability that i cant live without.. and i used both apps arround the same time. Ill say the features you could had to make this app simply perfect:
    — the lack of a dark theme unless we get system wide dark mode is a bummer as i find your dark theme pretty good but i hate to use ios in dark mode
    — the tool bar has too many items and takes valuable…

    7 votes
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  4. Mac Remember Window Size

    On the Mac, make the app remember the last window size. It always open too small on a 1920x1080 screen.

    7 votes
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  5. Toolbar palm rejection/change position

    I usually write notes using the zoomed window at the top of the iPad because I consider more comfortable to rest my wrist on the glass than on the border of the tablet. Due to this position, I often tap the color/thickness/undo/redo/new page controls with my wrist. Could it be possible to have both the zoom window and the toolbar at the top or maybe near the zoom window’s one, or to have a touch rejection feature that disables the toolbar when the Pencil or the wrist are touching the screen?

    7 votes
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  6. Inserting multiple photos as new pages at a single instance.

    When I am inserting photos as a new page, I can only insert one photo at a time and could not insert more than one at a single instance.

    It saves lot of time for the users in case they want to insert screenshots of lessons they are going through online.

    7 votes
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  7. Choose documents for device or cloud

    I wish to be able to choose which documents to share to devices, and which to leave in the clouds. I want my planner on my phone and iPad, but I don’t need my notes from work on my iPad.

    7 votes
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  8. Sync with Google Drive (not Auto-backup)

    My intended primary use for Goodnotes is to markup PDFs. These PDFs are already organised in Google Drive, and I would like to edit these files directly (rather than having the edited versions saved elsewhere).

    7 votes
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  9. google slides and google docs compatibility

    In all other versions of Goodnotes I could import a google doc or google slide directly. Please bring this back. Almost all teachers need this functionality and it will turn us away from the app. I am really disappointed that after updating the app version this functionality has been lost.

    7 votes
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  10. Improve freehand cropping (Tetris like shapes)

    I tend to paste images of text or diagrams onto my notes and I find myself using freehand cropping more often. I was wondering if there was a way to make my freehand lines straight? The best way I can describe it is I want my cropped images to look like a Tetris piece instead of a sloppy cropping. I can’t draw in a straight line and I would love for my freehand cropped images had clean lines.

    7 votes
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  11. filter

    Add a filter to show only pages with annotations in the document.
    That way we could only export pages with annotations .

    7 votes
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  12. 增加绘图预设、页码导航、文本输入格式设置、个性化编辑模版功能

    使用GoodNotes记笔记半年多，其书写的流畅度是出类拔萃的，只是还有些许功能需要改进，在此提出我的建议，希望开发者可以认真考虑：
    1、绘图功能有待完善。GoodNotes采用手写识别的绘图方式，这种方式绘图确实较为自由，但是失之精确。我在画一些物理示意图时经常涉及到圆、矩形、坐标系等图像，用手写识别的方式绘制相当费劲，建议增加一些相关图像的预设，可以直接拖入图像调整参数，方便精确绘制。（可以参考微软Office系列插入图像的操作逻辑）
    2、目录导航功能有待完善。现在的Goodnotes目录没有页码输入的功能，想找几百页的东西只能老老实实往后划，较为费力，建议增加页码跳转的功能。
    3、文本输入格式有待完善。文本输入时只能设置一些基本格式，另一些对排版具有较大影响的格式如字间距、行间距等并没有办法设置。建议增加文本框的设置内容已满足基本的排版需要。
    4、模板预设有待完善。Goodnotes提供了相当丰富的背景模版，很大程度上满足了我的需要，但是我想要使用一些个性化的背景模版时需要自己进行绘制，这有一定的技术门槛。建议增加“智能模版”，即可以在现有模版的基础上进行个性化的设置，比如改变格线的数量、间距、分栏等等，方便用户自行设计合适的模板。

    7 votes
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  13. Please be able to keep all file in your own cloud, don’t need to keep in internal storage

    It must be great if you have your own cloud and I can keep all of my file in that and pay monthly or for free at any storage. Don’t need to keep in internal storage!! It will help someone who have less internal storage like me!!!

    7 votes
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  14. Notebooks shortcuts

    I want to be able to add shortcuts to certain notebooks so I can get to them faster. I know I can use stars but then they are all in the same location. I want to add shortcuts in different folders.

    7 votes
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  15. lag

    I am using GoodNotes 5 for PDF annotation.
    I am experiencing some lag or dropped frames when scrolling. GoodNotes 4 had a smoother experience when using two fingers to zoom around.
    The dropped frames also do not happen when using the apple pencil to scroll.
    I would love to see this fixed, as it is really annoying.

    7 votes
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  16. Support PageUp and PageDown Buttons (on Macintosh extended Keyboards)

    Unlike MacOS Preview GoodNotes for MacOS (version 5.4.14) does not seem to support navigation using PageUp and PageDown Buttons (on Macintosh extended Keyboards like with an iMac Pro). It would be good if GoodNotes for MacOS had a more intuitive navigation which would render it more seamless to migrate from Preview to GoodNotes. Thx.

    7 votes
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  17. Mark a note for review. Review reminder

    I would like to be able to mark a page or notebook for review and then be able to set a reminder notification.

    7 votes
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  18. Separate Handwriting and Highlighter in Lasso tool

    When I want to change handwriting’s color and use lasso tool to select text (I highlighted over that handwriting as well). It includes handwriting and highlighter together.

    7 votes
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  19. Better keyboard Shortcut

    Keyboard shortcut was introduced quite awhile now, but a major problem has show up.

    Currently situation:

    P = Pencil
    E = Eraser
    L = Lasso
    S = Shapes

    The major problem it’s the keys from each other are too far away, making impossible to use it naturally while handwriting at same time.

    So I suggest a better shortcut, just like notability (Or another way)

    Exemple:
    Cmd+1 = Pencil
    Cmd+2 = Eraser
    Cmd+3 = Lasso
    And so on.

    7 votes
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  20. Low data usage mode

    Low data usage mode for Automatic Backups on external cloud providers (Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive...). Sometimes these servers don't allow constant updates and may cause problems on the already existing backups. Low data usage mode, when enabled, will only summit changes to those servers every day (for example). This will reduce cellular data and battery usage, as well as problems with service providers

    As my screenshot shows, my Student Onedrive provided by my University cannot handle constant updates from GoodNotes 5, so my backups keep stuck with that error message.

    Not sure if every one experience this errors (i tested…

    7 votes
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