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  1. It would be a critical feature for to have a global color palette that can be used in both handwriting and text. Otherwise, we will have to do double entry for every custom color that we want to use in different tools.

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  2. I think, tabs and notebooks should remember several settings, such as the scaling of the notebook, the pen style, and probably several other settings.

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  3. It would be useful to have the option of keeping a fixed line thickness when scaling. Proportional scaling as it is is great and very useful, but it would be good to have both. Say you have made up a bunch of graphs and saved them as stickers, you don't want the line thickness of the axes to scale with the overall size of the graph. I would find this feature useful in iOS/Mac as well.

    (If it's a headache to implement I'd rather GoodNotes stay unbloated.)

    6 votes

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  4. Need an outline when the file is converted to, e.g., a pdf

    6 votes

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  5. EN: The ability to label/ write flashcards just like regular notes (i.e. picture, pencil and text AT ONCE, not just one of them at a time).
    Post’its and stickers are welcome as well.

    DE: Die Möglichkeit, Karteikarten wie normale Notizen zu beschriften/schreiben (d.h. Bild, Stift und Text AUF EINMAL, nicht nur eines davon).
    Post'its und Aufkleber sind ebenfalls willkommen.

    6 votes

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  6. Study set is a good idea for study. However, once a study set is made, I cannot add new entry to it.
    I hope I can add new entries into the existing study set soon.

    6 votes

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  7. Zoom out. The cards when you test them get zoomed out, because it’s a flash card you don’t really want to have too much on each one. It would be good if you could zoom away from a card so as to write in your normal sized handwriting on each one. I’m having to use giant pen strokes as if I’m writing on a whiteboard so that they’re legible when I study with them.

    6 votes

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  8. 6 votes

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  9. Digital planners would be near perfect on Goodnotes with this capability. The only think I see available is the option to basically manually import events from Goodnotes Digital Planners templates into a calendar. Having items from my calendar automatically put into my digital planner would be amazing as there are several apps that will automatically add to your apple calendar with permissions.

    6 votes

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  10. Currently when you go to Thumbnails it always starts at page 1. This can be inconvenient during lectures when you don't have a lot of time to lose during the writing of your notes.

    For example of you have a pdf with about 100 pages and you are currently at page 60. If you want to go back about ten pages from where you're at (so to p.50). Then you need to scroll all the way down from p.1 to p.50 instead of just 10 pages up.

    This is even more inconvenient if you don't know the exact page number…

    6 votes

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  11. Make Extra Margin Space In Imported PowerPoints
    It would be super nice to have extra space to write sentences and phrases on the side or under imported PowerPoint instead of only being able to write on the slide. Writing on the slide helps highlight terms etc, but doesn't help any extra information a teacher/professor may say out loud, that's not a part of the slide.

    6 votes

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  12. Guten Tag,
    ich studiere zur Zeit und nutze dabei sehr gerne die neue Funktion der Lernsets. Eine kleine Verbesserung, welche aus meiner Sicht sehr zur Übersicht beitragen würde, ist dass man einstellen kann, von welchen Lernsets man eine Benachrichtigung bekommen möchte, dass man diese lernen soll. Ich habe nämlich viele Lernsets und verliere da total den Überblick.
    Vielen Dank im Voraus.

    6 votes

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  13. I sell (printed) workbooks for secondary school in Germany.

    Is there a possibility to sell workbooks as PDFs (approx. 160 pages) in your pop-up store?

    It’s important that the PDFs cannot be shared or forwarded simply to other devices via AirDrop for example, but can only be used within the own account.

    Furthermore, I'd like to know if buttons with embedded links are possible in the PDFs?

    This would be an interesting market for all textbook publisher (who offer workbooks) if they could sell their books copy-protected through your platform.

    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Kind regards

    6 votes

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  14. What would be great would be a feature where you could insert a Cartesian plane and type 1 or more functions in a field for them to then be drawn on top. This would be harder than implementing parabola or trigonometry templates but the result would look far better then a hand drawn option and will be more accurate. Looking at some notes in the community section it's clear to see that a lot of people would benefit from such a feature.

    6 votes

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  15. The ability to mass select flashcards in a pile, either to delete them or to duplicate certain ones. Sometimes I get shared flashcards from classmates but want to delete a number of them at once, which isn’t possible, so I have to delete one by one which is not only tedious but also reduces productivity.

    6 votes

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  16. So, basically, I got .goodnotes file (digital planner imported from pdf) and when I make export file as pdf editable with annotations and background - it creates pdf file (yeey) but most part of hyperlinks are missing, or some layer of text is missing.
    For example - hyperlink to January, February will work, but April will not. Also I did re-check exported pdf into foxit reader - and it also shows that there is no particular hyperlinks but my main file do has. So it means, there is this annoying bug.

    Also, on iPad 9th gen Goodnotes 5 (last updated…

    6 votes

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  17. Sometimes I record an audio accidentally or say something that is not useful or maybe record class audio and forget to stop recording while mid class breaks in such cases not having a deleting option and a trimming option ends up adding to my storage unnecessarily.

    6 votes

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  18. I think these two text alignment buttons in apple notes- as shown in the attached image -give more freedom and more alignment degrees than the 3 buttons options in goodnotes which are less functioning( i.e. just extreme right , center , extreme left )

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  19. Larger Thumbnails. One of the great things about keeping notes in a paper notebook is that you can quickly skim through previous notes. You flip through pages very quickly finding what you're looking for. Thumbnail view is the best way to do this with digital note taking. Please give the option to increase the size of the thumbnail to make this easier.

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  20. I feel that the flashcards would be perfect if I was able to flip them and get tested on the "answer" side. when I'm studying a language, I want to be able to get tested on both languages. And if it's possible, it would be amazing to be able to mess with the setting and get a mix of either side of the flashcards in a study sesh. Also the ability to randomise flashcards would be great. In general, more customisation for how we want to be tested would be awesome. Other than that, I'm really happy with this flashcard…

    6 votes

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