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  1. kapoor1992@gmail.com

    Similar to the old school paper notebooks, I am having difficulty writing at the bottom of any page, as my hand is out of level from the notebook (iPad goodnotes) and I do not like leaving my pages half blank just because its a digital notebook.

    It will be very helpful to write with the same comfort level on the whole page if the bottom of the page can be pulled to the middle (at least while in Zoom) with non-writable blank space to put my palm on.

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  2. Display double page on Mac Version.

    Since on Mac version, the horizontal screen have a lot of blank when it display only one page. Please add a option to display double page on Mac Version.

    6 votes
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  3. image border and drop shadow

    Text boxes can be styled with borders of variable thickness and colour, rounded corners and drop shadow - I want the same for images

    6 votes
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  4. Tabs/notebooks should remember settings (pen, scale, etc.)

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

    6 votes
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  5. Be able to hide pages

    As I study, sometimes i have to take notes on an assignment and my class notes are filled with pages that are only for those assignment and when i revise my notes to study I don't need those. I think it would be great to be able to choose pages and hide them, so they don't bother me once i have already used them but if i need them i can use them again.

    6 votes
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  6. Line thickness proportional scaling on/off

    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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  7. Outline

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

    6 votes
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  8. Add new entries into the existing study set

    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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  9. Zoom out for Study Sets

    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.

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  10. The ability to sync with popular calender apps like Apple iCal.

    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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  11. Notebook thumbnails start at the page you are currently at

    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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  12. Enabling adding voice memos (w/ ability to import audio recordings) to a specific part of the note

    Enable to add voice memos just like stickers in Goodnotes…
    The voice memo will be placed on somewhere on your notes/ PDF, just like how Stickers/ Memo sheets does

    This is far better than the inbuilt voice recording, which only allows you to record in live.
    With this import function amd placement just like memos, ir certainly makes the experience wonderful

    6 votes
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  13. deaktivieren von Lernsets

    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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  14. See all comments of a book

    It would great if you can see all comments you wrote in one book together. Perhaps under the field outlines "see all comments".

    6 votes
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  15. workbooks for school

    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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  16. Math graph input

    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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  17. Select Flashcards

    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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  18. PDF export (editable) bug fix - missing hyperlinks

    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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  19. I suggest AUDIO deleting and trimming option shall be added

    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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  20. better text alignment options

    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 )

    6 votes
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