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  1. When buying paper notebooks the most common page designs are:

    • lines
    • grid SIZE: medium
    • grid SIZE: small

    Please make a template for a small grids, as they are extremely helpful for STEM students. Could even be used by artists by using the template for their creations and later on changing the template t blank.

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  2. When searching on iphone spotlight search, it would be good if a small preview image of the document would show. Notability has this feature so it shouldn’t be hard I think

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  3. writing flashcards takes a lot of time.
    Here are some ideas for improvement:

    When writing a note you can link two entities (word, image, sentence..) for example by "virtually framing" them to tell the app to create a flashcard from these words (the framing will only be displayed when you tell the app to create a flashcard)

    Add tags to the flashcards to better organize them, study only certain tags and see which tags need to be revised more.

    Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

    6 votes

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  4. Currently keyboard shortcut for Element is not enabled. even though it is stated as M upon hovering over the button.

    also an option to not leave element tool after adding an element will be nice. it'll be useful when catching up on the older task during bullet journalling.

    6 votes

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  5. Add a shell window--that can be inserted on Monthly calendars- to show my SYNCED GOOGLE CALENDAR !

    6 votes

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  6. When you finish writing on a page, it automatically goes to the next page. If you are writing and then go back and add something, it currently disappears off the bottom of the page. Notability is AMAZING for this...... Catch up goodnotes.

    6 votes

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  7. Mac app is slow for large PDFs, as a person who studies a pdf on the MacBook and takes notes on the iPad, the Mac app is quite slow to navigate through the PDF. I'm running the latest app on the MacBook Pro 16

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  8. Use machine learning/AI to (optionally) record and catalog handwriting and be able to autocorrect handwritten text. Would be fantastic if it could also match sizes and styles of surrounding texts. After enough cataloging, it could even create a font with your handwriting.

    6 votes

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  9. I would love a pressure sensitive ball pen! I cannot make my writing look nice in any of the pens currently offered in GoodNotes - the fountain pen is too pressure sensitive, and the ball pen has no pressure sensitivity at all.

    GoodNotes outdoes every other note taking app I have used in every respect except the pen - my notes look much, much nicer in other apps, but they do not have the functionality I need, which GoodNotes offers.

    I would be sooo grateful for this feature!

    6 votes

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  10. Please add lines to the flash card templates. I love using the flash cards but mine always end up so messy!

    6 votes

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  11. Hi there.
    It would be useful to have better integration with Apple shortcuts. For example, something simple like "email document to this sender" would make workflows more efficient. I'm often emailing documents to one particular sender, so by having a single button to press to email a document to the same sender would be beneficial. Other examples would be to import documents to Goodnotes, or export them to a folder.

    6 votes

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  12. It would be great to have the option to use a sidebar like the one we already have in the Mac version also on the iPad. Especially on large iPads this would be an easy, fast, convenient and clear way of navigating around larger documents.

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  13. I would like to highlight while I read a pdf and have the highlights exported as plain text.

    6 votes

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  14. Would you be able to create a “touch” feature icon so that it supports hotlinks on pdf?

    I have hotlinks in my content page of my pdf to navigate to the correct pages, one click and i jump straight to the page instead of flipping through 30 pages.

    6 votes

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  15. 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…

    6 votes

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  16. When writing notes with Zoom Window, it would be comfortable to have the color picker on the grey line of the zoom window, next to the indentation keys. This way when writing, we can quickly pick our colors instead of having to move our pencil all the way to the top of the screen. When I'm writing definitions, after every term I have to change color and it is time consuming and tiring to go so far away. It would be way more efficient and convenient to have the color picker appear closer to the zoom window for faster access.

    6 votes

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  17. Elements Improvement Suggestion

    1) It is often that user import a whole page of stickers that haven't been 'cut' individually. An option to be able to "edit" elements and crop them out (rectangle/freehand) would be helpful so we can import a whole page of uncut PNG rather than having to cut them one by one to import into Elements.

    2) When selecting elements, elements are automatically placed in the middle of the page, because elements can be rather small, it sometimes gets muddled with other stickers/elements making it difficult to select and move it. I would like to suggest the…

    6 votes

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  18. 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!

    6 votes

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  19. It would be nice to be able to change the thickness of the pencils, especially the highlighter to the size that you want and that is not limited.

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  20. 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.

    6 votes

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