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  1. Hiding the bottom navigation bar while writing

    I have currently switched to goodnotes from notability. The problem I am facing in Goodnotes is, while writing my palm touches the bottom navaigation bar (big bar to naavigate to home screen and recent apps) and the pen doesn't work while my palm touches the bar. It happens quite happen. And it is creating very disturbance for me.
    In notability, while the pen is active and writing is on, the navigation bar stops rendering touch and it fades as pen is working on the screen.
    So my request is, Please add the feature to auto hide the bottom navigation bar…

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  2. eyedropper

    Add eyedropper tool !!

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  3. New Flashcard Templates

    I am really enjoying the Flashcard template.

    However, I like my notes to be as neat as possible. It would be great if templates for lined and squared paper Flashcards could be created for when writing out the Flashcards, but when studying them, the lines/grid lines are removed to look as though your hand written notes are all aligned and not wonky! :)

    6 votes
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  4. searchable screenshots

    The #1 reason I use goodnotes instead of paper for taking notes is the ability to paste screenshots from my Mac directly into my notes.
    If these screenshots were searchable that would completely change the game.

    6 votes
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  5. Slow export of large goodnotes as editable pdf

    It takes lots of time to export large handwritten note files with images -- in editable pdf format -- goodnotes almost freezes for a minute. Need further updates to improve the processing of notes with images.

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  6. Take notes in Margins

    When a new page is created or a pdf imported into GoodNotes, there is a margin on the sides. Occasionally, students use these pdf slide decks to take notes, but end up marking up the page. Sometimes those pages don’t have room for notes. Being able to write in the free margins of the window would be an excellent way to take notes without writing directly on slides/pages. Either making it a permanent change or an option to make margin notes in documents would be great.

    6 votes
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  7. Smaller toolbar with more colours

    I love good notes, but, unfortunately, the tool bar enables us to only use three colours which makes the process of changing colours quite tedious. I also think the toolbar takes up a lot of paper space, especially if you use more than one tab. It would be fantastic if you guys implement these changes.

    Below I have attached my designs:

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  8. Flash card management

    Currently the flash card is shown in the same document, so one needs to open different notebooks to read flashcards in them.it will be very beneficial if all the flash cards from different notebooks appear at a single place so that space repetition can be utilised at a single place in a better way.

    6 votes
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  9. Photos in comments

    I’m using comments to add notes to my lectures where there are no space and if I don’t have space for some notes then won’t have for a photo either so I think adding photos to comments I really a helpful way for organizing the lecture

    6 votes
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  10. Add Collapse-able Comment or Sticky Note option

    An “add comment/note” option over a selected area or text like we have in MS Word where you can select a word and add a comment there. Could be useful for a quick definition or a full form of the selected text which I don’t want to write in my main notes, etc.

    6 votes
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  11. Tootlip function / Better comment function (images)

    I would like a function to add Tooltips to elemts or text. So for example one can add a definiton or further Information (even an image) to a word.
    Otherwise it would help to enhance the comment function with more possibilities, especially adding images.

    6 votes
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  12. Allow scrolling off the page so that writing on the edges of a page is easier

    I am left-handed and use GoodNotes on my iPad for taking notes. When you're editing a document and zoomed in so that the entire width of the document can not be displayed and scroll all the way to the edge of the document, GoodNotes forces the edge of the document to the edge of the display and does not allow you to scroll off the page. This makes it difficult for me when writing at the beginning of a line, since I'm left-handed, my hand is often hovering off the edge of my iPad or I need to set something…

    6 votes
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  13. Type directly into a document without use of text box

    Be able to type directly into the document without having to use a text box. Like a word document for example. But still be able to write or annotate if wanted.

    6 votes
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  14. Color pen grouping

    With the colors that are incorporated with the pen, to be able to group colors together for a any specific class. One set of colors for one class, and another set for the next class.

    6 votes
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  15. Scale

    I love digital notes with Goodnotes. But when you take notes on paper the sheet usually has lines (ruled) or a grid (squared) that are a fixed scale. I always have issues finding the right scale on a digital page as long as I cannot set a value for it. So I ended up taping in the side of the iPad screen a piece of lined sheet so that I zoom the digital sheet for the lines to match the paper lines. That way I have constant scale and I am not always trying to adjust my writing size to…

    6 votes
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  16. Use of AI to automatically create outlines in the documents that don’t have them.

    Ability to create outlines of documents like books , using AI rather than manually creating every single outline for easy accessibility of the subtopics or chapters within a document.

    Also the ability to copy and paste outlines from one document to another should be there.

    6 votes
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  17. Add post-it notes on the side column of documents

    adding post-its at the side column off a document so that we can write extra notes but it does not have to be on the page itself.

    6 votes
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  18. Sorting different in documents and folders

    At the moment the sorting option by date or by name is the same for folders and the complete documents. There should be a way where on the main documents page you can sort by date and sort by name in a subfolder.

    6 votes
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  19. Add videos

    The only thing that I don’t like about it ,, is that i cant add videos, website, and voice recording, if u can add those features,, it will be the best study app out there

    6 votes
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  20. Search in images and scanned pdfs

    This app would be perfect if searching can work in images and scanned PDFs. It can be easily done in iOS system or the original File app (Live Text). So I believe it is totally possible.

    6 votes
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