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  1. Text improvement

    Improving the experience of text input much like you are typing in word document with dot points and possibly graphs.
    The current experience of typing text is merely disappointing

    6 votes
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  2. Choose color for selected text highlight and strikeout/deletion

    Currently, when selecting text in a PDF, you have the option to "strikeout" or "highlight" the selected text. As far as I can tell, when selecting one of these options, the only available color for highlighting is yellow and the only available color for strikeout is red. Please add a feature to allow users to choose the highlight color and the strikeout color for selected text.

    6 votes
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  3. Add custom keyboard shortcuts

    I would like to be able to select tools using the keyboard but in a more advanced way. At the moment we can only select for example the pen or the eraser, it will be interesting to be able to select for example the predefined colors of the pen thanks to keyboard shortcuts.

    6 votes
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  4. Finalize notes or PDFs/protect from further modifications

    Sorry, if I missed an existing feature request or if this feature is already available.
    I love GoodNotes for digitally signing documents; for this, it would be great to have a feature like "Mark as final" for protecting documents or notes from further modifications.

    6 votes
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  5. Set default to “Import as New Document” for importing

    I would like to be able to set the default option when importing to GoodNotes to be “Import as New Document” rather than “Import to Current Document” to help prevent, for example, accidentally inserting large documents to the middle of other large documents.

    6 votes
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  6. the blue bar on the top

    Please give us an option to choose dark/black color for the blue bar on the top! Or just make the blue bar black in a dark mode theme! It will look better that way!

    6 votes
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  7. personalizar las carpetas

    Al igual que estan personalizados los documentos con muchas portadas o pudiendo poner nosotros las fotos que queramos, sería estupendo poder hacerlo tambien con las capetas.
    Gracias por esta aplicación tan estupenda.

    6 votes
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  8. Notebooks and Folders

    I would like to be able to put folders into Notebooks so that I can organise my work flows. If this is not possible please can you make it possible to customise the folder cover, even if this is only by colour. There are some attractive Notebook Covers but the folder covers are rather dull and uninspiring.

    6 votes
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  9. organizing

    Organizing notes in date created instead of date modified

    6 votes
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  10. Allow zoom out in lasso

    When pinching the page to zoom out, lasso selection is removed.
    I want to be able to zoom out in lasso mode while keeping the selection. This is actually possible if I first select resize. Then I can zoom out and keep the selection. Pls allow the same in lasso.

    6 votes
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  11. General recommendations

    Dear GoodNotes Team,

    I am writing to you trying to support the development of your app. I’m a pretty big fan of GoodNotes 5 as I have been of GoodNotes 4. I’m using it for over 2 years now but sadly there are still things I considered a downgrade between the applications and some things not only I but as I was reading through the feature requests many people wishes that seemed to be ignored. I also read many same opinions that have repeatedly been suggested so I think it is very difficult for you to answer them all or…

    6 votes
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  12. Streamlines actions

    Having to crop, then click screenshot, then click export, and then click copy just to copy images of a pdf or other items is time consuming.

    A more direct to the point action of being able to copy once in the crop box would be better instead of 4 actions to do one thing

    6 votes
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  13. Convert the whole handwritten notebook with the press of a button!

    Simple: instead of just having the lasso that you have to painstakingly use to circle handwriting, convert each page to text, and then export to another program to edit, why not...
    ...have a button that instantly converts the entire handwritten document into text, ready to edit/export?

    6 votes
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  14. knock Pen three times to switch to feature laser

    I am a Maths teacher from Vietnam. I love technology. About 2 years ago, I came across your Goodnotes application, which was the number one paid application in AppStore and I felt lucky that I bought it. I got excited and engrossed in your app at the very first time I used it. I work with Mathematics problems very frequently. When using Goodnotes, the problems become much easier and more intriguing. I learned a lot from these and thanks to it, my students got many prizes in local competitions. I wrote a “long essay” to you in the reviews section…

    6 votes
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  15. Mouse cursor in presentation mode

    I use good notes for teaching. But when I’m explaining with both of my hands, my students don’t get to see which screen area to focus on. Laser pointer is amazing feature but it needs activity from instructor.

    We can use mouse cursor as an ‘idle-state’ highlighter in presentation mode. Should be easy to implement. And if we can control the colour, size and opacity of the cursor in presentation mode, it would be awesome.

    6 votes
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  16. Allow to set line margins for zoom window

    I sometimes face the problem that the app only suggests to jump to the next line in zoom window when I reach the last centimeter of the line I am currently writing on, so my idea is adding a setting which lets you choose how far on the page you have to write for the zoom window to jump to the next line.

    Also, I want to be able to control where it jumps to in the next line, not only the start.

    It would be even better if you could set a default in the app settings, but are…

    6 votes
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  17. gridlines in zoom feature.

    Allow the zoom feature to have gridlines or writing lings (horizontal only) (decided by the writer) in the zoom box even if the document is blank; this will make annotations neater (as they will be following straight lines). This would improve annotations massively.

    Thank you

    6 votes
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  18. app must suppprt text-overflow

    if support text-overflow.. it will help in copying multiple pages from web to goodnotes in one go.
    thankyou

    6 votes
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  19. Selection Tool - Separate Rotation

    One of my most used tools is the selection tool.

    However when resizing, it also rotates the selection which is really annoying.

    Would prefer if rotation occurred through pinching or separate box in another corner.

    Also add the Rectangular Selection.

    6 votes
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  20. scale 1:1

    I print often my written notes. What I don't like is that my handwriting is abnormally large. My iPad screen is smaller than a letter size page and thus everything I print is abnormally large.

    What I would like is a zoom which would always be 1:1 size of the paper template I use. a 1 cm line on the screen would indeed print as a 1cm line.

    6 votes
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