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  1. Pomodoro Option

    a pomodoro timer ( be it stopwatch or custom timer with breaks ) within the app.
    when the timer starts it blocks all the other apps and only lets you use goodnotes and allowed apps.

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  2. Mode Switching

    Hi - I love Goodnotes, but it's too cumbersome to repeatedly switch between read-only mode and editing mode and it creates needless cognitive burden (e.g. you have to think about which mode you're in).

    It would be great to have a setting where I can enable hyperlinks (e.g. navigational links) to work AT ALL times - even when I'm in editing mode. In such a scenario, I could happily edit with my Apple Pencil (including scribbling over hyperlinks), but the moment I touch a hyperlink with my finger, Goodnotes would take me to that link.

    This feature alone would help…

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  3. Adding a fourth colour at the tool bar

    Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
    I would be happy if you could add more colours to the tool bar in order to switch between them faster.
    Is this feature already planned in your road map?

    Yours sincerely
    Alexander Gaiduk

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  4. Basic full screen editing

    There should be a way to edit pdfs or books in full screen mode. Just basic editing capability is needed for eg. a single pen or highlighter option should be there so that we can underline, mark or write something while reading in full screen just like we do for any hardcopy. Reading on full screen mode, the experience is on another level and if basic editing capability is added it will be just perfect( cherry on top of cake).

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  5. toggle to hide everything except the tool palette.

    The extra menu bars and tab names just take up much needed screen real estate specially on the budget ipads with not so huge screens. While reading a book, the most i need is just my tool palette so i can highlight occasionally. Other things are just distracting and rarely needed!

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  6. Notify user when a notebook has been excluded from backups

    I have seen some relatively dangerous behavior regarding notebooks set to auto-backup. When the backup process crashes/fails, the failing notebooks are automatically excluded from subsequent autobackups (see screenshot).

    This behavior is acceptable, and probably even desirable, so that other notebooks can continue backing up just fine.

    What bothers me about this behavior however is that I receive absolutely ZERO notification that one of my notebooks is no longer backing up. The only way that I can find to learn this is to manually navigate to Settings-->Automatic Backup-->View Backup Queue and note the list of excluded notebooks. This seems very dangerous…

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  7. Lernkarten in Reihenfolge abfragen!

    Lernkarten: Es wäre toll, wenn die Lernkarten sowohl -wie schon jetzt- randomisiert; aber bitte unbedingt in der Reihenfolge (der Notizen) abfragbar sind! Da sie so nicht nur als Karteikarten, sondern auch als Lernzettel (thematische Ordnung möglich) fungieren können!!!

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  8. Lock zoom window

    Give users an option to not snap the main view to the zoom window whenever the zoom window moves: just have the main view stay on content

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  9. MORE PEN SIZES

    I suggest pen sizes bigger than 2.0mm! More variety is always better.

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  10. realistic fountain pen opacity and pooling

    part of what makes fountain pen writing look personal and nice to look at it the subtle shades of colour variation in each stroke. You get pooling around the heavy press areas and lighter colour in the lighter press, less corner-y/curvy strokes. No other note taking app does this as far as I am aware and would give GN a really personal, beautiful feel.

    This is why I use a fountain pen in real life - the character of it.

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  11. Full screen mode when we annotate, write something, solve math problems !

    I am a teacher from south korea. I use ipad pro for teaching high school students.

    I have 3 ipad pros 12.9 (3,4,5 gen)

    But when I use it solving math problems, i have 3 ipad pro 10.3 12.9->10.3

    I love goodnotes. Even, I have 2 macbook pros for using goodnotes in mac os

    I use cintiq 24pro for solving math problems.

    As I wrote above, I really love goodnotes and I really appreciate your delvelopers in Goodnotes.

    I hope you developers could solve my problems:not making my ipad 12.9 into 10.3 or less

    I believe in Goodnotes, which makes…

    5 votes
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  12. LINE SPACING

    Please fix all the defects with the line spacing UI and make it easier to type a value. PREFERABLY being able to save it as a setting or style (like Pages or MS Word)

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  13. continue sheet

    When you write on the last sheet,it had better add a new sheet automatically after the last one sheet,we don’t need to use finger to pull up,and the sheet be continued.

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  14. custom colour palate

    Please allow a setting to save custom colour choices for every time use. I like I have to change the colour palate options everytime to my needed colours before I can write a new note. I mean there should be an option to create on colour palate and save it for later use and not just the default you have provided.

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  15. Page navigator on the right side of full page

    Now, one has to go all the way to the left to bring out the page finder, choose one out of the small preview hoping I got the right one, because if not I’ll have to bring out the finder again and repeat until I find the page. This is incredibly unintuitive and time-consuming. Please move the page finder button to the right and allow preview on the sidebar with the selected page in the main window to allow easy page finding. Notability already does that. My preferred app is GoodNotes, so fingers crossed this will be updated soon.

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  16. Fillable

    Keep fillable PDF forms fillable once uploaded in GoodNotes. Currently the fields are deactivated

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  17. Allow users to select what content is stored on device and allow other content to be stored in cloud.

    After years of use and many tens of gigbytes of content, my ipad is full from goodnotes content. I dont want to delete older notes because I occasionally refer to them. I request allowing us to selectively sync some content to our devices and allow older content to be stored in the cloud and downloaded when needed directly within the app.

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  18. Favourite document from within document

    Currently the only way to favourite a document is from the file browser. It would be very handy to be able to favourite from within an already open document.

    Also the star/favourite button on thumbnails is not present in search results.

    5 votes
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  19. create your own handwritten font

    It would be great if you could design your own font (create every single letter by yourself), and then have your fast (bad looking) handwriting converted into your carefully designed letters. That way it would guarantee beautiful handwriting even tough you are in a hurry.

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  20. Import multiple images in one note

    It would be really helpful if I can add multiple images to one note. Curretly if I select multiple images in the photo app and import them in GoodNotes they open all in different notes. That‘s frustrating, because right now I need to manually import each image individually in GoodNotes to get them in one note.

    5 votes
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