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  1. Horizontal only or Vertical only resizing!

    You should be able to resize your selection horizontally only or vertically only. Sometimes I want to make something wider or taller and can’t. I have to just increase it in the 1:1 proportion. Please add this feature! Thank you!

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  2. move annotations to a new PDF

    I review alot of technical documents with goodnotes and often times, there will be updates to the underlying PDF Document from time to time. I would like the ability to move my annotated notes to the latest PDF.

    In my situation, almost all of the time, the underlying PDF would have the same format, number of pages etc. So the ability of export only annotations (which you current support) and merge the exported PDF annotates with a new PDF would solve my problem.

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  3. Add ability to pin the search sidebar

    I would like the be able to pin the search sidebar to quickly look thru search results. Also, I would like to be able to double click on text (Mac version) to select text that I can paste in the search query.

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  4. Add ability to navigate from library to open notebooks without selecting item from library

    Scenario:
    A user is working within a notebook in the "workspace" (the UI where all of the currently open notebooks' tabs are displayed and a user performs there GoodNote'ing). The user is curious if they have a notebook somewhere titled "Foo" and wants to see where "Foo" lives, but they do not want to open "Foo."

    Current behavior:
    When user navigates to the library, they cannot return to their open notebooks until they select a notebook. In this scenario, the user would be forced to open "Foo" only to immediately close it.

    Ideal behavior:
    User has an intuitive way to…

    5 votes
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  5. Adicionar tela infinita com exportação em grande formato para pdf e impressão para que possa ler as anotações depois

    Gostaria que adicionassem o modo de tela infinita para realização de mapas mentais feitos com Apple Pencil, isso ajudará muito nos estudos, pois nenhum aplicativo faz essa funcionalidade e quando fazer a exportação ou impressão se torna ruim, pelo fato de diminuírem a letra das anotações, a qual não consegue ler nada das anotações e com isso o estudo fica prejudicado. O good notes por ser um excelente aplicativo ao adicionar essa função ele tornará perfeito. Se puder incluir essa opção mais rápido possível, eu agradeceria muito, pelo fato de estar precisando dessa funcionalidade para os estudos.

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  6. Button to jump to start or end of document.

    Add buttons to jump to beginning and end of of long documents.

    5 votes
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  7. Pen tool and Highlighter tool

    In pen tool and highlighter tool, only three colours can be set at the same time, but is there any way to set four or more colours on the tool bar at the same time? Personally, I use black, red, blue and green frequently, but every time I need to switch one of three colour settings. Since there is still space on the tool bar, the app should allow the users to add more colour settings on the bar (like Microsoft OneNote). What do you think?

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  8. Pre-Recorded Handwriting Calligraphy Letters Shape Recognition Apple Pencil

    Pre-Recorded Hands Writing Letters Shape Recognition !

    For Students Notes with Apple Pencil

    To have a Nice uniform handwriting looking clean, swell and Exactly as you want your lettres shapes to be.

    It would be the possibility of combining handwriting recognition and personal writing Pre-Recording.

    Be able to record the personal calligraphy of each letter (lowercase and uppercase) written by yourself.

    Explanation:
    I write with my Apple pencil an "A", as I would always like to see it appear on my screen when I write by hand. Once my '' A '' saved / programmed, Notability recognizes every time I…

    5 votes
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  9. Taking Notes while highlighting a pdf

    Suppose I highlight and annotate text in a pdf. I want a summary of all my highlights (not my handwritten annotations), how can I do that. Once I can do that, and maybe the optionality for adding my handwritten annotations can be added as well, then this 'page' becomes my 'cover sheet' for the pdf. At a later date, I only need to refer to this sheet and if I need more clarity I can go to the underlying pdf which in any case is attached to the 'cover sheet'. This is a feature that is available in the 'free'…

    5 votes
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  10. Scribble left and right to UNDO

    Could functionality be added to scribble left to write to erase vs. using the undo at the top of the page or the 2 or 3 finger method like other apps.

    5 votes
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  11. Re-color pen and highlighter marks quickly with a stroking tool.

    The range of colors that GoodNotes offers is amazing, but it can be difficult in practice to fluidly incorporate them into documents. This could be streamlined considerably by having a coloring tool that allows the user to change the color of pen and highlighter marks by stroking over them with their pencil.

    Motivation:
    There are a lot of use cases where it is useful to have multi-colored diagrams and writing. For example, is often helpful to color certain variables and subscripts in mathematical equations to intuitively link equations together. As it is, doing this either requires changing the pen color…

    5 votes
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  12. Useful Features!

    Some of these ideas may have been mentioned before, and maybe they haven’t, but these are some features I would like to see.

    Sending things forward or backward. Or picture layering.

    Being able to select handwriting, photos or text boxes and being able to bring it forward or backward so they can layer. It would be super useful for those who digital planner journals or scrapbook.

    This one I know has been said, but voice recording.

    The ability to convert text directly, rather than a cop and then have to paste, while proceeding to delete the original handwritten text.

    The…

    5 votes
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  13. 可以在讓閱讀檔案的簡體字轉換成繁體字

    開發者您好：

    我是貴產品的愛用者。感謝貴公司創造這樣好的產品，嚷我可以在生活上以及工作上，有效率又可以輕鬆地生活。
    有一點使用上的建議，也許不容易做到，但是，還是以一個使用者角度與需求，向貴公司提出建議。
    我是在居住在台灣的使用者，但是，中文的使用環境上，是繁體中文的。但是，生活或工作上，都會有很多機會是使用簡體中文，如果在軟體中內建簡體字轉換繁體字的功能，這會讓我在使用得到更好的體驗。word的軟體上有這樣的功能，我知道在ＰＤＦ的檔案上，也許需要很大的工程，但是，我還是提出我以上的建議與需求。希望有一天可以達到這樣的效果，
    感謝您的聆聽

    陳翰璋
    敬上

    5 votes
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  14. Reverse alphabetical order

    Add the option to sort files from Z to A.

    5 votes
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  15. Zoom to give gridlines, zoom out to return to a blank page.

    Most of us can agree that a page of notes with no lines looks neater and as a result, makes notes more appealing and engaging. However, handwriting on a blank page can often lead to slanted writing which has the opposite effect. Therefore a very useful feature (I believe) would be to have a feature where if you zoom/close up on your notes page, gridlines show up, and then when you zoom out, the page returns to having a blank (no lines) background.

    5 votes
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  16. Write beautiful characters with pen pressure setting

    I want you to add the pen pressure adjustment of Apple Pencil.
    Currently, it is difficult to write beautiful characters because the pen pressure is as sensitive.

    Especially characters with many strokes such as kanji cannot be written beautifully.

    Please refer to the setting sample image.

    5 votes
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  17. non-continuous single page view for pdf

    especially good for slides created via beamer (latex) -
    where things appear in the next slide on top of the current one.
    Horizontal scrolling ruins the effect.

    5 votes
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  18. Integrate pencil kit to the current writing tools

    Use the tools available in the Notes app that has handwriting smoothing.

    5 votes
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  19. Return option

    “Return option” it would be great that after you open a document and have opened so many pages you could have an option to jump straight to the main documents page instead of clicking so many times to return to open a new Document but still be able to return within that currently open folder or document page by page as it operates now

    5 votes
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  20. Please let me export my notes with both the outline and searchable texts

    The problem I currently face when I export my notes in pdf format is that I can only export it with the outline preserved or with searchable characters but not with both features, which is vexing to say the least as both are essential for me to structure my notes.

    It should not be a huge technological barrier for GoodNotes to break through,right? Thanks, I need this new feature stat.

    5 votes
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