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  1. Make it possible to "Magic Wand"-select a color that you need to crop away on a picture, so that you're left with only the image on the page, no white borders around it. (The same way it can be done in Photoshop or even Apple's Pages & Keynote)

    e.g. Red dot on white square picture, becomes only the red dot that I can freely move around in GoodNotes, without hiding text behind the white border.

    4 votes

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  2. When exporting a page to pdf I can select to remove the background template.
    The suggestion is to add this same setting when selecting print, printing directly without wasting ink on a background color.

    4 votes

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  3. The possibility to use GoodNotes 5 for Mac with Sidecar gives us the chance to deliver reach presentations with the Mac, using GoodNotes for Mac as a whiteboard, and the Sidecar-connected iPad + Apple Pencil for drawing on the whiteboard.

    Adding a Presentation Mode to GoodNotes for Mac -- especially including Laser Pointers -- would improve considerably this practice.

    4 votes

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  4. Add a mini toolbar when the zoomed function is being used. This will allow us to quickly switch between three or more multiple tools without having to reach up to the menubar to do so.
    The recommended tools are: pen, eraser, highlighter and maybe the shape tool.

    4 votes

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    1. There should be a function to add text/handwritten notes to highlights/or anywhere in the document in PDF reader. After adding the the text/notes, the text box can minimize into an icon next to the highlighted area.

    2. The notes can be compiled and exported/email/printed with or without the document. Information (page no of document/highlighted passages) can be displayed together with/without the notes when exported. This provides easy reference to the notes.

    4 votes

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  5. 4 votes

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  6. Add more functional adjusting tool, not only from bottom corner but from 4 sides.
    Also recommend to improve Shape tool, maybe have straights line by holding stroke for a second, like Notabilty.
    Last but not list, when selecting a rectangle, one of the needed options is filling color, not only when drawing a new one.

    Hopefully this will be read and enhanced

    4 votes

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  7. Sometimes I have a document that's hundreds of pages long and I just want to know if a specific word is used in one chapter without having to see every single time it appears in the whole thing. I would love it if GoodNotes enabled the option to search if a specific phrase is in a specific range of pages (for example, pgs. 62-80 instead of pgs. 1-100)

    4 votes

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  8. I often take notes that are messy, in the wrong folder/document etc, so as you can move writing, it would be useful to be able to cut and paste a whole page into another folder/document

    4 votes

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  9. If I put the pen on the iPad to charge it, the toolbar for better reading should disappear

    4 votes

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  10. When printing notes that have dark mode/background/template

    I would like to print this on dark printing paper,

    Therefore Goodnotes would only need to print for the handwriting ink/text or pictures and not waste printer ink on creating a dark background ( since the printer paper is already black).

    4 votes

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  11. Instead of moving your hand up to the top or bottom of the screen to scroll to a new tool or change the color have a wheel that can be placed any where on the screen with just a tap and slide you can change the tool or change the color from presets

    4 votes

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  12. After creating a Text Box and adding text it is quite difficult to change the layout again. For example, the text color cannot be changed anymore unless using the lasso tool.

    4 votes

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  13. please add a keyboard shortcut for the Mac version to jump to full window size equivalent to double finger tap on iPad, please also add an automatic function to always have the view size follow the window size

    thank you and carry on with the great work

    4 votes

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  14. It would be great if the highlighter and pen presets could be saved to iCloud. Recently, I accidentally deleted Goodnotes 5 on my iPad and I had to deal with setting my highlighter and pen presets all over again. Some of the colours are different from the set of presets I had earlier on.

    4 votes

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  15. Please add function to use other different services instead only iCloud -
    Onedrive - Google Drive - Drop box
    I think it could be a super plus for this already special app!!!

    4 votes

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  16. I tend to prefer to take notes using the dark background with white ink but this makes it so that if for some reason i need to print my notes, I need to go through by hand and change all the white text to black or some other color before i can export it as a pdf. Does there is any thing which might help in this process ? If not Can you introduce any feature like colour swap feature which is in OneNote or invert colour? In future updates...

    4 votes

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  17. Please support import of LibreOffice odt and ods files as an alternative to MS word and Excel files.

    4 votes

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  18. After5.4.21,the pen tip was disappear.???why???

    4 votes

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  19. Please add an option to put the highlighter under the writing instead of over it, to make and keep it more colourful. Currently, the highlighter makes the writing black looking.

    4 votes

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