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  1. I like a lot the Mac app on the Catalina, but I have an older Mac that runs on High Sierra, and it can't install the app, just like me, I think more people could use the app if it's were made available for older Macs, since is something that you keep for 10 years easily.

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  2. Okay so they did hierarchy but its kind of a pain to navigate. If you have many folders and are in one of the deeper folders you must keep pressing the back button until you get to your desired document. There should be a menu button (for instance near the Bookmarks button) that could be accessed to easily get from one document to another.

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  3. Currently, when you search for a term, the search drop down menu will only show an excerpt of the first instance that the search term is found on a page. Often times, however, a term appears more than once per page. It would be beneficial to see an excerpt of each instance the search term is found.

    For example, if the term "Australia" is found 4 times on page 53, there should be 4 excerpts of page 53 showing each instance where the term Australia appears.

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  4. For my exams, I have to print out all of my notes because I have access to all of the other apps on my iPad. It would be great if from the app, there was a way to have a professor set a password and time limit to lock me out of the rest of the iPad and prevent me from closing good notes so I could use this during an exam. Then, when you are done with the exam or the timer expires, the lock will end and you can then close the good notes app and use the…

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  5. During my studies i use GoodNotes 5 every day and i love it.
    But in some lectures we uses some symbols and characters often. And therefor is my idea.
    Is there a possibility to creat an own library for often uses symbols?
    That i only have to draw them once and save them in „my own symbols library“?
    For example the summation sign (∑), or the drawing of electrical schematics with resistors, capacitors etc.

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  6. The Mac App seems like a waste of money, because it is exactly like the iPad app's interface, except on a Mac. Please make it more like Pages or other native Mac apps.

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  7. So there is an overview feature in safari that allows you to view all open tabs in the app as windows in rows and columns. I find that I have a lot of notes open at once.

    If we could have a similar feature, like a button that gives us an overview of all the notes open, as well as seeing their first page. This would make navigation between open notes much faster and more productive

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  8. Use the first handwritten line of a note as the default title.
    No need of typing when creating a new notebook.

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  9. The current drag & drop feature copies notes as a PDF file. (http://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/19716046-export-individual-pages-using-drag-and-drop-mac-a)
    However, It's sometimes desirable (and easier to view) if I copy them as images (to email app, iMessage, other note-taking app like Bear, etc.). I wish there is an option to select images over PDF.

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  10. I always work with several tabs at the same time. A new document appears at the last position on the right site. Before the split screen option - which is really great - it was easy to move a tab. With the split screen option it is difficult to move tabs without opening them in a separate window.
    At the same time it would be great if there would be something like a back to option in the folder view which allows to go back to the tabs without opening a document. Thanks!

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  11. Hi,

    laser pointer is great tool when i want to use my ipad to demonstrate something in real life to someone that can see ipad screen.

    During video conferences, i used to mirror my ipad screen onto my laptop and use laser pointer for online demonstrations.

    I've bought macOS app, hoping that i could do that directly in the app on my laptop rather then mirroring my ipad, only to discover that laser pointer feature is not available on laptops.

    Please add laser pointer feature for macOS app.. otherwise i wasted money paying for the separate app for my laptop.

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  12. GN5 crashes when a corrupt PDF is imported. GN5 should complain about a corrupt file without crashing.

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  13. There is this button on the top left corner with four squares, where we could shift the pages around, flag pages, save them into the content page. But its stupid how we can't select multiple pages (or maybe its just that i cant figure out how). So if i want to select some ten pages and move them up, or delete them altogether, or export them, I can't.

    But overall, I really like Goodnotes and the feature I love the most about them, is them constantly listening to our feedbacks and improving their interface.

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  14. I have no idea where to tell them that the highlighter tool is not going behind the text anymore for me, I don't know if anybody else is having this same problem.

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  15. It's much harder to crop a photo after it's been added and downsized and the crop tool buried in UI menus. There is no reason for undesired information to ever appear in a notebook. Undesired information should be able to be cropped out of a photo before ever appearing in the notebook.

    This would be a better workflow than how GoodNotes currently works:

    -Add photo/Take photo
    -In photo screen display crop tools so you can CROP UP FRONT
    -Then already cropped image appears on notes page for quick positioning and resizing.

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  16. Please add watercolour pen/brush for morze artsy users :)

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  17. When the current page is not blank, a blank page is automatically added, no more pulling to add pages.

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  18. Changing the colour or a photo, in particular to black and white, so that you can highlight features better. Would be an incredible feature for anyone studying anatomy, and wanting to highlight a specific nerve/ muscle...

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  19. The App "Flow" has a feature that allows the user to assign a tool to be used if the Apple Pen is used while the user holds a finger down anywhere on the screen. This is very handy to quickly switch to "Lasso Tool", or anything else really. It would be great to have this in GoodNotes too.

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  20. Hi,

    For example, when we're using a red pencil and convert it to text the fond of the text become black. Can you add an option so by default the color of the font is the same as the original handwritten note?

    Thanks

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