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  1. After a screenshot is done, and we've resized it down, and we make another copy ... it would be awesome to have that 2nd copy be the same size of the previous (which we cropped ourselves) rather than the very 1st original copy.

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  2. A lot of people would agree that fountain pen in Goodnotes, while still very good, lags behind the competition (Noteshelf, Notability).
    I think adding texture or random shading, similar to what you can see in real fountain pens, to the fountain pen stroke will greatly improve its visual. Addition of stub nib effect will also improve writing experience.
    Thank you,

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  3. Penultimate has a great feature, similar to GoodNotes’ AutoAdvance, where the screen moves automatically if you’re writing and it stops moving as you stop writing. This was really useful for me as it meant I mainly had to move my hand in one direction- I didn’t need to move it along the page, as the page moved itself. This enabled me to write significantly faster and reduced hand strain. It would be great to see this added into GoodNotes

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  4. 3 votes

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  5. At the moment, any time I reopen the app the outline settings is reset. This is very annoying as some of the imported PDFs contain their outlines which I do not wish to see in my custom outlines. The settings should be remembered for each document.

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  6. Adding the ability to scroll through notecards in practice mode rather than having to select how we felt we did would be helpful for studying

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  7. Taking notes during a presentation I really need to be able to take a picture of the slide and annotate it. Unfortunately it seems I have only the simple cam (no full scanning feature with rectification canvas-based) so I get a distorted image. Just make it available to use this feature (documents scanner) within the note.

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  8. Currently shapes are only supported and created by scribbled pen input. Sometimes I want to modify the size in height or weight, rotate or color the shape. It would be necessary to offer modifiable shapes like you can do e.g. in Miro or Adobe Illustrator. Set starting point, move the Apple Pencil to desired ending point and voila your rectangle is created. I wished you could also color shapes with border and background color. I think it would help a lot in daily routines.

    3 votes

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  9. Kann man erstellte pdf Dateien zuschneiden. In meinem Falle habe ich Grundrisse als PDF file auf dem iPad liegen und möchte dort unnötige Bereich löschen geht das ?

    3 votes

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  10. The order of the tools (pen, eraser, highlighter, lasso, etc.) is logical but impractical. Pens, erasers and highlighters are on the left, the colors and line widths are on the right. That means a "long" journey every time.
    I would find it better if the tools and options to do so that are used together are also close together.

    Die Reihenfolge der Werkzeuge (Stift, Radiergummi, Textmarker, Lasso usw.) ist zwar logisch aber unpraktisch. Stifte, Radiergummi und Textmarker sind auf der linken Seite, die Farben und die Linienstärke dazu sind auf der rechten Seite. Das bedeutet jedes mal einen "langen" weg. …

    3 votes

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  11. 你们好,good notes的开发者们。首先非常感谢你们开发出了这个笔记app,我已经使用了三年,并且非常喜爱。但是最近遇到的一个问题是,iCloud多客户端同步这个功能会自动同步所有的文档,这占用了我的iPhone很多内存空间。所以我建议,可否让多客户端同步的文档变得可以由用户自己选择呢?而不是自动在所有的客户端上同步所有的笔记文档。
    期待你们的回复:)

    3 votes

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  12. It would be great if you could take notes on resubmission. This would allow you to create a quick note and schedule it for a different date and time for processing. Such functions (e.g. reminder functions) are available in apps that manage documents and since notes are created here, it is similar to managing a document. In my opinion, it would be a great function.

    3 votes

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  13. running good notes on my private AppleID (=iCloud) and using it on my business Mac, too is today not possible. I'd even open to buy it twice, but I habe only 1 mobile device - so basically though I love good notes, I can't use it anymore.

    Solution:
    Allow to accept shared documents also from Mac App. This way I can still use it on my iPad and iPhone and notes I neet @work could simply be shared with my business AppleID.

    This would provide a solution for many other feature requests such as
    https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/40412074-sign-in-icloud-from-goodnotes-app-to-sync-personal
    or the request to use…

    3 votes

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  14. It would be very helpful for a lot of people with bad handwritings if the handwriting to text feature is improved further as a input mean with the support for input on another same as handwritten notes are input now.

    3 votes

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  15. You can access a lot of notes written by the good note app.

    3 votes

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  16. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  17. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  18. i got updates recently // ver. 5.6.9 (799398.332495063)
    more shapes can be recognized and edited; that‘s cool
    but i find it harder to draw a vertical/horizontal line than before
    and the width of the line are ALWAYS uniform

    hope for any options in setting ui which could allow us to switch that
    please see the attachment below; i use GREEN word to express what i want

    3 votes

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  19. when many tabs are opened, it becomes harder to maintain a good overview. I suggest the option of putting tabs of documents together in a group or stack, so that I can now work on other documents, but still can reopen the other tabs fast without having to close them before.
    For example: I‘m working on my physics homework and my answer and exercise sheets are opened. But also, I do have to take a look from time to time into the maths and physics theory notes, but not often, and still, they are using up a lot of tab…

    3 votes

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  20. On iPad: pinch page to view to thumbnails. Use entire screen to show thumbnails instead of overlay.

    3 votes

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