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  1. It would be good to have some more versatile, mathematical or scientific paper templates. For example, a split page (similar to a Cornell note-taking), where one side is ruled and the other is graph paper. Perhaps, a graph section on the top half, and a ruled or blank section underneath where one could add notes or symbolic work. Also, paired with this suggestion is the echo to add math conversion tools, converting to a display equation with LaTeX. This is the only reason I may choose Notability over Good Notes to use to deliver class notes when teaching. Sadly, in…

    25 votes

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  2. Would be great to be able to change the colour of different notebook tabs to speed up switching between them. When I study, I only close tabs after the course is finished so I sometimes have 20+ tabs open at a time. Would be awesome if I could, for example, have lecture slides in one colour, reference notes another and notebooks in yet another etc. or different modules in different colours.

    16 votes

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  3. Bug: When a pdf file was the last one I opened and then I moved it to the trash bin, it tries to be reopened and throws error when I open GoodNotes app again.

    Solution: Make sure the deleted file is also closed, preventing it to try to be reopened as the last one I edited when GoodNotes app is opened again.

    1 vote

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  4. Would be nice to have an "insert line" option/feature like in Apple notes. It's frustrating not being able to go back and add additional notes to certain pages.

    2 votes

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  5. I need the ability to snap booth sides of my note to the left and right Border of the iPad. Like in Notability

    10 votes

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  6. Especially with the fountain or brush pen, some darkening of the color on a downstroke or with more pressure applied so it looks more like those pens in real life. Kind of like in the example, which came from procreate

    3 votes

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  7. An setting u can turn on so that if u start writing something a TEMPORARY straight line appears underneath your text that u can then write on. That way even if u are writing on blank paper (for example powerpoint slides), you can still write in a straight line. When u stop writing the line disappears (after approximately 5 seconds so you can lift your pencil up for a space between words in one sentence)

    This would be a very small but truly amazing feature!

    4 votes

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  8. Optional list-view for the pages instead of thumbnails
    (similar as the solution for the documents)

    1 vote

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  9. in the other templates section the portrait / landscape - chooser should be a toggle-switch (safe one click)

    The appearance should be pre-selected to the previous page (safe one click in most cases)

    1 vote

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  10. I often need to change scrolling direction due to the fact that this setting cannot be applied to each document independently.
    Therefore, it would really help if the scrolling direction menu item was a simple toggle button, which would make perfect sense since there are only two options and so it is totally unnecessary to dive further in the menu settings to be able to change it.

    2 votes

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  11. That option would be good for everyone since we would use it for lettering, to put other types of brushes… In the same tab where the pencil is located, where you can choose a brush, an option should appear: + add brush. + add brush should be found with pen styles. instead of being: fountain pen, ballpoint pen and brush pen. It would be: + add brush, fountain pen, ballpoint pen and brush pen. Final results would be photo.

    20 votes

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  12. On the right side of the toolbar, there are three options: automatic disappearance of the laser trails, and the manual remove all/erase laser trails option.

    Explanation (optional to read): I’ve been using laser trails almost every time when I review because I can write on top of my written notes and annotated handouts to help me remember, but what’s frustrating about it is that it disappears so fast when I try to write multiple words of what I have just reviewed seconds before. I can’t use the regular pen and write above these papers of mine since they are annotated/written…

    1 vote

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  13. It would be cool if you could also edit the colors in the text box

    3 votes

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  14. When I draw a square with the highlighting tool and hold down on it to let it lock and create perfectly straight lines, i‘d like to see the option to turn on „fill the square“ as with the geometric tool or the pencil :)

    4 votes

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  15. 3 colour shotcuts is good but it would be better if we can add more of em'

    2 votes

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  16. Make the pen sizes a lot larger so we can fill something in faster or draw larger text epically for note book covers, titles, etc.

    4 votes

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  17. Example;
    I need to get a set of A1 landscape drawing for reference in my A3 landscape notebook. In this example, i do not need to have the original size of pdf. it may also help reducing the file size?!?

    1 vote

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  19. There are a few Sanrio;

    1. most of the time we may want to have consistent page size, this could be the size that we start the note book with. It could be nice if there is a option to “fit” any template to that size.
    2. we may want to have a specific sizes (multiple paper sizes) on notebook, it will be nice if we could have some control. For example assume that the typical size of notebook is A4 portrait, we may want to have a few sheet as A3 landscape.
    * one of the benefit is that…

    1 vote

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  20. Every time you enter a Text into a text field and leave this particular text field, and create a new one at a different place. The previous configurations about the text field are set back to standard, and don’t stay the way you set it.

    This is really inconvenient, because if you want to create a note with various text fields which are all in the same style, you have to configure the text settings again and again for every text field

    2 votes

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