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  1. It would be great if I can change the order of the icons.

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  2. Two reasons I still prefer Noteshelf over GoodNotes.

    1. The menu bar area in Noteshelf takes on the default Mac colour scheme whereas GoodNotes has this dark blue top bar area for note windows. It's a little think but it's a slight niggle.

    2. While I make my notes on my iPad, I like to see my notes on my Mac and mostly have 2 notes open all the time on an additional monitor; one is my todo list and one is my planner. If I did this with Goodnotes, any time I close the app or restart my computer and then…

    2 votes

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  3. I'm considering buying an iPad Pro and I love the idea of using a Pencil to take notes. My problem is that my handwriting is awful and my printing isn't much better. Back in the day I owned a Palm PDA. The quick way to enter notes into the PDA was by the use of gestures. A portion of the bottom screen was dedicated to entering gestures using a stylus. Yes, you had to memorize gestures but, this was not to hard as every letter and number was close to the way letters and numbers are usually hand written with…

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  4. Like other regular apps. It’s simple.

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  6. I noticed someone that showed me the app, it had symbols to drag and drop (circles, squares, etc) can we not have these on the Mac app (it's what I have)
    I need these to draw cameras, TVs speakers on drawings

    Thanks!
    Nick

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  7. I can’t paste anything in a new file (new planner made from scratch in PowerPoint with pages link)
    Need help

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  8. On Goodnotes Macbook, I believe that when I want to delete markings in an area, I would use the select function, and circle the area which selects the markings I want to edit and by pressing "delete" on my keyboard. But somehow that doesn't work with goodnotes, and apparently I could only switch to the eraser function. (Somehow the "delete function after double-tap is also greyed out, along with all the other functions including making screenshot, changing colour etc, not sure if its a glitch specifically regarding the macbook version of goodnotes, or is it something im simply not doing…

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  9. bug: at the position where the outline is added, the cursor cannot be moved left and right with the keyboard only, this should be a mac version bug

    Suggestions: 1. The mind mapping function is really needed. The way to make and import using other software is very silly, and the pictures will float on the lines of the notebook, which is unacceptable!
    2. The outline needs to be arranged by itself. It is recommended to cancel the automatic arrangement or add related setting options. Want to refer to the way of the paper, 1 can have a subordinate directory…

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  10. It seems that GoodNotes 5 treats shapes drawn by using the shape tools just like regular handwritings made by the pen tools, but this becomes a problem when it comes to handwriting recognition/search.

    When I draw shapes such as boxes or ovals over handwritings for highlighting certain words or phrases, handwritings are not recognized well.

    The only workaround seems to be using the highlighter tools since GN5 doesn't consider highlighters as text to be recognized but highlighter tools don't offer precise thickness control unlike the pen tools.

    Notability seems to treat both the highlighter and the shapes differently to handwriting…

    2 votes

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  11. When showing paper choices, allow user to press for magnification pop up before choosing.

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  12. The Graph Pages from GoodNotes 4 are missing. We REALLY need these back. I have an entire sales force that uses these to make scale drawings. We transfer them to our company paperwork. Please give them back! Soon ! `

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  13. Please add function for importing photo files like jpg from google drive. It can be done in Goodnotes 4 but not available in Goodnotes 5.

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  14. this will keep the new file next to the original when sorted by Name

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  15. I rotate pen, eraser and lasso tools very often and very quickly. I would like to be even quicker. For this, it would be useful to have an auto-deselect option for the lasso tool, to be triggered when I tap anywhere in the page, as I normally do to deselect the selected object. The auto-deselect should give me back the pen automatically. Also, it would be very intuitive and amazingly fast having the reverse behaviour by tapping the pen outside the page to select the lasso tool.

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  16. Hello dear GoodNotes team, I have been using your app for a long time and am thrilled. I would still have 2 change requests that would make my work easier. 1. Fixed zoom level when writing, so that you always have the same writing feeling or typeface. At the moment the typeface is constantly changing, because you can write at different zoom levels. 2. Always offer the last storage location when importing and also always offer importing as a new document (do not insert it because you happen to have a document open) (possibly adjustable). These two points would considerably…

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  17. I found a very bad bug. That is, if you write text on the right side using the magnifying tool, it will look like a photo. I want you to fix it as soon as possible.

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  18. Insert horizontal and vertical extra paper note for dropping note down on top of your document.

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  19. I am a undergraduate student and I always use GoodNotes for notes during the class. I just import all PPT I have and sometimes find there do not have enough space while the whole PPT have my instructors’ notes. And If I just add another page to write, the information and the whole PPT will be much more messy. I just cannot find the important points from my professor and my own by add like 10 pages own notes with 3~50 pages of PPT. Add a "semi-hidden" tab, it will be very helpful to add my own notes without destroying…

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  20. It would be better if I could select any part of an image (imported to GoodNotes 5 ) to cut/ copy it so that I could delete/paste it anywhere else on the page/pages. I am attaching a video to convey my point. If this feature is available please let me know how to use it.

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