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  1. The history buttons are positioned too close to the Library View button. I usually miss clicked them so instead of going back to my previous edits, I totally LOST them all!

    • Maybe position them to the bottom as shown in the attachment?
    • And/or make the documents preserve their editing history

    Be mindful about handedness though.

    2 votes

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  2. I think it would be awesome if audio recordings could be saved to a page instead of a notebook as a whole. So for example MS PowerPoint you can record audio per slide and place a button to play the audio on the slide. This is great if your audio is only related or needed for a specific page and not the whole journal.

    4 votes

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  3. We, the users who already paid for "lifetime" access for GN5, shouldn't have to pay again for GN6, to the tune of 3x the cost. And what's your definition of "lifetime" anyway? Change of whim and software? The new features simply aren't that amazing to warrant any kind of cost. Legacy users should get the upgrade for free. New users should be the ones to get this godawful subscription model that you swore you wouldn't foist upon the users (like Notability, remember what you said about them??). I'm sure this feature request will go right in the bin, but I…

    8 votes

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  4. Add all the same Features like on ipads, Mac books etc. (from Apple) too on Windows / android devices

    7 votes

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  5. 或許大家沒有注意到,在mac上選取文字後按定義是不會跑出任何翻譯的,希望能新增這個功能,謝謝。

    1 vote

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  6. It's one of the features already in "Good notes 5 for ios". I'm missing some of the features in Ios, such as reordering pages and multi-task documents. And I also see some small bugs. There are a lot of minor bugs, such as the problem of not being pressed long when scrolling through pages, and the problem of being pressed long while writing. I hope you can solve the bug quickly.

    1 vote

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  7. In the setting "Handwriting Recognition" it is possible to "Add Language" to the preferred languages.

    If I added a language by mistake, I would like to be able to remove/uninstall a falsely added language.

    8 votes

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  8. 5 votes

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  9. not able to write outside PDF margin like onenote
    this is very imp feature for student
    to make your own notes near to the PDF content
    so pls pls pls add this feature ASAP
    PFA vdo of onenote how it is very imp for student
    it will save lot of time of student & all onenote user will shift to goodnotes

    6 votes

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  10. These three things are much needed
    Auto Detection of Arrows is very helpful in many cases
    Dotted Lines/Dashed Lines are very necessary in Making Diagrams especially in mathematics and physics
    Duplicate feels more easy than copy and pasting the thing, adding duplicate with copy will save time
    Inverting PDF too seems necessary sometimes

    Only because of these 4 functions I have to sometime switch to notability and it does not feel good cause I have paid for GoodNotes

    26 votes

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  11. So when typing on the iPad in the in-line page type mode the shortcuts will randomly trigger, jerking you out from typing and to inserting an image or sticker. So I propose either disabling shortcuts when in typing mode or just give us the option to disable keyboard shortcuts all together. I’ve been typing up some documents in the new version and this problem has been annoying me a lot and I haven’t even gotten thru a single paragraph without being interupted.

    3 votes

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  12. Move the undo location on the toolbar. The undo icon on the toolbar is directly below the library icon in the NAV bar. I always tap the Undo button by mistake when trying to return to the Libray of my Documents. I have lost many final changes when I try to return to the library.

    2 votes

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  13. Fix the Bug with the showed pen not correlating with which one actually is used and fix that it‘s always asking you to upgrade even though You already did (pics attached)

    2 votes

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  14. It would be great if we can have FaceID support for this. Not only should it be an option for individual notebooks, folders, and quick notes, but to have the ability for opening the app itself - while also including a time feature (locking every time you exit or after 5 minutes of not using it). With the ability to choose from a combination - for instance I want to have FaceID to open the app and upon entry I want certain notebooks/folders locked for an extra layer of security.

    3 votes

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  15. Please add a feature to make the text adjust to the added image, the same way it is done in Notability. Your app is great, but this particular feature is sorely lacking! I hope you will make an improvement soon. Thanks for your work!

    1 vote

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  16. because i use the flash card sets to study for my psychology test, i have ended up with them cluttering the documents screen. it would be nice to have a way to merge them all into a combined flash card stack so that i just study one set and add it to the pile for me to study all at once later in the year

    3 votes

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  17. It would be great to have an option for a larger canvas. The current tab design is 3 levels. Especially with the new customisable toolbars, if you don’t use page tabs. Everything can fit in one bar, increasing canvas size.

    2 votes

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  18. I would like to be able to create a general notebook "template" of PDFs/notes for my students and share a copy with them. Then they have it on their own devices and can edit/write in the notes as we go. Every student would have their own copy of the master notebook, but edit in their own ways.

    2 votes

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  19. I proposes a new learning support feature for the GoodNotes app, inspired by the widely used "red sheet" study method in Japan. Specifically, it replicates digitally the ability to highlight text or diagrams with a green marker and visually hide those parts for memorization purposes. This feature will allow users to efficiently memorize content they wish to learn.

    Feature Details
    Dedicated Marker: Users can highlight the parts they wish to memorize using a dedicated color marker (e.g., green).
    Transparency Mode: Once the user exits the note's editing mode, the highlighted parts are automatically hidden.
    Reveal/Hide Content: Hidden content can be…

    1 vote

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  20. When you want to move text to right right/left, you have to use the move tool. However, it would cause some (unintentional) changes in the y-direction as well. So an option to lock the axes to only x or y axis would be useful!

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