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  1. Can we bring back the zoom toolbar options from GoodNotes 4 such as the undo/redo and pen color options??

    49 votes

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  2. It would be nice to have the option to disable hold to zoom as this will often pop up when I am writing any dots, periods, or multiplication signs (I like to make them fairly visible).
    I'm fairly sure Notability has this, so it would be nice to have this option in this app as well.

    2 votes

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  3. Sometimes I create a new colour and forget to Save it but need it anyway. I hope I am not the only person having this problem. So please add this fantastic tool.

    2 votes

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  4. I dont use your app because i have windows device and use onenote .

    15 votes

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  5. Due to the existence of arxiv, many people, take me as an example, will download preprint versions of an article and after quite sometime, when the published version appeared, one should also include that into the database. Now we have one preprint with your notes or comments on it, and another published one with higher reliability, it seems necessary to pin these two(or more) together to make life easier. Or if there are better solutions, welcome to comment!

    7 votes

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  6. 4 votes

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  7. A vertical zoom window for those of us on top-to-bottom documents, as opposed to left-to-right documents.

    2 votes

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  8. For me it would be Pretty helpful when there would be an Option To categorize the Pages i have marked as favourites.
    In every Semester i have about 4 different courses and for each course an own folder with probably some sub folders and when there is a page I would like to mark for later I can only use the one favourite button but I would love to have an own collection of pages marked as favourites for every folder/ for every course.
    So in the end I could have an collection of all the marked pages for one…

    7 votes

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  9. Right now, the auto backups to google drive strip the PDFs of their outline. But we need the outline in order to navigate large files.

    The outline is one of the strengths of GoodNotes. Please allow auto backups with outline intact.

    7 votes

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  10. -Concept Mapping Tool (Reference: MindNode App) “cleaner visualization of ideas”
    -Refined Pencil Strokes (StreamLine Feature in Procreate App for smooth pencil stroke) “Excellent for cursive writing”
    -Apple’s inbuilt Ruler (The Ruler in notes app and Concepts App) but with a measuring unit
    -Adding Voice Recording Buttons on the notebook and Able to Convert Audio to Text for convenience
    -Password Protection for sensitive data
    -Able to import Custom Vector Brushes to create beautiful illustrations on spot without a second app

    Dear devs, please add these features! Your app has already replaced my notebooks and adding these features for a visual learner…

    37 votes

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  11. When zoomed in trying to write, ocasionally the whole thing zooms out having to zoom in again. This is very frustrating, especially when doing things under time restriction such as exams or some kind of quiz. I have noticed that this happens when moving the palm when writing.

    2 votes

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  12. In main menu, add "custom" order for notebooks and folders. Add this where it says "name", "date", and "type" on the top of the main menu so you can keep the books in an order you prefer.

    Make folders more customizable, add option to change colors of folders or add designs or icons to folders, similar to notebooks so that it is easier to distinguish folders and find them with ease.

    Add a "folders" section to display only folders on the righthand side of the main menu page where it displays "documents" and "favorites". It would also be helpful to…

    25 votes

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  13. The apple books app has this great feature that shows all of your highlights in a given book under "notes." I would LOVE to see something similar on Goodnotes.

    I color code my highlighting so if I could search for just orange highlights and then see all of my definitions (which I color code in orange) in one place and then jump to that page by tapping that would be amazing.

    30 votes

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  14. As we all know, it's very comfortable for everyone to write in a certain paper size ratio. But now, because the size ratio of the paper often changes, so I have to spend a long time to adjust the size of the paper. Maybe goodnotes can improve this point。(From machine translation, I'm sorry to disturb you)

    3 votes

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  15. I constantly am uploading PDFs to GoodNotes, but unless the PDF comes with OCR, then I cannot search the text within the PDF. Notability has this feature, and automatically makes all of the PDFs OCR compatible. If GoodNotes could add this feature that would be amazing, because as a student, I’m constantly uploading files and needing to search through them.

    15 votes

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  16. 1) Make the text box to be limited to the paper's boundaries and continues the text automatically to the next page (similar to Microsoft Word) as soon as you hit the bottom of the paper

    2) Make Indentation possible with bullet points and other symbols

    45 votes

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  17. Yesterday evening I created a folder on my desktop and added 7 files to it (exams I was about to grade). It took over 22 hours for these 7 files to finally appear on the iPad. Both the desktop and the iPad were connected to the network all the time. That's waaaaaaay too long.

    1 vote

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  18. Every time I open GN in my MacBook, the app window is small. We should be able to open it in full size each time without having to adjust the size after each opening.

    6 votes

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  19. Handwriting to text--as you write. I love GoodNotes. Total fan. It makes ADD me an organized guy. No easy feat. I like how easy it is to edit a notebook's thumbnails. I love the variety of line width--and the instant undo, which I need so often. But, but, but: Last night my wife showed me Jamboard on her iPad Pro--and I couldn't believe how cool it was that her handwriting got turned into text--as she wrote! So I tried this in GoodNotes. Yes . . . . you DO convert handwriting to text--in 13 easy steps. GoodNotes validates my purchase…

    17 votes

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  20. 3 votes

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