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  1. I would like to have continuity markup live where on Mac it will show what I have been doing with iPad and Apple Pencil. Or we can do presentation mode on Mac app.

    12 votes

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  2. I am unable to change the default font. I have a particular font and size preference (19 point Helvetica) but every time I copy-paste text, it automatically goes to 28 points Apple Color Emoji. This could be fixed with a customizable default font and size feature. Also -- when I change the font first, then the size second, the font annoyingly reverts back to Apple Color Emoji again. Somehow changing the font size makes the text revert again back to the undesired default font. It would be a fantastic time-saver if this were fixed.

    37 votes

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  3. I'd like to have the opportunity to create Symbolic Links in folders. This feature would let us use folders as an index for subjects comprised by notebooks or other folders without having to duplicate it.

    13 votes

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  4. besides Mac ecosystem IF and WHEN someone needs to search and extract or share contents from Goodnote in front of a computer it'd be perfect if there's a web portal or web app allowing one to get access to those and work on a PC or Mac machine as well.

    4 votes

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  5. When you open a notebook pages are initially displayed in full height. First thing you have to do is double tap to make the app use the available space of the display. I use A4 paper format, not GoodNotes standard.

    2 votes

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  6. When you create a folder and make multiple notebooks inside it, they can only be reorganized by certain categories. We should be able to move them freely and organize them how we want.

    5 votes

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  7. Allow users to insert new brushes similar to the procreate app. That way we can completely customize our notebooks with calligraphy and other word art.

    6,675 votes

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  8. 8 votes

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  9. I want to create templates for GoodNotes that have definable areas I can write in. If my template has a bounding box, I should be able to define the box’s borders and not allow handwriting outside that bounding box. It’s the difference between actual templates and just applying an image or pdf as a background

    3 votes

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  10. As an educator trying to use GoodNotes' annotate features with a PDF of slides, I found it difficult because if the scroll setting is vertical, there is just no way to advance to the next page of the PDF without some awkward scrolling. The arrow keys do not work unter vertical scrolling, it would only work with horizontal. (Many keyboards don't have page up/down.)

    I hope this can be added or fixed, along with a plain old "select" icon so that we are not accidentally drawing all over the document if we just want to read it.

    I also have…

    8 votes

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  11. A common action that I perform in Goodnotes is the "Convert Handwriting to Text” and use that converted text as an Outline in my document. What would be nice is there was an option from the converted text window to save the converted text directly to an outline. I’ve attached a screen recording of the steps I currently go through to add an outline title.

    5 votes

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  12. It would be nice to be able to lock a text box in place since sometimes drawings items are referenced to the box items

    41 votes

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  13. I would like to suggest you a little improvement: bring up the option of the lasso tool (circled in purple in the photo) on the unused space of the toolbar (circled in red in the photo). That would make the use of the lasso tool much faster.

    4 votes

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  14. Hello, when working with your APP I like to use the option to write in the focused field (on the very very left) If I now leave the focused field open but change the pages it will jump me back to the original page I was writing on. So as I´m writing in there I like to view a different page for informations but will be jumped back if I note it in the frame, as it begins to jump down on the next line. I hope its understandable, it´ll be easier to explain in German. Please leave me a…

    1 vote

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  15. Ich verwende Goodnotes zum Aufmaß von Baustellen
    Hier muss ich Maßpfeile mit Bemassung einzeichen.
    Es wäre toll wenn man Maßpfeile mit Maßbeschriftung ähnlich wie bei My Measures einfügen könnte.
    Eine Anbindung zur automatischen Übernahme der Messung von einem Bluetooth fähigen Lasermessgerät zb Leica Disto wäre noch die Draufgabe

    1 vote

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  16. When pinching the page to zoom out, lasso selection is removed.
    I want to be able to zoom out in lasso mode while keeping the selection. This is actually possible if I first select resize. Then I can zoom out and keep the selection. Pls allow the same in lasso.

    7 votes

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  17. 8 votes

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  18. I have entered all my Journal Colors and added them to Presets. When I type something, those colors are not available. I have to manually enter the hex code to get the proper color text .... Every .. Single .. Time!

    30 votes

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  19. Imagine you already wrote 5 different combinations on the same page. Color, thickness, pen style.

    I'm thinking of a "picker" button on the left edge which I can press & hold with my finger. (enabling picker mode until I lift my finger)

    When I tap the pen on the document, a zoomed hover-view shows up, I drag onto the pen stroke I want to reuse & lift off both my pen and finger.

    Simple & useful.

    But now when I want to write a title after a black simple text, I have to click red color, increase the thickness, change…

    5 votes

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  20. Goodnotes already has the option to export as image, adding this as an option to auto backup is a great way to cut down the file sizes that can reach hundreds of megabytes for the people who use the auto backup as a notes viewer when using their PC.
    This reduction in file size in my opinion is worth the loss of text search within the document

    1 vote

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