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  1. I would like to be able to set the default option when importing to GoodNotes to be “Import as New Document” rather than “Import to Current Document” to help prevent, for example, accidentally inserting large documents to the middle of other large documents.

    6 votes

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  2. Currently if I delete a document in GoodNotes5 it stays in the Auto-Backup Folder. I would love to have an option to be switched on if I want documents automatically deleted in the Cloud backup (e.g. Dropbox) as well

    14 votes

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  3. Bei horizontaler Scrollrichtung: Vertikales Scrollen bewirkt springen zum vorherigen/nächsten Favoriten/Gliederungspunkt

    Bei vertikaler Scrollrichtung: Horizontales Scrollen bewirkt springen zum vorherigen/nächsten Favoriten/Gliederungspunkt

    2 votes

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  4. For adjusting what should be selected with the lasso tool you always have to open a dropdown menu. This could be done with the property menu on the right. That would be faster and you would see directly, what the lasso tool is going to select before using it.

    3 votes

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  5. Add the ability to draw a closed shape around some text and suggest converting the shape to lasso.
    This way I can draw a circle around the text I want to move or erase, click on the 'Tooltip' image that offers to convert the shape to lasso selection, and move it or erase it without using any toolbar buttons.

    1 vote

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  6. When I import a document, sometimes I’d like it to be open. But app stays in the current folder and not the one I imported the doc into. So I have to navigate.

    I’d like to be see a toast message allowing me to click to open the newly imported document.

    2 votes

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  7. Since handwritten text lists can be broken apart much better than text, I would like to have a ‘convert text to handwritten text’ feature. We could even have nice handwritten ‘fonts’ that we could choose from.

    5 votes

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  8. Im talking like a quick pull coordinates graph, rulers, ability to type equations, make tables, and most importantly a much better shape recognition (it is tough to achieve since GN5 uses vector instead of pixels and this can be solved by making a shape menu that you can drag and drop into the page)

    Also, I would die for a "dublicate" option in the menu like in notability instead of having to copy and paste every single time!

    13 votes

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  9. Las carpetas, libretas, documentos... que aparecen al abrir la app se ven demasiado pequeños cuando los ponemos en modo vista como lista; es una lástima ya que es un modo de visualización muy práctico pero debido a que el tamaño que presentan los iconos de la versión para el iPad es demasiado pequeño, no queda para nada vistoso.

    1 vote

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  10. Most ideal for copying and pasting images with text that we've written on top of it!

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  11. I would love it if there was a way to access notebooks online in a way that we could edit the organization of the notebooks. This could be in the form of a website where you can log in to access your notebooks, or maybe making a downloadable app/program for Windows.

    588 votes

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  12. Hello GoodNotes I was disappointed to find that I could not add a video into your app as a document itself. It would be really useful for me to include some helpful YouTube videos with my university notes. If you could add this feature that would be great. If I could take screen records and record my professor speaking as I take notes that would be fantastic.

    33 votes

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  13. Currently when sorting by date, documents are sorted by date they are last modified. I'd prefer an option to sort by date first added to GoodNotes. e.g. I add lecture slides on each day of class and would like them to stay in that order even though I recently wrote stuff on the oldest lecture.

    29 votes

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  14. It's not currently possible to go back to the document view without opening a document from the library. Maybe, we can hace a button for it.

    5 votes

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  15. Making it more easier to change pen, eraser and various other tools.

    To change colour or intensity click on the tool icon again.

    1 vote

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  16. Low data usage mode for Automatic Backups on external cloud providers (Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive...). Sometimes these servers don't allow constant updates and may cause problems on the already existing backups. Low data usage mode, when enabled, will only summit changes to those servers every day (for example). This will reduce cellular data and battery usage, as well as problems with service providers

    As my screenshot shows, my Student Onedrive provided by my University cannot handle constant updates from GoodNotes 5, so my backups keep stuck with that error message.

    Not sure if every one experience this errors (i tested…

    7 votes

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  18. The brush pen is too rounded and you can’t do proper brush lettering with it. It looks to bubbly.

    1 vote

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  19. You have an excellent app!

    Please can you improve it by allowing more than one image to be selected and imported into GoodNotes from the users camera roll at a time.

    Sometimes I need to import 10 or more screenshot images from my camera roll and currently I have to do this one at a time which is very cumbersome.

    Please can we have multiple image import from camera roll, or if it already exists let me know how I can do this?

    Thanks,
    David

    19 votes

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  20. It will be great if legal or important documents could be permanently saved as read-only, preventing any future editing or inappropriate deletion.

    2 votes

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