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  1. Now we only can save 3 pen colors and 3 pen thickness, but I would love to have more, something like 5, there is place tu put them, and we can have a setting of how many are showed, so who wants to have 3 can have 3 and who needs 5 can have them

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  2. A third section of the color picker with document-specific themes and colors would be nice. I have lots of documents with different color schemes that are made confusing by the current color picker setup.

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  3. "Duplicate" rather than copy-paste would be a great idea. Already you can do it with a second GN window open (as noted in another comment) by dragging to the other window, dropping, then dragging back (even several times, if you want).

    But why not allow the same facility without a second window? At the moment, dragging the "white box" in the same window looks promising... but disappoints by just snapping back when you let go. Why can't it simply duplicate? That would be a super time-saving feature.

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  4. I was wondering if there can be an option to select a page element and “Bring Forward” or “Send Back” so that I wouldn’t have to worry about layers being obscured. This would be especially helpful for inserting images on top of preexisting text when I want the text to be visible on top of the images.

    27 votes

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  5. It would be great to have pentagon, hexagon and other shapes recognized.
    Like a chemisty mode in GoodNotes.

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  6. Vielen Dank dafür, dass ihr meinem Wunsch über alle Notizen zu suchen entsprochen habt! Es funktioniert sogar in der Schreibschrift super!! Nun meine nächsten Wünsche:
    Ich möchte gern jederzeit angezeigt bekommen wann und möglicherweise auch wo, ich die Notiz erstellt habe. Ich möchte ausserdem Dokumente suchen bzw. finden, die ich an einem bestimmten Tag und/oder Ort erstellt habe. Ausserdem fehlt mir ein Lineal mit Massangaben um Grundrisse zu zeichnen.

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  7. Strongly request a way to set the paper size to 100% zoom so that I know how big that my handwriting will be when I actually print it out.

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  8. The handwriting recognition and the ability to expert searchable PDF's are outstanding features. But I often write notes that include both English and other languages, especially French, that come up in my work, and the current search and export based on only one language at a time significantly limits the usefulness of these features, especially because it leads to significant errors in recognition, because, for instance, if the language is set to English, it will "recognize" a French word as a very different English wood. Thanks for considering this, and for a great app.

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  9. I take my course notes using this app and love it. It would be nice though to be able to make the table of contents when making my notes so it would be quicker to parse my notes by topics

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  10. This is the only feature that makes Good Reader superior to Good Notes. The ability to have a pop up note allows you to write more things without cluttering up the page. If this was added there would be no need to use another app. Please please!

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  11. A lot of polish students use this up and it would be very useful to add a polish language to it

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    1. A history of all notes opened. This should have a duration limit. Say if someone spends 10 minutes reading or revising a note it should go into history. Or let each history entry be deletable.
    2. Calendar view of which notes were opened on what dates and what time.
    3. Ability to schedule entire notes or pages of notes into a spaced repetition system.
    4. Ability to rate how well you know the notes.
    5. Noteful introduced tape feature to hide parts of notes similar to cloze feature of Anki. They have Layers as well. Goodnotes should introduce these features
    26 votes

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  12. Many engineering, computer and data science, maths, and other technical degrees do a great deal of programming. I love writing all my notes in Goodnotes, but all my code snippets are all over the place. Sometimes I do try incorporate code blocks in my notes, but the process of screenshotting, cropping, and pasting is a hassle. Having a feature (even one that can be downloaded) would be a massive convenience for a lot of users. Just a basic block that can be inserted into a note that displays a filename space. The tools tab can be loaded with, say, three…

    26 votes

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  13. Please add catalan to de list of lenguages you have. It would really help if the app could detect catalan texts and switch between handwritting and text. For now I use the Spanish option but some words are completely diferent it doesn’t really work.

    26 votes

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  14. Me and a lot of friends use Goodnotes for handwriting in Ukrainian, but we cant recognise it into text now (only Russian language is possible for Cyrillic alphabet).

    For many Ukrainians it would be amazing possibility to write on our language and have possibility to recognise it into typing text (specially now when we are trying not to use russian anymore).

    Willing to help if I can (maybe showing different handwriting style or alphabet or anything i can) :)

    26 votes

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  15. ONE NOTE has a glitter pen option and adding this to good notes would make the notetaking app the best one out there!! I added an image example, seriously consider this so I can only use good notes and not have to bounce between apps all the time.

    26 votes

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  16. Text written on a sticky note should move with the sticky note and resize when the sticky note is resized.

    26 votes

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  17. I'd like to be able to rotate an object without the scale changing. Please make these separate functions!

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  18. In my opinion it would be amazing if the highlighter aways automatically went under the pen, so it would work better with lighter pen colors and dark templates. The highlighter works good with black pen and it doesn't make it opaque or something, but I makes lighter pens murky. Maybe there could be an option in the highlighter settings to change wether the highlighter goes on top or bottom.

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    • bullet point features: there are times where I would rather type than write and it is frustrating when I can't keep my notes organized because there aren't any bullet points

    • the pen tool has 3 saved settings that we can change, it would be nice if we had that available for texts as well. Most of the time my title, subheadings, and bodies are different fonts or sizes. It is more convenient to press a single button rather than manually changing it every single time

    • guidelines to align texts, writing, and images

    26 votes

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