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  1. If you have a dark background, writing with white text is usually nicer because of the contrast. However it is a nightmare to print because of all the ink wasted on printing that background.

    Please implement a feature where we can convert background and some other elements into different colours for the sake of printing hard copies. Digital files don’t work for everybody.

    12 votes

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  2. In my paper journals (and in GoodNotes) I have various shorthand icons that I draw next to text (stars, hearts, tiny houses, etc.). It would be great if I could draw these icons into an "icon gallery" and then when I draw them onto a page they would be recognized and the page would be "tagged" with the icon so that I can quickly find it again.

    And I totally get that training your recognition engine to identify arbitrary shapes is a much different beast than recognizing handwriting in general and this may not be technically feasible. But it would…

    3 votes

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  3. Currently in split view, only one side has the option to back out to the previous page (for me it's the folder the notebook is in). The other side only has the option to close the app. I want both sides to have the option to go back to the folder level.

    2 votes

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  4. I get tons pictures from my students’ works.
    So I’d like to open several pictures or documents from Files as pages of one single document.

    So far you can select and share them in GoodNotes, but then I’ll just get many single documents with one page each.
    So here should be a dialog like „Open as separate documents“ or „Open all in a single document“ or „Add to document“.

    You could open a new document in GoodNotes you want to have the pictures in, go to Thumbnail view, go back to Files and share the pictures in GoodNotes (then you’ll…

    2 votes

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  5. A Pen/Pencil Drawing Mode , where it "mirrors" everything you draw along the "x" or "y" axis.

    This would allow for drawing custom symmetrical shapes much faster and easier.

    <3

    6 votes

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  6. The problem I currently face when I export my notes in pdf format is that I can only export it with the outline preserved or with searchable characters but not with both features, which is vexing to say the least as both are essential for me to structure my notes.

    It should not be a huge technological barrier for GoodNotes to break through,right? Thanks, I need this new feature stat.

    5 votes

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  7. Take a picture with iPhone camera instead of iPad camera.
    For better usability it would be easier to use user's iPhone to take picture and it is a feature I need every day. (Apple notes app has the feature)

    5 votes

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  8. Often times I annotate pdf in dropbox/Google Drive. I'd like to use goodnotes a PDF annotation tool rather than use PDF expert because I like the UI. I don't want to have to import PDFs directly into goodnotes and then export it.

    9 votes

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  9. It's much harder to crop a photo after it's been added and downsized and the crop tool buried in UI menus. There is no reason for undesired information to ever appear in a notebook. Undesired information should be able to be cropped out of a photo before ever appearing in the notebook.

    This would be a better workflow than how GoodNotes currently works:

    -Add photo/Take photo
    -In photo screen display crop tools so you can CROP UP FRONT
    -Then already cropped image appears on notes page for quick positioning and resizing.

    7 votes

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  10. When I am inserting photos as a new page, I can only insert one photo at a time and could not insert more than one at a single instance.

    It saves lot of time for the users in case they want to insert screenshots of lessons they are going through online.

    2 votes

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  11. When I am inserting photos as a new page, I can only insert one photo at a time and could not insert more than one at a single instance.

    It saves lot of time for the users in case they want to insert screenshots of lessons they are going through online.

    2 votes

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  12. I have to use macos mojave, because I need Adobe illustrator cs6 as design software for my small business coffee roasters. Adobe cloud version ist too expensive for my use

    2 votes

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  13. Just dragging the pencil over the txt should select and allow drag and drop

    Copy , cut and paste - the Text must be from the PDF and not what’s added by goodnotes

    1 vote

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  14. I often bookmark pages that I want to export for my students and then go to contact sheet mode in order to select the bookmarked pages and then export. However when I am selecting pages in contact sheet mode, the bookmarks are no longer shown so i dont know which pages I had wanted to export

    2 votes

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  15. 打开大纲跳转至最近的大纲,避免重复下拉到所在页面

    2 votes

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  16. Es würde den Arbeitsprozess wesentlich erleichtern, wenn es eine einfache und unkomplizierte Hoch- & Tiefstellfunktion geben würde. So könnte man z.B chemische Formeln weniger aufwendiger in seine Texte einbauen.

    2 votes

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  17. save tabs in groups for later use and close all tabs

    16 votes

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  18. Add one more default pen/highlighter/etc colour to give you more colour options that you can easily switch between. Similar to using a real 4 colour pen.

    39 votes

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  19. So there is an overview feature in safari that allows you to view all open tabs in the app as windows in rows and columns. I find that I have a lot of notes open at once.

    If we could have a similar feature, like a button that gives us an overview of all the notes open, as well as seeing their first page. This would make navigation between open notes much faster and more productive

    5 votes

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  20. Android is rubbish, please do not waste your resources on Android, focus on iOS and Mac.

    13 votes

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