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  1. Have more than 1 type of bookmark and organized in the current good notes 5 bookmark page

    18 votes

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  2. I have documents open. I quit Goodnotes on my iPad Pro (swipe up). The next time a open Goodnotes I have to drill down into one of my folders to open one of my documents to open the section of the app that shows all of my documents I had previously been working on. A button on the home screen that lets me resume previous session without the drill down would be spectacular.

    1 vote

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  3. The inclusion of hyperlinks or jumps in one text to another, or other texts included in the same notebook or in a different one, makes it possible to work with live texts and therefore subject to evolution, correction or expansion, ultimately subject to continuous changes.

    2 votes

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  4. Hallo, ich fände es sehr hilfreich, wenn man Dateien (wie zum Beispiel Bilder, Textfelder, oder die eigene Schrift) mit Hilfe des cut Tools zwischen zwei Seiten hin und her bewegen könnte (bei Vertical scrolling) außerdem fände ich eine Lineal Funktion und eine Bibliothek aus bereits vorgefertigten Formen sehr sinnvoll.

    Manchmal hat man ebenfalls das Problem, dass Linien parallel zu den blatträndern ausgerichtet werden, was sehr hinderlich ist wenn man auf beispielsweise fotografierten Folien gerade Linien ziehen möchte zum unterstreichen von Text oder ähnlichem.

    Außerdem erkennt das shape Tool leider oft die Formen nicht oder erkennt Formen welche man eher selten…

    8 votes

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  5. Changing the colour or a photo, in particular to black and white, so that you can highlight features better. Would be an incredible feature for anyone studying anatomy, and wanting to highlight a specific nerve/ muscle...

    4 votes

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  6. The following are essential for reading and annotation of scientific papers that have a citation list and internal references:

    Issue: Following an internal PPF link does not reach exact position in target page.

    Feature request i: After following internal PPF link, highlight target line until next user input

    Feature request ii: After following internal PDF link, show button to return to original position.

    31 votes

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  7. Replace the current option menu with the iOS 13 context menu (long tap) for files in file list. This would provide a better user experience on both iOS and macOS since context menus are used a lot. Also I think that having to tap on the title is not really convenient.

    (Sorry for the screenshot in french)

    2 votes

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  8. The biggest problem I have with the current version is that the navigation bar can not be hided. For older ipads, especially for 9 inch display ones, every bit of screen space counts, and the nav bar really takes too much space. So it would be really nice to allow users hide the nav bar while keep pen tool bar on display, just like hiding the nav bar when the pen tool bar is not open.

    53 votes

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. Have hidden editable MetaData fields for each page or image, including date, name, keywords, etc.

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  11. I have an iOS shortcut that opens a new, untitled document with just a quick tap so that, when the office phone rings, I’m ready with something to write on. When the phone call is over, the process of saving the untitled document into an existing notebook (which is very common), involves 15 (!) steps: 1) open page view of newly created document; 2) tap “select”; 3) select pages to copy; 4) tap “copy”; 5) tap “done”; 6) tap “close”; 7) tap “save as untitled”; 8) navigate to the existing notebook; 9) open notebook; 10) open page view; 11) click…

    2 votes

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  12. A function for setting the size on screen to be equal to the size on printout (like on Preview app in macOS). This would ensure that the size of the text/diagram on the screen can be reflected on a 1:1 scale to how it would look like when it is printed out. Such a function will give users a greater sense of context when using the app, especially if the exported note has to be printed.

    For example, in the screenshot below, the width of the PDF open on the computer is equal to the width of an A4 paper…

    2 votes

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  13. Currently, in MacOS, you can only select an element if you are on the appropriate tool. Meaning you have to change tools to select an element.

    IpadOS is better a long press gives you the option to zoom or edit - the zoom option seems a little redundant when it's easy to press the zoom button and drag the box. I feel it would be better if it just defaulted to "edit". Maybe this could be a preference option if there are people who use the zoom box a lot.

    2 votes

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  14. when you copy/paste something and add it at another place/page, you may not see everything, since it overlaps the page. As long as you still have the edit-window open, it's not an issue. However, when you tap on the page accidentally and you lose th edit-window, you're not able to see the text which is not directly on the page.

    1 vote

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  15. When adding / changing the name of a workbook or document, I noticed that there is no auto-capitalisation, while I have that enabled in my general iOS settings.

    Is that something that can be added in the future?

    Cheers

    2 votes

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  16. 1 vote

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  17. On goodnotes 4 tabs would close when you restart the app. But on goodnotes 5 the tabs remain open and it is very annoying to have to close the tabs one by one. Please add an option to close all currently open tabs.

    Also I agree with another feature someone else mentioned to have pinnable tabs like google chrome.

    53 votes

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  18. The new ipad Pro (2019) allows you to open Notes by tapping the Apple Pencil to the screen and instantly start writing a Note. Once I have done this, there is no way to efficiently share this content directly to GoodNotes. Allowing GoodNotes into the Share options would help streamline the use of both apps.

    10 votes

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  19. When reading an article or reviewing a professor’s lecture slides (they always upload it as a PDF instead of a PPT format so I can’t edit the way it is exported). GoodNotes often fills the whole page with the PDF. It makes it great for reading, however, there isn’t much space to annotate. I usually get around this by zooming out but GoodNotes is a bit more rigid when it comes to that. Other than that it is a great app!

    10 votes

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  20. goodnotes 5 has just one type of front and colour can be saved as "defeat" and for user tying their doc using this setting evertime.

    I want to ask for more "defeat setting" maybe 2 to 3
    and just like the setting from notability

    2 votes

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