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  1. Please make corner focused resizing to be an option for pictures and shapes. Resizing them to fit exactly in what I want is a nightmare because it is center focused, and the entire pic/shape changes.

    21 votes

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  2. I would like to import a Folder Structure, including Subfolders and Documents and find that structure represented in GN5 after the import. This would make GN5 a much easier to use Documents Management System if one has a lot of Documents before switching to GN5. Currently one has to create the whole Folder structure manually and import the Documents for each Subfolder separately.

    21 votes

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  3. It would be so useful to create sub-outlines in a notebook because at some point there are so many outlines that it just gets messy and confusing. At the moment these only get created when you import a PDF.
    So pls add this feature.

    21 votes

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  4. I’d like to be able to change the line width for a drawn thing, with the Selector tool I can only change the color but not the thickness

    21 votes

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  5. Instead of viewing two pages on a different windows, I propose to view and work on 2 pages mode on a single window.
    By doing so, users may enjoy their horizontal view mode by working as if working on a real book.
    Availability of 2 pages view in single window will allow users to more frequently use this application rather than other alternatives such as Flexcil, PDFexpert.
    As a student, my self and users around my self are demanding this function. Because of lack of 2 pages function, it is not hard to see using other aforementioned alternative application.
    Please…

    21 votes

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  6. The current automatic backup attempts to backup your files after every edit and thus (based on my settings) attempts to render to pdf after every single edit. This constant rendering and uploading rapidly drains the iPad battery to the point where I lose about 20-30% per hour of use and as a side effect makes the device very hot and uncomfortable to use.

    Instead, it would be good to have an option to either schedule a backup (i.e. once an hour, once a day, etc) or have a cooldown option where a document won't be backed up until say 5…

    21 votes

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  7. It will be great if we can customize different scrolling directions for different documents rather than the same for all documents. Since some documents may have a better view in vertical scrolling some may be more convenient in horizontal scrolling.

    21 votes

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  8. I am using GoodNotes as a teacher to present my lessons. It would be wonderful if I could I insert live links into my goodnotes page so I can click on it to show a video or math application like Desmos. Are either of these features in the works?

    21 votes

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  9. There is enough space left in the toolbar to have 4 (maybe even 5) preset pen-colors and -thicknesses displayed in the toolbar permanently.

    I use for my notes during lectures 4 different colors and I would save quite a lot of time if my 4th color could be displayed permanently as well.

    21 votes

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  10. There should be shortcuts for
    - document search
    - search all files
    - delete page
    - mark/unmark page
    - close current file
    - switch between edit and view mode
    - cmd + z / cmd + shift + z for undo and redo

    I think there can not be to many shortcuts, as they are invisible to everyone not using them. Add your ideas...

    21 votes

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  11. Pasting text which spans more than one page is very difficult to handle as the text which is beyond the bottom of the page, disappears.

    So the only way to currently handle this is to :

    (a) measure how much text can fit into the page, then

    (b) somehow, 'cut' out the text at the bottom which does not fit within the page ( this is not easy to do ).

    (c) go to the next page and repeat the above process till all your text is pasted across multiple pages.

    A NIGHTMARE.

    21 votes

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  12. I would love a keyboard shortcut for adding custom outline entries. Right now, it takes several taps.

    21 votes

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  13. Need an option to slide the zoom windows blue shaded continuous writing field away from the far left edge to accommodate left handed writers.

    21 votes

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  14. Create an Index Page or Table of Contents with hyperlinks to the pages you are seeking.

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  15. It would be great if I could change the pencil thicknes after writing the text.

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  16. It would be really beneficial to add another pen tool along the banner (alongside the pen and highlighter tool) which allows a much larger pen size design for colouring in, allowing for ease in drawing diagrams etc. Currently, the pen tool does not go large enough and the highlighter tool overlaps the colour making a block colour difficult to achieve. Additionally, rather than just giving you a circle as the pen stamp, squares or lines could be added as brushes.

    21 votes

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  17. To effectively look over the multiple pages, I believe we need a full screen mode for thumbnails. And if it is possible to change the size of each thumbnail, that would be really convenient.

    21 votes

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  18. Optimize PDF Export Size, notes with three photos have more than 10 MB in one page! Now we use other Apps to optimize the exported PDF, it would be great to control this in Goodnotes

    21 votes

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  19. Please keep the original full screen reading mode option. Having the menu bar at the top while you are only reading the notes is very distractive and buttons might be pushed unintentionally.

    21 votes

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