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  1. Select only these folders or books you want to sync on iCloud (so that you can work together with a other person).

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  2. I hope that I can directly select multiple pages and rearrange their order in the thumbnails like what I can do in Notability.

    I know that I can copy and paste page to rearrange the page order. But it's not convenient.

    I'd appreciate it if you could add this feature.

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  3. GoodNotes is an amazing app and I really appreciate all it can do. Recently, I started making flashcards with it. This is when I encountered a problem while I was trying to study those flashcards. I learned that I couldn't zoom in on the flashcards when in study mode. This is a major issue with the flashcards feature because my small iPhone screen does not show the details of the pictures that I attached, which makes it impossible for me to study these flashcards properly. Please try to fix this ASAP because zooming in on the images to see the…

    13 votes

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  4. 13 votes

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  5. I like to have my notes very densely packed, so I typically use the finest thickness pen and zoom in nearly all the way.

    However, when zoomed in, the lasso tool thickness (the blue dotted lines) becomes extremely thick and selecting small items is difficult.

    Suggestion: When zoomed in, make the lasso line width thinner.

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  6. It would be great to have an embedded calculator and create formulas. Currently, calculations must be done outside of goodnotes and then manually added and updated.
    Example: Use the app for finance tracking. It is impossible to keep track in the app since numbers such as Totals have to be manually updated when a new transaction is added or changed. It's time consuming and leads to increase of error.

    13 votes

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  7. I recently switched all my notes and flashcards over to GoodNotes because I loved the flash card feature so much. Most flashcards apps randomize the cards which I personally don’t like because the order of the cards can be very important. Now that you have introduced randomization it has severely impacted my ability to use the flashcards (which I just made hundreds of). Please allow users to turn randomization on or off based on their own preferences. Thank you!

    13 votes

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  8. How come you decided to go for double-tap /only/ instead of giving us the option to choose between single or double-tap?

    Please add this, and maybe an option to turn the gestures off for those who prefer the buttons on the screen (see the comments on your own post about the update, for example). It would be deeply appreciated.

    And also, the redo gesture does not work very well for many, if at all (not working at all in my case).

    13 votes

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  9. A keyboard shortcut to toggle between read-only and edit modes. (⌘R perhaps?)

    For both the Mac and iPad versions

    I use a planner with hyperlinks and frequently have to toggle between the two modes, as the hyperlinks are easier to use in Read-only mode

    13 votes

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  10. Please add search option for handwritten words in Hindi language.

    Add Indian language also in focus as Chinese .

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  11. it would be extremely nice to have a setting so horizontal scrolling could be like the vertical one, where if i just need one swipe to pass multiple pages. i like the horizontal layout but find it very slow and frustrating to move between pages.

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  12. Instead of going to the thumbnails menu, just do a zoom out to see two pages in the same view, instead of one; then if done again you can see 4 pages and then 6, then 8 and so on.

    Important detail is that, let's say you have the view for 8 pages in your screen, if you do the gesture to see the 'next page' you see the next 8 pages, so you can navigate much faster within the document.

    13 votes

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  13. These gestures are used in the app Procreate and they are very convenient. They make the workflow feel much faster and more fluid. Also, they have become standard gestures for performing the undo & redo functions in many apps.

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  14. 13 votes

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    • Button in the transform dialog to replace the selected handwriting directly with the transformed text

    • Recognition of mathematical formulas/symbols/etc.

    13 votes

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  15. 13 votes

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  16. I often annotate books for school and it would be nice if I could search only my handwriting and not the entire text of the book

    13 votes

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  17. The dark blue colour menubar at the top of the app is:
    (a) irritating
    (b) takes up a lot of space

    Please add an option to hide it.

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  18. Please allow us to customize the top menu bar in Goodnotes. For instance, I don't normally take pictures or use the laser pointer feature. But I would love to have more than 3 colors readily available. I'm sure many other people have other preferences.
    The only tools that are REQUIRED are the pen, eraser, select tool, one color, and one size. Everything else should be customizable.
    Even if you didn't let us remove anything, my 11" iPad has so much blank space in the menu bar when in landscape mode -- let us add stuff.

    Thanks for considering and upvoting!

    13 votes

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  19. Goodnotes uses two rows of tools, which is takes up too much screen real estate, especially in landscape mode. This means I cannot use Goodnotes for teaching, which is what I got it for. (It's a shame, because Goodnotes is otherwise well suited for teaching.) It would be great if you could compact to a single row of tools (or even zero), to get more writing area.

    13 votes

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