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  1. Sometimes, I forget what size and colour I wrote in. It’d be nice if I can use the eyedropper tool to see what size and colour it is.

    15 votes

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  2. Make us able to drag the page further in zoom window. It’s hard to write at the end of the page.

    3 votes

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  4. how can i import notability files and still be able to edit my handwritten notes?

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  5. Allow the user to pin certain files or folders so that they stay at the top in the document browser, regardless of the sort settings. For example, I like sorting my date, but I don't want to have to dig through my files to find my folders. Instead, I would like to be able to pin the folders I want while still sorting the rest of my documents by date.

    (I know GoodNotes already has "Favorites" which is pretty similar and I guess essentially has the same use, but I just find it more convenient to view pinned documents on…

    8 votes

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  6. Allowing continuous scrolling while mirroring full page (audience doesn't see interface & zoom) would make much better use of the screen space during a online presentation (i.e. Zoom meeting). Specifically, I would like the top 3/4 of the screen to be the most recent written material whereas the bottom 1/4 of the screen would be the new material actively being added .

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  7. Be able to write and view a note in dark mode however automatically invert to white paper and black/ darker coloured text when exporting to a pdf, sharing the document or printing. Onenote already does this and it is very useful.

    3 votes

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  8. Please allow writing outside of page in the margins, similar to OneNote.

    8 votes

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  9. When replying to an e-mail, it's useful to be able to attach a document from GoodNotes. This is different from exporting a GoodNotes document by e-mail from inside GoodNotes, which creates a new e-mail.

    A possible workflow could be: receive an e-mail with a PDF attachment to review -> export the PDF to GoodNotes for signature / annotating -> reply to the e-mail and attach the annotated PDF.

    Currently, it's possible to use Mail.app and GoodNotes in split screen, and drag a GoodNotes document to an e-mail reply. However, that seems to be restricted to Mail.app. Other mail apps don't…

    1 vote

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  10. I use GoodNotes for my planning and now create my planner in keynotes first so I can link the tabs to the right page. I’ve seen more people suggesting this feature comes in GoodNotes itself too so you don’t need keynotes anymore.

    I want to add something to that suggestion: I would also like to link objects or text boxes so what you write on one place will be mirrored to another place.

    For example; I have a monthly overview but also days and weeks. I have in every day page a square in the same size as in the…

    6 votes

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  11. Especially in PDFs and PowerPoint Presentations where you cannot add more room to write on or around the page, having the ability to add and create a collapsible “sticky note” on the page would be useful. An example is provided:

    16 votes

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  12. When formatting text for example by using underline, bold, cursive, the whole text is being formatted with the last effect being used in the text when changing font size. Please change it so that when changing the text size already formatted words are being saved and not applied to the whole text box.

    2 votes

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  13. I'm using Iphone -8 and ipad ,not have wide camera (zoom 0.5X) like Iphone 12.
    Please add more feature in "take photo" mode for keep wide area image.

    Sorry for my poor english.

    Thank you
    Best regards.

    2 votes

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  14. Goodnotes Dokumente ineinander verlinken, sprich wenn ich im Dokument „siehe Kapitel xy“ schreibe, würde ich gerne dieses Kapitel aus einem anderen Dokument verknüpfen um somit mit einem Klick dorthin zu gelangen.

    2 votes

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  15. Paging Transition WITHOUT any effect (like one can with PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat).
    I use GoodNotes in virtual meetings as well in presence ones. The page transition animation are ‘nice at first’ but always distracting, specially in cases of two or more pages that are identical except a few visual clues (like an added box to call attention to a detail)… in those cases a clean, seemless transition, is a MUST.
    I saw many other suggestions of the kind here, all SHUTDOWN by some ‘moderator’ as being a non issue that you can set the presentation mode to always full

    2 votes

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  16. Having a feature similar to ACD/ChemSketch would be awesome!

    2 votes

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  17. I use adobe color to pick out sets of colors and I wish I could group them easily long-term in Good Notes 5. I would like to see the ability to assign color palette groups to a new notebook and a menu to alter the current palette. The workflow would look like:

    I find a set of n hex values to import into good notes
    I copy & paste, Good Notes intelligently recognizes a list of hex values and asks if I would like to import.
    I accept and see a small box menu that describes “Which Notebooks to Add…

    8 votes

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  18. Allow import of docx documents on Mac version of GoodNotes

    2 votes

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  19. When inside a notebook, it would be great to be able to open another notebook/document in a new tab (not a new window), without having to hit the back button and go back to the main list of folders/notebooks/etc

    2 votes

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  20. GoodNotes still does not have implemented this great feature that apple introduced with iOS 13. Everywhere I can press long on the scrollbar and just slide it wherever I want. So I can reach the last page of a long book pretty fast. In GoodNotes I still need to scroll page by page until I am at the last page. This is pretty annoying. Even Notability has this feature implemented.
    You can see three photos attached, one while using Goodnotes (no thick scrollbar), one while using Notability (thick scrollbar) and one while using Safari (thick scrollbar).

    Please implement this!

    2 votes

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