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  1. 1 vote

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  2. It would be awesome if you could add a method to convert copied text from a pdf to custom handwriting. As a software engineer, I propose adding the capability to enter a custom alphabet where the text is converted by mapping each letter (works in O(n) where n is the length of the text).

    3 votes

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  3. Apple announced that iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey feature system-wide translation, allowing users to translate text by simply selecting it and tapping or right clicking on the Translate option that appears.

    This native support by the os, should be easy to implement.

    In fact, some existing applications already support this feature without upgrading. I am curious why GoodNotes does not automatically support it when reading PDF files.

    21 votes

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  4. I use several colors regularly and I must select the one that does not appear in the bar. If there were 4 colors and even five you could have them available more quickly. Others handwriting apps have quite a few colors available on the taskbar so you don't waste time choosing. In the figure I have put six colors and it does not look bad.

    8 votes

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  5. It would be amazing if you could select which notecards to study. Sometimes, you only need to study a few.

    6 votes

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  6. It would be very helpful for an API of some sort to be exposed, so developers could make various plugins.
    A few ideas:
    - Programmable notes (Useful for maths - insert difficult sigma sums, calculations etc)
    - Ability to tap into handwriting recognition (recognise chemicals, equations, etc)
    - Siri/ shortcut support
    - Custom shape snapping
    - Themes

    I'm sure there are more things developers could do with this ability. Take VSCode for instance. Granted it was built from the beginning to be easily modified, but their plugin ecosystem is incredible.

    6 votes

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  7. The default scroll button is too tiny to use

    3 votes

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  8. this is not the most needed thing. there are ideas on this forum that are most needed but its a new idea that could add to the customization capability of the application

    2 votes

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  9. Search only in a specific folder

    4 votes

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  10. As I work often with large PDF documents I miss a feature where I can only see the pages I made marks on to reread or print.
    Notability has such a feature, would be great if you could integrate that, can not always search hundrets of pages for markings.

    Read a few similar requests online.

    The feature sould be kind of „show only pages with marks on“ and so you dont see the hundrets of pages of a PDF but only the ones of the script where you made annotations on.

    2 votes

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  11. Manual switch option dark mode “in GoodNotes”

    8 votes

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  12. There are times we need to move all of our notes from one page to another. There should be a keystroke (such as Cmd-A... Mac) to Select All data entered on a page so it can be quickly copied/pasted.

    1 vote

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  13. I've seen a lot of requests to enable in line replacing of handwriting with text. This would be a killer feature and would make the app even more fantastic. It would be awesome if this function could (also) be used to make handwritten notes clearer.

    Microsoft Whiteboard on Surface already uses this 'magic wand' function:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V2F0mKVfp7k

    Key is that the algorithm replaces the handwriting with legible text using the same color, comparable size and a suitable font.

    This feature works great to make handwritten notes better suitable for sharing with other people.

    Thanks for reading and keep up the good…

    1 vote

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  14. I use GoodNotes to store my e-textbook PDFs and use it to study. But it’s really troubling to me that i need to use the split view in order to view two separate pages. It’s very difficult and disturbing to use spilt view (which when I want to turn to a page, I need to do the same gesture twice, once left and once right. And every time i want to turn to the next page, I need to swipe twice on each of the separated screens.) when what i need is like reading a book in two pages and…

    122 votes

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  15. There are surprisingly high amounts of scammers and spams on goodnotes feedback page

    2 votes

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  16. On outlines page Currently when you long press an outline you can only delete it or change its name, an option to go to the that page could be really useful.

    Right now the only way to this to go to the thumbnails, then to the outlines, then to the page, then to the thumbnails again.

    Something like the one in the picture could be small thing to add and could be pretty useful

    2 votes

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  17. While scrolling you can see the page number. The app could also show the page outline next to the page number

    2 votes

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  18. Just like the title says. App should automatically capitalize first letter of each word of the outline just like it does for notebook names. Or at least there should be an option in settings.

    2 votes

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  19. is there any sort of implementation you guys are able to do that allows users to align photos that are uploaded/inserted into the app? Either snapping photos to each other or just knowing when the border of one photos is aligned to another - maybe even to the middle/center of document as well? Screenshot is attached, see blue lines for example!

    15 votes

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  20. please add a feature, where you can choose more than three colors so that you can switch easily between them

    29 votes

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