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  2. The Zoom window downtown allow you to write all the was to the bottom of the page :(

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  4. It has been starting for a week now and I keep getting to fed up trying to make a circle or a "C". Please fix this issue ASAP.

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  5. I really love working with GoodNotes, especially when I mark my eBooks and PDFs.
    Those have often a length of more than 200 pages.
    Sadly, it often happens that (even though the order is correct in the „miniature-view“) some pages appear in a different order.
    The problem can be fixed with a reset of the app but it’s very annoying I have to say.

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  6. Highlighter should highlight below text
    Please have a shape option like in illustrator, u click what shape u want and u get the shape, also I really need dashed lines
    Also Circles should have those anchor points at top, left, right and bottom. Current circles have those points at random places (I added an image which explains better) and also I would like to have an option to draw circle by specifying the center (tap at the required center point and draw out the radius to get a circle)
    I don't know if something can be done about this but…

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    Thanks for your feedback. We have noted it internally but we will close this idea because it contains multiple different ones which will make it impossible for others to vote on it. Please only submit one idea at a time or add your votes to the ones that are already existing in our feedback forum. Thanks a lot and keep the feedback coming.

  7. In the app, highlighters are perfect, they lay behind the text, making it pop, and still doesn’t bother when reading it over again. When I want to convert my notes to share it with others, or printing it, PDF looks the best, sharpest. But after converting it, the highlight lays on top of the note making it less nice, and less readable. Is there any chance that we can still enjoy the notes as nice and sharp, even after converted to a PDF?

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    It looks like it is a bug in the app as it should normally look the same on exported PDFs too. Please try to use either “editable” or “flattened” as the PDF data format when you export the document to see if it would change the output when sharing it. If that doesn’t work, please send the original notebook in GoodNotes format to support@goodnotes.com so that we can investigate. Thanks.

  8. To be able to tap the screen and hold so that the zoom window opens with whatever you are pointing at.

    This would be particularly useful if you're using Goodnotes to fill out a form then you would be able to go directly to the field you wanted to write in instead of having to open the zoom window and then having to slide the document back to the part of the page you were looking at.

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback. It is a bug and the feature was removed by accident. We have noted your report in another system and will close this feedback here. Keep your eyes on the App Store for future updates.

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  10. Enable old page press zoom menu

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  11. Before the update for the shape tool, it was easy to draw brackets, now it take 2-3 try each time to try to draw them...

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  12. Always when using Goodnotes 5 on my Ipad with my Apple Magic Keyboard and its new „cursor“ feature, the app lags and i can‘t seem to move my cursor around and it works perfectly on all other apps.

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    Sorry to hear about that. Could you please record a video so that we can see the issue and send it to support@goodnotes.com directly? Please also include the diagnostic data that you can export under GoodNotes > Menu > About.

    We try to keep this forum for ideas and feature requests only and not for bug reports.

  13. It would be helpful if this is fixed ASAP as this takes away form the note taking experience.

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    Sorry to hear about that. It would be great if you could record a video so that we can see the lag and send it to support@goodnotes.com for investigation. Also, please include your diagnostic data from GoodNotes > Menu > About. Before you do so, ensure that you’re already using the latest version of GoodNotes.

  14. with the most recent update, GoodNotes has become completely unusable. It starts up and shows some not about reorganizing the data to improve performance for over a minute. After that, it is still unusably slow. Changing to a folder takes up to 20 seconds. Opening the overview of of a large file about the same time. Productive work has become almost impossible.

    Importing a new 900k File takes over a minute.

    Also, replication with the cloud has become even more unreliable. Replicating a 900k file takes several minutes with now way for the user to actually influence or prioritize replications.…

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  15. They have many features yall lack and vice versa. Together y’all would be unstoppable.

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    Thanks for the suggestion. We don’t plan to merge with any other apps at the moment but we’d be interested in what you’re missing in GoodNotes. It would be great if you could look through the forum and add your votes to the features that have already been suggested. If you don’t find a specific feature you’re missing, please add it yourself as it will give others the option to vote and comment on your submission.

  16. currently when i draw a straight line across the screen it remains slightly tilted. Could you make an option that enables autocorrection for small angles so that lines can be 0, 10, 20, 30.... degrees ?

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  17. It seems that GoodNotes has recently changed something with scroll on the iPad version. Now, whenever I swipe up/down quickly, it moves so quickly that I end up not knowing which page I'm on. Please change it back to the old scrolling speed.

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    Thanks for the report. It is not an intended change but a bug in the latest version that we’re already investigating. We’ll release an update asap that should fix it

  18. When I open the app over the shortcuts app to directly open a document, the app works fine. But when I want to close the document with the X button, the app crashes every time. iPad with iPadOS 14.0.1.

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  19. Although there is a standing issue where the eraser will be lag, it was not particularly bothering me so I was fine. This was till the latest update where I had issues with writing as well. My input would not register and appeared as a shape (line) a few seconds later. Additionally, goodnotes would also abruptly jump me to many pages above or below which took me time to scroll back to my original position. Super disruptive.

    I really like goodnotes and I prefer it over notability when it comes to taking my university lecture notes. So would appreciate if…

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    Sorry to hear about the issue. Could you please record a video where we can see the lag and the scrolling problem and send it to support@goodnotes.com? We will have a look.

    P.S.: If something is not working as expected please contact our support team directly. We use this forum to organize feature requests and ideas our users have.

  20. iOS 14 introduced a new system-wide color picker (similar to macOS) that allows you to save colors to use across apps and includes an eye dropper tool. This standard color picker should replace the custom one currently used in GoodNotes.

    For more information, here is the Apple Dev documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicolorpickerviewcontroller

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback. We have already looked into the native color picker of iOS 14 but have decided not to use it because it limits our flexibility in terms of new features we may want to add to the GoodNotes color picker. We will add a +1 vote for you on adding an eyedropper.

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