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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. I know that there is already a request for more colour slots but I would really love to be able to categorise my pen colours into categories and colour palettes. I tend to use a different range of colours for different books and it’d be great to have them separated into subfolders.

    36 votes

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  2. If you have a selection it would be nice to be able to just double tap the selection on the screen to copy it. Then if you double tap the screen outside the selection it will paste. Would make the process quicker and less tedious when copying a lot.

    Just to make it clear, I'm not saying double tap the pencil, I am saying double tapping the screen with the pencil.

    2 votes

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  3. When exporting handwritten notes or handwritten assignments, it would be very helpful to be able to add margins after the fact so that it can be printed and/or graded. I often write to the very edge of the screen and this neither looks good nor is practical if I want to print and put in a binder. This is a feature Notability has and one of the only things I like better about that app.

    2 votes

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  4. I would appreciate to have a Notebook-Counter in order to see, how many notebooks I have (in a specific folder or subfolder) and to identify/detect empty or overfilled folders or subfolders.

    After the name/title of each folder or subfolder should be in parentheses the number of (sub)folders and the number of notebooks they contain. (See figure.)

    1 vote

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  5. Button from home taking you straight to your open tabs so you don't have to click on a random file, delete it and then continue working on your already opened tabs.

    15 votes

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  6. Reporting a problem (bug) to be solved.

    When sharing to iprint app from Epson, the book suddenly closed. The printer window never opens.

    The share options loops sometimes for ever, then is needed to close the app, and restarting again

    Device Ipad Pro

    2 votes

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  7. Eraser should be able to erase text as well. When I want to erase a text I have to lasso and click delete or I have to edit the text. It would be nice to use the eraser to erase some parts of the text you want without having to delete or edit the whole thing

    2 votes

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  8. I'm a surgical resident, and I've used almost every form of note taking, app and study method available in my 30+ years of being a professional student.

    I've used Notability for a long time, but switched to Goodnotes because of the feature set, community, and one-time fee model. There are a few key missing features that make me switch back and forth between the apps.

    Disclaimer: I realize the amount of effort it takes to execute new features and believe people should be compensated for their work. I would not be opposed to in-app purchases for the additional features proposed…

    3 votes

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  9. I use goodnotes with screen tablet at macbook.
    But when I wrote sth with tablet pen fast, it doesn't work well.
    I can't write sth smoothly. and it show me broken letter.
    In ipad it's ok. but only in macbook, i can't write freely.

    you can see the attached file.
    I intended y=ax+by. but it is broken like that.
    I teach students with goodnote but this make me difficult to teach with goodnote.
    please help me if you can.
    Thanks in advance.

    2 votes

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  10. I have a lot of pages in my notebook, and to go to some older page I have scroll all the way there. It would be nice to have (like a pdf) pages minutares and possibility to click on the minutare in order to go there.

    4 votes

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  11. It would be practical to be able to select which files you would like to upload to iCloud, as, if you don‘t have enough storage for every single file, you can‘t even share a single file with anyone, which is quite annoying.

    2 votes

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    • It doesn’t help me and it makes writing much more difficult. and be able to paste or copy in the zoom mode.
    • i want to be able to see the open windows in a list or an organized way without closing the open files by mistake because i am switching from file to file.
    1 vote

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  12. As a left handed person it's VERY difficult to write at the left edge of the page.

    If I could move the page to the right and it would stay there, then I could rest my left hand on the screen and write on the left edge of the page.

    Can you make it happen???!!!

    3 votes

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  13. In previous version my battery was draining and fetching heating issue while using GoodNotes. Then I got updated version telling that it will be resolved. But for me it hasn’t been resolved yet.

    6 votes

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  14. Add Restore Page to the top right (...) menu (rather than requiring that we go back to the trash bin to restore (to make it quicker and easier to restore if the wrong page is deleted inadvertently).

    1 vote

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  15. Please increase max. Pen thickness to 5mm or 10mm. Right now it is only 2mm, which makes blackening (redacting) text very cumbersome and looks messy.

    2 votes

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  16. When in read-only mode, the two finger double tap gesture to undo still works. I suggest that this undo gesture is disabled when not in edit mode.

    4 votes

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  17. I am thinking of leaving apple for windows or android tablets. I would miss this app & hope you give access to those who leave the cult of apple.

    3 votes

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  18. It would be great if we can insert images to the comment box just like text.

    6 votes

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  19. Ability to move the elements collections manually so I can put them in the order I use most instead of scrolling back and forth

    7 votes

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