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  1. In MacOS, the scroll handle is far too small. It is very hard to "grab" onto using a mouse. Please make it larger and easier to interact with.

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  2. Rather than only having the option to using an AMOLED background, it would be preferable to allow users to set a custom image as the background

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  3. I cannot re-arrange the order of my study set. If i want to add a subsequent new card to a topic on e.g flashcard no.42, I need to delete every flashcard after no.42 to add that new relevant card. This wouldn't be an issue if the feature to re-arrange the cards existed.

    5 votes

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  4. Please give us a fast way of adding notebook pages or purchased papers to our Template Libraries.

    I just bought a number of paper templates from the GoodNotes Store and it seems will now need to waste twenty minutes manually exporting PDFs of each individual page, and manually adding each page separately back in to my Template Library. It won’t import a multi-page pdf and split out the pages. It won’t import an exported GoodNotes notebook. It will only import templates from Files or Photos. It would be nice to just tell it to add page X from notebook Y…

    3 votes

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  5. Tap to turn. The app is for ipad, it’s unintuitive then that the flash card starts on typing and you have to tap into a different screen to start writing with stylus. Generally, no one using goodnotes is trying to type their things. I also don’t like having to go in and out in and out to write the question and then it’s answer, I suggest having a double tap feature where the card in question is able to flip for ease of editing either sides.

    4 votes

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  6. At the moment one can switch from the document viewer to the file explorer … but not the other way around. From a UI / UX standpoint, this flaw is very frustrating.

    This problem was raised several years ago but apparently ignored. The currently suggested 'solution' (to use the search button and select a document from there) just does not cut it. A 'hack' is never a good solution to a design flaw.

    4 votes

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  7. I would love to have the ability to search just within a certain folder. I have a folder for each class, but being in vet school my classes overlap a lot. I would like to be able to search within a specific folder to be able to find info from just one class.

    Also with the new study set feature it would be great if we could have a search function within the study set just like any other Notebook

    6 votes

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  8. I would like to suggest that there is a possibility to display the full name of the pdf where something was found in the results of a search.

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  9. Purchased 6 once but cancelled and paid back to me.a few weeks later tried to re-purchase 6 via the store.however can not do it.maybe remain the record (purchased once) still in good note app.Anyway want to re-purchase it ,how should I do for it?

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  10. You may need sometime to improve user experience of Goodnotes 6. In the meantime, you should sell both versions and thus keep the normal functions of Goodnotes 5. When Goodnotes 6 starts getting good comments and good ux, the Goodnotes 5 users may upgrade.

    Now with the sync issue, I'm getting frustrated and started to look for alternative apps...

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  11. I use a few favourite text sizes and style and have inadvertently’locked’ one in the new favourites function and now can’t change fonts. Very upsetting as it now has prevented me finishing my book.

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  12. When you search in a written pdf using GoodNotes search engine it often misses (due to not recognizing the word or an adjacent hyphen - ), while other apps (like notability or OneNote) find it easily.

    12 votes

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  13. I noticed how smooth the laser pointer writes so a suggestion is make another pen style that writes the same way as the laser pointer writes, while keeping the pressure sensitive too.

    5 votes

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  14. First off, thanks for adding page numbers, the go-to page feature is awesome. Now I wish there was a way to set a page as page one and the pages before it would be negative pages. a lot of text books and documents I import don't have the cover or preface referenced with a standard page number. Thanks!

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  15. Goodnote6 is have a big issue it is when I playback the recording for some period of time it overheats and crash the app.
    I try reinstall the app restart my iPad pro 12.9”(M2)
    You should consider this as big problem cause this make the recording feature unusable. And this is annoying

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  16. The application keeps shutting down whenever I try to add stickers.

    It happened frequently in Good Note 5, but it keeps happening after upgrading to 6. So I can't add stickers.

    I tried shutting down the application and running it again, and rebooted the iPad, but the problem remains.

    I attach the video.

    1 vote

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  17. I've been using Good Notes for university and life in general for two years now, and there are several features that would make the app a much better place to study.
    I've thought about them and here they go (my native language isn't english so sorry if i make mistakes):

    -The audio option could be better (it would be great to be able to leave them inserted as stickers in any part of the sheet and thus divide the audio into sections, and that when pressed the previously recorded audio would sound). Also give them names and that they are…

    7 votes

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    • It should be possible to fetch the desired color from the page, for example from an image.
    • Change the name of the audios, and have something that would appear if that specific page had an audio. | It was good to have an option where what we wrote during the audio didn't stay on the page, or that for example we could record the red pointer together with the audio.
    • The option to adjust the position of an object and "send to the back" or "bring to the front", also divert is possible.
    4 votes

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  18. 4 votes

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  19. Improving the Access For Convince in terms of portability; Having the feature to scan through the flash cards on mobile phones would be the best for always on the go learners.

    2 votes

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