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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Not sure how to describe this. But it is a hassle sometimes, that whenever i draw a graph for example and use different colors and sizes etc. to annotate it and then release i need to erase something which happens to cross over the lines of my graph, the graph would get erased as well.

    So maybe an option to pin something like on Canva so it can‘t be edited anymore.

    6 votes

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  2. It would be nice if there were a way to index all pages written and make them available where one finds Thumbnails / Favorites / Outlines a way to go quickly review and find.

    I will use when I have a normal document with a lot of pages, and I have to write some notes, o highlight something, and then quickly find in the documents my notes.

    6 votes

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  3. Wenn ich mit dem Apple pen schreibe, bräuchte ich Linien.
    Bei GoodNotes musste ich bisher einzeln Linien zeichnen und darauf schreiben, damit ich einigermaßen gerade schreibe.
    (in notability gibt es beispielsweise die Funktion Haftnotitzen.
    Danke!

    My handwriting isn’t the best, so what I need is a note paper, where I can write on it.
    Notability already got this function...

    1 vote

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  4. Ich bin von notability auf GoodNotes umgestiegen und bereue es gar nicht!
    Jedoch wäre ein Verbesserungsvorschlag: wenn ich mit dem Apple pen schreibe, bräuchte ich Linien
    (in notability gibt es beispielsweise die Funktion Haftnotitzen.
    Danke!

    1 vote

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  5. It would be great to see recent files/notes I’ve saved in GoodNotes in the Files app on iPad and iPhone and Finder on Mac as well as the Spotlight on Mac to make search easier. Thanks!

    4 votes

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  6. E.g Automatically switch black to white pen color when opening a black (template) document
    Or have a different pen color palette for black template document (instead of a global constant)

    11 votes

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  7. 1 vote

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  8. Add pencil, and more fun tools to draw and write and please add a voice record option

    3 votes

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  9. Allow us to make a custom watermark. For example i make legendary notes on my ipad and i send them to my classmates, but i want to add a watermark in app so they cant use it elsewhere. Right now i use some third party software where i have to put my pdf in and it gives me a pdf with watermark. With the built in watermark feature it will be very easy.

    9 votes

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  10. Please add the auto-advance feature on the Mac app too, because it is quite useful but available only on GoodNotes 5 for iOS.

    3 votes

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  11. Currently we have to create a single new page each time, but if we already know that we need a document with 30 or 150 pages, it would be much quicker if we had the ability to create a document with those many pages.

    Also, in existing documents, instead of creating a new single page each time, it would be quicker if we could tell Goodnotes how many new pages we want it to create each time.

    1 vote

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  12. Please add an option to FLAG (label) DIFFERENT PAGES IN A NOTEBOOK WITH DIFFERENT COLOUR so that we can classify notes on the basis of importance

    4 votes

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  13. Sometimes I remember the full word but sometimes I don't. I may only remember a segment of it. So, it would be helpful to have the option to find a word just by searching for a piece of it. For example, let's say I want to search for the word "perforated" but I only remember a portion of it, such as that it ends with "rated" or that the middle part is "for". I'd like to be able to find that word just by typing little parts of it if I don't quite remember the full word.

    2 votes

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  14. Love the copy / paste function with the lasso. But often the lasso does not catch everything of a written line, some little fragments are not copied. So I have to go back and set the lasso again to catch all fragments. Very nerving. It would be great if you could do copy / paste with the eraser too. Meaning everything from your last erase will be automatically copied to the clipboard. Then you can tap&hold to paste with the regular pencil, just like pasting with the lasso.

    4 votes

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  15. I like the idea of having a storage on camera button that has a drop-down menu to store clipart a person uses. For example in physics I use this clipart of a car or buildings alot to help quickly have free body diagrams. Having a drop-down menu of tables, pictures, and other tools saved for quick access would nice versus having to constantly copy, paste, or crop

    6 votes

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  16. With more than 3 colors in the tool bar, but it would be perfect if we could edit the tool bar and eliminate the tools we don’t use

    About lasso tool, you can improve it with a multiple choose of the objects you want to edit, 4example the texts you want to edit with the same color

    26 votes

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  17. I think it would be very useful to have the ability to see and reorganize the list of open tabs. This way, when I have 20+ tabs open and I’m viewing the last document but also need to access the first tab I don’t need to swipe all the way to the first tab but can pull open the list view and click directly two the desired tab. If I find that I need to consistently switch between the two, I can reorganize the tabs and place them right next to each other.

    9 votes

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  18. When you add a page by scrolling past the last page (or in front of the first page) it adds the new page in portrait mode even if the page you are scrolling from is in landscape mode.

    This was not the case in the previous version of GoodNotes. Can you make it so it makes the new page match the previous page in format like it did in the last version of GoodNotes?

    1 vote

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  19. I like to use the app because it’s awesome to insert images and make notes as I want, but the text box isn’t practical.
    It would be great if typewriting was easier by having ready-to-use pages and text pre-sets (sometimes it’s hard to adjust the space between lines and texts). It would also be nice to have tables options.

    1 vote

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  20. The left margin (where the text box begins) is customizable, which is great for indenting on the left side. However, I like to write in two columns, so it would be great if we could also adjust the margin that is on the right of the screen to narrow it to out liking. That way I do not have to continuously move the text box down a line when I reach the end of my column.

    If I’m not mistaken, this is a feature that was on an earlier version of the app and it was super useful.

    20 votes

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