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  1. I don’t know why. Writing with the original Apple fountain pen in app like notes produces very neat and beautiful handwriting, but it is ugly when I try to use the fountain pain in Goodnotes. Do you have any suggestion? 😅

    4 votes

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  2. I have been using Goodnotes on my Mac for some time now, but I have found that there are often bugs that prevent me from using it efficiently. For example, I can't use my mouse to scroll up and down or type anything. Instead, I have to use the keyboard buttons to scroll, which can be frustrating. While closing and reopening the windows usually fixes the problem, it reoccurs frequently within a short period of time, sometimes as little as five minutes. Overall, I think that while Goodnotes is a useful app, it could greatly benefit from some bug fixes…

    2 votes

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  3. When typing text on study sets, it would be really useful to be able to make certain words bold, underlined, etc.

    12 votes

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  4. The Windows version cannot be used offline. This is not practical, for example, at universities if you cannot access your notes and create new ones because there is a problem with the WiFi.

    GoodNotes should create offline notebooks and sync them online. Like on iPad.

    3 votes

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  5. Allows users to ask questions about certain topics without having to exit the app. Incredibly useful and time saving. It can save time for finding maths formulae or answers for many other topics.

    3 votes

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  6. 1 vote

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  7. Allow user to select something from their notes and convert it into study sets/cards.

    3 votes

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  8. Please consider putting the undo and redo buttons and other options like pen and highlighter at the top bar of the zoom window.

    2 votes

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  9. While writing by hand or fonts, often the title, subtitle are formatted with color/font-size etc. It would be great to click on a formatted text to copy the format and apply the format on another text by clicking on it. There can be a toolbar button to toggle this copy format mode. This will save lot of time in applying the format again and again.

    2 votes

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  10. I unfortunately don’t have a lot of space in my iCloud. I would really like it if good notes on MacBook could be backed up automatically using google drive rather than iCloud

    2 votes

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  11. I'd like to create flashcards because it helps a lot in recalling topics for exams. It also gets easier to have this as a sort of note-taking. Please I'm begging Goodnotes for this feature to be included in the Goodnotes for 'Windows', this means a lot. Thank You.

    4 votes

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  12. Hello, I’ve been a user of Goodnotes for some years by now. I love the new feature of flashcards added to Goodnotes. Even so, I have some suggestions for the improvement.
    Currently, the option of smart learning doesn’t have any curve of progress or way to review the progress made with the cards. In Anki there is the option for limiting the amount of cards reviewed in each study session. Having both options, the curve of progress from the decks and the possibility to choose only a specified amount of cards for review, and getting the cards less learned by…

    34 votes

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  13. I want to be able to save the keep the presets for each file I have, so I don’t have to select my desired colors every time I switch files!

    4 votes

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  14. Loving the new autocorrect, you should add one specifically for British ways of spelling English words Aswell as American. For example Colour vs Color

    1 vote

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  15. Ich fände es gut, wenn die erstellten Gliederungspunkte nach den Aufzählungszeichen in die richtige Reihenfolge gebracht werden würden.

    Aktuell besteht das Problem, dass Good Notes willkürlich die Gliederungsebenen in der Reihenfolge ändert.

    Beispiel:

    II. p. 25
    A. p. 25
    I. p. 25
    III. p. 26

    statt

    A. p. 25
    I. p. 25
    II. p. 25
    III. p. 26

    Die Reihenfolge, die Goodnotes bestimmt, folgt anders als man denkt, nicht der Erstellungszeit.

    Eine Verbesserung an der Stelle wäre dringend nötig, da die Gliederung, ansonsten der Willkür des Programms ausgesetzt ist.

    1 vote

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  16. Please enhance the Windows app by adding more features, improving syncing across all platforms, providing better settings for pencils and Surface devices, and transforming it into a standalone program rather than a web app. The writing experience with a pen doesn't feel smooth because it sometimes lags behind, and it's frustrating that using it offline is not possible.

    It feels like a workaround rather than a true release. Your iOS app is excellent, but the other versions lag significantly behind, which is deeply disappointing to me.

    1 vote

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  17. The note-taking experience with Goodnotes on the iPad is exceptional, particularly the ease of selecting text in a PDF using just a finger.

    However, this process is less intuitive on macOS, where it becomes necessary to disable the note panel to select text within a PDF document. Enhancing the macOS version with a dedicated mouse tool for text selection would significantly streamline the user experience.

    Reading PDF document is a vital feature for many users. Please!

    4 votes

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  18. I tried to try again after deleting the app because I couldn't extract the file well. But when I reinstalled the app, all the existing files were lost. I wasn't running iCloud or backup but can't recover missing files? These are really important files for me.. Please help me

    2 votes

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  19. Unless I use a # sign when handwriting the number 0 "#0" , goodnotes converts it to the letter o.

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  20. Can you change the ruler function so that we can also use it to write in a straight line pls pls pls I was so excited for this

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