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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Automatic offloading of unused notes to iCloud. Similar to how Apple does for its apps, offloaded notes will remain visible as a thumbnail which will be downloaded locally when trying to open the note.

    This would help users with limited storage space to keep storage utilisation minimal.

    21 votes

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  2. Now we only can save 3 pen colors and 3 pen thickness, but I would love to have more, something like 5, there is place tu put them, and we can have a setting of how many are showed, so who wants to have 3 can have 3 and who needs 5 can have them

    28 votes

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  3. Please add the feature to Read and write a comments on imported PDF documents. Allow this feature in general as not everything can be written in a single page and this feature will allow to put little details on a small box which only opens when clicked. This is also great for productivity.

    4 votes

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  4. Sorry, i really think that good notes was the best app overall to writing and using as notebook, but there's so much more user friendly features in notability that i cant live without.. and i used both apps arround the same time. Ill say the features you could had to make this app simply perfect:
    — the lack of a dark theme unless we get system wide dark mode is a bummer as i find your dark theme pretty good but i hate to use ios in dark mode
    — the tool bar has too many items and takes valuable…

    7 votes

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  5. Since handwritten text lists can be broken apart much better than text, I would like to have a ‘convert text to handwritten text’ feature. We could even have nice handwritten ‘fonts’ that we could choose from.

    5 votes

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  6. It’s not very practicable to write at the end of a page because there is no more space for the hand to lay. The bottom of the page is always set at the bottom of the screen.
    Please let it move upper.

    It could be also usefull to have the option to rotate freelythe paper.

    Thanks

    12 votes

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  7. Improving the experience of text input much like you are typing in word document with dot points and possibly graphs.
    The current experience of typing text is merely disappointing

    8 votes

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  8. Add more functional adjusting tool, not only from bottom corner but from 4 sides.
    Also recommend to improve Shape tool, maybe have straights line by holding stroke for a second, like Notabilty.
    Last but not list, when selecting a rectangle, one of the needed options is filling color, not only when drawing a new one.

    Hopefully this will be read and enhanced

    4 votes

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  9. Add option to create a sinusoid or other figures and mathematical expressions

    2 votes

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  10. Safari PDF export and iPad OS full page screenshot generate a long single page PDF file. If I read it and then close, next time it opens zoomed out so that the whole single page is visible, so I lose the reading progress.

    With multi page PDFs this seems to be working, so this may even be a feature caused by that zoomed out view: it would be better to open the pdf so that you match the viewport to the display width.

    3 votes

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  11. Allow "deviding" one page within a document into two separate ones.
    For instance; if there is a page with two excercises on it (1&2), it would be very helpful if you could "cut" or "divide" the page into two separate (smaller) pieces. This allows you to do exercise 1 right under the instructions, if there is not enough space to do so.

    1 vote

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  12. It's not currently possible to go back to the document view without opening a document from the library. Maybe, we can hace a button for it.

    6 votes

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  13. Recently I was grading PDF exams in Goodnotes. I grade a lot better if I grade everyone's Problem 1, then go back and grade everyone's Problem 2, and so on.

    Once I have all 50+ of my students' exams open, the tabbed file system makes it very easy to switch between files. (THANK YOU for allowing me to have 50+ tabs open at once!) But on the first pass I have to open the files one by one. Is there a way to open all files in a folder (in separate tabs)?

    3 votes

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  14. Currently, when selecting text in a PDF, you have the option to "strikeout" or "highlight" the selected text. As far as I can tell, when selecting one of these options, the only available color for highlighting is yellow and the only available color for strikeout is red. Please add a feature to allow users to choose the highlight color and the strikeout color for selected text.

    6 votes

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  15. Hi! I was reading from a GoodNotes book today and felt that if the window did not move (in both x and y) every time I touched the screen, it would be awesome because I would know that the motion of the page would be restricted to one dimension only. Think of it like adobe acrobat with mouse. This could be accomplished by a button in the UI. I feel it would greatly enhance user reading experience. Thanks!

    2 votes

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  16. Sarebbe utile poter registrare audio e video dello schermo e di poter mettere in pausa qualora ve ne fosse la necessità durante la registrazione stessa. Sebbene vi siano applicazioni che hanno questa funzione mi sentirei più sicuro ad utilizzare qualcosa che appartenga già a GoodNotes! Colgo l’occasione complimentarmi e ringraziarvi per la splendida applicazione!

    2 votes

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  17. Sometimes I have a document that's hundreds of pages long and I just want to know if a specific word is used in one chapter without having to see every single time it appears in the whole thing. I would love it if GoodNotes enabled the option to search if a specific phrase is in a specific range of pages (for example, pgs. 62-80 instead of pgs. 1-100)

    5 votes

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  18. Dear Goodnotes team
    As a student, I need your app in my surface pro 6
    please create a version :(

    2 votes

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  19. Please provide a “Feedback” feature in the GoodNotes app.

    I would suggest in [Settings] > [About] page.

    2 votes

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  20. I would like to export the highlights I make on a PDF as a plain text file. Like Kindle does with highlights on a book.

    14 votes

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