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  1. Dear Goodnotes Team,

    My name is Praphul P, and I am from India. I am currently building an online educational platform that will launch in the next two months. During my research, I found Goodnotes to be the most powerful and suitable tool for conducting classes, mainly because of its smooth writing experience and excellent web interface.

    However, after the recent update, the interface—especially the new toolbar design—has become difficult to work with. Many of the tools and buttons are now positioned inside the canvas area, which was not the case earlier. This creates a major issue for educators like…

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  2. The amazing LaTeX conversion feature is currently hindered by the need for us users to manually insert LaTeX code (like \textcolor{...}) whenever we want to change the color of a rendered equation.

    To significantly enhance our experience, I ask you to integrate the standard Text Color Picker to allow for direct, easy and instant color changes upon selecting a converted equation. Implementing this would automatically handle the underlying code changes, making it extremely practical and fast to style the converted equations.

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  3. When I duplicate my text box, or simply finish writing in it, a “bug” appears with only part of the text box duplicated, which remains there and cannot be removed. It also happens that I write in a text box, go to another document in GoodNotes, and when I return to the document I wrote in, the text box is no longer there. I always use GoodNotes for my studies in my IPad, and it's very frustrating when I go to use the app for my studies and waste time stressing over these issues. In the end, the app I…

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  4. Lasso tool should please not activate automatically while writing (ie after drawing a line and clicking it to make it longer or shorter), requiring tapping the pen tool to return to writing

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  5. 図形や構造式など、回転では対処できない場合がある為リクエストさせていただきます。
    ご検討お願いいたします。

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  6. 95% of the time I use this app I am in split screen mode. Just yesterday I was able to switch between pen colors and pen sizes with 1 tap. Now (even stripping my tool bar to the bare minimum) the pen sizes are consolidated and I need to tap a button then tap the pen size I want- even though there is extra space in the bar to expand the menu. This app is starting to feel clunky, I need to tap twice to change my pen size, I need to tap twice to book mark a page, it…

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  7. There should be an option to automatically filter your document outlines. I continue to toggle off pdf outline to only view my custom outlines but every time I make a new document or even leave the app, all the outlines are back again making it hard to navigate sections of my notebook.

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  8. Hello, could you all add the ability to have all of our colors be universal across all pens, pencils, sticky notes, text, and etc.? It is annoying trying to use a color that I know I have added with the pen but did not feel like adding to the pencil, text, and highlighter separately. Could we also have the ability to create color pallet groups? Similar to the one in procreate (Picture below). Sometimes it is over whelming trying to find a color. And most of my colors mimic my real life pen colors. So being able to place colors…

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  9. Add the ability to search by document title in the search function.

    Enable AirPrint directly from within GoodNotes documents.

    Add a feature that shows how many documents have been selected when choosing multiple files.

    Along with these, I suggest restoring other useful features that existed in GoodNotes 4 but are not available in the current version.

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  10. I suggest implementing customization for the floating bar, including position options and a transparency slider.

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  11. Fix the zoom bug in text docs. When I click on Zoom in, it doesn't do anything. I have the same issue with increasing font size as well.

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  12. 423 votes

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  13. To be able to select handwriting and change the color it is in after it is written

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  14. When I take note(I also zoom in for easy note-taking) and change to the other tab to check something, then go back to the note, it will shift from the original place to the top of the tab, so it makes when I want to quickly look many times it make I have to move to the same place every time.

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  15. Being able to use Apple Calendar with Integrations. At the moment I can only choose for google calendar. Or Do I Mis Something

    2 votes

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  16. In the zoom window (top right) there are the buttons voor jumping to the next line, close the window and the 3 dots. Would it be possible to get these button in white instead of blue. Iam using iPads color filters in red when working in dark places like theaters........ And these buttons are really hard to see when using the colour filters. If they are white as the other buttons this will help. See picture of the buttons

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  17. I've been having problems with the app for a few days now. What happens is that every time I switch back to an open tab (for example, using two or more tabs at the same time), it keeps scrolling to the top of the page, and if I don't change it and switch tabs again, it keeps scrolling to previous pages. This error is very annoying because it completely disrupts my study rhythm.

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  18. Please provide an option of switching back to this previous toolbar layout. I really like this layout and think it's easier to use.

    7 votes

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  19. I would like to KEEP the minimalistic look of the READ ONLY MODE ( w LIGHT GREY toolbar with the option to HIDE it COMPLETELY by a (double-) tap on the document with finger) BUT HAVE THE LAST TOOL ENABELD like PENCIL/ PEN, as well..

    Mainly I want to EDIT my Document while in FULL SCREEN MODE without DISTRACTIONS!
    The blue bar is soo unnecessary when in deep writing mode and talkes wayyy too much space and whose COLOUR is NOT CUSTOMIZABLE, AT ALL sadly still!!
    WHY this HARD BLUE, all the time?!
    Thanks!

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  20. Colour picker to PICK ONE SPECIFIC COLOUR to SELECT ONLY!!

    For example: only SELECT the grey pencil lines but DON'T SELECT the BLACK or RED PENCIL strokes nearby or on top!
    That we we can ALTER those specific lines ONLY!! ( For example colour change them afterward, copy paste or change size or move them only)
    Currently it's VERY TEDIOUS or IMPOSSIBLE to PICK SPECIFIC Lines when there are many..Would be GREAT for SKETCHING!! And that way we could SKETCH in ONE colour and draw in ANOTHER COLOUR on TOP and STILL be able to change the older lines below…

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