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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Accessibility options for those with disabilities that may affect motor control as well as those just wanting to have better handwriting as it shows up in the app.
    Similar to procreate or lazy nezumi.

    32 votes

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  2. it would be great to adjust the highlighter opacity

    32 votes

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  3. Sometimes I want to copy an area of a pdf file. The current workflow ist:

    lasso it -> click screenshot -> click share button -> click copy -> paste.

    What about lasso -> copy [as image] -> paste?

    The current state is really annoying. In Notability, you can do that with one tap. That shouldn't be too hard to implement, since the screenshot feature is already implemented. After copying something, a pencil tap should instantly open the copy-paste menu instead of holding.

    32 votes

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  4. Pre drawn graphs and charts that you can choose the dimensions and edit like in One Note

    32 votes

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  5. I love the flash card tool. It would be very nice if there was an option to show the "answer"-side first in the learning mode. For example it would be very nice to learn words of a different language in both directions: French - English and English French.

    32 votes

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  6. Useful if someone import pages wrongly.

    Say I want to import a 300-page pdf file into a new file, but I mistakenly chose to import it into the current file. It would be convenient if there was an undo button to delete those new pages in the current file.

    32 votes

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  7. two-way sync option for google drive where deleted files on the app will also be deleted on google drive. Upon the google drive sync, folders that I have moved or deleted were still there

    32 votes

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  8. I need to be able to select text on my mac desktop goodnotes application.

    My workflow:

    I'm writing many papers for school, and do all my research on my mac, downloading pdfs. I then upload all the research articles on my goodnotes 5 for mac application, after which i use the ipad goodnotes 5 application to read, annotate and highlight the papers.

    Examples of copying text from the mac application:
    * When i'm writing my paper, I sometimes have to manually enter the reference into Word. I have to do this by hand and can't copy and paste.
    * When…

    32 votes

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  9. Add the option to make the selection tool rectangular to make it easier and faster to select things that do not overlap with any other elements. Would also make it easier to crop out things e.g. from a Powerpoint presentation.

    Something similiar to the selection tool from Notability

    32 votes

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  10. Right now, we can scroll through the pages (vertical scrolling) only using our fingers. It would be awesome if we could scroll through the pages vertically by using the apple pencil on the non-page areas (the grey areas on the side of the page). Thanks!

    32 votes

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  11. I have entered all my Journal Colors and added them to Presets. When I type something, those colors are not available. I have to manually enter the hex code to get the proper color text .... Every .. Single .. Time!

    32 votes

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  12. It would be great to have pentagon, hexagon and other shapes recognized.
    Like a chemisty mode in GoodNotes.

    32 votes

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  13. 希望能在大纲页面增加自定义大纲层级,否则所有的目录都平摊出来,看起来结构性不强,也不方便翻阅。

    32 votes

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  14. In the latest update to Goodnotes, the shape tool doesn't easily create standard shapes, especially rectangles/squares. E.g., if the shape is drawn too quickly and the corner points are not even, the resulting shape is an irregular four-sided polygon instead of a rectangle with 90 deg corners and parallel sides. I would imagine the need for rectangles is much greater than irregular four-side polygons. Otherwise, fantastic product that I've recommended to anyone considering a tablet for note-taking.

    32 votes

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  15. Please add full screen editing like Notability. This would make your product far superior than theirs.

    32 votes

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  16. It would be great to have it as it was in goodnotes 4.
    It aus uncomfortable to switch tools only in the upper toolbar while writing in the zoom window

    32 votes

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  17. I like the toolbar at the bottom because it's easier to change between pen, eraser and highlighter like that. But, when the toolbar is set to bottom, the zoom window moves to the top of the screen, which is more or less unusable. Please keep the zoom window on the bottom or maybe put the full tool bar directly on the zoom window.

    32 votes

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  18. It would be really helpful to have „View only links“ as an alternative to collaboration. This would enable us to share information without giving permission to edit it. I would use this really often in a school and work context.

    31 votes

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  19. As an aerospace engineer, it was essential for me to be able to draw curves and lines by connecting points without going crazy. Since the last update, if you connect multiple curved lines, the system interprets this function however it wants and gives it a shape completely different from what I intended. Moreover, if you create simple shapes like circles inside other figures, it’s no longer possible to rotate the entire drawing. Please go back to the old logic — it was 100 times better.

    Attached old drawings done with previous versions

    31 votes

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  20. Now, when the shape snaps, you can't edit its dimensions by dragging your pen, it only resizes larger or smaller. This is an issue because I have to change the tool to the shape tool to change the dimensions, and this has a minimum width. Goodnotes 6 had a good system where the shape snapped and then you could drag your pen to change the width/height of the box rather than just scaling it up or down.

    31 votes

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