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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. These three things are much needed
    Auto Detection of Arrows is very helpful in many cases
    Dotted Lines/Dashed Lines are very necessary in Making Diagrams especially in mathematics and physics
    Duplicate feels more easy than copy and pasting the thing, adding duplicate with copy will save time
    Inverting PDF too seems necessary sometimes

    Only because of these 4 functions I have to sometime switch to notability and it does not feel good cause I have paid for GoodNotes

    27 votes

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  2. I have different font preferences for Title vs Body Text vs diagram labels. It would be good to save 3 or more favourite font settings, rather than just the one.

    27 votes

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  3. Would be awesome to be able to draw curved lines with many curves (concave, convex). The feature should allow the user to draw the line roughly with the apple pencil and smooth out the curve to make it look good. This would be similar to the "free-form" feature in Microsoft Visio.

    An example of such lines is shown in the attached PDF.

    Thanks :)

    27 votes

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  4. One of my favorite ways to use GoodNotes is to import documents and annotate them on the app. However, I think the experience would be a thousand times better if we could have the option to expand the margins because oftentimes the original pdf doesn't have enough space to write notes and/or insert images for reference.

    27 votes

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  5. Renently, notability can draw a curve line.

    Need to improve pen tool to draw a curve line - also arrow line

    As a math teacher and 5-year goodnote user, need to draw a cartesian coordinate plane, or quadratic&cubic&quartic function.

    Please make four-dotted line -like vectornator or Illustrator- to draw that curve! Before I change to Notability!

    27 votes

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  6. I would love for the highlighter tool to have the option of having a straight end instead of a rounded end. Additionally, I wish there was an option to draw with dashed or dotted lines instead of having to make a solid line and then erase to get dashes

    27 votes

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  7. Images could be mirrored within the edit and cropping options. Allows for symmetrical designs.

    27 votes

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  8. Vielen Dank dafür, dass ihr meinem Wunsch über alle Notizen zu suchen entsprochen habt! Es funktioniert sogar in der Schreibschrift super!! Nun meine nächsten Wünsche:
    Ich möchte gern jederzeit angezeigt bekommen wann und möglicherweise auch wo, ich die Notiz erstellt habe. Ich möchte ausserdem Dokumente suchen bzw. finden, die ich an einem bestimmten Tag und/oder Ort erstellt habe. Ausserdem fehlt mir ein Lineal mit Massangaben um Grundrisse zu zeichnen.

    27 votes

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  9. Text needs to be improved, like in Noteshelf 2!!!!
    - Bullet points and other text features like tables needed to be added
    - Switching quickly between preset text fonts and sizes, this is really bad at the moment! Often settings just don‘t work.
    - Text boxes are annoying, don't mix well with handwriting and do not fit into the lines of the default page!!!!

    27 votes

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  10. The Battery Drain problem is enhanced sooo much on GoodNotes5. Draining with twice the speed of version 4. Even connecting ipad Pro to my macbook will still result in battery percentage going downhill. With less than 4 hours it consumed 15% power of last 10 days. While GoodNotes4 with 22 hours only consumed 50%.

    27 votes

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  11. Currently, the dialogue box that appears when editing the color of selected text only allows users to select from the 'Custom' section. If users use their own colors entered in as hex values, and save them in the 'Presets' section then these won't be available to them without memorizing the hex codes. Having the ability to easily change the color of text and highlights to user presets would make recoloring documents much easier.

    27 votes

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  12. Something similar to Creceed Carbo app. I'd love to be able to import a scan/photo of notes that I actually took in paper but edit them as if I wrote them in GoodNotes.

    27 votes

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  13. Export all the highlighted sections of a PDF or notebook into a new file or notebook so all your important info can be in one place!

    27 votes

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  14. Strongly request a way to set the paper size to 100% zoom so that I know how big that my handwriting will be when I actually print it out.

    27 votes

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  15. I LOVE this app. The only thing that irks me is the filing system. Any chance we could get a layout option that would ditch the bookshelf setup and make it more like notability?

    27 votes

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  16. It appears that when PDFs are exported they are done so as a "flattened" PDF. It would be great if the PDF elements were still editable after export - both the written notes and any fields if they were included in the original PDF.

    27 votes

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  17. Hi GoodNotes team,

    I’m a heavy GoodNotes user on [iPad / Mac / iPhone] and I absolutely love using the app for studying and taking math/technical notes.

    I’ve noticed that GoodNotes currently doesn’t support inline LaTeX rendering in regular typed text (for example, writing $x^2 + y^2 = 1$ in a text box and having it render as nicely formatted math). I know you have great math / equation tools, but those generate separate equation objects rather than letting us mix math and normal text seamlessly in the same paragraph.

    For students and professionals in math, statistics, physics, engineering, and…

    26 votes

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  18. Sorry, dear Goodnotes team, but sth is not cool with the new update 7.0.3 Whenever I want to draw a closed shape, it makes it all wobbly and creates some kind of text field out of it. What’s happening? How can I make it stop? I don’t need text fields, I use always my handwriting.

    26 votes

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  19. Before, you could make a shape with a fill color, and erase the filler separately from the shape outline. Now, you can’t even erase the outline and leave just the filling, or vice versa.

    26 votes

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  20. It would be great if Apples new MathNotes feature from iPadOS 18 would be integrated in GoodNotes. It is such a useful feature.

    26 votes

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