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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. With the most recent update, microphone access knocked the "Add to Favorites" button out of the main toolbar. I'm regularly adding pages to favorites as part of long documents that I mark up by hand, which I then use to pull only the favorite pages out of the document and send to a colleague quickly; now the button requires 3+ clicks to get to. I'm not going to use the microphone. At least make it the user's option to move around the icons that are featured in the main toolbar.

    26 votes

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  2. It would be good to have some more versatile, mathematical or scientific paper templates. For example, a split page (similar to a Cornell note-taking), where one side is ruled and the other is graph paper. Perhaps, a graph section on the top half, and a ruled or blank section underneath where one could add notes or symbolic work. Also, paired with this suggestion is the echo to add math conversion tools, converting to a display equation with LaTeX. This is the only reason I may choose Notability over Good Notes to use to deliver class notes when teaching. Sadly, in…

    26 votes

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  3. I think the app is great, but a feature that is missing is the ability to recognize txt on imported images and hand written PDFs.
    It would be great is you just added that feature like in ZoomNotes.

    Another thing that I find necessary is a feature to cover text on images (for example when importing screenshots to make Flashcards and you want to cover the text on the image). This would be really useful after having OCR on images.

    Another issue that I have is when drawing shapes. Although the option to color fill is enabled, this “fill” is…

    26 votes

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  4. The colors of the pencil should be able to have transparency, so I can write above diagrams or tables, but can still see the original content.
    The best would be an adjustable alpha channel for each color.

    26 votes

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  5. I feel like it would be really nice if we could have a couple more customizations for the pen? Especially the amount of streamline, and also potentially the pressure sensitivity?

    26 votes

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  6. It is really upsetting that I cant drag and drop any image or text onto the next page. It takes so much time and effort to copy paste the text and then go to the next page and insert and then go back to the previous page to delete the text.
    This would increase everybody‘s workflow a lot!

    26 votes

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  7. When looking at imported PDF thumbnails, we should have an option to view only thumbnails of pages with annotations (highlights, handwriting). (like in Notability) This is especially useful for very large files, like textbooks.

    26 votes

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  8. Please add the ability to set margins on both sides of handwriting paper. The auto advance works great, but since you cannot set the margin on the right side of the paper, the handwriting often goes right to the edge of the paper before the auto-return takes you to the next line.

    26 votes

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  9. I'm left-handed, I cannot physically write on the left side of the screen like the whole left third is uncomfortable to write on as the edge of my iPad gets in the way. The inability to move the page around freely beyond frustrating - It doesn't let me move the left-hand side of the page to the middle of the screen so a lot of the time I have to write something on the right-hand side and use the lasso tool to move it to the left.

    26 votes

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  10. (for example tables, better graphics, be able to do graphics from table, lines, EASY CIRCLES and other geometrical figures)

    26 votes

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  11. With more than 3 colors in the tool bar, but it would be perfect if we could edit the tool bar and eliminate the tools we don’t use

    About lasso tool, you can improve it with a multiple choose of the objects you want to edit, 4example the texts you want to edit with the same color

    26 votes

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  12. For the lasso tool. The blank space where the colour and size selection is should be toggles for the lasso tool. Like if I want to lasso just the handwriting and not the image/highlights or if I don't want to move textboxes. This would be really useful when adding side notes to annotations

    26 votes

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  13. In Microsofts OneNote its possible to import a PDF in a way that there is space next to every page of it. I really miss this in GoodNotes as this is a great feature to really work with texts an take a lot of annotations, event though there is no free space in the PDF. This would work great using landscape mode!

    26 votes

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  14. I have been using Notability for my class notes for over a year and am just now starting to use Goodnotes 5 specifically for bullet journaling. There are a few features I love in Notability that I think would be great in Goodnotes:
    * Clickable bullet lists when typing in Text
    * Alignment guides to show when elements are aligned to each other at right, left, & center

    And one other suggestion (not from Notability that I know of)... an optional line or dot grid that can be projected onto a page to help with alignment. Great if it can…

    26 votes

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  15. Studying organic chemistry is already a pain, not mentioning to draw a perfect hexagon... Can we have shapes presets to help drawing in the app

    26 votes

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  16. There is currently no indication of the size of the page I’m editing, which makes it very difficult to change the template without going through an annoying trial-and-error dance to make the page size match the existing page size.

    I’d really like a switch to show ruler markings on the edges of the page to check the page size and, if possible, an indication of the current page size (letter, A6, etc)

    26 votes

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  17. Would like to see a wider variety of pen/pencil colour options :)

    26 votes

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  18. Please look at my Suggestions for GoodNotes 5 in the PDF below. My topics:
    - Back button to the currently opened files/tabs
    - More colors in the toolbar
    - Insert geometry templates/shapes
    - Current Bugs

    26 votes

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  19. It would be nice if the auto advance box could be placed towards the center right or right side of the zoom window. As a left handed person, it can be difficult and uncomfortable to write neatly given the fact that the iPad has height to it unlike paper. on a flat service. I’m having to resort to manually move the zoom window which disrupts my writing flow.

    26 votes

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  20. Need an option to slide the zoom windows blue shaded continuous writing field away from the far left edge to accommodate left handed writers.

    26 votes

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