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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It should be able to export with customizable resolutions, since for some notes we do not need high resolution and for dense pages the PDF generated with the current version is heavy and difficult to upload in slow connections.

    23 votes

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  2. 22 votes

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

    22 votes

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  4. I have been a Goodnotes user for over 5 years, and it is currently my primary note-taking app for my studies in medical school. I have recently noticed a small redundancy that I believe can make the user experience a lot smoother if a slight improvement is made. When accessing the outlines within a notebook composed of imported PDFs, there are both custom outlines and auto-imported PDF outlines. As is the case with many students, the PDF outlines are often cluttered and sometimes irrelevant, so custom outlines are instead used to divide the various subsections (eg. lectures) within a notebook.…

    22 votes

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  5. I am loving the new typing mode, but an important limitation is it does not currently support writing test in at least two columns (even in the default two- and three-column templates).

    Furthermore, the potential workaround of "manually" making columns by tabulating the gap between the desired columns in each line does not work either: after a couple of tabs, the cursor immediately moves down to the next line.

    This would be especially useful for e.g. typing vocabulary lists in two languages (one per column) or making long lists with short entries more compact (in terms of numbers of pages).

    22 votes

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  6. I'd like to be able to connect lines together to create unique shapes and have them recognised as an enclosed shape and be able to fill.

    22 votes

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  7. I'm a bit of a perfectionist with my handwriting, its an issue. But I would love custom pen settings similar to Procreate Brush Studio for smoother pen flow, especially since I have very jittery over-caffeinated hands haha. Specifically for ball point pen! See attachment for my example of what I consider "smooth" pen flow; note starting/ending pressure points. Examples of settings would include stroke properties, jitter, stabilization, pressure sensitivity, streamline, etc.

    22 votes

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  8. Since it takes a lot of time to write flashcards by hand, it would be amazing to have a feature to create flashcards from the notes directly.
    GoodNotes already possesses the ability to recognize the written text. It would be great to add the option to create flashcards by "highlighting"/marking the text you want to create a flashcard with and the app creates the flashcard automatically.
    I feel like this would help a lot of students who have to read a lot so they can save time in making flashcards.

    22 votes

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  9. There are many proposals for hyperlinks between pages within a notebook or between pages in different notebooks.

    This augments that idea with backlinks, such that each time a hyperlink is created from page A to page B, a backlink is implicitly created from page B to page A - so that it is easy to navigate back, as is currently available in Notion and Roam Research.

    22 votes

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  10. I'd love to have the option to put the tool bar (the bar with the pen options, eraser, lasso, colors, highlighter etc.) on the side of my screen or maybe the bottom. It gets a little frustrating to always have to reach up to change my pen color or to switch to the eraser. It's much more natural to have the tool bar on the side so that you can easily reach it while you're taking notes!

    22 votes

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  11. When you use the lasso tool to take a screenshot, it would be nice if it copied it directly to your clipboard so you didn’t have to do ~~> share ~~> copy ~~> exit. I often need to screenshot lecture slides, and doing this series of motions repeatedly takes up a lot of time in real time as the professor is speaking. Having s feature where it a lasso screenshot is be automatically copied would be great

    22 votes

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  12. is there any sort of implementation you guys are able to do that allows users to align photos that are uploaded/inserted into the app? Either snapping photos to each other or just knowing when the border of one photos is aligned to another - maybe even to the middle/center of document as well? Screenshot is attached, see blue lines for example!

    22 votes

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  13. Please add a fill in for highlighters. It will be helpful for people who use highlighters for planners to mark timings.

    When I draw a rectangle using the highlighter, hope that it could fill the inside as well

    22 votes

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  14. Please improve the flash card tool. It would be very useful if there were more options to it.

    Please add an option to see a seperate stack of flash cards you got wrong. Or any other way to review those flash cards seperated from the ones you got right.

    22 votes

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  15. Add a highlight option to have a round tip or chisel tip. The chisel tip would be the exact same as the current highlighter but it would have straight boxed ends instead of round ends.

    22 votes

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  16. It would be great if one could use the lasso tool between pages instead of having to copy and paste to move notes/images from one page to another.

    22 votes

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  17. The new flash card feature is terrific! Thank you! I have been a Anki user for a long time because of their image occlusion add on. It allows you to make a flash card from any image, which has been super useful to increase productivity and minimize time spent making cards. Anki did not have a convenient draw function. Goodnotes has solved that problem for me.

    A easy fix would be a solid fill in the shape tool. This would allow image occlusion and make the flash card template unstoppable. I know dental and medical students would really appreciate this…

    22 votes

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  18. Please allow users to be able to have the function to sync their custom colours across pen, highlighter, text box to allow users to use the same custom colour and do not need to add again in other tools.

    22 votes

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  19. 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.

    22 votes

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  20. I would like to import a Folder Structure, including Subfolders and Documents and find that structure represented in GN5 after the import. This would make GN5 a much easier to use Documents Management System if one has a lot of Documents before switching to GN5. Currently one has to create the whole Folder structure manually and import the Documents for each Subfolder separately.

    22 votes

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