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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Allow the ability to change the opacity of an item after it is pasted within a document

    22 votes

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Either a second toolbar like the existing one (but much smaller, less tools, and movable on the entire display) or a movable „tool-point“ which opens some customized tools.

    22 votes

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  11. The laser pen brush of GoodNotes5 which is tried perfect for Chinese, Korean and Japanese handwriting.
    So it’s really nice to add a pen brush same as the laser pen.

    22 votes

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  12. The current automatic backup attempts to backup your files after every edit and thus (based on my settings) attempts to render to pdf after every single edit. This constant rendering and uploading rapidly drains the iPad battery to the point where I lose about 20-30% per hour of use and as a side effect makes the device very hot and uncomfortable to use.

    Instead, it would be good to have an option to either schedule a backup (i.e. once an hour, once a day, etc) or have a cooldown option where a document won't be backed up until say 5…

    22 votes

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  13. Please can you add an option where you can customise the size of the page being added? This will be especially useful when adding a new page to an already existing PDF that is not the same size as one of the template options. What would be even better would be if the app could detect the size of the current paged in use (like with the “use current template”) option, but then it lets you insert either a blank or a lined page.

    22 votes

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  14. I would like to use GoodNotes as my bullet journal but sometimes it can still be a bit tedious (maybe it’s just mentally lol) and I wish that we can actually group outlines together.

    So for example I can create bookmarks for “Quotes (life)” and “Quotes (friendship)” then I can group them together as “Quotes”, instead of having to scroll through the lists to find each quote page separately.

    22 votes

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  15. I think it would be great if the zoom window toolbar could be customizable.

    For example, I frequently use the shapes tool so it would be convenient if I could move that tool down to the zoom window toolbar. Or for other users, they may want to move the highlighter tool down, etc etc. If the zoom window toolbar could be customizable, it could be made more efficient for each user’s needs.

    Also, I would like to be able to add more than 3 color presets to toolbar. This could be useful for people like me that need to quickly…

    22 votes

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  16. It would be great if I could change the pencil thicknes after writing the text.

    22 votes

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  17. To effectively look over the multiple pages, I believe we need a full screen mode for thumbnails. And if it is possible to change the size of each thumbnail, that would be really convenient.

    22 votes

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  18. I'd like to write smaller sized letters in the zoom box, it's more efficient and quicker, especially with a stylus. But if I do, the letters show up too small on the actual notebook page.

    22 votes

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  19. It would be great to search documents in the way Mac spotlight does.

    22 votes

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  20. Please, It shows on the plan that sync between platforms will be available soon. I really need it…

    21 votes

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