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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Please add the ability to edit keyboard shortcuts. I have a very specific setup and being able to assign keys where I want them is a very important factor in workflow.

    I am glad there is keyboard support at all, but I can't imagine this is beyond the ability of your staff to add.

    18 votes

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  2. We need more than 3 favourite pens, other apps easily have an average of around 5 custom pens. Such a crucial feature!!!! Needs implementation

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  3. Für viele komplexe Aufgaben wird bei der Konstruktion eine genaue Gradzahl benötigt. Mit einem Geodreieck wäre dies auch ohne andere App leicht möglich.

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  4. I’d like for Goodnotes to have the ability to scan handwritten text on paper and copy into Goodnotes pages. For instance, using Goodnotes to take a picture scan of handwritten notes in a notebook, and turning that scan into a handwritten page in an existing or new document in Goodnotes. I often find that I don’t always have my iPad with me, and may need to jot something down on paper quickly. Being able to import these notes as something other than pictured would be an amazing feature and time-saver.

    18 votes

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  5. When I use my Apple Pencil I can easily scroll through the PDF documents with my finger. That works just amazing! But I can not click links within the PDF to other pages in editing mode. This forces me to change to read mode and then click the link, go back to editing mode and start editing. This takes a tremendous amount of time if you use GoodNotes as a with a digital life planner.

    Thanks.

    18 votes

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  6. It would be great if we could have "profiles" set up for Pen Colours (and thicknesses)

    For example, for my work notes, I use Black, Red and Blue pens but for my journaling, diary, personal note taking, I also use different colours with larger pen thickness etc.

    Currently I have to manually select the colours and pen thicknesses when switching from professional to personal notebooks but using profiles would help make and instant switch between different profiles for different uses

    18 votes

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  7. Most of the time we use the highlighter to make note of something we want to remember/study. It would be cool if I can use the Question highlighter to highlight a term and the Answer highlighter to highlight the answer. By doing this, flashcards are generated automatically. Happy to chat if needed.

    18 votes

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  8. When I select some writing with the lasso tool in Goodnotes, there is an option to change the color of the writing.

    In Notability you can also edit the line weights to make the pen strokes thicker or thinner.

    Could an option to edit line weight be added?

    18 votes

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  9. Now we can use the red bookmark feature to highlight a page or the red star button for folders. However it would make it even better if one could change colors of those bookmarks and therefore find them in different areas, like with MacOS (see attached image).

    18 votes

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  10. It would be very useful to get a page numbering option creating page numbers in pdf when exporting to pdf.

    18 votes

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  11. It would be useful to being able to write in a document even with the toolbar being invisible. This had the effect that the whole page being visible would be bigger as it fills the whole iPad screen.
    Maybe you could create some kind of „mini toolbar“ in pop-up style that could be used in this mode.

    18 votes

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  12. Sometimes I accidentally click on the star on a document from my favorites and it immediately removes it from the list.

    Please add a toast message to allow undo for this operation.

    18 votes

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  13. create the ability to take notes on a full-screen view

    18 votes

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  14. I would like to be able to upload my own notebook cover from my camera roll. This would allow for personal pictures, aesthetically pleasing wallpaper covers, and individually made decorated covers with our title on it.

    18 votes

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  15. It may not seem important to many, but when doing some tracker marking to fill up rectangle shapes, it is so hard using a rounded highlighter. I end up using Noteshelf when I really want to use goodnotes. It messes up my entire habit tracking that I use everyday.

    18 votes

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  16. At first I wanted the Preset colours to be linked to a document.
    Because I don't use the same colour for my pro notes depending on the client / subject.

    Then I realised that it wasn't much helpful neither since you change subject / colour style at least twice a day and you have to reset them every time you create a new notebook.

    The easier solution would be to have different palettes (see attached doc) with different Names :
    - a palette for my meetings with clients,
    - another for my night courses
    - another for my diary...

    and…

    18 votes

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  17. Please can you add “view action history” and allowing us to undo function please.
    I find it so frustrating when I can only redo a limited number of times, yet my previous notes have been accidental deleted.

    To make it clear, I meant that I have accidentally make new notes on my previous document and deleted something that I previously had in the same document. And I couldn’t recover what I have in the same old document. The “undo” function the app provided is not rally user-friendly... :( and I find it disappointing... I hope that you may improve more…

    18 votes

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  18. To me, changing template for one page at a time is inconvenient. Like Notability, GoodNotes should have the opportunity to change templates for all pages in the document without having to do this manually, one page at a time. I’d like to see this added in a future update.

    18 votes

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  19. Scientific articles come with references at the end. Looking simultaneously at the end of the document while reading the content would be helpful. Hence being able to split the screen horizontally (not just vertically) would be nice!

    18 votes

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  20. Apple Watch version. Even if it’s just to be able to see flagged pages that you can see quickly on the run or be able to dictate to a quick notes page that you can write up later when at your other devices.

    18 votes

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