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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. You can’t save or export highlights on PDFs imported into GoodNotes. But given GoodNotes is such a nice PDF reader, I want to do reading in GoodNotes and then be able to use the content I’ve highlighted elsewhere, e.g. combine it with highlights in Pocket or Instapaper, as part of my research workflow. But at the moment the highlights are static and stuck in the app, so you have to go back through each reading 1 at a time. Enabling highlight exporting — especially if automated via Readwise — would be a gamechanger in allowing me to use GoodNotes for…

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Please add in more pens and highlighter options like rectangle or round end. Also, please add in color palettes to the pens and highlighters in case we want to design our notes in a certain color scheme. Also the eraser is annoying so please change it to erase pixels.

    18 votes

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Handwriting to text--as you write. I love GoodNotes. Total fan. It makes ADD me an organized guy. No easy feat. I like how easy it is to edit a notebook's thumbnails. I love the variety of line width--and the instant undo, which I need so often. But, but, but: Last night my wife showed me Jamboard on her iPad Pro--and I couldn't believe how cool it was that her handwriting got turned into text--as she wrote! So I tried this in GoodNotes. Yes . . . . you DO convert handwriting to text--in 13 easy steps. GoodNotes validates my purchase…

    18 votes

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. We definitely need to sync data of GoodNotes with other cloud storage services rather than iCloud!
    Since we only have 5GB with default in iCloud, it’s pretty hard to maintain available storage.

    Please add a ability to link with cloud storages that we usually use.(including Box, GoogleDrive, OneDrive, Dropbox etc.)
    Especially Box would be very nice for me!

    18 votes

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  14. When reaching the right side of the screen you are forced to cramp your wrist in order to write on the screen properly. This messes up palm rejection and makes it uncomfortable to write.

    Apps like Procreate (I know the app serves a different purpose, but it's still a good feature) let you move the page you are working on to the side and it says there. In GoodNotes it's being auto-centerd which creates the before mentioned problems.

    It would be great to have a toggle somewhere on the screen that lets you disable the auto-centering and when you want…

    18 votes

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  15. I frequently think of things I want to add to a long note later. The options at present are: 1) try to cram an extra bit of writing above previous notes (like using a physical notebook); or 2) select everything you want to move with the lasso tool and move it downwards (difficult with a long note, and a bit of a hassle too)

    If you could somehow pinch to add more space that would be quick and awesome, You could have as many extra thoughts as you like, and it wouldn't be a hassle to add them in.

    18 votes

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  16. Ability to copy a text box's style (font/color/size), and paste to another text box.

    18 votes

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  17. Add a toolbar when the keyboard mode is activated, in that form, we will have shortcuts for type of fonts, size , curved, italic , center, color , taps, like a mini toolbar like Word

    18 votes

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  18. Some documents are better viewed managed in vertical scrolling other in horizontal. For example, a document I am reading is better in horizontal, with fixed page dimensions, a note that I am jotting down is better in vertical to allow passing through pages. GoodNotes should retain the selection made per document while applying the same selected mode for the open documents. Ditto would be for the pencil and highlight colours.

    18 votes

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  19. It will be great in shortscuts (the new App in iOS12) will be supported in GoodNotes. For exapmple to create a new note Baseball on a predefined tamplate with a Siri command.

    18 votes

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  20. When choosing a preset, it would be useful if presets remembered what thickness you liked for that pen and if you had shape recognition enabled.
    Use case: I'm studying on a PDF book; to underline and take notes I'm using:
    - A yellow marker with shape recognition enabled to draw a perfect line on the text
    - A red thick pen with shape recognition enabled to further underline
    - A black thin pen and a red thin pen without shape recognition to write notes.

    With the current implementation, I have to choose the color, then choose the thickness, then enable…

    18 votes

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