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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Would it be possible to do so that with the horizontal scrolling mode we can see 2-3 pages at a time. With the vertical mode when you get to the end of the page the start of the next one can be senn this way you can keep a continuity. On the horizontal scrolling mode, it would be great to have the next page directly on the right and last page on the left to keep a good overview at all time and make it look even more like a book this way.

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  2. 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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  3. I love Goodnotes 5 and use it to annotate the lecture powerpoint pdfs. However, I always found it difficult to write on the right edges since I cannot place my hand comfortably on the ipad screen.

    It will be great if the minimum zoom size of a page is not limited to the height or width of the page and the position of the page is not snapped to the edge of the screen. Then, I can move the right edge of the page to the center of the screen and write on it with my right hand placed on…

    18 votes

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Make text in a photo searchable, for instance taking a picture of a lecture handout or meeting notes and importing it into GoodNotes. It would be nice if the app could register that there is text and make that searchable too like it does for PDFs. Even if it can do that with pictures of handwritten note I think that would be better. That way if you have to take notes on regular paper and want it in your GoodNotes file all you need to do is take a picture instead of transcribing it into GoodNotes to have searchable text.…

    18 votes

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  7. 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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  8. That it will auto sync to your Microsoft office or google calendar if you need it to

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  9. 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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  10. I use Goodnotes for study, and i add bookmarks. It would be great to be able to reorganize the bookmarks (alphabetically or numerically). That way, finding the right page would become easy AND quick, not having to read through hundreds of bookmarks to find the right one

    The app is great, one of the best in my opinion,
    Thanks, and keep up the good work

    18 votes

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  11. There is a maximum magnification with the zoom window - please remove the limitation to simply allow to write as small as the user wants

    Remove the fixed proportion of the zoom window because it fixes the line height when performing carriage return

    Alternatively use auto advance functionality in regular zoom mode (not the window). Then you don't need the zoom window any more

    18 votes

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  12. Your AI is very obviously scanning and learning from our documents, sketches, etc. This is a huge breach of trust.

    One huge use of Goodnotes for me and I am sure many others is to have a place to sketch out ideas. I cannot continue to do this in the knowledge that you are very obviously scanning and training your AI off of our ideas.

    Without that foundation of trust there is no way I would recommend this application to anybody anymore.

    Please rethink your AI integration. Apply AI only with consent and respect that "no means no".

    17 votes

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  13. Hello, thank you for always providing a wonderful app.

    I would like to request a feature regarding the text tool in GoodNotes 6.

    In the current version, the minimum font size is fixed at 8pt.

    However, in previous versions, being able to use 1–7pt was extremely helpful for writing small annotations, subscripts, chemical formulas, and compact notes.

    If possible, I would greatly appreciate it if you could:
    ・ Allow font sizes below 8pt again (1–7pt)

    This function would benefit many users who need fine, detailed writing.

    Thank you very much for your consideration.

    17 votes

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    1. The tool bar being ON my document is blocking parts of my notebook, making my working area smaller.
    2. When in split screen mode half of the toolbar disappears(we used to be able to scroll over still) and will only reappear if i make the window bigger.
    3. Instead of functions being displayed on the toolbar i now have to press extra buttons to get to things like the bookmark, but why?
    4. Why is my pen automatically the lasso? In GoodNOTES you would think i would automatically need the pen no?
    5. Not everything needs to be a drop down menu! The double…
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  14. Currently, after using lasso tools, tapping with Apple Pencil will switch back to the eraser forcibly. It is so inconvenient that doesn’t revert to the tools I was using before, like pen or highlighters. Before the updates, it was used as usual. So please.

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  15. I’ve been using Goodnotes every single day for years. I truly appreciated its clean interface and powerful features that supported my workflow. But the most recent update has drastically changed that, in all the wrong ways.

    I kept telling myself, “This update must be useful. I just need to give it time and get used to it.”
    So I patiently tried using it for several days, but in the end, I came to the conclusion that this update is harming my mental well-being.

    Let me outline a few reasons why this update has made the experience worse:

    • Inability to
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  16. Goodnotes 6 should be able to add a feature wherein a request for authentication code is sent first before deletion of account. Sometimes people “misclick” the delete button account which made other devices log out of the account. It is a hassle for everyone 😫

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  17. It would be really useful to have the same expanded font choice for a keyboard entering and handwritten text to typed text that you offer using the text tool in the box. I’m a creative person, and I like to choose my font to type in.

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  18. Sync apple or google calendar into GoodNotes planner, and can setup it’s show up in daily or weekly or monthly planner pages.

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  19. Could we get an option to adjust the opacity of the highlighter we are using? In using it as a marker it would be nice to have the option for the color to be fully opaque, and then sometimes when highlighting it is nice to have a color brighter in some areas and more transparent in others.

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