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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Hi,
    I like Goodnotes very much, but I miss some features for my workflow as
    architect. I use Goodnotes for measurements on location.

    1. Layers
      I would like to have some layers for structuring my drawings

    2. Dottet / Dashed Lines
      … selfspeaking

    3. Forms with graphical options for lines/edges and surface
      It would be nice, if we could define line-style and surface-style
      e.g. surface: white (with options for transparency) and lines/edges
      as dashed line.

    4. More as 3 lines thicknesses in UI-Menu

    Greetings from Germany
    Tobi

    16 votes

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  2. I like to color code my notes. It would be so helpful to have the option to set a different color palette for every notebook without it affecting the rest, rather than having to rearrange my palette every time i want to take notes for another subject

    16 votes

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  3. Let typing mode cover the full page instead of losing some space at the edges, especially at the top and bottom of a page.

    16 votes

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  4. GoodNotes users are looking to integrate AI features into the app, similar to other note-taking apps like Notion. AI-powered features such as transforming notes into practice tests, flashcards, table forms and summaries can help users study and revise more efficiently. Additionally, users would like to see AI-powered grammar and vocabulary suggestions to improve the quality of their notes.

    16 votes

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  5. I think that is essential for students and professors to have the Voice recording feature (that is recently already available on Goodnotes for iPad) on Goodnotes for Windows. This feature that allows you to replay the ink/drawings you made while taking note and the related audio recording is great and it can be the main point of why windows users should choose Goodnotes instead of other millions of note taking apps already available on the microsoft App Store.

    16 votes

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  6. I've been using GoodNotes for 3.5 years now and some of my notebooks are quite long. Scrolling through looking for things is difficult in these because there are so many pages to navigate and the scrolling is fairly slow. The search function works well but not for looking through diagrams/drawings. The thumbnail view is good for getting to the start or end of a notebook, but the pages are far too small to see what's on them in that view.

    I would really welcome a nice way to scroll through pages faster in writing mode.

    16 votes

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  7. The ability to import a pdf as a smaller file/image similar to the way Notability lets you import scanned pdfs by giving you two options of either importing it as an image or importing it as a full-scale pdf would be an amazing feature. GoodNotes seems to make it imperative that something must be scanned instead of imported from another source in order to recognize text. This is the case at least when importing images or pdfs that were not OCR'd and have unrendered text in them.

    I feel like this proposal would be helpful, in that, it would allow…

    16 votes

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  8. I have been using this app for nearly four years. Recently, I often use your "Add comments" function to make annotations, but there is no "search comments" function to make me confused, because there are 50 or 60 comments on a note, it is difficult to find the comments I want to see in a short time, I really hope to update the "Search comments" function as soon as possible. Best wishes for you.

    16 votes

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  9. Color picking from notebook. If I used a color I want to use it again but it is not saved in my favorites color, I can’t find the exact color again.

    16 votes

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  10. Image Occlusion is a simple but very useful feature. With Image Occlusion, I can draw a box to cover up labels on a diagram. If I tap on the box, the box becomes invisible and the answer gets revealed. If I tap again, the box becomes opaque and the answer gets covered up again.

    There should also be a button to cover up all of the answers at once or reveal them all at once. When I’m done studying for the day, I want to cover up all of the answers, in order to pick up my studying next time.…

    16 votes

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  11. For example, I work on my laptop with a document and close it, and then I want to open it on my iPad to continue working with the document, with this button you can force a sync, and I don't need to wait when it happens automatically

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  12. The book I am studying has Roman numerals (I-II-III) at the beginning. Then, Arabic numerals would start (1-2-3). What’s frustrating is when I want to search for Arabic numeral page “14” in GoodNotes, it’ll take me to Arabic numeral page “2” instead.

    I attached a photo.

    Adding the option to renumber pages to Roman numerals would help this make page searching that much easier. Adding the option to unnumbered pages would help too! Sometimes I add regular notebook page in-between the other pages in order to write my own detailed notes.

    I attached a mock-up of how the thumbnails tab…

    16 votes

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  13. Please add a feature that can analyse text in images (like Google Lens)
    - so that you can find text in pictures with the search tool
    - so that you can mark and copy text from images

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  14. I would like to use good notes as my only application for writing, taking notes and creating documents. It is not possible because the typing option does not run as smoothly as "pages" or "microsoft word". Please consider making good notes an application that can be used for creating and editing documents with simple typing.

    16 votes

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  15. I like using the flash card feature of GoodNotes and it works just fine on my iPad. However, on Mac, the window is so small, I cannot properly read my answers.

    I'd like the window size to be adjusted so one can comfortably read the entire flash card on a large display. There's enough room for it.

    16 votes

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  16. Loving the flashcard feature so far. Only thing that would make it more convenient would be allowing some sort of draw feature so that I can mentally dump the answer onto something I can see. For example I'm trying to memorize chemical structures and would like to draw it out first then compare it to the answer.

    16 votes

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  17. For people who do a lot of math (and love clean notes) it would be super helpful if there was something like an automatic recognition for {curly brackets}!

    16 votes

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  18. 16 votes

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  19. The flash card studying window on a mac is not using the screen size. The window on an iMac is so small that the cards are only barely readable even if the application is opened as a full screen window.

    16 votes

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  20. A keyboard shortcut to toggle between read-only and edit modes. (⌘R perhaps?)

    For both the Mac and iPad versions

    I use a planner with hyperlinks and frequently have to toggle between the two modes, as the hyperlinks are easier to use in Read-only mode

    16 votes

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