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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. The newly implemented comments feature should be instantly searchable.

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  2. I love using the highlighter option but it’s incredibly dull compared to other notes apps. All the colours need to be more vibrant because I constantly find myself highlighting over the same thing multiple times to get the colour I want to appear. Also please increase the max size of the highlighter feature. Most of the notes I download to the app have text too big for the highlighter and It looks terrible and takes too much time to go over it again and again. Thanks

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  3. a. No ability to edit pen thickness AFTER having written. I would like to be able to select various bits of writing and make them all the same thickness.

    b. Resizing handwritten text changes thickness (weight) of what's been written.
    Editing these resized notes exacerbates this problem; have to experiment to find a suitable pen weight so that new text matches weight of existing text.

    c. Zooming in does not scale pen weight - so zooming in and writing additional text means having to experiment with an appropriate pen weight in order for new writing to match existing writing.

    12 votes

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  4. Instead of only being able to resize with a locked aspect ratio, add vertical and horizontal resize capabilities

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  5. Adding the ability to attach pop up notes on highlighted words, similar with adobe acrobat. We should be able to minimize the notes after accessing them. This would clearly benefit students like me who likes to add further notes on books and PDFs without being limited to writing on the side of each page.

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  6. Include mac app shortcuts for switching tabs, show/hide sidebar, add page to outline, etc.

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  7. I'm used to always copying & pasting links into my notes in order to support my research. It's frustrating that I can't do this in GoodNotes. If I copy & paste a link into a text box, it wont be clickable. Please consider making this feature a top priority in future updates because it is required for students, teachers and people doing research. My notes aren't as useful when I can't include links that will work. I really just want to be able to tap on a link to open it and then tap back to go to the GoodNotes…

    12 votes

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  8. I would like to have the option to write by text fractions and powers. Things that are used in mathematical quite often.

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  9. I use different size papers for different notebooks and have to change fonts in each one. One size does not fit all. Being able to have a default font for each notebook would be great. Also, some notebooks I use vertical scrolling, and some horizontal. Different defaults there would be great too. Other than that it is perfect for me. . Keep up the good work. .

    12 votes

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  10. I'd love to be able to write in full screen mode - sometimes I'm just doing maths exercises, all I need is a black pen and double tap to erase. I just wish we could have the read-only mode screen real estate, while writing. I don't need the toolbar or document tabs most of the time!

    12 votes

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  11. Enlarge margins around the page so that notations can be added around the document.

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  12. A highlighter with a straight edge instead of just the circular one.

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  13. A "back to reading" option when browsing in the goodnotes files system would be most appreciated.

    So say I leave a document I was reading in order to browse through the GoodNotes system, it would be nice to have a button which would send me back to where I was reading when I left the document.

    12 votes

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  14. To utilise the new elements feature it would be great if we would be able to import or export elements sets. This would be great for digital sticker sets you buy from Etsy or similar places, so you do not have to import each sticker individually.

    12 votes

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  15. I would love to use a Goodnotes' planner, but there is one obstacle in the way for me, since reminders and events in those planners are not recognised by operating system.
    I would love to have the option to sync those event/reminder information within Calendar and Reminders apps. So when I plan something (maybe within a special text field) into my planner, the event/reminder would be mirrored in those apps.

    It would be even greater if it could go the other way as well - for the Reminders app: check in Reminders app = checks in Goodnotes but I am…

    12 votes

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  16. Please allow resizing by entering in specific dimensions with options to constrain or un-constrain sizing. Or, fix image imports to apply in actual size.

    12 votes

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  17. A “stamp tool”:
    This would allow users to natively create stamps of their own design using existing GoodNotes tools like shapes AND/OR import photos or shapes that can be added to an internal library of shapes to be used over and over. See below for functionality.

    User draws or writes something.
    User selects the object with stamp tool.
    The stamp tool saves the object into “library or repository of object.”
    User can “stamp” the object repeatedly.

    This is like the objects library in illustrator. You could have an “object selector tool” to select the items that go into the library.…

    12 votes

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  18. stop compressing images imported into pdf. Retain the image quality please!

    12 votes

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  19. Please add notebooks with rename able tabs and ability to add subpages under the tabs like a table of contents

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  20. I´m using the option flash cards on the ipad frequently, but it would be really great to improve this tool for usage on laptops. The cards, and shown answers, are really small, so its often impossible to check if you´ve got everything right, especially when the cards are rather full and the textsize is small.

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