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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. I am an engineer.
    I use GoodNotes all the time to produce flow diagrams at a professional level, good enough for tender documents.
    It has become a much more useful tool than AutoCAD for this purpose.
    I also use it to produce preliminary MEP drawings.
    Basic measurement tool with a simple calibration Tool could help a lot.

    Thanks.
    David.

    7 votes

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  2. The text should write perfectly on the notebook lines, no more awkward spacing. The angle of the text should be allowed to be manipulated as well. There have been times where I have wanted to put my text vertically or at an angle.

    7 votes

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  3. Adding built in dictionary

    7 votes

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  4. Create an Archive for older notebooks so that homepage is cleaner

    7 votes

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  5. Sorry, i really think that good notes was the best app overall to writing and using as notebook, but there's so much more user friendly features in notability that i cant live without.. and i used both apps arround the same time. Ill say the features you could had to make this app simply perfect:
    — the lack of a dark theme unless we get system wide dark mode is a bummer as i find your dark theme pretty good but i hate to use ios in dark mode
    — the tool bar has too many items and takes valuable…

    7 votes

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  6. On the Mac, make the app remember the last window size. It always open too small on a 1920x1080 screen.

    7 votes

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  7. I usually write notes using the zoomed window at the top of the iPad because I consider more comfortable to rest my wrist on the glass than on the border of the tablet. Due to this position, I often tap the color/thickness/undo/redo/new page controls with my wrist. Could it be possible to have both the zoom window and the toolbar at the top or maybe near the zoom window’s one, or to have a touch rejection feature that disables the toolbar when the Pencil or the wrist are touching the screen?

    7 votes

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  8. I wish to be able to choose which documents to share to devices, and which to leave in the clouds. I want my planner on my phone and iPad, but I don’t need my notes from work on my iPad.

    7 votes

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  9. My intended primary use for Goodnotes is to markup PDFs. These PDFs are already organised in Google Drive, and I would like to edit these files directly (rather than having the edited versions saved elsewhere).

    7 votes

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  10. Add a filter to show only pages with annotations in the document.
    That way we could only export pages with annotations .

    7 votes

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  11. I want to be able to add shortcuts to certain notebooks so I can get to them faster. I know I can use stars but then they are all in the same location. I want to add shortcuts in different folders.

    7 votes

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  12. Add a keyboard shortcuts to change the pen size.
    Consider "Cmd -" and "Cmd =" as done in many apps for text size

    7 votes

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  13. I would like the be able to pin the search sidebar to quickly look thru search results. Also, I would like to be able to double click on text (Mac version) to select text that I can paste in the search query.

    7 votes

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  14. When pinching the page to zoom out, lasso selection is removed.
    I want to be able to zoom out in lasso mode while keeping the selection. This is actually possible if I first select resize. Then I can zoom out and keep the selection. Pls allow the same in lasso.

    7 votes

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  15. I would like to be able to mark a page or notebook for review and then be able to set a reminder notification.

    7 votes

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  16. I sometimes face the problem that the app only suggests to jump to the next line in zoom window when I reach the last centimeter of the line I am currently writing on, so my idea is adding a setting which lets you choose how far on the page you have to write for the zoom window to jump to the next line.

    Also, I want to be able to control where it jumps to in the next line, not only the start.

    It would be even better if you could set a default in the app settings, but are…

    7 votes

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  17. Low data usage mode for Automatic Backups on external cloud providers (Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive...). Sometimes these servers don't allow constant updates and may cause problems on the already existing backups. Low data usage mode, when enabled, will only summit changes to those servers every day (for example). This will reduce cellular data and battery usage, as well as problems with service providers

    As my screenshot shows, my Student Onedrive provided by my University cannot handle constant updates from GoodNotes 5, so my backups keep stuck with that error message.

    Not sure if every one experience this errors (i tested…

    7 votes

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  18. My idea goes about the Date-Name option that we have to organize Folders and Docs. In my case it’s useful to organize my folders in Name mode, but inside my folders I usually create documents with Dates as their name. I wonder if you can develop the possibility to order like folders with one option (ie Name) and inside the folder order docs by date. Thanks and I’m enjoying GoodNotes 5 very much.

    7 votes

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  19. It doesn't always let me switch color when typing. If I switch to a different color in text mode, it always switches back to the previous color I used. Please fix this!!!

    7 votes

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  20. Need Auto deselect feature in Shape tool...
    It is really helpful for switching between pen and shape seamlessly....

    7 votes

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