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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. When importing pages from an external PDF it would be great to adjust the page width so that unnecessary zooming can be avoided (and scrolling through a file is made easier). See problem also in the attached picture.

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  2. Okay so they did hierarchy but its kind of a pain to navigate. If you have many folders and are in one of the deeper folders you must keep pressing the back button until you get to your desired document. There should be a menu button (for instance near the Bookmarks button) that could be accessed to easily get from one document to another.

    7 votes

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  3. Red sheet is unique to Japanese vocabulary books. As you know from the video, if you can use this sheet, it is definitely way easier to memorize various things such as vocabulary.

    7 votes

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  4. As there are different color palettes for the pens and the highlighter, it would be great if the colors displayed when selecting „change color“ over the context menu would adapt to the currently used tool.
    Currently it always displays the color palette from the pens.

    7 votes

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  5. For my exams, I have to print out all of my notes because I have access to all of the other apps on my iPad. It would be great if from the app, there was a way to have a professor set a password and time limit to lock me out of the rest of the iPad and prevent me from closing good notes so I could use this during an exam. Then, when you are done with the exam or the timer expires, the lock will end and you can then close the good notes app and use the…

    7 votes

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  6. cmd+c cmd+v pretty basic, but super essential.

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  7. Search function to find wordparts
    Example:
    Note:
    1234 5678
    12345678

    Searching for 5678 should find both lines. This would be great because i get many pdf files named like productsheetproductname. to search for such a imported pdf i have to search for productsheetxyz with xyz the productname of the sheet im needing.

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  8. I wish we could show an arrow when using laser pointer (like in Explain Everything) instead of just a dot.

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  9. There's similar ideas to be able to write over an existing annotation so you can selectively erase.

    This suggestion is different

    I want to be able to flatten an annotation so it's not enormous! I like to do a detailed drawing, and then I'm done! I don't need my exported PDF to be massive, and I'm not going to come back and edit.

    By not flattening, the notebook gets quite sluggish!

    Use case:
    I use GoodNotes as a laboratory notebook

    7 votes

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  10. Feature to denote a particular "to do" which will automatically sync with apple reminders across devices. This way, it rounds up all of the "to do" tasks in one spot and brings to your phone/other devices

    7 votes

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  11. Sometimes, I take notes that relate to documents. Currently, I can import those documents within the notebook but that often makes notebooks unnecessarily large and it's not easy to navigate through so many pages.

    Instead, it would be nice to be able to attach files to notebooks, so that they are at hand when reviewing the notes.

    7 votes

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  12. Add Afrikaans language

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  13. When adding new page while being zoomed in, the page automatically jumps down to the new page. It’s better to not change position on page, it would feel more natural

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  14. When handwrite bullets, it would be cool, if GoodNotes recognizes them and you could search for certain bullets in the Global Search

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  15. I used Goodnotes 4 in my iPad. When Goodnotes 5 was released, I installed it and I just loved it. But one feature I miss that was useful in Goodnotes 4 is the color palate on the zoom and write box. Every time I have to change color, I’ll have to move all the way to the right upper portion of screen to change it. It was much easier in Goodnotes 4 where it was right on top of the zoom and write box. Please bring that option in Goodnotes 5.

    7 votes

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  16. I switch between pen and lasso probably about 10 times minimum in 5 minutes, if not more. I write things and like to continuously organise my content, my thoughts as I go. This is especially useful in process diagraming and mind mapping.

    Automatically turning off lasso once used would be annoying if you have to organise multiple things sequentially.

    I would like to see this feature improved by being able to swap the double-tap Apple Pencil 2 gesture for Pen --> Lasso --> Pen, rather than Pen --> Eraser --> Pen as it is by default.

    An additional option to…

    7 votes

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  17. When the lines of handwriting are converted to text, why do the lines not go all the way to the right of the Convert to Text box? The text jumps down to the next line before reaching the natural end of that line, so that when I copy and paste to Word, I have to go line-by-line and delete as if ‘return’ had been hit, bringing text back up to the previous line. For example, in the attachment (link conversion: https://support.goodnotes.com/attachments/token/G90PVVHrZHtH8siCOx6uxt8Se/?name=94D251A5-B4CA-44AC-A660-9FD99CAF8ADB.png), why does only the fourth line of text go all the way to the right hand side of…

    7 votes

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  18. So often I find that there are certain tools in the toolbar that I just don't have a lot of use for/only come up once in a blue moon, and I think with the new multi-document feature, this would be more than just a creature comfort.

    It would work by allowing you to have all the tools you don't want on the bar in a "chest," and that would include the colors as well. Since you can drag and drop all the UI elements, you can essentially customize your UI to use the least or most amount of space possible!

    7 votes

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  19. As a neat workaround for the lack of infinitely large docs - give me a (dot) grid that is zoomable. So I zoom in, and instead of loosing orientation because I have to write 4 lines within one element, I want to see a finer grid appear as i zoom in. That helps to put and structure a lot more content on one page. (See figma or others that do this)

    7 votes

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  20. You can copy an object to the clipboard or a toolbox. The clipboard would function as normal but the toolbox would allow for multiple objects to be pasted into the document without needing to re-copy. Would be helpful for repeated objects like graphing coordinate systems. Example workflow: select objects as normal using lasso, select “copy to toolbox” instead of copy. Select the toolbox icon from the menu in which a drop down list of objects is visible. Select and hold the object and drag into notebook.

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