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  1. With the new update tool bar you can’t change colors in split screen unless you move the tool bar to the side. This is so inconvenient and frustrating especially considering this was not an issue before the latest updates and change in the tool bar. With the old tool bar this was not an issue since you could scroll to select tools, size, or color.

    This is another example of why the new tool bar is awful and inefficient when working! Please let us revert to the old update! Or at the very least the old tool bar!!

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  2. When filming live, white backgrounds are too bright and interfere with the live stream, so I want to invert white to black.
    Leave other colors unchanged.

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  3. Please create the option to turn off auto connection of connector lines to pre-defined shapes drawn with the shape tool. I understand this was designed for diagramming but I am picky about my notes being neat, organized, and symmetrical so I really like using this tool to draw my own figures as well as perfect arrows/shapes. However, the auto connect makes it very frustrating and annoying to use because my lines are redirected to connect to nearby shapes and there is no way of detaching them to still draw the lines where I need them to go. They cannot even…

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  4. Please disable this automatic line changing or increase the limit of words for line change. It doubles the work as again we have to stretch the box to make while text appear in single line.

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  5. i can see people use the tools in different sequences - I need the eraser to auto-deselect off pen menu when i
    ERASE then
    LASSO something, then go back to
    PEN to keep drawing or writing.
    right now it won’t deselect when i use a tool NOT in the pen menu

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  6. Add the possibility of remove the object area that anchorages writing, forms to a form.
    This new feature doesn't allow drawing over some figures and makes the drawing experience terrible on goodnotes.
    Let the user choose in he needs the area or not.

    It would also be nice to be able to draw geometric shapes that are more similar to those drawn by hand.
    For example, quarters and semicircles, which are currently transformed into parabolas.

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  7. When you draw something and hold, there'll be a faded color of your pen inside the shape. The latest update make me couldn't delete the outline of the shape and that makes taking notes way worseee. I love those more than highlighting. PLEASE BRING IT BACKKKK I BEG.

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  8. Goodnotes has implemented links to websites as well as internal pages for some time now. However, they are still incredibly cumbersome to use, especially for handwriters. I propose the following improvements:

    1) Internal links
    In most cases the page one wants to link to is already open in another tab or window side by side. But to create a link there we still have to navigate to this page again within the link creation dialogue.
    It would be faster and more intuitive to have an additional entry in the document menu and page browser to simply copy a link to…

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  9. Scribble to delete is a nice feature. Unfortunately if turned on, it accidentally deletes drawings. Would it be possible to delete by scribble only at FAST pencil movements?

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  10. Seit dem letzten Windows Update werden bei der automatischen Linienführung Rundungen in den Ecken erstellt. Dies sollte deaktiviert werden können. Ich nutze Goodnotes im Unterricht um Elektroschemas und Elektrosymbole zu zeichnen. Goodnotes ist das einzige mir bekannte Programm, welches diese Funktion so gut beherrscht. Daher empfehle ich es jedem Lernenden und jeder Lehrperson weiter. Bitte mit dem nächsten Update die automatische Linienführung mit Ecken wieder möglich machen.

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  11. Seit dem letzten Windows Update ist die Grösse für geometrische Formen begrenzt. Kreise, Vierecke, Dreiecke können nicht so klein gemacht werden wie früher.

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  12. The latest Goodnotes doesn’t let you type in a hex code to change the TEXT color on a SHAPE. This happens on the Custom tab of the Color Change pop-up window when you select the text on a shape and then click the color dot on the pop-up menu to change the TEXT color. Goodnotes doesn’t let you insert your cursor into the Hex Code box. There are just a bunch of zeroes in the Hex Code box that you can’t overwrite.
    The shapes themselves can be updated using a typed-in hex code, but not their built-in text. This problem…

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  13. Depuis la dernière mise à jour, les symboles des outils pour écrire des zones de texte ont changé (je les mets en photo). Sauf que quand je veux souligner quelque chose, j'ai le réflexe de cliquer sur les Aa soulignés au lieu de cliquer sur le Bi.
    Je pense que l'outil qui permet de changer de police ne devrait pas être souligné car notre œil est attiré vers ça au lieu de cliquer sur le bon outil ! C'est l'outil Bi qui devrait être souligné !

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  15. Please for the love of God, bring back the old version of using the “keyboard” icon to simply type onto the notebook. This useless text box option does NOT work and the text doesn’t even sit on the notebook lines anymore. It is completely pointless. I can’t type anymore and I can no longer edit offline either! I pay every year to use your product and I’m happy to do so because I use it to teach. Honestly, if the text box doesn’t go, I will find a better alternative because I cannot work like this.
    I’m incredibly frustrated and…

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  16. [KR]
    Goodnotes 7.0.6 이후 두 가지 이슈로 생산성이 크게 떨어졌습니다.
    1. 모양도구 밑줄 수평 스냅: 모양도구로 밑줄을 긋더라도 자동 0°(수평) 스냅이 되지 않습니다.
    2. 도구막대 개인화: 펜/지우개/형광펜/모양도구/올가미/사진첨부를 한 줄의 동일 층위에 자유롭게 배치하고 싶은데, 업데이트 이후 일부 도구가 메인 도구막대 밖으로 빠지거나, 필기도구 묶음에 고정되어서 다른 도구와 동등하게 배치할 수 없습니다.
    요청: (a) Line의 0°/90° 스냅 또는 Underline 모드, (b) 카테고리 제약 없는 도구막대 커스터마이즈

    [EN]
    Since Goodnotes 7.0.6, two issues significantly reduce productivity:
    1. Shape-tool underline horizontal snap: Drawing an underline with the Shape tool no longer snaps to 0° (horizontal).
    2. Toolbar personalization: I want to place Pen/Eraser/Highlighter/Shape/Lasso/Photo…

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  17. Please whenever I push record can the sidebar not open up?? Also to not keep popping up whenever I push pause and play??

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  18. We should be able to select (i.e., highlight) text from an imported PDF across multiple pages. Not being able to is very limiting.

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  19. If there was a way to select autofit being on or off, that would be great! I often write really small and like to zoom in a lot. Unfortunately, when I do, the side edges of the doc are autofitted to my iPad screen, making it harder to write.

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  20. I don’t like the tool bar of the new version, I can’t make straight lines and there are limited shapes

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