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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Please enable the masking tape feature to be opened and closed even when using the pointer mode, to make presentations and lectures more seamless.

    8 votes

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  2. Allow us to form perfect arrows when using draw and hold. It often slows my progress switching between the Pen Tool and the Shape Tool, and I'd much rather have the ability to automatically make an arrow using draw and hold, just like other shapes

    2 votes

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  3. Description

    Hi Goodnotes Team,
    I would love to see a new "Workspaces" option added to the main page sidebar (which currently only includes Documents, Favorites, Shared, and Market).

    This feature would allow users to save and switch between different working environments tailored to specific scenarios (e.g., different classes, meetings, or projects).

    Ideally, a custom Workspace would save:
    • Specific files/tabs: The specific notebooks or PDFs that need to be opened together.
    • Tool configurations: Custom presets for pen thickness, color palettes, and default tool combinations applicable to that specific scenario.

    Use Case:

    For example, if I am about to study…

    2 votes

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  4. be able to zoom out, and allow the page to stay zoomed out. i would like to be able to have buffer room on the left and right of the page, as of right now, you can only zoom in, any attempt to zoom out (to see multiple pages at once, or understand where the edge of the page is) the page bounces back to fit the screen width.

    3 votes

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  5. Add an option to customize the lasso select menu after something is selected to be more like goodnotes 5. one thing I do all the time is lasso and then 'copy' but now I have to click an extra button to get to the 'copy' button. it was better on goodnotes 5.

    2 votes

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  6. At the moment there is no search tool in text documents. I don’t understand this decision at all. Being able to search within a text document is absolutely crucial.

    3 votes

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  7. A geotriangle would be good

    2 votes

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  8. Bilder an magnetischen Linien miteinander ausrichten

    2 votes

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  9. When using the Squeeze feature on Apple Pencil Pro, adding a feature that lets you “scroll” through your saved preset colors the same way we can scroll through the tools would be useful, instead of only having access to the first 3 colors.

    2 votes

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  10. Please give us the option of laser pointer in the reading mode. I don't want to edit my document, I want to
    1. Read the document myself with the laser pointer
    2. use it while presenting, without accidentally editing anything

    3 votes

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  11. 사진을 올릴때 그냥 큰 이미지를 바로 올리는 것이 아닌, 모달(팝업) 형태로도 올릴 수 있게 해주세요.

    링크추가 기능을 사용할때 나오는 오브젝트 같은걸 클릭하면 등록한 이미지가 모달(팝업)의 형태로 나오도록 구현하고, 빈공간이나 x표시를 누르면 모달이 사라지도록 구현하면 좋을 것 같아요.

    그러면 많은 개념들을 정리할때 큰 이미지나 다양한 이미지를 하나의 페이지에 깔끔하게 정리할 수 있을 것 같아요.

    감사합니다. 좋은 하루 되세요.

    2 votes

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  12. Can you please put the redo button back on the toolbar? It gets in the way of my documents.

    1 vote

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  13. There should be an option to be able to highlight the pdf text in the highlighter color you have selected. Similar to how you long press on a word and it selects, it should highlight, that way its much cleaner and easier on laptops to use. It should be in a rectangular highlighter shape. This feature is available in notability and is really urging me to switch.

    1 vote

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  14. We all use different tools more frequently, and the new squeeze-to-display-palette with the Apple Pencil Pro is fantastic, but it isn't reflecting the new customized order we make in the top toolbar. And of course it should, it seems to me.

    94 votes

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  15. As a medical student I often take photos of lecture slides from various angles, currently cropping these images results in distorted or skewed perspectives, leaving me with “uncroppable” parts.

    I would love to see a feature similiar to the Notes app in IOS when scanning a document, it would help me make better notes for me.

    Best regars, Josef.

    2 votes

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  16. Please add a letax toolbar, similar to the one in Microsoft OneNote’s Equation option

    2 votes

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  17. 2 votes

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  18. 이전처럼 즐겨찾기를 더보기에 들어가지 않고서도 추가하게 할 수 있는 방법은 없나요? 정말 번거롭습니다. 항상 더보기를 클릭하고서 추가를 해야한다니..

    1 vote

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  19. Suggested Reply:

    Hello GoodNotes Team,

    Making the toolbar floating and removing the option for a fixed version seriously hurts the user experience. Students like us spend hours taking notes and need focus, but the toolbar constantly moves, sometimes overlaps our work, and it slows us down.

    There’s a simple solution that makes everyone happy:
    • Floating toolbar
    • Fixed (classic) toolbar

    Let users choose what works for them. It’s really that simple.

    Please add a “Classic Toolbar Mode.” This change would make a huge difference for many users.

    2 votes

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  20. Like a lot of people, I prefer to write my notes on a black background which then makes it difficult to print. I use different colours in a single sentence to group specific concepts together, which is lost if I replace all the colour. At the moment, there are two solutions: invert the entire page, which makes the other colours funky, or use the lasso to select individual colours.

    My proposal is to allow you to select all text, drawings etc done in a single colour and bulk recolour it to a new colour. This would let you preserve other…

    1 vote

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