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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. As a Goodnotes user for the past 10 years: please stop changing the UI. I know the business and product teams probably feel pressure to keeping adding more stuff to get more users and growth whatever, but you are alienating your hardcore power users that have been recommending this product for 10 years.

    UX Designers: the existing toolbar was great. stop refactoring stuff just because you built a new thing and don't know where to shove it.

    Product Managers: Just make a really solid note taking app. Stop trying to add more stuff in the same app. Whiteboarding should be…

    2 votes

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  2. I would love it if in the outlines menus if we could add multiple pages to one specific outline so I don’t have 5 pages with the same outline name and I could have all 5 pages under one category. I feel that it would make the outlines much cleaner and more helpful when finding a certain page in that catagory.

    1 vote

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  3. Wenn man den Tool für Text einfügen benutzt und irgendwo einen Text macht dann muss man immer wieder erneut auf das t
    Tool drücken um wieder ein Textbalken zu platzieren früher blieb man in dem Modus.
    also am besten wie vor dem Update im Modus Text einfügen bleiben und nicht automatisch wieder zurückstellen.

    3 votes

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  4. There was a time, in a previous version, where I could double tap a mouse or trackpad and a text box would appear. It would be great if that could return as it makes for a more seamless experience.

    3 votes

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  5. 最近大量使用套索工具,還有複製貼上筆記在不同的檔案
    舉例來說我在文件A使用套索工具選取筆記,如果要複製到剪貼簿,必須圈選完點右邊的的更多選單,才能選取複製。不然就是要複製在該頁面,然後剪下,才能在文件B貼上筆記
    此外,貼上的筆記的選單也跟圈選時不一樣,因為編輯有時候有特定且大量的操作,希望整個自訂功能可以完善,自訂出一條在個人使用特定幾個編輯功能可以最有效率的工具清單~

    1 vote

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  6. Now that lock has been implemented, I find it too easy to select the locked object, making writing on top of it difficult.

    How about something like a long press to unlock or something like that so the locked item stays locked and unselected.

    1 vote

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  7. It could be better if we can be able to select dotted line and dashed line for pencil tool, as the pen tools can.

    2 votes

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  8. Rulers shortcut that can rotate 90 degrees,

    When I'm drawing graphs, I have to manually rotate the rulers from 0 degree to 90 degree.

    I think it is better if we have shortcut (something like double tapping the ruler) and it rotate clockwise to 90 degrees (or customizable rotation)

    2 votes

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  9. I would like to suggest adding support for using the laser pointer in the whiteboard mode. It would be very helpful if the laser pointer were available there as well.

    2 votes

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  10. Since the last update you have modified the edit mode and deleted the auto-straighten button! It was probably the most useful button in the entire app and now it’s gone. Instead of trying to develop useless ai features, focuson the basic functionality of the app first! (I’ll putpictures of the old and new edit mode)

    2 votes

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    • You only offer 3 colours, and the colour you call black isn’t black at all—it’s some sort of dark gray-ish. We need real black colour or the usual colour palette one has in the normal note mode [no infinite board]
    • Also, why there’s no zoom box in the infinite board mode? Please add it there, too.
    2 votes

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  11. Everyone wants to mirror images, but what would be awesome is if you had any sketch and to be able to mirror its entirety to give symmetrical conduct, it saves not only time and energy but is also efficient and widely used in sketches.
    So just a thought…
    Thanks, David Eliav

    3 votes

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  12. I would like to suggest aligning the grid spacing and the ruler in GoodNotes with common measurement standards.
    In many countries (for example in Europe), squared paper follows a standardized pattern where two squares equal exactly 1 cm. This standard is widely used in schools, universities, and technical work.
    Currently in GoodNotes, however, two squares correspond to about 1.12 cm when measured with the built-in ruler. Because of this mismatch, the ruler becomes difficult to use for precise measurements or technical sketches. Lines drawn using the grid do not correspond correctly to real-world measurements.
    This can be especially inconvenient for…

    1 vote

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  13. While using my Apple Pencil and writing with the pencil feature in goodnotes, if I tilt my pencil, the writing gets thicker as if I were tilting a blunt pencil. This is inconvenient as I tend to hold my pencil to the side and the feature makes my notes messy.

    I would like an option to disable this feature so that no matter how I hold my pencil, the thickness will stay consistent.

    2 votes

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  14. Buongiorno, sono uno studente di ingegneria e utilizzo questa app sin dai tempi del liceo. Devo dire che l’apprezzo molto
    ed è quasi completa. Ma ci sono un paio di consigli che vi voglio dare per renderla perfetta almeno per uno studente che studia materie scientifiche.
    1) aggiungete un puntino al centro di cerchi e di ellissi per riuscire a centrarle meglio in grafici ed in generale perché sarebbe molto utile e magari aggiungete la possibilità di creare un cerchio come su solid works partendo dal centro e disegnando solo il raggio. (ne ho parlato con molti utilizzatori e tutti…

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  15. Flattened export is by far superior to editable (ink to text, items keep in place). please add the option to keep the outlines in FLATTENED export

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  16. Add Zoom Percentage, please. The zoom affects the way we write and therefore if we'd like to keep our notes consistent in size and neatness. Adding a zoom percentage display would allow us to know what zoom size we prefer and always set our zoom percentages to that number.

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  17. My idea would be to add sticky note templates, which are similar to normal page templates (ruled or squared for example). This would make it easier to use sticky notes in a wider range of use-cases. I for example use sticky notes for solving math questions without having to create a new page and stay on the same page. If there were an option to have squared sticky notes one could draw a diagram waaay easier or use a ruled template to write straighter.

    1 vote

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  18. i want to see all 12 pen color at the same time without scrolling through 6 first

    2 votes

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  19. The timer features are so great, the small size, the set modes and the +1 min button are great.

    It's quite hard to decrease the amount of time however.

    A -1 min button would make it do everything I need it to do to quickly set timers for my classes.

    1 vote

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