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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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…

    1 vote

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. i want to see all 12 pen color at the same time without scrolling through 6 first

    2 votes

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  9. 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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  10. 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…

    3 votes

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  11. When using sticky notes, it is inconvenient that the user name is displayed automatically.

    While showing names can be helpful during collaboration with two or more people on a shared document, it becomes distracting when the document is used individually. I often use sticky notes like Post-it notes for personal annotations and quick notes, and in this case, the automatic display of my name feels unnecessary and disruptive.

    It would be very helpful to have an option to toggle the automatic display of names on or off, depending on whether the document is being used collaboratively or individually.

    2 votes

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  12. Just how once you’re done erasing it goes right back to the pencil so I can write. I think this would also be useful if it did the same thing for highlighting. Every time I have to highlight and it doesn’t go back to the pencil I waste more time going back to erase what I highlighted on my page because i Though I was using the pen tool

    1 vote

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  13. TL;DR
    Please add (or restore) horizontal snapping in the Shape Tool so near-horizontal strokes become perfectly straight underlines without draw-and-hold.

    Problem
    In Goodnotes 7.0.6, to get a perfectly straight underline I must use Pen/Highlighter and pause for draw-and-hold on every stroke. This breaks flow when underlining many items per page.

    Current behavior
    • Pen/Highlighter: can “perfect” a line with draw-and-hold.
    • Shape Tool: lacks horizontal snap for quick, hold-free underlines.

    Proposal
    • Add horizontal snapping in Shape Tool: if the stroke angle is within a tolerance of horizontal (e.g., ±5–10°), snap to 0°/180° automatically.
    • Provide a quick toggle on…

    3 votes

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  14. I recently had to delete and re-download the app because of a bug issue and lost all of my saved colors. It would be awesome if there is a way to save or back up pen and highlight colors so that you don’t have to reprogram them when re-downloading the app.

    1 vote

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  15. 레이저 포인터 펜을 쓰면 획이 구분되도록 겹쳐져서 써지는데, 처음 상태처럼(획 구분 안 되도록) 복구해주세요. 불편합니다.

    2 votes

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  16. I wish there would be a setting to globally turn off snap to other shapes. I often find it rather annoying when trying to draw lines closely together. A global setting to not be on by default would be a game changer for me.

    3 votes

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  17. Please bring back the setting, that you can customize you text field and save the customization. In earlier versions it was able to fine tune the line spacing, now it is too imprecise. It is very bad

    As well we need the function to create tables. It would make so many thing so much easier. Please invent it

    3 votes

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  18. As a apple pencil pro user. The squeeze feature for openning the circle toolbar is self sufficient for changing tools so a settintgs that remove the horizontal toolbar when using apple pencil pro would be a great and easy way to get more space for notebook and usage of the squeeze feature on the pencil. Hope the idea seems great !

    3 votes

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  19. Please bring back the undo and redo buttons in the macOS version of Goodnotes. It is dearly missed by this teacher that uses Goodnotes for instruction.

    3 votes

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