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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Many functions you have placed in submenus could easily fit into their respective window headers, toolbars etc. - thereby becoming more obvious and faster/easier to access.
    examples:

    1) The filter for bookmarked pages in the page browser is now the single item in a submenu. Unnecessary - there is easily enough room for 4 tabs - even when viewed as sidebar and in portrait orientation. img_0387

    2) Select pages and sidebar/popup toggle hide behind a 3 dots menu in the page browser. Why? There is enough room there to show these directly. Esp. if you implement the toggle as one…

    7 votes

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  2. I’m a frequent Goodnotes user on macOS and rely heavily on it to manage and review a large number of PDF documents.

    One feature I strongly miss is the macOS “Quick Look” preview functionality — where pressing the space bar instantly displays a full-size preview of a selected file without fully opening it. This allows for extremely fast navigation through document lists and makes it easy to quickly inspect content before deciding to open a file.

    In Goodnotes for Mac, the only available preview is the thumbnail view, which is helpful but too limited for efficiently scanning document contents when…

    2 votes

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  3. Let us customize the background of our folder just like MacOS! I feel like I can put in quick info related to the folder in the background itself

    1 vote

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  4. 1 vote

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  5. Beim Einsetzen von Bildern und Stickern fehlt die Ankerfunktion, daher verschieben sich oft mehrere Kanten, nicht nur die, die gegriffen wurde. Das ist enorm unpraktisch und zeitaufwendig. Bitte inkludiert die Ankerfunktion, wie es in den meisten anderen Anwendungen schon lange Usus ist.

    1 vote

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    1 vote

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  7. I would like to be able to change the color of the menu I mentioned in the photo 🙏🏻

    1 vote

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  8. GoodNotes feels very slow and outdated when it comes to the slow animation when clicking on folders. Instead of feeling snappy and responsive the long animation leaves me feeling sluggish.

    The same goes for when I open the page view sidebar and the search sidebar. These slow opening animations are outdated and make GoodNotes feel unnecessary sluggish when compared to Notability’s snappy, simple animations.

    4 votes

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  9. With recent updates, the option to filter or prioritize favorited documents within a specific folder has been removed. Now, clicking on Favorites just throws every single starred document into one massive global list.

    This completely disrupts an organized workflow. When I am working inside a specific folder, I want to be able to filter for or automatically pin the favorites of that exact folder to the top, without having to look at files from completely different projects.

    Please bring back local favorites filtering or an option to sort folders by "Favorites First".

    1 vote

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  10. If you have a deep folder hierarchy with a lot of subfolders it is useful to have the option to "show info" to see the folder where a document is saved in, for example if you found it via search. the same thing would be useful for a subfolder.

    Ideally you would have a clickable breadcrumb path, for example in a sidebar as others have suggested.

    1 vote

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  11. Did you see an option to contact them via WhatsApp directly from the site if you have questions?

    1 vote

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  12. Have the ability to create simlinks to documents in other folders. Due to the number of folder I have, I occasionally want to have access to note in two separate folders. The only way to do this now is to make a copy which takes up double the space and doesn’t sync any hand written notes on the page.

    3 votes

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  13. You can directly enter the link to the document's numerical location instead of having to select it manually. The key point is that you can directly enter the link instead of having to select it manually.

    1 vote

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  14. Right now it feels the navigation part is taking too much space vertically. I would consider remove the top-most dark blue part of the navigation panel, as for the functions there, they can be moved to the tool row (pencil, eraser, color etc). This may make the tool row a bit crowded, but one can always add a scrolling to fit all the tools we have right now.

    1 vote

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  15. I would like to suggest adding a “Pin” feature to Infinite Canvas mode. As notes expand across a large canvas, it becomes increasingly difficult to relocate specific sections without repeatedly zooming and dragging around. This is especially frustrating when trying to find important content written earlier.

    A Pin feature would allow users to mark specific locations on the canvas and quickly navigate back to them. Ideally, users could place pins anywhere, assign optional names (e.g., “Key Concept” or “Meeting Summary”), and access a panel listing all pins for one-click navigation.

    This addition would significantly improve navigation efficiency, reduce time spent…

    2 votes

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  16. Why is managing files in Goodnotes so painful? I want to select all intended files (and then export them) after searching but I can't just do it.
    This should be a basic feature; it's not natural not to think about this

    1 vote

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  17. That´s not an Idea it´s a bug still not fixed since new update. U can´t close the "Scan Document" feature if u don´t scan any foto. U have to restart the Program to even acces youre Documents

    1 vote

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  18. Logitech Creative Console is a device that is programmable for navigating apps i.e. Adobe, Photoshop, Zoom etc. However there isn't an available template for Goodnotes, it can be programmed by each individual user, however it would be fantastic if one were available for all Goodnotes users.

    2 votes

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  19. I’d like for that same view of collapsible folders and notes when importing documents to be on the sidebar, it would be useful to be able to see multiple notes/folders at the same time

    1 vote

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  20. I would love to see more symbols and icons to choose from for the folders. Syringes, the rod of Asclepius, band-aids, ambulances, buildings, various sports, body parts, animals, calculators, numbers, test tubes, bells, books… maybe based on emojis, or the ones available in Word

    1 vote

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