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  1. The audio playback feature is inconvenient because when I switch to another tab and come back, it doesn’t stay at the original playback position.
    Also, I hope the audio playback feature can include a function to jump directly to the note position.

    3 votes

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  2. One of the reasons I haven’t switch to GoodNotes:

    One of the key features of this app is recording in (iOS). Therefore, there should be more features when recording. THERE SHOULD BE OPTIONS FOR EXPORTING AND IMPORTING AUDIO FILE. If imported, it should be able to summarize it as well. NOTABILITY has this options. Also when recording sometimes there is 5/10 minutes that there is no one talking (many reasons). There should be an option to be able to cut/delete portions of the audio file. Just like notability. Thank you.

    1 vote

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  3. 1.As shown in IMG1457, when opening a file without an audio recording (on the right) alongside a file that has an audio recording (on the left), the audio cannot be played. However, as shown in IMG1458, if the opened file also contains an audio recording, the audio can be played normally.
    - This creates a problem when taking notes or summarizing content. I would like to request that audio playback remain available regardless of whether the file opened side-by-side contains an audio recording or not.

    2.When playing audio, audio control panels appear on both sides of the screen,…

    1 vote

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  4. It would be great if we could manage all audio recordings in a single location to optimize space. Alternatively, we could have a conductor on the file page to indicate that a file contains an audio recording, allowing us to manage it if we no longer need the audio.

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  5. Please link with the Apple Watch to allow users to record audio/meetings from the watch and then access ai summaries and view notes on other Apple devices. This would make it far less intrusive then recoding with the phone.

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  6. You should be able to click a recording, and it take you the page where it was made, and say you went over different pages while make the recording and drew things on the different pages, as the recording is going, it should take you to those pages

    Inversely, if you drew something while making a recording, there should be a view where you can easily see what things you drew during a a recording vs just drew normally


    ALSO, crucially:
    I might be reading a several hundred page book, and I have my thoughts on a certain paragraph that…

    1 vote

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  7. Hello Goodnotes,

    Currently the 5 seconds backwards and 5 seconds forwards buttons are unusable, since hitting them causes lag and they often don't work.

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  8. Add the option to have an active recording going on but not actively saving every bit of the recording. Only have the recording save when I click a specific button, and it will "catch" the last 1 minute of audio and record that on the page I'm currently on.
    I often find myself in lectures wanting to catch the last 30 seconds to 1 minute of what my professor said, but it's too late; they've moved on, and I can't start recording now because I missed it in the first place.

    I got the idea from Steam gaming actually. Where…

    1 vote

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  9. When recording, or even post recording,would be good to show different speakers like otter does. Even if it says speaker 1, 2. The nest obvious build would be to rename the speaker 1 and speaker 2 etc…

    2 votes

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  10. Need to fix the issue of not being able to view pages or outlines when using the window view while recording audio. This was not an issue in goodnotes 6 and is very annoying especially while working on notes in class. You have to switch to the sidebar view to be able to go back to see pages. Very inefficient!

    1 vote

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  11. Hi! Sometimes I forget to stop the audio clip and it continues to record leaving me with so much wasted data space and unnecessary long clips that I can't edit or shorten. If we just had the feature to simply edit the audio clip, that would be AMAZING.

    110 votes

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  12. Please make it so that every time you unpause a recording on the miniplayer, the whole menu does not automatically pop up (Video demonstration attached).
    It takes up a large part of the screen and moves the whole note page so I need to readjust every time, and when I play and pause one segment repeatedly I need to close it every time. I really enjoyed how it was in the previous update, where the bar was simply at the top next to a play/pause button. The new UI is fine, I just really don't want the whole menu popping…

    2 votes

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  13. Please add voice recording of system in audio recording option. As now we take classes mostly online .please add it please please please

    3 votes

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  14. In GoodNotes, I can’t open a new file or select pages while recording.

    Also, please add a feature that allows recorded audio to be deleted all at once, separately from the written notes!
    The recordings take up a significant amount of storage, so it would be very helpful to have a bulk-delete option for audio only, even from outside the notebook.
    Additionally, it’s inconvenient that the playback window doesn’t appear immediately when playing a recording.

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  15. GoodNotes is great, and I really like the audio recording feature. However, right now, recordings are only displayed as a list within the note, and their names are set by default and cannot be customized. This makes it hard to associate specific recordings with the content of the notes. My lecture notes are often very long (over 300 pages), and after some time, I have no idea which recording corresponds to which section of the notes. I hope GoodNotes can support a feature where a recording can be dragged or inserted directly into the document and displayed as an icon…

    7 votes

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  16. it would be great if u allowed us to fully copy and paste the transcipt instead of allowing it sentence by sentence.

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  17. Please add support for more iPad models for audio transcription, as many students use Goodnotes for note-taking. This feature is very useful, but unfortunately, it only works on several iPad models. Not all students can afford to but a new iPad while the old ones still working!!

    15 votes

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  18. Please introduce a function for skipping silent parts of a recording, as already possible in apple “voice memos”

    5 votes

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  19. Audio Transcripts—the power to turn any audio recording directly into text within your note! Capture every detail and never worry about gaps in your knowledge. Copy, paste, and search within time-stamped text, so you always have the info you need! Now available with Notability Plus

    Notability has just released this feature to the market and I think it's very important to have this function for students or lectures.

    89 votes

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  20. I love the new feature that highlights notes along with an audio recording, but I think it would be even more useful if it worked the opposite way as well. I mean if there was a way you could select your notes and have the audio jump to the section of the audio clip that corresponds to those notes. If this is not possible, maybe adding something that serves as a marker so that you can tell which audio clips correspond to which pages in your notebook.

    3 votes

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