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  1. I love the new audio recording feature but find a few issues with it and potential improvements.
    1. Once you’ve recorded, to play a recording it plays the first ever recording and you need to find the spot for your latest one. I think it would be more logical to automatically play the latest recording, especially for people with large notebooks who don’t want to skip through hundreds of previous audio recordings.
    2. Be able to rename audio recordings or have GoodNotes use AI to rename the audio recordings (name it the title of the page, or do like voice…

    73 votes

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  2. 3 votes

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  3. Hello GoodNotes Team,

    I’ve been experiencing significant issues with the audio recording feature after restoring my data using an iCloud backup. Since the restoration, my audio recordings no longer sync properly with my notes. For example, when I play recordings at 2x speed, only the audio accelerates while the notes remain at 1x speed, causing a mismatch between the two. Additionally, the app crashes frequently during playback.

    I’ve seen reports of similar issues from other users as well, so it seems to be a recurring problem. This issue is severely affecting my workflow, and I would appreciate it if this…

    1 vote

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  4. Notability has a feature that creates transcripts from audio recordings and syncs the written notes with the transcript. I believe this feature would be incredibly useful and make Goodnotes more competitive with Notability. PLEASE make this a feature in an upcoming update!!!

    11 votes

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  5. As of today we have Audio Recordings in GoodNotes - thank you!

    You can simply forget to switch off recording, ending up with a long audio recording between lectures or meetings - it would be nice to have a functionality to split an individual audio recording in 2. Therefore it will be possible to delete needless ones.

    Custom naming of audio recordings will make it easier to navigate between them.

    Exporting audio recordings within a single notebook in bulk and individually as .mp3 file would be very convenient as well.

    72 votes

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  6. I use goodnotes in uni and have audio recording turned on during notes in my lectures. The thing I have noticed is that while helpful, for many of my classes, when I go to make refined notes it means i have to go back and listen to the whole lecture again (often pausing alot write down and catchup with things the prof said). This means that I often have to spend 2-3 hours on a one hour lecture just to get everything the prof said written down so I don’t miss anything. Thats alot of time dedicated to a class…

    4 votes

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  7. ~It would be better to have multiple audio recording split up, instead of having one huge line of recordings. Having them split up will give the option to pin point exactly the part of the recording you want to go back to.
    ~Improve the audio recording to go pixel by pixel so the notes are better synced together with the voice.

    14 votes

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  8. The audio recordings and their sync with the written notes is an amazing feature that I use daily.
    An improvement that could be made is adding the ability to change inputs to bluetooth devices for the audio recordings (like external microphones or bluetooth headsets) - This would be especially helpful for people who sit in the back of a lecture hall and would allow them to place a microphone at the front and record the lecture more clearly.

    2 votes

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  9. If these features are added, goodnotes will be one of the monopoly apps in the market! Hope I hear from you guys soon!

    1 vote

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  10. When I want to listen to a specific part on my document, instead of skipping through the recording by myself until I find it. I could just click on the text I’ve written while I recorded that part, and Goodnotes would automatically skip to the part and start playing the recording.
    I hope that makes sense, it’s just like notability. I know a lot of people who would switch to Goodnotes if that feature is available.

    3 votes

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  11. Hello... You can add the feature of sharing the audio recordings that are recorded in the program because it is very necessary for every user + and there is a small problem that when I change the location of the file, the audio recording stops working... Thank you.

    1 vote

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  12. I like the new feature very much which is the audio recording but it will be more helpful if we can add the audio file from other voice recording app or if web are transferring from the notability it will be easier to just drop the audio or the whole note with audio being shared to goodnotes.

    38 votes

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  13. I think it would be awesome if audio recordings could be saved to a page instead of a notebook as a whole. So for example MS PowerPoint you can record audio per slide and place a button to play the audio on the slide. This is great if your audio is only related or needed for a specific page and not the whole journal.

    4 votes

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  14. Please audio recordings need some basically feature to be implemented, otherwise their use is almost impossible.
    1 first of all, there is no point in showing in the time bar all recordings at the same time. Just show the corrent track, otherwise it is almost impossible to navigate to a specific point
    2 It is equally important to have the possibility to rename the recordings. It is so difficult find the right records just from the order or the date

    these 2 are the critical iussues. Other good feature may be add the possibility to export audio files, change the…

    22 votes

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  15. I wish we could edit recordings!! Sometimes i forget to stop the recording in class and after a few hours i notice that it has been recording for a while, I think it would be pretty useful to enable a feature to at least trim the audios we record, thank you.

    5 votes

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  16. It would be wonderful to record audio of what you're listening to in your earbuds. For example while you're listening to an online lecture in a crowded space.

    6 votes

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  17. While recording audio, GoodNotes should periodically autosave and start a new recording, e.g. once per hour. This would break the recording into hourlong chunks. This functionality is available in Notability, for example.

    Use case: if the user forgets to turn off recording, it’s easier to delete unnecessary recordings later by looking at the timestamp.

    17 votes

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  18. For the audio recording, an option to rename the clips and also the ability to recover deleted clips!

    19 votes

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  19. When I am using the new feature audio recordings, I have to write over my work with a pen in order to see what I am referring to on the video. It would be nice to be able to use the existing laser pointer in the video and for it to come through on the video when I watch it later in time.

    13 votes

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  20. We are able to record audios using GN but once inside the app it is impossible to get them to use a 3rd party to get the transcripts

    It would be nice if we can download the files or get them out of good notes

    3 votes

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