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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Highlighting is very tedious on this app. I agree with the many other posts that are requesting straight line highlighting and snap to text highlighting (as an option in addition to the current highlighter). However, I would like to take the snap to text feature one step further.

    If I need to highlight 3 lines in a paragraph, I shouldn’t have to make 3 separate highlighter actions. I should only have to put my pencil on the first word, and drag it to the last word. The software should highlight everything in between. In the image I attached, I put…

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  2. When I am working in a large document (several hundred pages), navigating the TOC is cumbersome. If I’m on page 23 of 900, and know I need to go approximately 3/4 of the way into the document to a chart, I have to scroll and scroll and scroll until I get there.

    The app I’m attempting to replace with Goodnotes, GoodReader, has an extremely efficient TOC that you can click through easily. You can see the entire document and just tap where you want to go. If I need to navigate the documents actual TOC, bookmarks, or any annotations I…

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  3. I like reading comics and manga and marking them up. Goodnotes has the best markup I have tried. But there are some panels in the books that join into one, and when I import my PDFs I can only see half of the panel at once. I would like to be able to see two pages at once. Gapless would be ideal, but I imagine it makes sense for there to be a gap. A toggle would help.
    Bonus Points if I can choose to read from right to left as well so I can read both comics and manga,…

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  4. The typing notebook beta option is nice however it would be nice if it could be a template you could insert into any notebook like it was previously this the option to write, add text, or read only. Having it being isolated to just a note book makes it difficult to take notes and add written comments or highlights. Also the new note taking is annoying without a keyboard mainly for copy and paste but also to change the font size.

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  5. It would be very helpful to have a clear page option that removes handwriting and text but keeps inserted images intact. I frequently take pictures of suggested problems or textbook problems, and after some time i want to resolve then and get rid of my old computations and scribbles.

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  6. It would be great to be able to share and collaborate on learning sets as it is possible for other documents. Right now, you need to export the entire file, so the other person will work from another version, and the two will not synchronise

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  7. There should be an option for pdfs where goodnotes highlighter can auto highlight phrases or sentence lines like a pdf reader.

    It already can select words in pdf, might as well add this functionality.

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  8. Version 7.0.18: At the moment, it's only possible to link notebooks. It would be useful to link text documents, too.

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  9. Allow text boxes to move from page to page without lasso tool. Since the text box is already a moveable item it would be nice to be able to move it from page to page without it disappearing. The lasso seems like an unnecessary extra step

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  10. Please add support for vertical text writing/input for East Asian languages, specifically Chinese and Japanese.
    請新增直行文字輸入框,中文與日文使用者可能會需要。

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  11. There should be a way to reverse the flash card to learn the questions from the answers? Quizlet, a competing app, does this, and I can't find the equivalent on Goodnotes :(

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  12. When using the “Learning resource cards,” there are two modes: “free trial” and “smart learning.” There is a really useful option in the free trial called “random,” which allows you to randomly start from either the question or the answer of a card. I’m wondering why this random setting isn’t available in smart learning yet. It’s really helpful for learning vocabulary in a foreign language and similar things, but we can’t do that in smart learning.
    (And yes, we could just use free training, but there’s no shuffle in it, so we have to review the cards in the same…

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  13. It would be ideal if pages could be expanded or collapsed,
    similar to chapters.
    When working with multiple pages in a document (as shown in the image),
    this feature would reduce the visible page count and allow users
    to expand them again when needed.

    Es wäre perfekt, wenn man Seiten auf oder zuklappen könnte.
    Etwa so wie Kapitel.
    Wenn man mehrere Seiten in einem Dokument hat, wie im Bild zu sehen.
    Dadurch reduziert man die Seiten und wenn man sie braucht dann klappt man sie
    einfach wieder auf.

    2 votes

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  14. The new Goodnotes Whiteboard feature is great, yet it doesn’t come in lined paper. I would really appreciate it, since the grid is very messy-looking and the dots are not precise enough for my wonky handwriting.

    2 votes

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  15. Allow the pen thickness adjustment have plus or minus options with/without slider
    Everytime it's annoying to adjust the slider for 0.05mm thickness with accuracy. It's time consuming to adjust stroke with careful slight movement.

    12 votes

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  16. Finde es sehr schade dass Mann jetzt noch mehr bezahlen soll nur um Bilder erstellen zu können wenn man GoodNotes einmalig gekauft hat also GoodNotes 6 (nachdem man schon GoodNotes 5 bezahlt hat) wird es jetzt nochmal teurer…. Finde echt das Mann das hätte anders regeln können ! Bin sehr enttäuscht

    2 votes

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  17. I would like to suggest a feature that prevents words from splitting. Every time I write into a text box the words get split. One part of the word is at the end of the line and the other half on a new line. It would be great if good notes added a feature for hyphenation just like Ms Word, Adobe InDesign etc.

    2 votes

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  18. After updating to GN6 the input keep reverting back to the lasso tool. If im typing in a box and happen to tap out side the box it automatically reverts to lasso. And i have to go back and tap on the text option to start typing again.

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  19. I love the audio transcription feature and use it regularly for work. Right now, however, it's not easy to navigate the transcripts because they all compile into the same space and you can't jump to the most recent transcript. So, I'd love to see some changes to how the transcripts are organized:

    1. Revamp the way transcripts are organized. Allow users to jump from one transcript to another, just like you can with the recording drop down menu. The current navigation feature makes goes immediately to the first transcript recorded, which is a real problem if you have a lot of…

    4 votes

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  20. Ich würde mir bei den Lernsets die Funktion wünschen, Text, Handschrift und Bilder kombinieren zu können und sich nicht für eines entscheiden zu müssen.

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