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  1. For long text documents, it would be helpful to have a find and replace option. I have a document, for example, that has 124 instances of the same name that needs to be changed. Right now, I can only do it manually in Goodnotes 6.

    2 votes

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  2. Refer to the "Layer" function in "Free Notes" ("Free Notes" is in the AppStore)

    5 votes

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  3. Each newest verion of the app makes things worse and worse. Before this latest update if you selected the lasso tool and had handwriting seletion off when you took a screenshot the handwriting would be omitted from the screenshot. Now even with handwriting seleted off you take a screenshot and it includes the handwriting. What is the point of not selecting handwriting if it is still showing in the screenshot?

    If I hadn't spent $30 and had years of notes for school, I would switch apps. I am so disapointed with what this app has become. They're just pushing AI…

    2 votes

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  4. I think it would be a great addition to include an option for automatic handwriting refinement, similar to the feature in Apple Notes. You can see how it works in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw74AVIUpY

    6 votes

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  5. Please add 3-5 types of text styling so we don’t have to change font size between planners. Attached is 3 different text styling from notability.

    3 votes

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  6. I enjoy typing most of my notes but then adding drawings/figures underneath them, but I find the text feature to be lacking and very frustrating. Specifically the bullet point list needs to be updated and there should be more options to tab lists (like on google docs). Also sometimes when I go back into a text box it will start typing the letters below the previous word. I just find the text box feature super glitchy and could be improved.

    4 votes

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  7. I’d like to be able to attach links to photos so I can add cute “buttons” to my notebooks that jump to other pages instead of just boring text.

    2 votes

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  8. Please remove this ridiculous toolbar.

    The toolbar is an essential place to find your tools - The way you could customize it was just great - Also it did not hide content behind a floating thingy.

    Your decision to hide the ruler behind another tap (And just not allowing us to bring it to the front) is another miserable choice. How dare you?

    3 votes

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  9. Previously it was great. Now I have to select separately whether I want to switch between the two. Remove the audio option and bring back the bookmark option instead.

    3 votes

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  10. I use iOS and Android both.
    Please rollout FooNotes cloud sync for me.
    Please

    3 votes

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  11. 设计的越来越麻烦又没必要了,文字输入找半天找不到原来是框选有神秘小开关,框选框着框着有回到文字,神秘小巧思发力了别让ai给你当设计师了,再改那些细枝末节试图成为notability的样子你看人家理你吗,再单相思一个试试看。明明点一下能解决的事情现在多少个都要找半天点好几下,搞出来这种东西的设计师大学没少用chatgpt吧。找个写反馈骂的地方都没有,如果你和notability是宿敌你大概是输得很彻底的小受受!

    3 votes

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  12. Guten Tag,

    es wäre schön, wenn man die eigenen Vorlagen noch weiter bearbeiten könnte.

    Die von mir importierte Vorlage ist z.B. in links 1/3 Korrekturrand und rechts 2/3 linierter Bereich aufgeteilt.
    Wenn ich in dieser Vorlage allerdings die Funktion „mit tippen starten“ wähle, wird leider nicht in dem dafür vorgegebenen Bereich geschrieben.
    Auch das Zoom-Fenster würde ich gerne automatisch auf den Beginn der Zeile springen lassen. Bisher zeigt das Zoom-Fenster nach dem Vollschreiben einer Zeile jedoch den linken Rand des Blaats an, der ja aber als Korrekturrand frei bleiben soll.

    2 votes

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  13. Please for the love of god, add a freaking compass! It’s been a year and still nothing. The circle drawing tool is inaccurate, messy, off centre, and overall useless. Is it really that hard to make a simple tool as a compass?

    2 votes

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  14. It would be wonderful if GoodNotes offered a simpler way to format text inside a text box so that it automatically matches the notebook’s paper lines. Right now, adjusting font size and line spacing requires trial and error, which can be time‑consuming. A feature that helps align text perfectly with the chosen paper template (ruled, squared, etc.) would make writing and studying much smoother.

    Such an option would ensure that typed notes look as natural and organized as handwritten ones, saving users time and improving readability.

    2 votes

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  15. With the new update the font size is capped at 100 which for larger documents is still too small. Please let us insert whatever size we want like before.

    3 votes

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  16. Hi, I used to make filled rectangles without borders in GoodNotes, but after the latest update I can’t find how to do it anymore. I’ve tried using Undo and even the eraser, but I still can’t remove the border line.

    3 votes

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  17. Choosing pen tools but it keeps going to eraser.
    The mode that wrap annotations (pen, editing, writing) in one place including eraser is someone troubling me.
    When used lasso tools then change to pen, it keeps getting to eraser before pen. When it wasn’t merge before, I can manually select pen then it’s pen.
    Now when I select pen, it goes to eraser.

    I want it to be pen first when I choose the category.

    3 votes

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  18. When I’m writing with my apple pencil I’m constantly accidentally activating the paste, zoom, comment, link long press menu with my fingers, I never use this menu, so I think it would be helpful to be able to disable it in the palm rejection settings menu.

    3 votes

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  19. Allow users to record a section in their notes, such as drawing out a diagram and its process, and be able to video playback it. It would be super resourceful since you wouldn't only see the end product, but you'd be able to see the process of how you got there. It can reduce copying and pasting of notes to demonstrate the process.

    13 votes

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  20. I like to do STORYBOARD Thumbnail Sketches in Goodnotes!!

    I really like the PENCIL tool!
    But often times I sketch in one colour ( light blue or red)
    and then CLEAN UP the drawing in dark grey or black..

    I would really like to:
    - THEN ERASE THE LIGHT BLUE SKETCH underneath, only..
    NOT my sketch above!!
    Right now this is NOT possible, because we have an ERASE HIGHLIGHTER ONLY option , but the Highlighter is too BIG for sketching!!

    Soo It would be indeed very helpful to HAVE a "colour-pick eraser.."

    That way we could sketch in ONE colour,…

    2 votes

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