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  1. I used to make perfect stars with a ball pen whenever I drew a wobbly star and then locked my pen in place for it to snap into a perfect star shape. But with the new update you guys for no reason at all ruined this for me. Whenever I try to make the same star shape it clicks into a CIRCLE OR A SQUARE FOR NO APPARENT REASON AT ALL even though what I drew has NOTHING to do with an as simple shape as circle or a square. Please fix this I can not study as efficiently asโ€ฆ

    1 vote

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  2. The current screenshot feature captures all notes on the page. I wish to add an option to capture only the background.

    Also, it would be easier to have an option like "screenshot and copy", the current workflow is too complex: screenshot, share, copy, and close the preview...

    So two features: "screenshot background", "screenshot and copy".

    1 vote

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  3. I'm using Goodnotes on iPad mainly on stage as a guitarist. As I'm not using real sheet music but have my own note-taking scheme, Goodnotes is the perfect tool for me. On stage I'm also using a bluetooth foot-switch (Boss FS1-WL) which is sending HID commands such as "Right arrow" to turn the next page in Goodnotes and it's working well.
    However I have the need to select the next "Performance" on my Amp-Modeler (this can be any MIDI device) at the same time. As the Foot-switch is only able to either being in HID- OR MIDI-mode, this is notโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  4. I'd like to be able to change my default Whiteboard background from Dot Grid & White.

    Could be done by:

    • Saving the last background used
    • Manually saving in the Whiteboard creation screen

    This would be very helpful!

    4 votes

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  5. Goodnotes helps us organize notes, meeting records, and study materials in one place. It makes it easier to review information, annotate documents, and keep everything structured, which improves productivity and collaboration.

    1 vote

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  6. With the newest updates to Goodnotes, the order of menu items keeps changing. Sometimes, Copy is at the top of the menu, sometimes it is at the bottom of the menu. It appears this is called โ€œDynamic/context-sensitive menusโ€ and it is terrible. You now have to read the entire menu every time to figure out where Copy is located within the menu because the location of Copy within the menu keeps changing. Simple Copy and Paste now takes so much longer. Please either bring back the fixed menu or allow us to toggle the dynamic/context-sensitive menu OFF.

    2 votes

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  7. Align left and align right are options for default formating in the text tool. But select center and the default option grays out. This is infuriating and needs to be fixed.

    2 votes

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  8. All the new split does for me is to take space away from my screen to read or write on. Also the second bar being loose/movable and black in contrast to the white page is distracting me.

    4 votes

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  9. The โ€œReport an Issueโ€ button in the app is broken. All the other buttons to external links work, but instead I had to search for a separate feedback tool online. Very inconvenient and not at all easy site to find. And I had to make a new account.

    But of course the โ€œRate on App Storeโ€ button works perfectly.

    4 votes

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  10. Add the ability to set a different default font per language e.g., Hebrew uses one font by default, English another so the font switches automatically when changing keyboard language.

    5 votes

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  11. Many things are are already moveable to accomodate different writing styles and workflows, which is amazing. That being said, even though I find that the minimap in the whiteboard is a very important and useful tool, as a lefty I am constantly hitting it accidentally (even when it is minimized) and it can be quite frustrating to have this be an issue when this has a solution that shows up in other parts of the UI/UX. I was suprised to find out that the minimap is locked in place in the bottom left corner even though it appears to beโ€ฆ

    1 vote

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  12. 1 vote

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  13. As a Goodnotes user for the past 10 years: please stop changing the UI. I know the business and product teams probably feel pressure to keeping adding more stuff to get more users and growth whatever, but you are alienating your hardcore power users that have been recommending this product for 10 years.

    UX Designers: the existing toolbar was great. stop refactoring stuff just because you built a new thing and don't know where to shove it.

    Product Managers: Just make a really solid note taking app. Stop trying to add more stuff in the same app. Whiteboarding should beโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  14. I do a lot of screen recordings for my math classes and your new toolbar and permanently floating undo buttons eat up canvas space. Let me at least choose a different layout where the drawing surface is completely free of anything other than... drawing space.

    4 votes

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  15. The base opacity of the pencil was changed with a recent update and itโ€™s too light to be used normally now. Add a way to change the opacity so I can make it darker than is currently allowed so I can actually see what Iโ€™m writing.

    4 votes

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  16. assesment test mode Uses Apple's self-lock feature to restrict access to other apps or files or the internet during assessments and integration in Apple Schoolwork

    1 vote

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  17. I would love it if in the outlines menus if we could add multiple pages to one specific outline so I donโ€™t have 5 pages with the same outline name and I could have all 5 pages under one category. I feel that it would make the outlines much cleaner and more helpful when finding a certain page in that catagory.

    1 vote

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  18. ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ ํƒญ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ค‘์ด๋˜ ๋…ธํŠธ๊ฐ€ ios ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ์—๋Š” ๋œจ์ง€ ์•Š์•„์š” ์›น์—๋Š” ์•ˆ๋“œ๋กœ์ด๋“œ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ค‘์ธ๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ์—๋Š” ์•ˆ๋ณด์ด๋„ค์š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋™ํ• ์ˆ˜์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”

    1 vote

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  19. 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 donโ€™t miss anything. Thats alot of time dedicated to a classโ€ฆ

    160 votes

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  20. Itโ€™s not working anymore on ipad

    1 vote

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