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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It’d be nice to be able to copy and paste pages from the thumbnail view instead of having to copy them, close the thumbnail view, click add page and paste them.

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  2. It would be very helpful for a lot of people with bad handwritings if the handwriting to text feature is improved further as a input mean with the support for input on another same as handwritten notes are input now.

    4 votes

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  3. Links to Goodnotes pages that you could insert in other sites and apps.
    For example within "Roam Research" or "Notion" it would be amazing if you could have a reference link to a jpeg preview of a particular page that would be updated as the page was updated. Then you could have a link that opened that page in Goodnotes. This way the image would be handy and could be updated when required. This would be an amazing way to extend out Goodnotes usefulness within a broader note-taking ecosystem. Sönke Ahrens book "How to take smart notes" advocates taking literature…

    5 votes

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  4. Add presentation mode (like microsoft powerpoint) and still be able to annotate on the notes being presented. There is the ability to hide the tool bar, but when the tool bar is hidden, there is no possibility to continue to write on the notes. A way to hide the tool bar and still be able to annotate or use the laser pointer would be nice.

    3 votes

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  5. 36 votes

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  6. Please allow checking of Dictionary by selecting "Define" or Mac Gesture: Three fingers Tap

    12 votes

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  7. I have a 1T of storage on my iPad mostly for Goodnotes, but on my phone I only have 64G. I need to be able to have only certain specific notebooks store themselves on my phone.

    5 votes

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  8. To me, changing template for one page at a time is inconvenient. Like Notability, GoodNotes should have the opportunity to change templates for all pages in the document without having to do this manually, one page at a time. I’d like to see this added in a future update.

    19 votes

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  9. At the moment for copying a screenshot, which is something most people do a lot when taking notes, we need to press the screen 4 different times:
    Long press after marking with lasso tool => Take Screenshot on the menu => share menu => copy.
    It takes a lot of time for something being done pretty a lot and more than the other sharing options so I believe that many people will find it usefull.

    40 votes

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  10. A paper that allows us to write a wine journal in goodnotes 5 to keep track of our wines!

    1 vote

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  11. I use "GoodNotes 5.4" with iPad Pro 2018, I am totally satisfied, however the geometric tools should be improved. Ideal would be to add predefined geometric figures, triangle, rectangle, square, circle. I have a lot of difficulty creating perfect squares, there are no way to manage the fill separately from the contour line. It is not possible to draw dashed lines. The option adding layers in drawings would also be nice. Are you planning to add these features in the future?
    Best regards

    29 votes

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  12. Provide users the ability to quickly access resizable shapes or stencils when creating notes. This would greatly improve the speed and quality of my handwritten notes. Programs like Visio, OmniGraffle support stencil libraries of resizeable shapes. For example, a) Bullet Journaling uses specific shapes to denote specific meanings for captured text. To be able to drop an object on the page quickly at the start of writing a note would help speed thought capture. b) Predefined shapes would have individual handle/controls to allow the user to quickly take actions (copy, fill color, resize).

    12 votes

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  13. It would be nice to be able to add more pen sizes to the tool bar when needed and also can delete them if you don't need it. This makes it easier to change between sizes instead of changing the pen size each time when an extra one is needed.

    5 votes

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  14. This way a new note would automaticly be stored on my NAS. Also I would not have to use ICloud to see my notes on other devices. This would make things a lot more orginised and it would also save storage space on my ipad! :)

    4 votes

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  15. Have a pen or an ink that only shows on the iPad, and not on a presentation screen. This would allow presenters to annotate their presentations without the audience seeing the notes. It would be useful for fill in the blanks, presenter notes and comments. A presenter could even "pre-draw" a picture, which could then be redrawn live.

    2 votes

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  16. Please support all features for the Adonite +, ie; pressure sensitivity, tilt support etc

    1 vote

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  17. A tool (like in a CAD software) to find the next line intersection and trim the selected line. Example- if you have a handwritten 'X' , selected this tool, and tapped the top right section of the line going bottom left to top right, it would look like 'λ'

    4 votes

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  18. In windows like for exporting, the button to execute the final step ("Export" in this case) is blue, like the Apple pop-up windows. This suggests hitting the return key should work like pressing that button with the cursor like with Apple pop-ups, but this is not the case. Seems like a simple fix that would just make users' lives a little easier.

    1 vote

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  19. Good Notes 5 doesn’t allow you to select all bookmarked pages in Favorites and trash them. See attached video. You can trash all but one page. Otherwise you get a pop-up warning message.

    Please provide a Select All button and allow a quick way to Trash all
    bookmarked pages.

    1 vote

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  20. Kinda like in procreate, clip studio or photoshop that the line drags a bit, but it helps make the lines more smooth and pretty.

    13 votes

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