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  1. Integrate the ability to draw straight lines and circles into the regular pen tool. It takes time to constantly have to switch between the shape tool and the pen. It would make writing and taking notes more intuitive, creating seamless transitions.

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  2. I have been a Goodnotes user for many years. I have a problem with Goodnotes for Mac. I cannot find where there is any support for your product: no telephone, no email, no chat, no nothing. There should be support. If it exists, it should be easier to find. My problem, for what it is worth, is that Goodnotes for Mac constantly prompts me to upgrade to the lastest version of the software while telling me that there is a syncing problem. I have the lastest versions. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software repeatedly. Nothing works to resolve this…

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  3. It would be helpful to divide a notebook into sections with tabs. For example, if I’m setting up a cookbook, I’d like to have one Notebook called “Recipes”, with tabs for Beef, Poultry, Vegetables, Breads, Cakes, Pies, Cookies, etc.

    1 vote

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  4. When lost, deep into a tree of folders, simply tap the Documents button to return to the home Documents folder.

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  5. I much prefered it when we could toggle the shape tool on and off(goodnotes 4), rather than having a shape tool that only really works with the pen tool and not the highlighter tool. The highlighter shape recognition is missing, why? You can draw a straight line with the highlighter, but if you want to do anything more complex like geometry it does not work.

    11 votes

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection, and curve drawing. This also works with the highlighter and can be used to draw shapes other than lines with it.

  6. The highlighter options on black paper are very grim and don’t show up as bright as pen colors do. True highlighter colors showing up on black paper would be an awesome addition I feel, and hopefully not too difficult a feature to implement!

    3 votes

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  7. Back then in GN4, Auto backups used to check for Changes and update the latest change to the destination folder. I always keep the destination folder up to date that there’s no duplicate files with different name (because I change their name and they’re both kept in the folder) or other problems like the duplicated file that I deleted one of them but they’re both kept and etc. So I always change the destination folder to restart auto backup process so that all the files in that folder look exactly the same with my current document in GN at the…

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  8. I'm sorry for that in the beginning,I bought goodnotes in that shop for study,after I realizd the value of the APP,I decide to buy it myself,so I told you the fact that the online store had did.
    I have informed it to Taobaowang ,but they ignored it.
    the online store's ID is qq709679457

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  9. Google Drive Sync is gone or is it just me that cant find the option?
    If not could you please bring that function back? Would be very good because my whole university stuff is on my Google drive.

    84 votes

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  10. 我希望可以重视笔记书写的体验,近几个月的更新让钢笔和圆珠笔的区别变得很小,笔画粗细的变化非常不明显,没有笔锋,这让字显得很难看,除此之外,经常会出现笔画比预期短很多的情况,一直没有解决,让人烦恼。App Store评论区有很多反映这个的评论,但是没有回音。
    我希望能够重视中国区用户的产品体验,谢谢。

    I hope you can pay more attention to the experience of taking notes. The updates in recent months make the difference between pen and ballpoint pen very small, and the change of stroke thickness is not obvious, and there is no pen edge, which makes the characters look ugly. In addition, the strokes are often much shorter than expected, which has not been solved, it's very annoying. The Comment section of the App Store has many similar comments reflecting this, but no response.
    I hope to attach importance to the product experience of users in China. Thank…

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  11. Pretty self explanatory. I draw graphs alot and often I have to increase the dimensions. I wish I could use the shape tool and just extend or add onto the length of one of my axis lines.

    2 votes

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  12. Since I use Goodnotes for a lot of math/engineering work, not all of my lines take up an entire zoom window and I always have to manually press the 'x' or move the box.
    Please allow the option to disable the auto-advancing option or have it so that it won't activate until we reach over 3/4 of the window.

    1 vote

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  13. The migration with Mac Catalyst is available, I don't know if its hard, but it would be convenient for users

    3 votes

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  14. I have been using GoodNotes 5 almost every day since its release, and I've noted a couple of shortcomings with the current app.

    1. The shape tool is very faulty. Sometimes, lines will not be corrected, and it's difficult to draw basic shapes without the lines snapping to form odd, undesirable shapes. The GoodNotes 4 shape tool is superior.

    2. Highlighters on dark templates. I love the dark template, as it makes reading my notes easier on the eyes, and my writing tends to look nicer on it. However, I tend to rely on highlighting when I'm revising, which isn't possible with…

    1 vote

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  15. 2 votes

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    When you’re on a webpage in your browser, tap the share button and locate “Open in GoodNotes” in the list of actions. This will create a PDF of the website in GoodNotes.

  16. What is the reason of this situation?
    I don’t know what it is, how to remove it and how to prevent it
    Ao please tell me how to do

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  17. The recognition feature is great but i miss the opportunity to make precise rectangles like in OneNote or in Notability with the shape mode that launches when you hold the pencil stil.

    Moving the corners of a shape ex a rectangle and enabling a background color in the later run would be lit as well

    9 votes

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    We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  18. In goodnotes 4 you could import multiple files at once, whether they be templates or new PDF notebooks. PLEASE bring this to goodnotes 5!

    51 votes

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  19. The highlighter actually is “bugged”. For example when having a darker template (dark/black), the highlighter just blends in the background/ is dulled. And changing it to be brighter and crispier could be great too.

    The other thing I want to talk about is in the tool bar when we open the tool’s menu, then to close the menu we have to tap elsewhere. It could be cool to close it by tapping where we opened it (tapping the tool itself).

    Other than that, you do a really great job, there is other things which could be improved or added, like…

    2 votes

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  20. Support for two finger, gesture scrolling using a trackpad on iPadOS

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