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  1. It would be very helpful if GoodNotes had a feature that allows two or more users to work together on the same document and see the changes happening in real-time. Users would be able to work in collaboration on a document but there would also be a microphone feature that allows them to talk to each other as they are working together. I imagine the microphone would work like the one in Zoom, where users can turn it on when they want to speak but turn it off when they don't want to be heard.

    The collaboration feature should allow…

    11 votes

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    Thanks for your patience. We have finished the real-time collaboration feature and it is now available to all users in shared documents. Changes should appear on other people’s devices as soon as you lift the pen.

  2. When I open goodnotes app, It's show up "Preparing your library for a faster experience" and then close itself in 30 sec. It's happen for 3 days and I need to use my file in there... TT Pls help me (PS. I didn't backup on the iClouds or Googledrives because I didn't know how to do that sorry....)

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  3. I have a lot of Folders in my GoodNotes Library and every Folder is just blue. On my Mac I've changed every Folder Icon in my music library with the album cover.

    Should be great to have that option in GoodNotes

    148 votes

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  4. In many online classes at universities, teachers use Goodnotes and share the screen using the Zoom app on the same iPad. This works fine, but all participants see the Goodnotes menus and tools. It would be nice to have a Zoom integration in Goodnotes, i.e., I activate "Zoom Screen Sharing", enter the Zoom Room Number, then Goodnotes sends the Screen (w/o tools) to this Zoom room.

    1 vote

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  5. It's very uncomfortable that I cannot use highlights in darkpaper. In apple's in-apps (notes, pages etc.) we still can use high quality and colorful highlights even if it's dark paper. Please make more useful highlights in dark paper. I cannot this app because of that problem.

    53 votes

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  6. When GoodNotes is used as a presentation+annotation app while delivering online lectures (ZOOM, Microsoft Teams, etc.), page turning effects distract from the content (for example, when building a list incrementally, one bullet at a time). Presentation mode does not help, since there is no second screen to present to.

    2 votes

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  7. Bitte bei der Tastatureingabe wieder zur großen Tastaturansicht zurück wechseln.
    Die kleine in der Ecke ist schon recht mühselig.
    Obwohl die Idee mit der Schreiberkennung schon cool ist.

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  8. As the contents in the notebook keeps increasing over a period of time, I would like to have a link or connector to a previous page or a different book within the app to quickly navigate to the desired content instead if flipping through the pages.

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  9. I haven’t seen an option in the app description but would like to be able to have the option to type notes. If this is an function please let me know and I’ll pay for the app!

    1 vote

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  10. Notepad+ note-taking app has this feature. Incorporating this feature will make you ahead of Notability.

    1 vote

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  11. Notepad+ note-taking app has this feature. Incorporating this feature will make you ahead of Notability.

    1 vote

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  12. Adding an image or shape that I can pull out a clone from quickly while teaching

    Great for money or number cubes/blocks

    1 vote

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  13. Would love the ability to disable Auto-Lock while using iPad. This would prevent screen from turning off/locking while listening to a lecture or meeting/jotting down notes.

    1 vote

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  14. I have many pdf blueprint sheets in a blueprint of a building. I would like to be able to select 1 or many, duplicate just those selected, modify accordingly, move them to a new folder either in the master folder or in a new folder and then send the folder to others. This way only the relevant blueprints are being viewed by the recipient and I can keep my original blueprint unchanged. Would be very handy for questions and answers.

    1 vote

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  15. I'm using the backup feature together with my dropbox. Whenever I'm commenting a PDF, after each edit, Goodnotes saves a backup on dropbox, which after a while leads to +30GB of dropbox cache. (That is, it fills my free hard disk space completely.) This can only be solved deleting the cache manually. There is no such problem with my dropbox using any other app. Please help! (I'm on a Mac, using Goodnotes for iPad, all OS updated to newest version.)

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    It sounds like you have enabled the “Automatic Backup” feature to Dropbox, which is expected to exactly what you described. You can disable it in Menu > Settings > Automatic Backup.

  16. I highlight a lot of text and therefore have to constantly switch between different colours. Is there a way to have another shortcut on the Apple pencil for switching pen colours (similar to switching between an eraser and a pen)?

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    The Apple Pencil 2 supports a double-tap gesture that you can configure in the iPad Settings under Apple Pencil. It allows you to switch back and forth between different tools. GoodNotes follows the system settings for this gesture.

  17. There should be a way to stop pages from floating within the app window as we scroll up or down (in reading mode). Very frustrating.

    1 vote

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  18. Not to look a “gift horse I’m the mouth” but though this has been addressed via changing a setting in the highlight tool each time, it’s not like in Notability, where you can erase the highlight without having to change a setting each time. The Eraser automatically recognizes there’s highlight and erases it.

    1 vote

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    There is no need to change the setting of the eraser every time you want to erase highlighting. If “Erase Highlighter Only” is disabled, then GoodNotes will erase highlighting and ink strokes. If it is enabled, GoodNotes will only erase highlighter strokes, which allows you to remove highlighting on top of your ink without also removing the ink.

  19. I’d like a note app that will improve my hand writing (hand printing). Converting to typed text takes too long. I would like the app to recognize a letter; a, b, c, A, B, C then reshape it and align it. I use this app for presentations. A written sentence is accompanied by a hand drawn diagram to the right of the text.

    If a competitor has this feature, can you please notify me?

    1 vote

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  20. iPadOS 13.4 provides trackpad support (I’m using the 13.4 GM beta). In GoodNotes 5, however, the trackpad is not fully supported. For example, a two-finger swipe on the iPad changes pages, but a two-finger swipe on the trackpad does not. In the tab view, a touch on the “x” with your finger closes the document, but clicking on the “x” with the trackpad does nothing.

    24 votes

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