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  1. I use GoodNotes to take notes during lectures but I also do a lot of my homework in this app. I wish I could at least perform some basic math calculations without leaving the app. Right now, if I want to do any calculations for math class or some other class, I need to leave the app in order to do a Google search or I have to use my phone to do it.

    It would be helpful if I could write out the problems with the Apple Pencil and GoodNotes would be able to help me perform some basic…

    82 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback. Would it work for you to open a calculator app as a slide over app and then just swipe it in from the side when it is needed? You won’t have to leave GoodNotes for it and you can easily make some quick calculations.

  2. The current undo history is global, or per document. This is quite confusing because tab is the focused object and if I did something and tap undo, something happens in another tab. To me this is quite bad design.

    I'd love to see a per tab undo history, or at least an option.

    8 votes

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  3. I am very close to changing to Notability because of repeated problems while writing and I tried everything please don’t say there is an answer I TRIED!

    8 votes

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    Thanks for the report and sorry to hear about the issue you’re experiencing. We’d love to help you with it but would need some more information. What is happening when you’re touch the homebar? Are you using an Apple Pencil? Perhaps the palm rejection is not working correctly in GoodNotes. Usually, the homebar should be ignored while writing. It would be fantastic if you could send us a video where we can have a closer look at the problem by opening a support ticket with us here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

  4. A plug-in for microsoft teams would be a killer! Forget OneNote!

    7 votes

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  5. Erase all handwriting in the notebook with one click

    11 votes

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  6. i just wanna recommend eraser option that erase only pens except highlighter.
    could you add this option? thank you.

    33 votes

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  7. Need to be more intuitive & simulative when using the App, so we don't need to always try to find the right function & apply it to the document.
    Thanks a lot !

    6 votes

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  8. Goodnotes uses two rows of tools, which is takes up too much screen real estate, especially in landscape mode. This means I cannot use Goodnotes for teaching, which is what I got it for. (It's a shame, because Goodnotes is otherwise well suited for teaching.) It would be great if you could compact to a single row of tools (or even zero), to get more writing area.

    13 votes

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  9. I would like to define a personal title string as replacement for "Untitled (Draft)"

    4 votes

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  10. 4 votes

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  11. FIX THE FUCK ERASE. I AM FUCKING SICK OF YOUR SHITTY PROGRAM FROM FUCKING UP STUFF I DRAW. YOUR APP IS COMPLETE GARBAGE BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID ERASE. FIX THE FUCKING ERASE FUSTION SO IT WILL ONLY DELETE WHAT YOU WANT, INSTEAD OF YOUR DELETE WHATEVER THE PROGRAM FEELS LIKE. YOUR PROGRAM IS BARBAGE, WHAT A COMPLETE WASTE OF MY TIME AND MONEY. FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED THE FUCKING ERASE.FIXED…

    2 votes

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  12. You can access a lot of notes written by the good note app.

    3 votes

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  13. delete time-base pen

    2 votes

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  14. I import PDFs that are ADA compliant; but when they get exported out of Good Notes, they have lost all compatibility. Is there a way to preserve the incoming structure, and to include handwriting recognition to make the documents ADA compliant?

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    Could you please add more specifics which capabilities are needed exactly to be ADA compliant? We are not experts in this field. Please note that there are two different PDF data formats you can chose from in the export options. Flattened and Editable. Flattened will preserve the option to search for handwritten notes.

  15. Hello, it would be interesting to be able to open GoodNotes in reading mode rather than in editing mode. I noticed that often, when I want to consult a note, I make a lot of barbel on the first page because I try to scroll through the pages. Maybe just put this option in the settings for those who are not interested. Thank you

    14 votes

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  16. When switching between tasks on my ipad a preview from GoodNotes with a page is shown which i deleted a long time ago. It would be better, if a preview is shown from the last active notebook page i used.

    2 votes

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    Thanks for the report. We will need to investigate that. Could you please check the following:
    - if something similar happens in other apps
    - if you have multiple windows of GoodNotes open and if this is maybe an old window
    - if you can reproduce this problem reliably or only occasionally

    It would be great if you could send us the information to support@goodnotes.com so that we can investigate.

  17. Since ios 13 the notes app with apple pencil has less latency, going to goodnotes again seems so slow in comparison

    19 votes

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    The Apple Pencil latency is also down to 9ms in GoodNotes. However, GoodNotes doesn’t use “stroke prediction” which will make the line look “slower” than in Apple Notes when drawing longer lines quickly. It won’t affect the usual writing experience. Do you notice a higher latency when you’re writing as well?

  18. I am sure I'm not the only one who have asked for this in the past, but I will ask for it once again (not hoping for much though, since 2 years passed since I first asked for it -others too as I said- and nothing has been done).

    ADD NEW PENS! This is handwriting note taking app! Pens have been the same since GN4! Oh, don't tell me that the "brush pen" you added in the horrible GN5 is an addition! It does nothing! How about looking at other note taking apps to see the variety of pens they…

    15 votes

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    We’re sorry to hear about the negative experiences you have with GoodNotes 5 and are thankful that you took the time to write such lengthy and detailed feedback.
    We’re optimizing the ink algorithm continuously and haven’t heard many complaints about the smoothness in recent times so we’d like to take a closer look at your case. Would you be able to share a comparison video of how it looks like when you write in GoodNotes 4 vs GoodNotes 5 to support@goodnotes.com? That will be very helpful for us. Please refer to this review, so that we know it is you.

  19. It would be helpful, if there would be a checkbox to switch the export of the handwriting notes on or off.
    I often create a presentation in GN. To publish only the slides with the pictures, text boxes etc. but without my handwriting speaknotes, this option would be very nice. Until now, I have to create two documents. One with the handwriting notes and one without my marks.

    14 votes

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    Did we understand it correctly, that the option to “exclude” annotation in the export option won’t be suitable for you because you want the exported document to include text boxes and/or images but no handwriting?

  20. It could be very useful to have the possibility to forward or send a document via mail directly to a personal Goodnotes mail account without saving it in PDF and importing to the app.
    Thank you

    12 votes

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