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  1. 1 vote

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  2. Now, when importing a word file it isn’t imported properly and everything is shifted, some things are missing and it just doesn‘t work. We‘d like, that it works as good as importing pdf files! Because that’s just awesome!

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    Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortuantely, sometimes the format of Word documents can’t be read by our PDF converter correctly. In cases like this, please save the Word document to PDF first and then import it with GoodNotes.

  3. This is all about sidecar. If you don't know what that is, here's a link that explains what it is: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380.

    I use my iPad as the second display of my mac so I can be on zoom on my laptop and take notes on my iPad by typing on my laptop - this is easier than typing on my iPad. This really makes it convenient for me as a student. However, one thing I noticed is that there is a HUGE delay between my action and reaction. Basically, when I scroll on my mouse, it takes 1-2 secs…

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  4. I really love working with GoodNotes, especially when I mark my eBooks and PDFs.
    Those have often a length of more than 200 pages.
    Sadly, it often happens that (even though the order is correct in the „miniature-view“) some pages appear in a different order.
    The problem can be fixed with a reset of the app but it’s very annoying I have to say.

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  5. Most of the time, synchronicity across multiple devices is quite quick, however I've begun to notice it sometimes takes a while or I've had to restart the app. I am a university student and I use goodnotes on my macbook and ipad pro, which is great because I can screenshot things on my macbook and write notes on them on my ipad (almost) straight away.

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    The speed of iCloud Sync is not something we can influence from our side. It should sync automatically every 15-30 seconds and it also depends on the size of the data that needs to be synced as well as external factors like your internet speed. In case you notice it is taking far too long or is not working at all, please report a problem to our support team so that we can investigate the issue: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Make sure to export the diagnostic data from GoodNotes > Menu > About and include it in your support request.

  6. Whenever you want to zoom in or out or even scroll up or down, the app reacts with a large latency - with some updates it was improved but at the moment it is sadly worse. Like that its definitely not fun to use, near impossible to work with to be honest. Would love if that matter could be looked into. - Love the app otherwise!

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    Sorry to hear about the issue. It sounds like you’re experiencing a bug that we should be able to fix for you. Please check if you’re running the latest version of GoodNotes which is 5.4.46 at the moment. If it is happening in the latest version, report a problem to our support team through the following link: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Please include more information, ideally also a video recording where we can see the problem you’re experiencing.

  7. I would like if the scrolling feature using my finger to slide the pages up (I use vertical) would be more smooth and consistent. It is so frustrating when my first swipe is ignored, then the next one is slow and it seems like it does not respond consistently. I just want a smooth scroll when going through my lecture slides and taking notes quickly.

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    Sorry to hear about the issue. It sounds like you’re experiencing a bug that we should be able to fix for you. Please check if you’re running the latest version of GoodNotes which is 5.4.46 at the moment. If it is happening in the latest version, report a problem to our support team through the following link: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Please include more information, ideally also a video recording where we can see the problem you’re experiencing.

  8. When I import files from cloud service like dropbox, I often get the error message "The item couldn't be saved because the file name "..." is invalid". The file can be import to other note apps and the name doesn't have any special characters. And the file names shown are usually with something like ".cloud" added weirdly in the end. Can you try to fix this problem? Thank you!

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  9. Instead of :
    two-finger double-tap for undo
    three-finger double-tap for redo
    If it can be just one tap It would be much faster

    2 votes

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback. We have tested this option and found that it is causing interferences with our palm rejection and often gets triggered by accident, which is why we decided to implement a more pronounced gesture with the double-tap. You can also use the iPadOS gestures for undo and redo to swipe right and left with three fingers.

  10. please fix the bug!! it ain’t fluent when i open pdf documents and make notes, it’s driving me crazy man!

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  11. In the app, highlighters are perfect, they lay behind the text, making it pop, and still doesn’t bother when reading it over again. When I want to convert my notes to share it with others, or printing it, PDF looks the best, sharpest. But after converting it, the highlight lays on top of the note making it less nice, and less readable. Is there any chance that we can still enjoy the notes as nice and sharp, even after converted to a PDF?

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    It looks like it is a bug in the app as it should normally look the same on exported PDFs too. Please try to use either “editable” or “flattened” as the PDF data format when you export the document to see if it would change the output when sharing it. If that doesn’t work, please send the original notebook in GoodNotes format to support@goodnotes.com so that we can investigate. Thanks.

  12. Whenever I share a GoodNotes file in a Zoom conference, the handwriting is so much delayed that I can't write with my grafictablet anymore. How comes? And how can I solve this problem?

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  13. I think it would be very beneficial to implement an account/sign in system. So, whenever users sign in on a new device, all of their documents are already present. Similar to a Google Docs kind of set up. You can sign into your google account from any device and still be able to access your Google Docs.
    iCloud can act as an extra layer of security. With this, there'd be less risk of losing documents when switching to a newer device. Often times, in my experience, my documents will grey out and become inaccessible as a result of improper iCloud…

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    Thanks for sharing your feedback. It sounds like there might be something wrong with your iCloud Sync in GoodNotes if you’re experiencing the problem where documents are greyed out. If it happens again, please report a problem to our support team: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Otherwise, iCloud is technically supposed to do exactly what you described.

    For other solutions, we’d have to built our own cloud storage, which also would come at additional cost to the user.

  14. I backed up my GoodNotes 4 files onto my google drive some years ago, and after I installed GoodNotes 5, I tried to import the .goodnotes files from the google drive to GoodNotes 5. But an error pops up. I tried different ways: Trying to open the .goodnotes zip files on my computer app, or rather using the google drive app to open the files via GoodNotes 5 but none of it is working.
    It just says it can't import it (GoodNotes4Converter.GoodNotes4DocumentImporterError) Could you please fix this as soon as possible? Very important files are now locked in this .goodnotes…

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  15. Highlighter should highlight below text
    Please have a shape option like in illustrator, u click what shape u want and u get the shape, also I really need dashed lines
    Also Circles should have those anchor points at top, left, right and bottom. Current circles have those points at random places (I added an image which explains better) and also I would like to have an option to draw circle by specifying the center (tap at the required center point and draw out the radius to get a circle)
    I don't know if something can be done about this but…

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    Thanks for your feedback. We have noted it internally but we will close this idea because it contains multiple different ones which will make it impossible for others to vote on it. Please only submit one idea at a time or add your votes to the ones that are already existing in our feedback forum. Thanks a lot and keep the feedback coming.

  16. 1 vote

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  17. The Zoom window downtown allow you to write all the was to the bottom of the page :(

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  18. currently when i draw a straight line across the screen it remains slightly tilted. Could you make an option that enables autocorrection for small angles so that lines can be 0, 10, 20, 30.... degrees ?

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  20. It has been starting for a week now and I keep getting to fed up trying to make a circle or a "C". Please fix this issue ASAP.

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