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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. There should be a tool that can do cloze on either text or diagrams, then when the a “test mode” is activated it hides the item and it has to be clicked to be revealed. This would work very well with the current flash card system. It is the only feature that is missing compared to other studying apps like Remnote or Anki.

    4 votes

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  2. Similar to one note, word, etc - an option to type equations with shorthand such as \vec (to create a vector arrow), \pi for the pi symbol, etc is incredibly important for mathematics, engineering, physics and many other sciences. If Goodnotes 5 is to truly support all students, mathematical equation support in text format is a must. Goodnotes 5 is used above OneNote because printing onenote pages is actively a nightmare, but lack of support for maths, and an inability to sync any handwritten equations immediately with a live sync or force cloud sync feature is a huge issue.

    4 votes

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  3. i have lots of notebooks, some use the same exact colors all the time and some vary each use. i’d love to be able to set a color palette to one notebook, like my planner, and be able to just always have those colors set aside and set as favorites when i switch into that notebook.

    8 votes

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  4. On GoodNotes, I have different slide packets for classes, I have to open them one at a time by selecting one, going to back, then selecting another one. If there was a select button to open multiple documents at once, it would be great

    8 votes

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  5. When giving a lesson as a teacher (or generally presenting something with GoodNotes) it's always difficult to view your personal notes on your iPad while sharing the class notes on a projector. Give the option to have a private "notes" page next to each standard page that is publicly shared via AppleTV.

    1 vote

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  6. Sticky notes make more sense when they can be used 'over' an existing hand/typed text. When the sticky note is moved to another location, the text written over it also moves and the text beneath stays at its original place. It then serves it's purpose well.

    6 votes

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  7. I tried the new study set fission, and I love the concept.
    The only problem I have with are:

    1 not being able to see and jump trough all my flashcards
    2 having to press twice on the question/answer cart to be able to edit, and the fact that hey open in a different section completely, this is a little annoying since I cannot see my question when I'm writing the answer

    9 votes

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  8. I love the new flash cards update! Spaced Repition is perfect. It would be even better, if Flash Cards would use up the whole screen while in Study mode!

    1. Please add a "Zoom in" Function for Flash Cards in Study mode!

    To understand and learn better, it would be so helpul! Sometimes you can't read something, cause it's too small or you wanna simply touch the content or zoom into an illustration!

    1. Also it would be helpful to be able to write or draw something on the Flash cards while in study mode. That would make work flow so much…
    6 votes

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  9. Using study sets is great but it would be even better if you could browse your study set cards using the sidebar or page grid view that way you don't have to scroll back individually among the cards to make a edit to card 2 if the card deck has a lot of cards (i.e. 300+).

    Also being able to mark a card for editing in practice mode, or having an edit button within practice mode that brings you directly to that card to edit.

    20 votes

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  10. Hello,
    when I view or edit my PDFs which are not vertical (e.g. A4 format), GoodNotes does not allow me to zoom out more. This would be necessary sometimes to have a better overview of your PDFs. Instead, one has to use the little page viewer, which is kind of a struggle. Why does GoodNotes not allow more zooming out?
    Best regards,
    Carlo

    2 votes

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  11. Meine Idee wäre, dass man mehrere Farbpaletten erstellen kann und zwischen denen hin und her scrollen kann.
    Man könnte sich so zum Beispiel auf der ersten „Seite“ eine Palette für die Arbeit/Schule erstellen und auf der darauf folgenden eine für seinen Kalender.

    1 vote

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  12. Be able to add set amount of blank white margin to an imported file. Currently, my round about would be open it through the MarginAdjuster app (Made by some japanese) the after editing it in the app, open with Goodnotes. It would be better if the process would be seamless and more people would be able to access this kind of feature.

    10 votes

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  13. I think that an absolute eraser would be beneficial for Goodnotes. It would work with a higher level of erasing than what is currently available, not only erasing annotations but erasing whatever was imported. For example, importing a handout from university, an absolute eraser would allow us to erase a specific paragraph so that we can write and reword it better which fits our understanding better. This is not limited to rephrasing but also making it such that some words may be erased for fill in the blanks to promote active recall without the need to do flash cards. I…

    3 votes

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  14. Add font size change when viewing PDFs (Aa function like Kindle)

    2 votes

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  15. I often draw all over a page, but then can’t read the text underneath after. There should be a quick and easy way to go back and forth between the unannotated and the annotated page, just like the / button lets you go back and forth between the original and edited photo on Lightroom.

    1 vote

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  16. This app can almost do anything. I find myself often sketching out schematics in it. If there were some simple CAD functions such as new lines snapping to an exiting line or junction, or being able to specify the size of the radius of a circle or length of a line so you could draw things to scale. Think of how AMAZING that would be!

    1 vote

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  17. I would really appreciate to have styles for text like in Word to save text formats (that's something I really miss in Goodnotes for IOS).

    5 votes

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  18. import a document and export it after editing is a working way, but a bit difficult/ long. it would be nice to open a document directly from an external folder (eg dropbox or box or iCloud) with a possibility to save it directly to this external folder without having to import and export it manually. maybe a way to integrate this is via an background temporary folder, as goodnotes imports and exports the document automatically

    2 votes

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  19. Hello goodnote team, i'm user, using goodnote about 5 years

    i experience your latest update
    good note ball pen was shrinken
    could restore it? or setting color expand palletet or ball pen?

    i'm not using a lot of colors
    i don't want complain but this feature is too incomfortable to me

    please restore it

    1 vote

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  20. Book like view should be option Formula pdf view

    8 votes

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