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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. I sometimes work with several workbooks in parallel, for example, several projects. I maintain one workbook per project.

    It would be great if there were a task function (task type, task, task description, responsible person, deadline, status, task category, relevance indicator in the central task register) that would converge centrally on a user workstation, regardless of which workbook it is in. This would make work much easier. It would allow to-dos recorded in meetings to be managed more effectively without losing track of the big picture.

    If it were also possible to synchronise by task type (calendar entry, task entry)…

    3 votes

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  2. 五線譜のテンプレートがありますが、このテンプレートを使って譜面を書いた際、書いたメロディを演奏してくれるようにならないかと思います。
    よろしくお願いします。

    1 vote

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  3. Improve shape snap. If I draw a heart, a cloud bubble, arrow, it changes to a square. Can we get better shapes, see picture example.

    2 votes

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  4. Make the pop-up menu for font color, size, and format float. Whenever I want to adjust or edit a text, the menu box pops up and gets in my way of what I want to change. I flip my screen to try to get around it but the menu is still in the way. I can’t drag it to move it.

    1 vote

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  5. Text tool feels clunky compared to Google Docs

    Issue: Copy/paste, selecting text, and typing across pages doesn’t feel smooth or reliable.
    Why it’s annoying: The friction breaks flow and makes typed notes feel like a worse experience than handwriting.
    Request: Improve the text tool to behave more like Google Docs:

    Auto-add pages as text grows (no manual page management)

    Smoother transitions across pages when selecting/typing/erasing

    More reliable copy/paste behavior

    3 votes

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  6. Make tape feature available across all versions, considering this app is primarily used by students who utilize active recall, and several users have already paid a one-time purchase fee for earlier versions. Yearly subscription is subpar compared to competing developers who either require a one-time purchase fee with numerous features that are not available on Goodnotes or offer these same features at reduced pricing. Greed gets you nowhere but forgotten.

    1 vote

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  7. Similar to math ai, auto-complete or suggest answers using handwritten notes as the experience.

    For Example if I write Valentines Date: then show a suggestion to fill in the date. or show icon that can prompt the user to trigger ai. and provide suggested answers.

    If I wrote github is a then it could provide a suggestion autocomplete similar to google search. It doesn't even have to always leverage heavy token based LLM.

    But it can provide better answers using llm, websearch and better understanding of content/ context window.

    A second phases of this could be to replace content by…

    1 vote

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  8. The text editor bar now moves with the text when you type with the new update. This is very distracting due to the constant shifting of the items on the bar while trying to type and blocks the other information on the page. PLEASE FIX URGENTLY.

    1 vote

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  9. When I have a document open, the tab bar shows a tab for each open document. Also, the Home tab appears on the left in the tab bar. When I click on it, the tab bar with the open documents disappears. To get back to the open documents, I then have to open a document again.

    It would be easier if in the Home view (a) the tab bar remained permanently at the top (so that the Home view is just another tab), or (b) there was a shortcut called “Open documents” on the left.

    6 votes

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  10. Proposal to Improve the Template Change Feature (+ Add “Replace Page” and “Replace File” Functions)

    Currently, Goodnotes does not offer a feature that allows users to replace pages in the same way as a “Change PDF” function. While there is a template change feature, it is limited to Goodnotes’ built-in templates and note-style formats, and requires importing content into Goodnotes first.

    In many cases, there are situations where a page needs to be replaced—for example, when a lecture material contains typos or when an updated version of the file is provided. Therefore, it would be highly useful to have a…

    1 vote

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  11. Your AI is very obviously scanning and learning from our documents, sketches, etc. This is a huge breach of trust.

    One huge use of Goodnotes for me and I am sure many others is to have a place to sketch out ideas. I cannot continue to do this in the knowledge that you are very obviously scanning and training your AI off of our ideas.

    Without that foundation of trust there is no way I would recommend this application to anybody anymore.

    Please rethink your AI integration. Apply AI only with consent and respect that "no means no".

    11 votes

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  12. There are two view modes in Goodnotes:

    1. File navigation
    2. Documents tabs (the documents already open)

    We can switch from 2 to 1.

    But for some baffling reason there is no way to simply switch from 1 to 2. Instead there is only the contrived way of having to open any file in order to return to 2.

    I do not know why Goodnote's UI/UX team has been thinking all these years that that be an okay solution. No other programme does this and it is counterintuitive.

    Could you please add this? It's so easy to do. E.g. you could add…

    7 votes

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  13. I would find it very helpful if there were several options for the background of the index cards – lined, squared, dotted.

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  14. Stop cutting function, I can’t turn the pages as smooth as before because the cutting function is always on unless I unclick it evertime.

    1 vote

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  15. Just a disappointing and problematic collab

    2 votes

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  16. In the new text doc type of file, add an additional feature to add a resizable box to draw/use apple pencil (like normal goodnotes).

    1 vote

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  17. Goodnotes often opens unexpectedly on the Home Screen (at least after every update).
    Please add a button to the Home Screen so that users can easily return directly to Tab View (i.e., the actual working environment).
    It's really annoying to have to select an already open file every time just to get back to Tab View.

    6 votes

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  18. 1 vote

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  19. New Icons in the Goodnotes Style. Not only the current ones as you are limited with the choice

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  20. It would be nice if I could download only the documents I wanted. I have a small iPad mini capacity, but downloading all the documents makes the capacity so much that I can't even update the iPad os.

    2 votes

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