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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Currently, GoodNotes AI can only be used for basic document search (an advanced version of search) and asking questions within a document. Even when hints or correct answers exist in the document, it often responds with messages like, “The requested content cannot be found in the document. I will answer using general knowledge.”

    In addition, I would like the AI to provide answers that directly address my questions, but instead it often gives summarized or reorganized responses, making it difficult to find the exact answer I am looking for.
    For example, when I ask, “Is XX correct?”, the response usually…

    6 votes

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  2. I would like to request that all pen tools be displayed as floating toolbars to provide a wider and more comfortable writing area.

    I apologize for mentioning other apps, but these days, most apps—such as Notability, Noteshelf 3, and Scrawl—use floating toolbars, which makes writing feel much more comfortable. In contrast, GoodNotes has pen tools and tabs that occupy fixed space first, with an additional floating pen toolbar displayed below them. This results in a lack of writing space and makes the writing area feel narrow and uncomfortable.

    I hope GoodNotes can also move all pen tools to fully floating…

    1 vote

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  3. It could be better if we can be able to select dotted line and dashed line for pencil tool, as the pen tools can.

    2 votes

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  4. Return the way you can place stickers from goodnotes5 into goodnotes6. It’s weird that it was possible in goodnotes5 to select the sticker tool and then when I press on the page I can choose which sticker tool place but in goodnotes6 I need to create a sticker and only then I need to move it where I want it to be.

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  5. Requested Features (Suggested Priority)
    1) OCR for Imported PDFs
    Generate an OCR text layer for imported scanned PDFs, making them searchable within GoodNotes

    Optional settings:

    Language selection

    Accuracy-priority vs speed-priority modes

    Non-destructive OCR (preserve original images while adding a text layer)

    2) Document Conversion (Import / Export)
    Convert the following into PDF, then import directly into GoodNotes or auto-create a note:

    Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Images / TXT / HTML / ePub

    Optional export conversions:

    PDF → Word / Excel / PowerPoint

    PDF → Image (PNG / JPEG / TIFF / GIF)

    PDF → TXT / HTML /…

    17 votes

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  6. The absence of the word "translation" on the bar containing (copy, define , strikeout,, …). I want to translate word in pdf it’s useful for studying. Thank you

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  7. Rulers shortcut that can rotate 90 degrees,

    When I'm drawing graphs, I have to manually rotate the rulers from 0 degree to 90 degree.

    I think it is better if we have shortcut (something like double tapping the ruler) and it rotate clockwise to 90 degrees (or customizable rotation)

    2 votes

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  8. I want to make the tabs pinnable, shrinking them into small icons in the corner. It prevents clutter but keeps them handy, since I use them too often to close or scroll for finding them every time.

    139 votes

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  9. Since the last update you have modified the edit mode and deleted the auto-straighten button! It was probably the most useful button in the entire app and now it’s gone. Instead of trying to develop useless ai features, focuson the basic functionality of the app first! (I’ll putpictures of the old and new edit mode)

    2 votes

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  10. It would be very helpful if there was a dedicated backspace button (similar to the enter button to start a new line) for the text box. When I’m writing and converting to text it would be easier to be able to backspace and delete certain letters or words or remove a line or indent I made by having a backspace button like when typing on a traditional keyboard.

    2 votes

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  11. Bring back recent fonts section for text. I have multiple fonts I switch between constantly and use to be able to do it easily before the new update, now only the last custom font I used and a few random fonts I never use show up and the rest I need to scroll to find every time. Please make an option to have a recent or favorites font section easily accessible. Also please put the set as default button in a quicker and easier to locate spot. The steps it takes to find it is ridiculous.

    5 votes

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    • You only offer 3 colours, and the colour you call black isn’t black at all—it’s some sort of dark gray-ish. We need real black colour or the usual colour palette one has in the normal note mode [no infinite board]
    • Also, why there’s no zoom box in the infinite board mode? Please add it there, too.
    2 votes

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  12. While using my Apple Pencil and writing with the pencil feature in goodnotes, if I tilt my pencil, the writing gets thicker as if I were tilting a blunt pencil. This is inconvenient as I tend to hold my pencil to the side and the feature makes my notes messy.

    I would like an option to disable this feature so that no matter how I hold my pencil, the thickness will stay consistent.

    2 votes

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  13. It seems as if the maximum text size in text field is 100. I’d really appreciate if the max size would be increased.

    1 vote

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  14. I am left-handed and when I zoom in to write with the Apple Pencil, the page always snaps back to the center automatically.
    This makes it very hard to start writing on the far left side of the page, because I constantly end up writing at the edge.

    It would be very helpful if the page could be freely positioned horizontally (left/right) while zoomed in, without snapping back to the center.
    An option to disable automatic centering or a dedicated left-handed writing mode would greatly improve the writing experience for left-handed users.

    1 vote

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  15. I love using scribble to have my notes written in a different font but I wish we could have as much flexibility with the lasso tool as we do with normal hand writing. For example sometimes to I do my math homework on there and I want to move some of the variables down or move only one word from the sentence but when using the lasso tool with text box the whole text box moves even when I only circle one part.

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  16. I love using scribble to have my notes written in a different font but I wish we could have as much flexibility with the lasso tool as we do with normal hand writing. For example sometimes to I do my math homework on there and I want to move some of the variables down or move only one word from the sentence but when using the lasso tool with text box the whole text box moves even when I only circle one part.

    2 votes

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  17. いつもGoodnotesを快適に使わせていただいております。
    ​さて、今回ご相談したいのは、ノートブック(ファイル)の最終更新日の表示とソート機能に関する改善についてです。
    ​現状、ファイルを「最終更新日」で並べ替えた際、ファイル内のページを編集した日付(書類の最終更新日)ではなく、ファイルそのものが作成または移動された日付が基準となっているように見受けられます。
    ​多くのユーザーは、次に作業するノートを見つけたい時に「最終更新日」でのソートを利用するかと思います。そのため、ファイル内の書類(ページ)を最後に編集した日付が、ファイルそのものの最終更新日として反映され、その日付で正確に並べ替えができるような機能の追加をご検討いただけませんでしょうか。
    ​この機能が実装されることで、頻繁に利用するノートへのアクセスが格段に向上し、Goodnotesをさらに便利に活用できると期待しております。
    ​お忙しいところ恐縮ですが、ご検討いただけますと幸いです。

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  18. In Goodnotes 5, I could disable image and text selection in app settings, but this feature is gone in Goodnotes 6. Was this international? It’s very inconvenient because objects are clicked by mistake while writing. Please bring back those toggle settings.

    2 votes

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  19. i want to see all 12 pen color at the same time without scrolling through 6 first

    2 votes

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