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  1. Swiping takes more time and effort for browsing through a document as compared to, e.g., tapping.

    In many documents, I see an empty space to the left and right of the page. Couldnโ€˜t this be used to allow tapping to effect immediate page browsing?

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  2. I love Goodnotes so much as a full time graduate student in chemistry. I can draw molecular structures, fill out pdf assignments with handwritten answers, and edit my work super easily.

    I spend a lot of time uploading PDFs for homework assignments which allows me to write directly on them and export the pages into my grading platform. An idea that I have had (mostly for aesthetic purposes) is regarding the outline performance in a notebook; I add important pages to my outline, but its not necessarily a helpful tool until my notebook is over 50 pages or so. Itโ€ฆ

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  3. The new document import screen, such as when importing from safari, automatically pulls up the keyboard. Itโ€™s really annoying when you donโ€™t need the keyboard to find the right folder.

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  4. Now that the eraser is its own section in the toolbar, getting rid of the slow type selection dropdown would be a good next step, as the bar definitely has the space for it

    I change between precision and stroke quite frequently and it is a process that could be that little bit faster and more convenient than it is right now

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  5. When using a study set, you should be able to close and reopen scratch paper without saving it. For instance, if I want to use the same blank temporary paper for a different question, it will remain blank every time I reopen it, even if I save the file.

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  6. When importing a multi page PDF into a GoodNotes whiteboard, the pages are currently placed off to the right and arranged in a grid like layout. This forces users to manually reposition every page to create a readable top to bottom flow.

    For large lecture PDFs or study materials, this manual reorganization is inefficient and time consuming.

    A significant improvement would be an automatic vertical layout option where PDF pages are imported in a single straight column, stacked from top to bottom, similar to continuous scroll behavior. Ideally, this would be the default behavior, with an optional toggle to switchโ€ฆ

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  7. Hello

    We are using good notes in our company on IPAD machines. We only miss very important toll and this is ocr - handwriting recognition in language Slowenian (Contry in Europe - Slovenia). We miss this very much becouse we now implementig paperless work and if we dont have this language supported we have to switch to other program. We dont want this becouse goodnotes is great.
    We dont need that the language of the program is in slovenian we need just the recognition language in slovenian.

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  8. Built-in browser or web search panel

    When working on a note, project, or research database, I often need to look up information on Google or check the reference on the website.

    With an in-app browser or a small search panel, users can browse and take notes without leaving good notes, creating a smoother and more efficient workflow.

    8 votes

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  9. ใƒปI want to be able to lay out images more freely in text documents. For example, if you reduce the size, you can arrange photos next to it.

    ใƒปI want to insert a saved video on my device instead of a link.

    ใƒปI find it convenient to be able to preview links on both text documents and whiteboards.

    ใƒปI would like the image to be compatible with Live Photos.

    2 votes

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  10. Please refer to diary apps such as Day One.

    ใƒปSince I use it for diary purposes, I would be happy if a notebook function specialized for diaries was added in the future. If a function like a map database is added, it would be great if there is a mechanism that can record location information.

    ใƒปI want a function like an album by tagging notes and images.

    ใƒปIf there is a calendar function that can be checked back on a date basis, I think it will be very attractive as a diary.

    ใƒปThere are a ridiculous number of notebooks inโ€ฆ

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  11. Why can't I slide pages while using study sets? When I'm in reading or editing mode (rather than in learning or practicing mode), it's unable to swipe left to add new pages and to swipe right to check the previous one. That's never happened before and it's really frustrating. Hope to be solved asap.

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  12. Please bring back the edit handwriting mode that allows me to reflow handwriting! It was extremely useful and convenient to have.

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  13. On iPad, when using Stage Manager (Show Mode), minimizing an app window does not behave as expected. Instead of collapsing or disappearing, the minimized window remains visible as a shrunken panel stuck at the edge of the screen. This creates visual clutter and interferes with multitasking, since the window continues to occupy space even though the user intended to minimize it.

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  14. Share a note to other users without having to backup everything on the app. I think we already paid a lot of money to this app. We should be able to share notes without icloud like Google sheets, docs or Canva. And we can share on those apps for free. Goodnotes should have their own cloud at least for the note sharing option!

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  15. The last update brought up the new window which comes up when importing a new pdf document or picture. In that windows you can select if you want to open the document in a new file or put it into an existing notebook. It would be great if you can add a setting possibility to preselect one of these options. I'm never using the possibility to import as a new document but with the new update I'm forced to make a few more clicks now which is annoying.

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  16. When you want to adjust the lenght of a Drawn line, a large Blue dot appears. This makes it impossible to Drag the line to the exakt Position you want. A magnifying Glass or a very small dot would be much more helpful here.

    2 votes

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  17. Feature Request: Add File Replace Option When Importing Files with the Same Name
    When importing a file with the same name, GoodNotes currently brings it in as a new document and renames it as โ€œfilename 2.โ€
    However, sometimes instead of importing it as a new document, it would be better to overwrite/replace the existing file.

    When the file being imported has the same name as an existing file, it would be great if a prompt appeared asking whether the user wants to:

    Overwrite the existing file,

    Import as a new file, or

    Cancel the import.

    Adding this overwrite option wouldโ€ฆ

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  18. ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ €๋Š” ์ˆ˜์—…์— ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š”
    ํ™”๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋Ÿฌ๋ง์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ…”๋ ˆ๋น„์ „์— ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๋„์šธ ๋•Œ
    ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜ ๋ชจ๋“œ์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰์ž ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋ฏธ๋Ÿฌ๋ง์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋ฉด
    ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ํŠนํžˆ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ๋ทฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ ์˜†์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ์„ ์ผœ์„œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด๋„
    ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํŽธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ ์™ผ์ชฝ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ์„ ๋‘๋ฉด ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ผ  ์–ดํ”Œ๊ณผ ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ ํ™”๋ฉด์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋œจ๊ณ 
    ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ์— ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ์„ ๋‘๋ฉด ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ ํ™”๋ฉด๋งŒ ๋– ์„œ
    ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ ์ด ์ข‹์•˜์–ด์š”.
    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์•„์ดํŒจ๋“œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ํ›„์— ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ์„ ์Šคํ”Œ๋ฆฟ๋ทฐ๋กœ ์ผœ๋ฉด
    ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๊ตฟ๋…ธํŠธ์™€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–ดํ”Œ ํ™”๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋Ÿฌ๋ง๋œ ํ™”๋ฉด์— ๋…ธ์ถœ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ์˜ˆ์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„โ€ฆ

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  19. Ich finde GoodNotes wirklich toll, und tatsรคchlich sogar besser als One Note von Microsoft. Aber eine wichtige Funktion fehlt mir, das Einfรผgen von Musikdateien und Videos, oder die Implementierung von YouTube- Videos. Ich benรถtige als Lehrer dieses Funktion unbedingt. Dann ist das Arbeiten im Whiteboard wirklich eine angenehme Sache.

    3 votes

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  20. Hi can we bring back the double tap to switch highlighter color? Itโ€™s not working on neither of my iPads and I have tried in both with different pencils (pro and 2nd gen). Has it been removed? Or is it a bug?

    1 vote

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