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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. 3 features I would to see in future updates are:
    1. Simply select handwritten text by simple doing a drawing a circle around it with the pencil instead of having to go all the way to the circle icon.
    2. Erase text by simple scratching it back and forth
    3. In order to have our palm staying all the time on the screen the page should be movable all the way up. This would help when you arrive at the bottom of a page (without use of the magnifier) to keep your palm on the iPad and not having on…

    4 votes

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  2. The "Enter" and "Tab" buttons in the zoom window are the most important controls. As such, they are placed on the right side of the zoom window, in order to make them readily-accessible for right-handed writers. However, for left-handed users such as myself, the infrequently-used "indent" buttons are more prominently located.

    Since you know the handedness of users via the "Writing Posture" setting, perhaps that setting would automatically swap the positions of these buttons in the zoom window. Thank you.

    4 votes

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  3. I would like to see the a detailed adjustment setting for the margins in the zoom window similar to Goodnotes 4. It would also help if the margin adjustments are persistent across documents or templates. Having to reset it every time the file is opened is frustrating.

    4 votes

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  4. Text boxes often disappear randomly when clicking them on the iPad. Please fix this, it's time-consuming and annoying.

    4 votes

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  5. When recording a video I would like to be able to pause the recording and then unpause. It is hard to video record all my notes in one go.

    4 votes

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  6. Add a toggle that just the start and end points of a line get connected
    Without it, lines often get crooked

    4 votes

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  7. Please make the zoom out feature for import pdf, It’s really bother me to read, I like all the features about GN, but no zoom out makes me use notability right now, cause I couldn’t read when the font size too big.....

    4 votes

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  8. The image tool has a long drag copy built in, I wish the lasso had that as well, I draw a lot of graphs and using the iOS Paste shortcut is hard, having the lasso work the same way as the image would be perfect

    4 votes

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  9. I like a lot the Mac app on the Catalina, but I have an older Mac that runs on High Sierra, and it can't install the app, just like me, I think more people could use the app if it's were made available for older Macs, since is something that you keep for 10 years easily.

    4 votes

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  10. Currently, when you search for a term, the search drop down menu will only show an excerpt of the first instance that the search term is found on a page. Often times, however, a term appears more than once per page. It would be beneficial to see an excerpt of each instance the search term is found.

    For example, if the term "Australia" is found 4 times on page 53, there should be 4 excerpts of page 53 showing each instance where the term Australia appears.

    4 votes

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  11. During my studies i use GoodNotes 5 every day and i love it.
    But in some lectures we uses some symbols and characters often. And therefor is my idea.
    Is there a possibility to creat an own library for often uses symbols?
    That i only have to draw them once and save them in „my own symbols library“?
    For example the summation sign (∑), or the drawing of electrical schematics with resistors, capacitors etc.

    4 votes

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  12. The Mac App seems like a waste of money, because it is exactly like the iPad app's interface, except on a Mac. Please make it more like Pages or other native Mac apps.

    4 votes

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  13. Go from 3 to 5 standard pre-set pen weights. I find the jumps between the 3 weights you offer too big and my perfect weight would be between your thinnest and middle one. I suggest to mimic the 5 pen weights Apple offers in the IOS Notes pen integration.

    4 votes

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  14. Use the first handwritten line of a note as the default title.
    No need of typing when creating a new notebook.

    4 votes

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  15. The current drag & drop feature copies notes as a PDF file. (http://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/19716046-export-individual-pages-using-drag-and-drop-mac-a)
    However, It's sometimes desirable (and easier to view) if I copy them as images (to email app, iMessage, other note-taking app like Bear, etc.). I wish there is an option to select images over PDF.

    4 votes

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  16. On computer app, when you press the thumbnails page, it doesn't open to your current slide and display that prominently. I have to scroll and look for what slide I was just studying from / annotating. If this could be fixed and displayed more clearly, it would be very helpful.

    4 votes

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  17. Let the users select some text and create a linkable symbol attached to the selection. With this, it would be possible to create links to these symbols.
    At the first release, an index could be built from all linkable symbols in the notebook.
    In a second release, it could be possible to create tags for linkable symbols and create index for specific tags (i.e.: #indexEntry, #sourceReference)

    4 votes

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  18. There is this button on the top left corner with four squares, where we could shift the pages around, flag pages, save them into the content page. But its stupid how we can't select multiple pages (or maybe its just that i cant figure out how). So if i want to select some ten pages and move them up, or delete them altogether, or export them, I can't.

    But overall, I really like Goodnotes and the feature I love the most about them, is them constantly listening to our feedbacks and improving their interface.

    4 votes

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  19. A way to create outline by using a color recognition that show you all the titles you wrote or fluoted in that color so that you just have to click to make an outline of it

    4 votes

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  20. The App "Flow" has a feature that allows the user to assign a tool to be used if the Apple Pen is used while the user holds a finger down anywhere on the screen. This is very handy to quickly switch to "Lasso Tool", or anything else really. It would be great to have this in GoodNotes too.

    4 votes

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