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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It would be nice if Android and Windows finally got the same capabilities as Apple. Adding new fonts, uploading stickers, and many other things unfortunately don't work at all. This has been a known issue for years.

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  2. リンク設定において、デフォルトの設定が「次のページ」になっているため、不便です。デフォルト設定を「このページ」にしてほしいです。「このページ」に設定することで、手間を省くことができ助かります。

    3 votes

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  3. Enable all of the preset color options to be “scrolled” through the same way the tool options are.

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  4. I would like to be able to create my own preset of pens/highlighters in different sizes and colors. On the tool bar there could be a pencil case tool that allows you to add different pen and highlighter presets so you easily have all your favorite pens and colors in one place. This would be very helpful when taking notes in class, saves time switching color to color.

    3 votes

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  5. Please improve the search feature, at present it misses most of the searches which are already present in the document, are are searchable on other apps like pdfexpert and noteful, please improve the search feature and improve it to make it like pdfexpert app search functionality or noteful

    3 votes

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  6. After the update ,goodnotes 6 is missing a feature to lock the text box. This is very inconveinet now. I like to handwritting over a tex box, but the tex box is keep moving around while i‘m handwriting whithout the feature. Or maybe I can‘t find that after the update. Could you let me know where I can find that feature? This is very essential feature to me.

    3 votes

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  7. Hello Goodnotes Development Team,
    This update has caused several inconveniences in use:

    1. The pen and eraser are now grouped under the same category, which makes it difficult to intuitively know whether I’m using the pen or the eraser. I often start writing only to realize nothing appears because it’s in eraser mode. This requires extra attention and disrupts the workflow. I hope the pen and eraser can be separated into different categories again.

    2. It’s great that the shape tool now includes circles and squares, but the original straight line function has become much less usable. For example, when I try…

    3 votes

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  8. When choosing the tool , the new drop down bar stays there until you click it again to hide it. Can it be made to auto-hide after a couple seconds of not being interacted with?

    i.e. click the pen tool and the drop down for pen, eraser, pencil, highlighter shows up and takes up more space.

    3 votes

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  9. Up to now there were 2 workarounds to get shapes without borders:
    (workaround 1): hit "Undo" as soon as you draw the border (this was the most convenient/faster);
    (workaround 2): zoom in to erase the border.
    With the new update both workarounds stopped working.

    3 votes

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  10. Possibility to import documents with a margin on the right to be able to take notes on the document during classes on the powepoints of lectures.
    Possibility to add it on our documents like the photo I put please !!

    3 votes

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  11. The new feature “White board” was launched, but the default language won’t applied.
    My native language is Japanese, and I set it as a default language.
    However, the default language for “White board” is not Japanese but English, and I need to change the language everytime. I hope this bag will be corrected.

    3 votes

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  12. Idee:
    anstatt nur oberhalb und unterhalb Seiten einfügen zu können, könnte es eine weitere Möglichkeit geben: man kann auf Goodnotes auswählen, ob man eine Mindmap Struktur, Baumdiagramm Struktur, oder viele weitere Strukturen haben möchte. (Alle rechte vorenthalten)

    3 votes

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  13. For built in comments could you make a section where you could look at all the comments you made throughout the notes and when you click on the comment in the section, it takes you to that comment wherever it is located

    3 votes

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  14. It would be great if transcriptions could be in "tabs" that you can extend and collapse. I've noticed that when I make multiple transcriptions in a notebook they all tend to get mixed into one large transcription. It would be great if they could be kept seperate and if we could copy the whole transcription of a single section/tab rather than everything that has been transcribed in the notebook.

    Hope that makes sense!

    3 votes

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  15. I really like the feature of being able to have as many colors as you want at a time, and being able to add or remove more colors. I would really love if this would also work for pen sizes! I use Goodnotes to take notes for class, and having handwriting sizes for heading, subheading, main bulk of notes, AND smaller details at once would be amazing without having to constantly go in and change the sizes of the pens. Even just a spot for recently used sizes would be amazing.

    3 votes

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  16. Wish there was a tool for flipping hand writings/drawings.

    3 votes

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  17. When duplicating a notebook, the internal links should be automatically updated. Currently, you're redirected to the original notebook. It's very time-consuming to have to update each link individually, for example, in an annual planner.

    3 votes

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  18. Please add bidirectional links. I use Obsidian as a Personal knowledge management (PKM) vault and love its bidirectional links and Knowledge Graph view. Being able to see how notes reference each other makes large collections of notes manageable while also allowing me to make connections otherwise impossible to see. Please add so GoodNote can be my one stop shop for note taking.

    3 votes

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  19. We have two gesture options, squeeze and double tap. I would love to be able to set squeeze to bring up/put away the eraser and double tap to switch between my two most recent tools, but ignore the eraser as an option. That way i can go back and forth between my pen a highlighter without having the erase override one. Example: highlight something, double tap to write with the pen, squeeze to erase a mistake, squeeze to return to pen, double tap to go to highlighter.The highlighter/pen sequence could be totally separate from the eraser function.

    3 votes

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  20. I have noticed that, on the GoodNotes app for MacBook, I am unable to select or copy text from PDFs, even though the same PDFs allow text selection and copying in other PDF readers. I kindly request that you add this functionality to the GoodNotes app, as it would greatly enhance usability and user experience. Thank you for considering this feature enhancement.

    3 votes

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