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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It would be nice if it were possible to use flashcard mode for vocab training. Therefore it would have to be possible to flip the "question" and "answer" page. Manually (all of them) or randomly (single ones). More over, the Q and A page titles should be renamable like "English" / "Spanish". There are loads of vocab training apps out there but I like the Idea of handwriting. What do you think about it?

    28 votes

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  2. 28 votes

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  3. Some of the pdf’s I import have very small margins that do not allow me to write notes on. It would be fantastic if there was a feature that acted as sticky notes like in Apple’s feature in the Books app or how Google docs allow you to add comments.

    28 votes

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  4. Hello,
    Do you know while writing with Samsung pencil, it makes sound like writing on paper. I thought this feature might have to do apple updates, but recently, while using ‘Lake’ app, they added this feature that when you use brush, it will make sound like you are using it on paper. It gives overall such a nice feel.
    I do not want to use paperlike because it deteriorate screen appearance but what I do love is the sound of writing on paper. Please please add this feature. If ‘Lake’ people can do it, you too can.
    Thanks a lot.…

    28 votes

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  5. When I import a PDF to an existing notebook I have been using for handwritten notes, the PDF size is much larger and makes it so I have to keep zooming in and out as I read through my notes. Please make it so that there is an option so scale my imported PDF to standard GoodNotes 5 paper size to match the rest of my notebook!

    28 votes

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  6. Since there already is a feature to convert handwritten text.
    It would be very usefully if you could convert the text from pictures of handwritten notes or documents like textbooks to editable text.

    28 votes

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  7. Now we only can save 3 pen colors and 3 pen thickness, but I would love to have more, something like 5, there is place tu put them, and we can have a setting of how many are showed, so who wants to have 3 can have 3 and who needs 5 can have them

    28 votes

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  8. The new font feature is amazing. But what would be an even better addition would be the ability to star (favorite) fonts so they always appear at the top of the list. It would also be nice if we were able to sort the favorites freely. There are so many fonts I don’t use but come installed on iPad anyway, would save us so much scrolling time!

    28 votes

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  9. I am using goodnotes 5 in an iPad pro 11 inch in a split screen mode, with the lecture slides on the other half of the scree, doing so will optimize the tool bar and i cannot be using the preset three pen colors without directly. I either have to reduce my slides to less than half of the screen which not ideal, or clicking on the pen options to select a different color, which does take sometime. Is there an option where i can edit the items in the toolbar, to select what is used frequently (pen, highlighter, eraser)…

    28 votes

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  10. One the zoom window there should be the ability to select the pen colour, eraser and undo without having to select these from the top of the screen

    28 votes

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  11. This is feedback and not a new idea: I seem to notice some lag while writing with the Apple Pencil on GoodNotes 5 (on an iPad Pro 11”). The lag is much lesser on GoodNotes 4 and the stock Notes app.
    Amazing job on the new version, the app looks and feels great otherwise!

    28 votes

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    1. The handwriting recognition works but is limited to sharing. I wish it had an option to convert it to text inside notes.

    2. Mathematical symbols or equations recognition would also be great! :)

    28 votes

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  12. The printed page has no margin for binding.
    Please add margins. Best, mirror margins for front/back print

    Printing, two GoodNotes pages fit well in one A-size or A4-size sheet.
    Please include the option of margins for this, with front/back option
    (4 GoodNotes pages in a front/back physical sheet)

    28 votes

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  13. it would be SOOOOO nice if you could perpetually sync your goodnotes with your cloud service of choice. no constant upload. whenever you close out of the note you're on it automatically syncs with your cloud service.

    29 votes

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  14. It would be great to be able to clip web content from a browser (as in Notability). Often I want to copy an equation from Wikipedia and insert it into my notes, ideally with a reference.

    28 votes

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  15. 28 votes

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  16. This is the only feature that makes Good Reader superior to Good Notes. The ability to have a pop up note allows you to write more things without cluttering up the page. If this was added there would be no need to use another app. Please please!

    28 votes

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  17. Wonderful to now have a ruler... but please make it a changeable scale ruler. This is critical for architects and designers and will be life-changing in the app.

    27 votes

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  18. When I type too much text and it goes beyond the bottom of the page, the overflow text doesn't automatically get added to the next page - I need to manually add it.

    Could you make it so that when the text goes beyond the bottom of the page, it gets automatically added to the next page to prevent the need for manual intervention?

    This would allow for a smoother and faster note-taking experience.

    27 votes

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  19. These three things are much needed
    Auto Detection of Arrows is very helpful in many cases
    Dotted Lines/Dashed Lines are very necessary in Making Diagrams especially in mathematics and physics
    Duplicate feels more easy than copy and pasting the thing, adding duplicate with copy will save time
    Inverting PDF too seems necessary sometimes

    Only because of these 4 functions I have to sometime switch to notability and it does not feel good cause I have paid for GoodNotes

    27 votes

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