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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. I often have to switch from searching by name, to the most recent document. Having the banner with date, name on the top center of the screen was very convenient. Either I changed a setting or the banner was removed and now a much more tedious process of going through the drop down menu. Please return the banner to the top of the page, or make it an option like "header".

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  2. It would be really helpful to have something that warns the user that there is writing already on the document to prevent overwriting. Sometimes when writing on a page, it doesn't fully load for a very long time and turns up blank.

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  3. Goodnotes has been added to windows which is great, however the user experience is poor when it comes to using something like a Wacom tablet connected to the PC. Often times strokes will be cut off half way through writing or deleted entirely I imagine this could be fixed with a quick update.

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  4. The erase function doesnt work when using the apple stylus Gen2 pen on GoodNOte 5/6

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  5. I find the application very good and practical, but I think it could be improved a lot if some key functions were added. For example, the possibility of creating tables similar to those in Word, with the option to give them custom colors and formats, which would help a lot to organize the information in a visual and orderly way. It would also be very useful to have brushes to highlight, underline or customize annotations in a more dynamic way. In addition, I consider it important that documents can be sorted according to my preferences and not only by date…

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  6. I wanna say yes and and improve the Index Post-It idea. It makes navigating in the digital notebook almost impossible when you don‘t have guiding index post-it‘s on the side, especially if the content of the study is already quite big by it‘s nature, like the German Grammer. Having the ability to put it would make Goodnotes equal with the paper book alternative. But having it as a Structure-Tree would make it even better.

    I have drawn a simple UX Sketch here. The idea is to give the Content Structure Tree its own extended module to be able to freely…

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  7. I love reading PDFs with GoodNotes on my tablet, because it is comfortable, and I can highlight and scribble notes.

    Sometimes I'm reading a paper and it will keep referring to a figure on a previous page. I would love to temporarily lassoo that figure, and keep it as a floating window/overlay while I'm otherwise normally scrolling, reading, and marking the document.

    Think of this as similar to the "Document split view" of some word processors, but much more flexible, and taking much less space away from the main document view.

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  8. Please add a button, that you can change your email address.

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  9. When in use, it often leads to accidental finger touches that trigger the long-press function for adding comments, thereby interrupting the writing process. This issue occurs very frequently and significantly affects the user experience. I hope a switch can be added to disable this function.

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  10. I love to use the text tool but currently it is quite inconvenient to use. I would love to define my own text field styles and save them to reuse instead of always defining them again. Also it would be great to have a color picker in the style section so I don‘t need to copy the HEX Codes from e.g. Pen tool where the color picker is present.

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  11. It seems basic, but on Android, the web, and iOS, we're not allowed to view two Good Notes files at once. This is quite important, because sometimes you use two PDFs to study at the same time, and if it doesn't let you open two documents on the same screen, it becomes very difficult to study from this app.

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  12. At present, there are only fixed A4, A3 and other sizes, which cannot meet the needs of users. Even if the manuscript paper template is imported, the template can only be the built-in size of the software, so it is necessary to support the parameters of the custom manuscript paper, such as: size, upper, lower, left and right margins, background and line format and color, etc.

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  13. Refer to the "Page Extension" function in "Notes+" ("Notes+" is in the AppStore)

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  14. 我是一名学生用户,我大部分时间只会使用一种笔的粗细,希望可以长按将另外两个宽度选项删除以精简状态栏

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  15. Please make the pen settings like tip sharpness, pressure, sensitivity, etc. Customised or tailored as per user choice.

    Pen features in Freenotes app provide good handwriting and such should be incorporated in the Goodnotes app too for better user experience.

    Please upgrade these features in the next update.

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  16. Make the pen settings like Tip sharpness, pressure sensitivity, tip flatness etc. tailored/customised as per anyone’s choice. (Currently it offers only 25,50,75,100%)

    Please improve this and move away from “one size fits all approach”.

    Also, check the stylus pen in Freenotes app, it has really good features.
    So, I request the concerned goodnotes team to upgrade our user experience.

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  17. I’d love to see spaced repetition integrated directly into the flashcard feature in GoodNotes.

    Currently, flashcards are static—you flip them manually without any learning algorithm behind them. If GoodNotes could implement a spaced repetition system (SRS) like Anki or RemNote, it would massively boost its usefulness for students, med students, language learners, and anyone prepping for exams.
    Why it matters:
    Spaced repetition is proven to improve long-term memory retention. Right now, users have to export their flashcards to other apps to use this method — integrating it natively would keep everything in GoodNotes and streamline the learning process.
    Studying with…

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  18. 作为老用户提个大家都迫切需要的功能:加入英语词典库功能,便于浏览笔记和文档时查阅和学习外语,这个功能太实用了!

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  19. (Screenshot) Basically if I highlight/write on my iPad it won't show aligned on my computer but the stuff I do my computer will show correct on my computer only. Is very frustrating, it keeps happening and it happened on my friends goodnotes too!

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  20. Issues

    1) Within image annotation misalignment after cropping or scaling the image
    When an image is cropped or scaled after annotations (e.g., underlines or highlights) have been added, the positions of those annotations become misaligned. For example, underlined text on an image may no longer align correctly after resizing. Can the developer team ensure that cropping or scaling operations preserve the relative position of existing annotations. A good analogy to this is a stick note, where resizing the sticky note shouldn't affect where the illustrations on top of the sticky note is positioned.

    2) Lasso Tool affects entire image and…

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