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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. When adding a picture or drawing a box, form,..., there is an option to make it either opaque or translucent with grading in percentage. Also, writing in translucent would be also very nice for several works.

    9 votes

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  2. Hello,

    I like GoodNotes concept of having multiple pages instead of one infinite one, but I find it too hard to quickly move text between pages.

    This is why I suggest adding a "Move to next page" button that pops up once I move part of the selection outside of the page's borders (see attached image for a demonstration of how this could work).

    9 votes

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  3. It would be great if the thickness of the pen can be automatically adjusted with respect to the zoom-in ratio, so that the pen thickness displayed on the screen stays the same.

    9 votes

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  4. 9 votes

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  5. I would love to have the zoom window tool on the mac version of the application. I use the ipad version and the zoom window tool really helps me take notes but sometimes I need to use the mac for certain note taking situations in the classroom. This would greatly improve my ability to take notes in any circumstance. Thanks.

    9 votes

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  6. Allow us to make a custom watermark. For example i make legendary notes on my ipad and i send them to my classmates, but i want to add a watermark in app so they cant use it elsewhere. Right now i use some third party software where i have to put my pdf in and it gives me a pdf with watermark. With the built in watermark feature it will be very easy.

    9 votes

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  7. When you use a colour from the colour wheel you can save it as default. However, if you completely shut the app down these saved defaults are gone and it becomes so difficult to find the exact colour again. Can you make it so that either the new saved default colours remain even after shutting the app down or make a tool so that you can ‘grab’ any colour from the document and use it as a pen or highlighter colour.

    9 votes

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  8. Please make pen sizes bigger than 2.0! Please make them go to at least 4.0.

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  9. Much like Google Docs or One Note, It would be nice to have an online access point to view and edit notes. This can be a solution to the unavailable PC App and viewing on a stranger computer, where you may not want to spend the time to download the app. (i.e. Group projects/study Share)

    9 votes

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  10. I think it would be very useful to have the ability to see and reorganize the list of open tabs. This way, when I have 20+ tabs open and I’m viewing the last document but also need to access the first tab I don’t need to swipe all the way to the first tab but can pull open the list view and click directly two the desired tab. If I find that I need to consistently switch between the two, I can reorganize the tabs and place them right next to each other.

    9 votes

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  11. Can you add a “merge” or “group” lines feature? It would make drawing shapes and ideas a whole lot easier. Similar to being able to group multiple lines or images on PowerPoint or google docs.

    9 votes

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  12. 9 votes

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  13. I need a slide bar for finding document pages accurately like GoodReader.

    9 votes

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  14. Create custom margins for a specific template that needs it

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  15. I would love a feature that lets me drop a picture into a chunk of text or hand writing and have the text wrap around it.

    9 votes

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  16. I used your app for note-taking during class and creating final notes which I can review during exams. I think it would be a good idea to add a function where you have an "invincible" layer over your notes such that you can write down stuff without ruining the notes you made. It will be like a post it except that it is see through. It will work like photoshop where you can have different layers which you can show or hide.

    10 votes

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  17. Ability to Backup as Editable PDF instead of just Flattened PDF.

    9 votes

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  18. Goodnotes allows you to set a return line height to match a template's line width, so that when you click the "return" button in the zoom window it moves down the page the right amount to begin writing on the next line.

    However, Goodnotes does not allow one to set a default "indent" setting for that template. Templates with margins -- for instance Cornell -- would be much more useful if the user did not have to manually set the indent each time / on each page of a notebook.

    9 votes

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  19. Keyboard shortcut was introduced quite awhile now, but a major problem has show up.

    Currently situation:

    P = Pencil
    E = Eraser
    L = Lasso
    S = Shapes

    The major problem it’s the keys from each other are too far away, making impossible to use it naturally while handwriting at same time.

    So I suggest a better shortcut, just like notability (Or another way)

    Exemple:
    Cmd+1 = Pencil
    Cmd+2 = Eraser
    Cmd+3 = Lasso
    And so on.

    9 votes

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  20. I am trying to print a range of pages in Goodnotes 5.

    I pull up thumbnail view of the pages in my notebook. I click Select, then mark the pages I'd like to print, then export to PDF, then I am not given an option to print the pages. I am only given options to upload to cloud, save to iPad, etc. The only printing features I can find in Goodnotes 5 are to print the current page and to print the entire notebook.

    I had no problems doing this in Goodnotes 4. Please fix.

    9 votes

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