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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Currently we are limited to 2mm max for pen weights which is simply too small for some projects.

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  2. When reading a research paper, in-text references often link to the "References" section at the end of the paper, where the full reference is listed. It would be helpful to preview the linked part of the PDF to see the referenced paper without losing my current spot in the document. The attachment shows how this is implemented in the PDF reader of my computer.

    8 votes

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  3. Include the ability to save vocabulary searched through dictionary for a later time

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  4. I use goodnotes to documents conditions in the field- taking lots of phots using the camera tool. I would like to be able to export those photos as JPG or TIFF or some photo format for using in other apps, like word for writting reports. The only way I have been able to export an actual photo is to share the individual photo. This is not efficient when I have hundreds of photos to upload. There should be a method to export the individual photos in a notebook all at once. Exporting the notebook as a pdf does not work…

    8 votes

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  5. It would be much easier to be able to press on the screen and type on the GN's template lines. The text in the text boxes don't match with the template lines, and typing only looks decent on the blank template.

    Also when typing with the text boxes, if the lines exceeds the page size, the words disappear unless you make the text smaller instead of continuing on the next page. This makes pasting text time consuming given that you have to keep adjusting the text so that it's visible in the text box.

    8 votes

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  6. when you go into the editing page for a color you saved, it does not provide the hex number, making it difficult to make highlighters and stuff the same color.

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  7. While creating a shape, it is possible to freely change its proportions (ie, a square into a rectangle, or a circle into an ellipse). Afterwards, however, these proportions become locked: the 'resize' function works in effect as 'rescale'. I often find, however, that I need to change them, f. example if I am using the shape to outline some handwritten text, and I add to that text. I often end up having to redraw the entire shape.

    All you would need to do is to let the 'resize' option work for shapes in the same way as it already does…

    8 votes

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  8. I bought a Remarkable tablet because I hate writing on the iPad screen. While the Remarkable is a great writing instrument, it has no way to search the text you have written. The Remarkable iPad allows one to share notes with GoodNotes. This works great but unfortunately the imported notes don't have a converted text layer. It would be great if GoodNotes could convert the handwriting of imported Remarkable notes so that a note would become searchable

    8 votes

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  9. In the app, highlighters are perfect, they lay behind the text, making it pop, and still doesn’t bother when reading it over again. When I want to convert my notes to share it with others, or printing it, PDF looks the best, sharpest. But after converting it, the highlight lays on top of the note making it less nice, and less readable. Is there any chance that we can still enjoy the notes as nice and sharp, even after converted to a PDF?

    8 votes

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  10. It would be awesome if the print feature could be expanded. Especially being able to print a selection of pages and being able to choose whether to include the background (as in the pdf export) would be super duper awesome!

    8 votes

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  11. Hey I tried posting this prior but I wasn’t clear enough and the thread was closed so I’m going to try again with an image of how I think would be great way to implement the flashcards.

    Essentially there would be a button, either a stand alone button or within the selection tool that will create 2 selection boxes (sequentially obviously), the first being a selection of the question and the second being the selection of the answer (I guess it would also work fine if it were a lasso style too). Please see the image if I wasn’t clear…

    8 votes

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  12. I use Google Drive to view my docs on GoodNotes through other devices, to save the my iCloud storage space for other things.

    I would appreciate an extension of the Collaborate Feature on Goodnotes to extend to Sharing a link through Google Drive as well, not just iCloud, if it is feasible.

    Thank you for the amazing app! I love having one location for all my notes on different subjects!

    8 votes

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  13. My handwriting is not that good and so the OCR results are not able to recognise most of the time so I couldn't take notes with peace of mind.Each time I write GoodNotes takes it as different letters or words, so when I search back couldn’t find what I want. It would be benefited if OCR Feature can take feedback of individual style of writing to recognise the letters and words. Saddest experience is my brother’s Samsung notes app doing this part well and could recognise my strokes well even though mine is terrible and I was shocked that GoodNotes…

    8 votes

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  14. Neeed ability to hide part of what we have read ....so as to promote active recall as it is their in notion and spoilers in Reddit and other forums...reveals itself only when we click it

    8 votes

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  15. Compared with Notability, the search capability of GoodNotes is relatively poor, 1. I can't find individual letters if I'm trying to sort notes with letters, and that's not an idea. 2. It's also hard to find a word if it's near a highlighter marker or some line. 3. Goodnotes also can't search the middle part of a word, which is very limited.

    8 votes

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  16. Have the partial eraser tool erase by pixel instead of sections

    8 votes

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  17. Instantly Convert handwritten text to doc text on the same page without needing to "copy" and then "paste" within Goodnotes.

    8 votes

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  18. I love the presentation mode options when I share my iPad via airplay. Unfortunately, airplay in unreliable during zoom calls and I need to share my iPad via cable. But then, the presentation mode options are not available anymore, with all the downsides: people can see me zooming, my toolbar, the slides appear from the right, so I can't add have nice transitions for bullet points, etc.

    8 votes

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  19. Include a landscape version of the A6/A5 paper templates for use in flashcard/jotter style note taking. At the moment there isn't even plain landscape A6/A5

    8 votes

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  20. the option to do a square with the figure tool and to have the option to round the corners

    8 votes

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