Address current weaknesses of the app.
I have been using GoodNotes 5 almost every day since its release, and I've noted a couple of shortcomings with the current app.
The shape tool is very faulty. Sometimes, lines will not be corrected, and it's difficult to draw basic shapes without the lines snapping to form odd, undesirable shapes. The GoodNotes 4 shape tool is superior.
Highlighters on dark templates. I love the dark template, as it makes reading my notes easier on the eyes, and my writing tends to look nicer on it. However, I tend to rely on highlighting when I'm revising, which isn't possible with the dark templates. Please make the highlighter tool compatible with the dark templates.
The search tool is not as good as it was in GoodNotes 4. This tool was one of the primary reasons I chose to purchase Goodnotes 4 over Notability at the time, and I was excited that it was going to continue into GoodNotes 5. However, I have noticed that the search results are nowhere as accurate as they once were.
No tool bar when writing. This was a big advantage of GoodNotes 4. Having the ability to access 3 pen colours and undo/redo while in the zoom window was amazing. Now, in GoodNotes 5, I find myself frequently accidentally changing pen colours when I am trying to undo, and exiting out of my current notebook when I'm trying to close the zoom window.
GoodNotes 5 eats the battery of my iPad like crazy. Sometimes, in the span of 10 minutes, my battery will have dropped 10%.
Please consider making this changes as I'm sure all of your users would benefit from it!
We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.