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  1. The outlines tab is not as helpful as it once was. Whenever I use an imported pdf (usually converted from a powerpoint or word document), the outline is filled with text from every single slide, making it hard to find ANYTHING. I can unselect 'Show pdf outline', but the default view is the cluttered, unhelpful mess.

    Then, when I add my own outlines, they are in haphazard order. Please see the attached images. I have created these outlines in page order, but they seem to appear in a random order. Why??!

    Please make the outlines feature more functional by making…

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  2. An option to manually set the rotation of fountain pen tip. When you turn off the recognize pen rotation option, which is a nice feature, it sets in an oblique angle. It would be nice to be able to manually rotate the pen tip and set it whichever angle you want it.

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  3. Gerade ist es so, dass wenn ich eine PDF eingefügt habe ich nur sehr umständlich
    einzelne Wörter markieren kann um diese dann z.B. zu kopieren.

    Ich muss erst das Textfeld erstellen Symbol auswählen
    Dann kurz die linke Maustaste gedrückt halten und kann dann erst markieren.
    Und wenn ich das Wort dann markiert habe funktioniert die Tastenkombination Str + C nur bedingt.

    Und außerdem ist es sehr schwer die richtige Zeit zum Mauszeiger bewegen zu finden da oft einfach ein Textfeld erstellt wird oder garnicht markiert.
    (Keine Ahnung wieso das so kompliziert ist)

    Kann ich nicht einfach wie in einer PDF…

    2 votes

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  4. Please bring back the undo and redo buttons in the macOS version of Goodnotes. It is dearly missed by this teacher that uses Goodnotes for instruction.

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  5. "Currently, Goodnotes does not have a specific feature that automatically sets the toolbar to start on the Pen tool when switching between files. The Pen tool is the first tool in the Handwriting Toolbar and can be selected manually, but the app does not remember or default to the Pen tool automatically upon file switching," Goodnotes Support.

    It would be great if a toolbar customization update allowed you to make the pen feature the default tool when switching between documents instead of the lasso.

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  6. Please bring back the ability to erase the outline while keeping the shaded fill after using the “hold to perfect shape” feature. It was super useful for creating clean shaded boxes and diagrams. A toggle to separate fill and outline would be amazing!

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  7. 1 vote

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  8. You can repeatedly download whiteboard templates for some reason which caused my “imported from marketplace” section to be spammed with the same few templates. Would be great to have a way to delete them

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  9. l want to request sticky notes or comments that can be in the margins or in the sidebar, independent of being linked to a single page. Imagine having a sticky note on your desk with reminders or instructions that you put next to your notebook. in this particular context, I want to have the instructions for an assignment posted outside of the page that I can refer to at any point to make sure I’m on the right track.

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  10. The ability to add animated gifs is great, but they just loop continuously. It would be nice to be able to click them to pause or play them. I'm using good notes to record some whiteboard-style tech how-to videos. I'm doing animations in procreate dreams and would like to drop those into a good notes whiteboard. I then use iOS screen record to record the whiteboard session.

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  11. It is clanky and feels like it has friction for every page. It really kills the experience.
    Also it would be a lot better if you could make the pages continuous when scrolling vertically like in Notability.

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  12. Currently, choosing a font is time-consuming, not efficient. There are so many steps to choose the font I need. The recent update made it worse.

    Now, a tiny window pops up with the default chosen (never the one I need). I then select "Custom Fonts" and a larger window pops up. I go find say, Bodoni. Change my font. But I find I don't like that font. I have to highlight the word or words, the small window pops up again, I choose Custom Fonts again, then have to find another font from the beginning. I'd like it to default…

    3 votes

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  13. Add an option to easily export a text doc AS A TEXT DOC and not as a PDF.
    Also fix the size and format of all textDoc settings so it wouldnt look so bad as a PDF

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  14. You should be able to click a recording, and it take you the page where it was made, and say you went over different pages while make the recording and drew things on the different pages, as the recording is going, it should take you to those pages

    Inversely, if you drew something while making a recording, there should be a view where you can easily see what things you drew during a a recording vs just drew normally


    ALSO, crucially:
    I might be reading a several hundred page book, and I have my thoughts on a certain paragraph that…

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  15. For long text documents, it would be helpful to have a find and replace option. I have a document, for example, that has 124 instances of the same name that needs to be changed. Right now, I can only do it manually in Goodnotes 6.

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  16. I really love the addition of the elbow/curved line correctors, perfect shape tools, and stroke settings, however the issues coinciding with these are making them hard to enjoy.
    1. Arrows and other connecting lines auto attach to other shapes in the document with seemly no way of detaching them. I understand they are called connecting lines for a reason and are meant for connecting diagrams and flow charts, but I almost never use them to connect objects or shapes. This makes using them to draw arrows and other pictures very frustrating and annoying. The new shape tool does not have…

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  17. Hello Goodnotes,

    Currently the 5 seconds backwards and 5 seconds forwards buttons are unusable, since hitting them causes lag and they often don't work.

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  18. Hello Goodnotes,

    Currently the 5 seconds backwards and 5 seconds forwards buttons are unusable, since hitting them causes lag and they often don't work.

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  19. Since the introduction of the GoodNotes 6 New Experience, Audio Recording began exhibiting several workflow-breaking bugs.

    Originally, upon starting playback in a note, the timeline would open. Now that does not happen, costing me minutes.

    Originally, I could pause playback and then take notes, which would then be correlated to that moment in the playback. In other words, I could hold down on the new text and continue audio playback.

    Now, whenever I write notes and audio is paused, the timeline jumps to 0:00.

    Please fix this.

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  20. I think that the "Squeeze" Toolbar should always be on top layer of UI. Now that when you use the lasso tool it auto pops up the the UI bar. If I use squeeze since that was the last action I took that should be the UI element that I see.

    Hopefully this is an easy fix.

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