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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Separate palettes for added pen colors. What I mean is when we add new colors, I would love be able to be make separate ones. Instead of only having one single palette, why not have the ability to create separate ones?

    3 votes
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  2. To have more than the three Preseted Text Marker colours at the top right corner. There is place for like 5 or more (Horizontal Perspektive)

    2 votes
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  3. I would like to propose a feature regarding backups with Google Drive:

    I would like to have a button with possibility to make, at that very moment, a mirroring type backup with Google Drive, so you could easily handle files locations changes.

    1 vote
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  4. Gerne hätte ich die Möglichkeit einen vierten Farbstift als Auswahl zu haben. Wäre super, wenn man in den Einstellungen die Anzahl Farbstifte einstellen könnte.

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  5. Sometimes when i annotate my power points, there's too much thing on it and not enough space for me to write. It could be useful if we could use the comments concept but not only write text, but also take notes.

    Not sure if my idea is clear, but i would like a space where i can take note and draw whatever i want that will reduce, and i can drag wherever i want.

    1 vote
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  6. When scrolling through a document, the page number and total page count is displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen. I’d like to be able to double click or long press this display and be prompted to enter the page number I’d like to jump to. Often I’ll be utilizing a PDF of a book with a table of contents that isn’t linked, so being able to manually jump to a page would be handy. Currently I navigate to pages by searching for page numbers and clicking the appropriate page. Depending on the document, this can be clunky…

    10 votes
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  7. Selecting hyperlinks require that you turn the pen-tool off, press on the hyperlink, then turn the pen-tool back on. Instead:

    Allow a long-press on a hyperlink to activate it.

    Alternatively, a double-touch on a hyperlink to activate it.

    I can't tell you how many times I've pressed on a hyperlink and end up writing a dot. I have several people I have recruited to be GoodNotes users and this is a frequent problem when they begin using the program ("Hey, why don't hyperlinks work?")

    6 votes
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  8. When more than three documents are open at the same time the pages keep reloading when you cycle between them. Super annoying as it takes extra time, and the page zooms to default size. The iPad can keep apps running in the background for weeks without reloading so I’m pretty sure it could manage many more than three simple documents opened simultaneously.

    2 votes
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  9. On my Mac, when I double click the mouse pointer on a word to select it, GoodNotes responds by increasing the zoom level of the note -- the word is not selected. When I double click again on the word, GoodNotes responds by unzooming. In every other app, I can select a word by double clicking on it -- this is my preferred app response since it is what is expected throughout all of computing. I would appreciate it if GoodNotes behaved the same way -- select, not zoom. Thank you.

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  10. While studying flashcards i often realise I've made a mistake while initially making it. It would be so so useful if there was an option to edit the cards while in study mode. Would make the flashcard feature way more efficient!

    20 votes
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  11. Ipad keyboard shorcut key!

    simple like ctrl+c,ctrl+v

    7 votes
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  12. The Eraser Tool is used to erase only pen & highlighter strokes. There should be a separate option for allowing us to erase PDFs or slides when importing something like lecture notes that may have some unnecessary notes or writing.

    5 votes
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  13. I love using the highlighter option but it’s incredibly dull compared to other notes apps. All the colours need to be more vibrant because I constantly find myself highlighting over the same thing multiple times to get the colour I want to appear. Also please increase the max size of the highlighter feature. Most of the notes I download to the app have text too big for the highlighter and It looks terrible and takes too much time to go over it again and again. Thanks

    11 votes
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  14. In Goodnotes you can only list documents by last date you changed the document, name etc., but you cannot list documents by the date you create this document.You cannot see the creation date and you cannot search for it, too. But for school and university this is so important to be organised. Because of this problem I stopped using my Ipad for university.

    35 votes
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  15. It would be awesome if you could add a method to convert copied text from a pdf to custom handwriting. As a software engineer, I propose adding the capability to enter a custom alphabet where the text is converted by mapping each letter (works in O(n) where n is the length of the text).

    7 votes
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  16. I would love to see more math tools in general, since I know many people who use GoodNotes for Maths and Pyhsics. It would be nice if this would made the app more accessible for those students, not only for the „typical Medicine student GoodNotes user“.
    Besides all the math tools, a feature of an inbuilt calculator, which can calculate your hand written calculations would be fantastic!
    The App „MyScript Calculator“ is a great example for this feature.
    Thanks for considering my feature request.

    62 votes
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  17. It would be nice to have different workspaces. Sometimes you have some material from a course and maybe you want review it in the future, but when you have a lot of material is a mess, because everything is mixed. For example on my degree in my 4 years, I have subjects that maybe I don't need to review actually and I've tagged or marked pages, when I mark new pages when I go to marked pages or favourites I can find all the content mixed. I would like to see what is marked or tagged in my actual workspace.…

    2 votes
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  18. When using the noose tool, it would be nice to add an animation in which the noose area moves.

    1 vote
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  19. If you look at the icons in goodnotes you can see that thr notifications icon does not have the same thickness as other icons, would be nice if that could be fixed

    1 vote
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  20. So on my instagram I try to post every few days but sometimes I go 1 or 2 weeks without posting because I'm often too busy with other stuff to draw and not everything I do make I feel like is good enough to put on the internet. when I do post on instagram I'll get 3 or 4 followers but then after a few days of not posting most if not all of them will unfollow me. this happens every time I get new followers and I've only experienced this on instagram. so what gives, is instagram a place…

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