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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. a RULER would help when drawing ray diagrams in my physics class.

    5 votes

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  2. I‘d love to have a ruler and grid function to be able to divide the page neatly.

    1 vote

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  3. 13 votes

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  4. in order to create perfect technical drawings, you need an improved shape tool and a ruler (like apple notes). It would even be best if you could edit them afterwards without having to remove them. Then it would be the perfect app.

    15 votes

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  5. When you often use the Ruler, you may struggle with the Possibility to adjust the angle of the Ruler. It would be a tremendous feature when you hold the button for Angle and it shows you a list for some values(0°,15°,30°,45°,60°,75°,90°) and has the option to add some customs)

    2 votes

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  6. Hi,

    i would be good if we can import and manage the layers inside PDF.
    (show and hide function)

    We definitly need a layer system inside Goodnotes to create, delete, move
    custom layers and the option to move our notes to a specific layer.

    I have a brand new iPad Pro M1 and my imported PDF are very slow to handle
    (it takes a lot of time to show them sharp!).

    We need a ruler, triangle ruler and protractor.
    and the abibility to force specific alignments for lines (0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, ...)

    We need a grid…

    16 votes

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  7. I am an Architect and often use Good Notes for plans with different scales.
    It would be good if you could adjust the scale of the ruler (1:50, 1:20, 1:25, 1:200, 1:500).

    2 votes

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  8. Hello!
    When I draw the highlight line using the ruler tool, that shape can be rounded or angled as follows. Please correct the error or add an angled highlight pen.
    Thank you.

    1 vote

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  9. The ruler is used with the pen tool to write straight lines. I need it to also work with the eraser tool to erase straight lines. I am creating a drawing with sharp edges and the eraser simply passes through the ruler.

    2 votes

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  10. When using the ruler zoomed in, there is a limit as to where the ruler can go. And when I zoom out, the position of the ruler changes and it's also hard to measure since the start is elsewhere.

    So there should be a feature to lock the ruler in place and also change where the count of the ruler starts.

    1 vote

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  11. The angle that appears at the center of the ruler disappears upon selecting the paper or starting to draw. Keep the angle showing.

    1 vote

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  12. I’ve noticed that the lengths on the ruler do not align perfectly with the boxes on the checkered sheets. Fixing this alignment issue would greatly improve accuracy and usability.

    3 votes

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  13. The ruler is great, but it snaps to zero if I try my mnully set it to a small angle. I have a pdf that is scanned to a slight angle, so I want to tweak the ruler to just a few degrees (less than 5)

    I know I can manually pick a specific number, but I don’t know the number. I just know if I tweak it just so…it lines up with the pdf lines. But then it snaps back to zero

    Just let me turn off snap to zero.

    2 votes

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  14. Import Excel Docs, formulas, boards
    Add Ruler, new pens and colors for the pages

    16 votes

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  15. It would be great if goodnotes adds a pencil tool just like in apple's notes app. I find apple's pencil tool is feels and looks like you're actually writing using a pencil.
    it would be excellent too if you would add a ruler tool or a protractor tool so that users could draw engineering diagrams accurately. I find it annoying that when you want to rotate a selected object, its difficult to rotate the object to our liking without changing the size. And i suggest when you rotate an object it would show the angle of the rotation.

    31 votes

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  16. Hello,
    I love the ruler which comes with the latest update.
    I use the checkered sheet template in Din A4. Normally one box is 0.5cm long. The template from Goodnotes is a bit bigger. That's good, because I'm a teacher and so the students see a little better via the beamer, because just everything is a little bigger what I write. However, the ruler doesn't fit with it, of course. The students are used to 2 boxes being 1cm. But you offer your ruler only in cm and inch. Would it be possible to also add an option that fits…

    5 votes

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  17. Different rulers, such as a triangle and a circle, would be a useful addition.

    1 vote

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  18. Like in the apple PDF modificator, it may be interesting to add a ruler to make easier to underline some text or doing geométric shapes. Currently in Good Note the tool which allow us to do shape or straight line is a bit hard to use.
    Sometimes, we can’t do what we want. It’s a waste of time.

    12 votes

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  19. Having a ruler like in AppleNotes would be really helpful.

    Besides that, as a student with a lot of maths, something like GeoGebra in a simpler version would help too. Being able to enter a function term and get the function in a coordinate system would be of great help and an even greater addition to GoodNotes.

    Also, being able to select multiple pictures to insert would be helpful, as it would save time from having to select each and every single picture.

    In PowerPoint, the function of print as handnotes gives the user three pictures on the left hand…

    10 votes

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  20. This will allow for more precision without having to manually type the angle you want, this becomes a problem when trying to draw a line of best fit and when you let go of the ruler its angle changes to a one of multiple of 5

    3 votes

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