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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It would be helpful to edit the line width of a lined paper, or make some dotted lines and others dashed. Could also incorporate checkboxes and other areas on the paper that are customizable to each user. This would be helpful to have a basic template that can be editale for each user to their liking (ie: I like my lined paper to be wide ruled but also reach the full length of the paper from left to right)

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  2. I like the dot grid because it’s more subtle than the squared grid, but unfortunately the dot grid is huge now and it sucks! I’d like to submit an idea to have the dot spacings be adjustable. This would be nice to have for the graphed and lined paper as well!

    3 votes

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  3. Hi. I use a dot grid background for all my planner pages. I love having that bullet journal feel.
    However, pasting onto dot grid paper is a nightmare. If you use stickers, are moving content around, or copying and pasting, when you long press on dot grid paper, the only option you get is "Highlight, Strikeout, Define, Copy". Ahhhh. It's maddening! I always have to hunt for a space on the page that doesn't have the dot grid, and long press to paste there. For some reason, the apple copy and paste doesn't function well in Goodnotes. Three finger press…

    1 vote

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    • the duplicate function and the ability to move things through pages… you can move things through pages only with the lasso tool. So ,for example, when you duplicate something you can’t immediately move it in another page because isn’t selected with the lasso tool.
    • Typed text (function between handwriting and audio): Create a to-do list, a toggle list) (as with Notability).
    • Free text field: create squared/lined/dotted text field backgrounds (as with Notability)
    • Automatic dark mode, which, for example, automatically adjusts the font to the dark / light background (as with Notability)
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  4. Hi, I love Goodnotes but one feature I think it would really benefit from that I have seen in other apps is the ability to change the style after writing. Particularly, I mean being able to change the stroke settings (e.g. change solid line to dashed/dotted and vice versa) or the pen type (from either fountain or brush to ball - I don't think it would work the other way around though). So perhaps the menu where we can currently change the colour of the line, could be changed so that you have the option to change these other…

    2 votes

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  5. At base, Go to Last requires far less clicks compared to Go to Page. For example,

    With Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Last

    Without Go to Last:
    1) Click overflow menu
    2) Click Go to Page to highlight page numbers (“remember” what the last page number is because the number changes to the current page when clicked)
    3) Type first digit (from this point forward one is interfacing with the keyboard)
    4) Type second digit...and so on
    5) Type Enter

    So you can see there are not only more clicks, but there is an…

    34 votes

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  6. So Im Using GoodNotes for some time now and imo there is some Features missing:

    • Color Picking tool (tap on the color to copy it and use it on a pen or marker till its being changed)
    • Mathsymbol Converter or Mathsymbolpaster
    • Advanced Drawing mode:
      • Dotted Lines/Objects Mode
      • Drawing Symmetric Courves without adding them together
      • Aligning Lines
      • rotating Drawings without changing their Size
      • Layering [Would also be nice for studying with the folders to make some sort of "Tap on the field to show solution" outside of the learning cards]
    • Optimized Textfields:
      • single field
      • Squared area

    And if its possible to…

    2 votes

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  7. 9 votes

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  8. I am a great fan of this app, however since the new update (version 7.0.4), I've noticed that the pen and highlighter snap to straight lines/shapes feature has been substantially less accurate/sensitive which makes drawing graphs and models incredibly difficult as it will merge many of my 'corners' into a single line. I draw tables with the highlighter tool but dislike how separate strokes will be darker where overlapped, so being able to draw a graph in a single stroke requires the sensitivity and accuracy from before the update. Currently, it doesn't matter how many 'corners' I draw with the…

    6 votes

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  9. according to textbox:
    1. different border styles for textboxes (dotted, dashed, ...)
    2. textbox-shadows also on other sides, not just bottom (for example: just on the left side, ...)
    3. multiple favorites including line height for usage in different paper styles

    according to full-page-text-typing
    1. option to change the font and color of H1, etc. (for example: I want a blue headline and black text for my notes, so i can manually change this to the font and color I like and dont need to recolor after writing notes)
    2. multiple textboxes in different templates (for example: in…

    3 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as most of the ideas already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    Goodnotes Team

  10. Making it more easier to change pen, eraser and various other tools.

    To change colour or intensity click on the tool icon again.

    1 vote

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  11. Hello! My idea for learning a different language is a little bit different than the ones I’ve seen posted. I am trying to learn Korean, more specifically how to read and write the different characters. I think Goodnotes can be a great tool to do that, although I don’t know how that could look. I’m thinking something along the lines of how we learn to write English as children with the big blue lines, and the dotted red line in between…

    From what I’ve learned so far as well, there are certain strokes to different characters to write them.

    Flashcards…

    1 vote

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  12. The cursor of pen in mac is really annoying. Please change it to a dot. Or atleast give us the option to change it. The plus sign is really annoying

    5 votes

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  13. Whenever you are writing on an already somewhat full page (be it in a classroom setting or in a video that you might publish), it would be very helpful to have a visual indicator to tell the viewer WHERE you are writing. Especially if you have to jump between several places on the page, this makes it much easier to follow.

    I would therefore like to see an option where the already exisiting dot laserpointer can be turned on to follow the pen for heightened visibilty.

    1 vote

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  14. If you have several custom color swatches set up like I do, scrolling back to the front of your swatches to get to stroke settings to change the style and thickness multiple times over (especially in portrait mode) can be tedious. Heck, even saying that out loud sounds tedious.

    My suggestion is to separate these settings from the color swatch menu and make them have their own editable section on the toolbar. This will keep them easily accessible while still being able to scroll through swatches independently.

    As an extra, I’d also love to be able to make more than…

    1 vote

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  15. A cross or small dot in the middle of (standard)shapes.

    It would be great to get an indicator for middlepoints of shapes - especially for circles.

    21 votes

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  16. Please make it possible that one square of checkered paper can be adjusted to be 0.5 cm wide. Do the same with the distance between dots on dotter paper and so on…

    27 votes

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  17. paper with dots on a equilateral triangular grid.

    13 votes

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  18. 1.First of all, we cannot edit when we are not connected to the internet. This is really bad. We should be able to use the application while offline.
    Also, the writing experience with the stylus pen in the android version is not smooth.

    2.You should make a trash bin.

    3.In order to use pen options more effectively, you should make a floating favorite bar and you should not set a number limit on this feature and we should be able to position this bar horizontally or vertically.

    4.There is a 100 mb file size limit when importing notes. This is…

    28 votes

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  19. Improving the experience of text input much like you are typing in word document with dot points and possibly graphs.
    The current experience of typing text is merely disappointing

    8 votes

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