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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. A flash card option would be magical, it’s really hard to find a decent app that has this option, basically a Apple Pencil compatible feature of what quizlet has. This would be a really big hit based on the amount of people looking for something with this option (Reddit forms)

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  2. Hey first I wanted to say this app is great and you guys are clearly be putting in tons of work and soul into this so I wanted to thank you.

    I noticed there was a new experimental feature with the flashcards so I gave it a whirl and think this could be huge. Amazing.

    I also wanted to give you guys a little suggestion, maybe this function could be integrated with the Cornell paper or the 2 columned paper (where the first column is thinner than the second) since I think most people who use these formats will probably…

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    You can actually make any paper template a flash card.
    1. Open “Notebook Templates” in the GoodNotes Menu
    2. Tap on Edit in the upper right
    3. Tap on template name and the …
    4. Toggle the button next to “Flash Card Template”

    Now this paper template will be considered as a flash card. The top half is the question and the bottom half the answer.

  3. Previously installed fonts on iPad are no longer in GoodNotes 5 after iOS upgrade.

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  4. Sometimes, after switching Apps on iPad or iPhone and launching GoodNotes 5 again, the Foldersection is shown. That is is not the big deal and absolutely fine.
    To make working smoother in GoodNotes it may be possible to add another Button in the downbar (with Favorites, Search, Sheared and Documents) with which it is possible to „reopen“ your current tabs, i was working at.

    Today i have to search my document or open another document to get back to my working area.

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  5. With the ios14 update, it seems GoodNotes is the only note taking app that still uses a separate tool to create shapes. It would be great to make shapes by pausing after drawing. It would be even more helpful if we could make curves, arrows, and dotted lines like in Notability.

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    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, and curve drawing.

  6. We should be able to save our created colors in GoodNotes 5 so that we don't have to keep the same tab open. Having our colors saved will save so much time since we don't have to create every single one again.
    If not, then at least add a color eye drop tool!!!

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  7. Have you guys tried the notability shape recognition function?
    OMG that shit will put you to shame. Please just copy their shit onto your shit. You guys got so many other good features going on for you.

    Really, your shape tool is impossible to use for anything other than make quirky and f*cked up shapes that I had no intention of making. I can't even make a damn square without some part of the line being messed up in a random direction. I even tried using a rule ON my iPad to assist my hand, but still I only get…

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    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, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.

  8. We desperately need a button with the Following feature :

    I attached two pictures where one of them is "full-screen" and the other one is not. Well, i loose time all the time by trying to make the paper fullscreen and a button for that would be amazin.

    Thanks

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  9. We desperately need a button with the Following feature :

    I attached two pictures where one of them is "full-screen" and the other one is not. Well, i loose time all the time by trying to make the paper fullscreen and a button for that would be amazin.

    Thanks

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  10. I would like to restore the default templates as I deleted some by mistake

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  11. Eine Funktion zur Texterkennung von Dokumenten, welche von der GoodNotes App gescannt wurden. Momentan verfügen von GoodNotes gescannte Dokumente nicht über Texterkennung.

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  12. It would be nice to be able to add keywords to the documents, which you can search for in order to find the exact content in each document. Like a table of contents I can search for.

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  13. I find it very frustrating that there are two separate interfaces for the writing and the notebook organization. If I'm looking through notebooks, but want to go back to the notebook I was writing in, I have to choose a notebook in order to get back to that interface with all the notebooks I have open. I'd love for some way we could access each of these interfaces at the same time so I don't have to open a notebook just to get back to where I was.

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  14. Option to automatically add page numbers in QuickNotes.

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    The latest update GoodNotes 5.5 is now available on the App Store. While scrolling through your document, you can now see the current page number and the total number of pages in this document. If you don’t like to see the page numbers, you can disable it in Menu > Settings > Document Editing.

  15. when a new page is created, the page number appears and one of the corners of the document. The user can specify where are the page numbers go

    9 votes

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    The latest update GoodNotes 5.5 is now available on the App Store. While scrolling through your document, you can now see the current page number and the total number of pages in this document. If you don’t like to see the page numbers, you can disable it in Menu > Settings > Document Editing.

  16. An automatic tool to add page numbers would be really helpful!

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    The latest update GoodNotes 5.5 is now available on the App Store. While scrolling through your document, you can now see the current page number and the total number of pages in this document. If you don’t like to see the page numbers, you can disable it in Menu > Settings > Document Editing.

  17. The shape recognition tool in GoodNotes 5 is severely lacking compared with other note programs. Often times the end of a line will be "straight" but skewed with the rest of the line. Is there any on going work with regards to improving this tool? Very hard to draw a square or rectangle unless a lot of effort is put into drawing it straight the first time. Very hard to draw field diagrams

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    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.

  18. I cant seem to get my “Complete My Bundle” in Canada.

    Is there a specific place where I'm suppose to get the bundle ?

    I have already purchased Good note 4 and want to upgrade to Good Note 5.

    Thank you for your time ,
    John

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  19. basicly i have too men favorites but the app doest seem to allow me to delete them, which is really frustating

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    GoodNotes doesn’t have a favorite pen option at the moment. Is it possible that you mean the preset colors? In this case, please tap on one of the color dots in the toolbar, tap “Edit” in the upper right of the pop-up, then tap on any of the color dots you want to remove, and tap on the “remove color” button.

  20. Find a way for the app to detect user handwriting and add a Command-Find feature that allows you to lookup notes.

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