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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Since I use Goodnotes for a lot of math/engineering work, not all of my lines take up an entire zoom window and I always have to manually press the 'x' or move the box.
    Please allow the option to disable the auto-advancing option or have it so that it won't activate until we reach over 3/4 of the window.

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  2. The migration with Mac Catalyst is available, I don't know if its hard, but it would be convenient for users

    3 votes

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  3. I have been using GoodNotes 5 almost every day since its release, and I've noted a couple of shortcomings with the current app.

    1. The shape tool is very faulty. Sometimes, lines will not be corrected, and it's difficult to draw basic shapes without the lines snapping to form odd, undesirable shapes. The GoodNotes 4 shape tool is superior.

    2. Highlighters on dark templates. I love the dark template, as it makes reading my notes easier on the eyes, and my writing tends to look nicer on it. However, I tend to rely on highlighting when I'm revising, which isn't possible with…

    1 vote

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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.

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  5. What is the reason of this situation?
    I don’t know what it is, how to remove it and how to prevent it
    Ao please tell me how to do

    1 vote

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  6. The recognition feature is great but i miss the opportunity to make precise rectangles like in OneNote or in Notability with the shape mode that launches when you hold the pencil stil.

    Moving the corners of a shape ex a rectangle and enabling a background color in the later run would be lit as well

    9 votes

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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.

  7. In goodnotes 4 you could import multiple files at once, whether they be templates or new PDF notebooks. PLEASE bring this to goodnotes 5!

    51 votes

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  8. The highlighter actually is “bugged”. For example when having a darker template (dark/black), the highlighter just blends in the background/ is dulled. And changing it to be brighter and crispier could be great too.

    The other thing I want to talk about is in the tool bar when we open the tool’s menu, then to close the menu we have to tap elsewhere. It could be cool to close it by tapping where we opened it (tapping the tool itself).

    Other than that, you do a really great job, there is other things which could be improved or added, like…

    2 votes

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  9. Support for two finger, gesture scrolling using a trackpad on iPadOS

    1 vote

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  10. For those of us with disabilities an others it would be awesome if you would create page rotation. I love the app and this would open up longer use for us. Thank You

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    Hi there, you can rotate any page by going to the thumbnail view, tapping the “select” button in the upper right and then selecting the pages you want to rotate. After selecting, tap the “rotate” button at the top.

  11. Die deutsche Übersetzung ist "beschneiden". Ist etwas unglücklich weil man dabei an die Beschneidung denkt aus dem Islam irgendwie. Ich würde es auf "Zuschneiden" ändern.

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  12. please add Editing function of PDF outlines(outlines’s names , hierarchys)

    5 votes

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  13. I am always write with a fountain pen and draw shapes with a ball pen.
    And have to switch between these two pen styles.

    5 votes

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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.

  14. Trackpad and mouse support of Good Note 5 is too limited. I hope more feature will be added to the next update.

    1 vote

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  15. Wenn ich bisher eine PDF Datei in mein Notizbuch importieren will, kann ich nur zwischen dem zu letzt geöffneten Notizbuch oder den Überordnern wählen, in die ich das PDF dann als neue Datei einfügen kann.

    In fürheren Versionen konnte man ein PDF, z.B. aus den Dateien, in jedes Notizbuch als Seite importieren.

    Bei der bisherigen Version muss ich erst meinen Scan machen, dann daran denken, dass ich in Good Notes das richtige Notizbuch geöffnet habe und kann dann erst das Arbeitsblatt in mein Notizbuch einfügen.

    Das kostet viel Zeit und nervt, daher würde es mich freuen, wenn Sie die Möglichkeit,…

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  16. When I import a PDF file in good notes, I can only choose to import it in folders or in the last opened document/ notebook. In earlier versions, I was able to choose also notebooks to import my PDF as a site.

    Now, I have to go to my scan app, scan the document, go to Good Notes, open the right notebook, go to the scan app and just then I can import it as a site in the right notebook.

    Please bring that back. So, you can save a lot of time.

    1 vote

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  17. When you add a shape, you should be able to easily resize it, because often it is not exactly how I want it to be and then you have to redo and then do it again and again and again until it is how I want it to be. This takes a lot of time.

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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. Link the documents in iCloud with the new iCloud folder sharing. If you've enabled iCloud, why it's not possible to share docs you want to share just by sending a link? I mean, with iOS 13.4, Apple made this possible. You send a link, you tap on the link, Goodnotes asks you if you want to import the docs. That's it. Much better for large folders and I would save a lot of data volume.
    Would be nice to have. :-)

    1 vote

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    We’re happy to announce the release of our new update GoodNotes 5.5 including “Shared Documents”. You can now share a document with other GoodNotes users and work together on them. You can read everything about the first version of shared documents here: https://medium.goodnotes.com/link-sharing-share-documents-adb36f99c583 Details on how to use the new features and FAQ are available here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001571256-Sharing-a-document-with-other-users-to-collaborate-on-it

  19. When editing file names on my mac i can't use my arrow keys to navigate/edit. When hitting the left arrow key it even asks me if i want to delete the file. Would be great if this was changed to behave like in the textbox.

    2 votes

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  20. Share same document with friends or coworkers it’s more simple all we can write on it and see what we are on.
    Like taking note with my friend in lecture. Or in our meetings.
    I Hope there’s version support this feature.

    13 votes

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    We’re happy to announce the release of our new update GoodNotes 5.5 including “Shared Documents”. You can now share a document with other GoodNotes users and work together on them. You can read everything about the first version of shared documents here: https://medium.goodnotes.com/link-sharing-share-documents-adb36f99c583 Details on how to use the new features and FAQ are available here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001571256-Sharing-a-document-with-other-users-to-collaborate-on-it

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