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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Please return straight line functionality like GN4 or have a always straight for highlighter, it’s too sensitive now

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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.

  2. Hello,

    I purchased the full version of this great application and have been using it for some time. The one thing that I would absolutely love to see changed... I mean I feel if the functionality allowed this it would turn this from being a great application to an amazing must have application is the ability to use additional fonts. Why do you restrict the font selection to just a few??? Why not allow us to use any font that we have installed (.ttf) File) in our iPhone or iPad??? I would be elated if you would consider adding this…

    236 votes

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    GoodNotes 5 supports all system fonts. This means you can install new fonts on iOS using an app like “AnyFont”, which will be accessible through GoodNotes 5’s text tool. Please note that installing custom fonts on your iOS device can be a security risk as it is usually happening by installing custom profiles, which we do not recommend.

  3. For the love of god, make it possible to back up to dropbox and google drive.

    5 votes

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  4. Good Notes 5 release date ???????????

    26 votes

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  5. In GoodNotes 4 I was able to use the search tool without any problem but in GoodNotes 5 I’m not able to use it properly because my language thus the alphabet of it is not supported. It makes really difficult to search in my documents.
    It would be much appreciated to have a search tool that is usable in my language too.

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  6. Goodnotes 5 is amazing. Thx for listening to us and adding so much long time requested features! But one great feature for me was the mac sync. And now after purchasing gn5 I noticed that the mac version does only work with gn4 and there is no v5 on the mac. So I cannot use my notes on the mac anymore?!

    14 votes

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  7. Now I can only use it to select my handwriting and move the selected object around but when i press the select object to pull more options, i failed, it just copied what i select. I think there must have some bugs in this new updated version. Because before i update this app yesterday, this question never happens.

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  8. Now I can only use it to select my handwriting and move the selected object around but when i press the select object to pull more options, i failed, it just copied what i select. I think there must have some bugs in this new updated version. Because before i update this app yesterday, this question never happens.

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  9. In the current implementation, scrolling with the trackpad leads to the document moving even after the fingers have left the trackpad. This is probably due to the direct port of the iPad App to Mac. This behaviour is, however, really annoying because it is different to all other Mac-native scrolling behaviour where there is no scrolling after-effect.

    Having an option to revert back to the old, traditional scrolling behaviour would tremendously enhance the Desktop user experience.

    Thank you!

    The clip below shows the difference in scrolling behaviour with same scrolling input. Left: traditional without scrolling-after effect. Right: GoodNotes with scrolling-after…

    1 vote

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  10. In the current implementation, scrolling with the trackpad leads to the document moving even after the fingers have left the trackpad. This is probably due to the direct port of the iPad App to Mac. This behaviour is, however, really annoying because it is different to all other Mac-native scrolling behaviour where there is no scrolling after-effect.

    Having an option to revert back to the old, traditional scrolling behaviour would tremendously enhance the Desktop user experience.

    Thank you!

    The clip below shows the difference in scrolling behaviour with same scrolling input. Left: traditional without scrolling-after effect. Right: GoodNotes with scrolling-after…

    1 vote

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  11. Need backup sync with google drive

    13 votes

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  12. Make it so the eraser only erases a tiny portion similar to how Notability now has partial erase. It would make it so I can do more intricate art in the app itself.

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    GoodNotes has this feature since several years. You can disable “erase entire stroke” in the eraser settings by double-tapping on the eraser icon in the toolbar. By default, it is set to partial erasing.

  13. There is no way to import a webpage. Such feature is in Notability and that is very convenient. For now I have to export webpage to pdf, save the file, open goodnotes, find import button, locate the file... terrible experience

    2 votes

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    • Hard to draw a straight line with the Highlighter (Draw in Straight Line activated)
    • Can't draw any rectangular or square boxes with the highlighter anymore
    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.

  14. Mac Version of GoodNotes 5 please

    15 votes

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  15. Currently I can only rearrange one page at a time.
    If I want 5 pages to be moved up or down in page order, I have to rearrange one by one.

    146 votes

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  16. Good Notes needs a universal search option, so that from the main screen, we can search for note titles, folder names, page bookmark and text (typed or written with OCR). Otherwise, it is nearly impossible to find notes back.

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  17. using sidecar to draw in the macOS version from iPad. I notice it uses the default pointer all the time. I wonder if it could be change to something more meaningful eg when drawing use a dot.

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  19. I would love an added dark mode option. Having darker greys and blacks could make the app look so much cleaner.

    106 votes

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    Dark Mode is now supported in GoodNotes 5.3 for iPadOS and iOS 13. You can enable system-wide Dark Mode in the control center and GoodNotes’ design will switch to Dark Mode. We also added a set of dark paper templates that you can use when creating new documents, adding new pages, or changing existing templates. Please note that paper colors won’t be automatically changed when activating Dark Mode because backgrounds are static.

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