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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Will GoodNotes 5 for Mac be available in HK? It's so sad not to be able to sync my iPad with my Macbook. :(

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  2. The bookmarks naming feature in GoodNotes 5 has been missing for quite a long time and please add support.

    6 votes

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  3. The highlighter already has the option to draw only straight lines, but would love the additional (!) option, when working in texts, to make it automatically put the straightend lines in a horizontal position.

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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.

  4. It would be great if there was a way to import own created covers in the same way you could import self created papers

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  5. GoodNotes is a boombastic App, but when I‘m at home and do my office work I use my iMac Pro and it would be nearly perfect when all my Notes/Docs/PDFs and synced at every of my devices.

    ... and it would be great to import pictures directly „as an own site“

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  6. We need to be able to draw forms with the highlighter on GoodNotes 5 like it was possible with GoodNotes 4.
    Please include this feature in GoodNotes 5.

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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. I often am annotating pdfs. ppt etc. from another open medbook or rubric. It would be insanely convenient to be able to view the two documents side by side rather than flip back and forth. I understand concept of opening another app but that would be a view only. I may take screenshots from a text using goodnotes but I still have to flip back to the other document to add it to my the other notes. I guess it would be like apple's split view but working within the app.

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  8. If it’s possible in the new version to bring back turning off blue rectangular in auto advance mode while zooming. Maybe it’s possible in the 5th version, but I still can’t find how
    Thank you in advance

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  9. Provide option for a text box with formatting capabilities in Goodnotes 5 for Mac. Plus allow option for shape recognition (as on iOS app) which allows you to draw straight line, circle etc

    2 votes

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  10. When I'm taking notes, I prefer fountain pan to write but ball pen to draw shapes. It would be great if the pen style of writing pen could be disassociated from shape tools.

    11 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.

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  12. Quick access or view of open notebooks. Time consuming to walk a note back to the folder it was located to see already open Notesbooks. If you are deep in folder view and want to return to already open notebook, can there be a tab at top of screen to return to active notebooks in work view.

    2 votes

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  13. 1 vote

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  14. When introducing files from Archives App we can no longer import multiple documents at the same time

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  15. I would love the iPad is 13 two slides of the same app to come to GoodNotes. Also I would love a more streamlined pencil for even handwriting that is less wobbly

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    GoodNotes 5.3 adds full support for iPadOS/iOS 13 including the ability to open multiple instances of GoodNotes and pair it in split view. You can read more about the latest release on goodnotes.com/ipad-os

  16. That way, one can have all the important stuff for e. g. a test

    1 vote

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  17. Like it works in Notability, i prefer it alot over the "shape tool" in Good Notes 4, for stuff like Underlining , Arrows etc.
    Holding a line to make it straight allows me to keep writing, without "stopping" to activate/deactivate a "Mode" everytime, it feels MUCH more fluid/consistent.

    Also, the Ability of those straightened Lines to be Attacked (Beginning AND End) to other Start/End points of Lines, and even in the middle of Lines, and also to the Lines of the Paper background.

    For math stuff, it makes it easy to create perfect diagrams bound to the Checkered Paper backgrouns.

    17 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.

  18. I wish we were able to use the highlighter at the same time as the shape tool in GN 5 was we did in GN 4. If I wanted to highlight a circle in GN 5 I couldn't use the shape tool to fix my circle in GN 5. Just a suggestion.

    11 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.

  19. This is more of a question. I signed on to the beta for Good Notes 5 for Mac. Unfortunately it is not supported on Mac OS 10.x (my mac can’t upgrade to newer editions). Are there plans to have the standard version of Good Notes 5 run on older OS versions? I hope so, I liked GooodNotes 4 and loving GoodNotes5

    3 votes

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  20. Please allow highlighter pdf option, which highlits the text itself without “leftovers”, like there may be found on pdf editing apps, not only marker option, as there is today.

    Thank you

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