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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Add the option to persist a sidebar with thumbnail previews of the entire document for quicker skimming and bookmarking. Similar to what Preview on Mac has, as well as Notability 5 for iPad. This makes it easier to quickly go through a document to find a specific page, and bookmark specific pages. The current process for finding a specific page opens up an overlay that covers the entire screen and removes me from my current context, which is really cumbersome.

    11 votes

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  2. I have recently begun using the desktop version a lot more since my 4-year-old has effectively stolen my iPad. I love that I can use the app seamlessly between my devices. However, I have noticed that it is difficult for me, especially when using two windows of GoodNotes, to maintain a natural reading experience. I'm trying to take notes while reading a PDF imported to GoodNotes on the left and have my note-taking notebook open in a window on the right.

    I would love a tool that allowed users to place their cursor within the text of a document and…

    3 votes

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  3. A mini-map or something like it, to tell you where you are on the screen and how much space you have left.

    1 vote

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  4. Please add a countdown timer ⏲ widget in the app that can be displayed on the page. Even if this is not possible, maybe just implement preset 1min, 2min, 3min, 5min etc... Gifs that display a timer.

    28 votes

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  5. I print often my written notes. What I don't like is that my handwriting is abnormally large. My iPad screen is smaller than a letter size page and thus everything I print is abnormally large.

    What I would like is a zoom which would always be 1:1 size of the paper template I use. a 1 cm line on the screen would indeed print as a 1cm line.

    6 votes

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  6. Create "slide" paper option. That creates a notebook where every page is a slide that can be exported as a slide show.

    3 votes

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  7. Please let the lasso tool have a double feature so complicated drawings don't have to be drawn again but just be copied and pasted or doubled. This feature would be a lifesaver for all the students!

    3 votes

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  8. Automatic Backup offline into Documents on iPad/iPhone.

    7 votes

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  9. Add buttons to jump to beginning and end of of long documents.

    5 votes

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  10. Çok sayfadan oluşan dokümanlar için çerçeveler özelliğini kullanıyoruz. Ancak çerçeveler ile bir sayfaya gittikten sonra, tekrar başka bir sayfaya gitmek için çerçeveler sekmesini açtığımızda, çerçeveler in en başı çıkıyor ve tekrar aşağı inmek zorunda kalıyoruz. Mesela cevap anahtarı olan bir soru bankasında soru çözerken, soru sayfası ile sondaki cevap anahtarı arasında git gel yapmak zorlaşıyor. Bence çerçeveler sayfası açıldığında kullanılan sayfa en ortada olacak şekilde açılmalı. En baş sayfa en üstte olmamalı.

    2 votes

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  11. Allow me to auto sync so I don't have to wait when I toggle between my MacBook and my iPad

    2 votes

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  12. This might be a specific use case issue, but when having split screen of two different notebooks open, the Toolbar at the bottom covers up the page numbers. I know I can move the GoodNotes tool bar to the bottom, which in turn moves the page number to the top of the view, but this is an uncomfortable solution.

    So my suggestion is to move the page numbers up a bit when the tool bar shows. This way a person can easily reference the page number when making a master list for different parts of the document.

    1 vote

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  13. like in procreate app, to do like lettering titles

    3 votes

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  14. After selection of an object -> opportunity to immediate resize (no click) the selected object, like in Notability.

    3 votes

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  15. i use goodnotes to write all my class notes. even though it performs really well its very sad that its has only a handful of fonts of which most of them are creepy.
    so i used custom fonts to get the job done. but after ipados 14 apple limited font access by system fonts only. as a result even after installing custom profiles i am not able to see the installed fonts. many other apps like procreate can still use installed fonts..the new goodnotes in ipados 14 fails to do so which frustrates me a lot. kindly update the app…

    2 votes

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  16. The highlighter goes over the text changing the color and overall visibility of the words that we write. Please make it go under the text so that doesn't happen

    2 votes

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  17. Instead of "Using the Lasso Tool" guide button, you can change that area into toggle-able options for "selecting handwriting", or "selecting image", et cetera. With this way, I don't have to open the context menu from lasso tools, and also, that space will be more useful and UX friendly too.

    Please see my image for referencing.

    9 votes

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  18. I would like to toggle between ascending and descending sort order after selection name or date.

    I would suggest being able to tap again on the same sort type (Name/Date) to switch between ascending and descending order as this is already a common option in iOS software.

    16 votes

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  19. Instead of creating a notebook and then pasting the pages we copied earlier from another notebook, it will be easier if there is an option to insert pages from clipboard directly. (check sshot attached)

    1 vote

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  20. Please add an option to put the highlighter under the writing instead of over it, to make and keep it more colourful. Currently, the highlighter makes the writing black looking.

    4 votes

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