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  1. GoodNotes 6 (GN6) Zoom Window Tools

    In GoodNotes 4, the Zoom Window had convenient controls at the top, allowing users to easily change colors, erase, and undo without needing to navigate to the top menu. This feature was incredibly useful, and its removal in subsequent versions has been puzzling.

    Please consider reintroducing these controls in GN6, as they significantly enhance the app’s usability. Many users have requested this functionality since GN5, so it would be highly appreciated.

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  2. At this Time (11/2024) there is no backup or sync function in Goodnotes for Android version 175421-rc2.

    I have to export each document to a pdf that I move into my Nextcloud directory. Unsafe and not convenient.

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  3. When I have a document open and I want to open another, I hit the home icon in the top left and it pulls up the file organizer. AFAIK there is no way to leave this file menu to re-enter the editing screen without opening a document. As in, remembering which files were already open to “open them again” or just open any file and then close its tab once I am back in the editing screen. There should be a button directly where the home icon is that leaves the file menu and returns to editing (if there are…

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  4. Dear Goodnotes Team,

    As a teacher, I am an enthusiastic user of your software, just like many of my students. Since we have a projector in every classroom, the digital notebook replaces traditional blackboard writing in my lessons. Instead, I write in Goodnotes and show this live to my class via the projector.

    However, I came up with a great idea on how you could effectively expand your software: When I explain something in class and add new content to the Goodnotes notebook, which gradually collects all the blackboard notes for that particular class, I have to export the newly…

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  5. I think it would be super useful to have an option to save presets per documents. I have different notebooks for subjects in school and want to use different colors per document but don’t want to have to change my presets every time. so one notebook could be different pinks and one can be greens and one can be different colors.

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  6. Allow older iPad models to download and share transcripts and recordings.

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  7. Please add navigation keys. The on screen keyboard only can navigate text lines by going left to right I would like to navigate up and down as well. When I get frustrated I usually attach my Bluetooth key board but that defeats the purpose of a tablet. It’s not always easy to do the long press with the space bar bc the cursor in iOS is janky and will overshoot. I don’t always have my pencil which sometimes solves the issue

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  8. Hello!
    When I draw the highlight line using the ruler tool, that shape can be rounded or angled as follows. Please correct the error or add an angled highlight pen.
    Thank you.

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  9. So, at the moment, you have "Scratch Paper", But why not extend that to the flashcard itself? For example when studying music, I might have a piano keyboard on the flashcard and ask for a c chord. I could then colour it in and flip the card to see if I was correct... this would also allow you to "label diagrams" fill in blanks in sentences, "complete the equation" etc... it has endless uses and it would be a powerful feature that no other apps currently have... that i am aware of

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  10. Allow One-time payment Users (Apple) to migrate to Goodnotes cloud so that they can subscribe to all platforms.

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  11. 1년구독에서 취소하고 환불받고 1회 구독을 하려고합니다. 빠른처리부탁드려요

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  12. Please add this feature, so we can read full file names of PDFs we upload. If some are too similar, you have to open each to check each file. But once open you still can't see the full file name to be positive you've opened the correct one... For example if the name ends in revision date

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  13. I use this app to take notes and study for big exams. But at times all my progress just erases and it's frustrating. I want to be able to back this up and get everything because this is just wrong. all studying and hours of work are down the drain.

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  14. Hi, I am a new Goodnotes user, and selected this app for two reasons: 1) ease of use, 2) audio recording. I think the app is great! As I will be using audio recording a lot, could you please add the features below to audio recording?:

    1) Repeat.

    Could you add a button that would allow your recording to loop, replaying the recording continuously? This would help greatly when you want to hear the content over and over.

    2) Improved edit for audio.

    As other users have stated, sometimes you forget to turn off the record button, and end up…

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  16. Currently, it’s not possible to use the trackpad for actions like deleting notifications or navigating within study sets. For example, you cannot swipe between flashcards in study sets with the trackpad, which makes the navigation feel clunky and inconsistent. Adding trackpad support for these things would greatly improve the user experience both on iPadOS and macOS.

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  17. I’d like to be able to write notes on a page, and then create hidden pages behind it to do examples or whatever, kind of like writing on the back of a page in a physical notebook. Something that’s not another separate page that i would see when scrolling through my notes but if i wanted to see examples related to my notes on a specific page, or more inessential notes related to a specific topic, they would be attached to that page or “behind” it. This would be most useful in pdfs and math related subjects.

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  18. I’d like to be able to view multiple pages side by side, for example to compare 2 pages, or have refer back to one specific page while writing on a different one. I also wish that when zooming out i can position the page anywhere on my screen; right now its only in the center and when I’m taking notes on a video for example, it would be useful to still have the whole page available for writing instead of part of it behind the video.

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  19. Once we finish reading a PDF and want to delete it for good, we now have to go to the location (folder) of the file and delete. That is lot of work navigating to the actual location.
    Give us the option in the file options to trash the file.

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  20. it would be great if you could add this feature on the next update. Selecting multiple pages at once to delete highlighted or handwritten notes separately. I have multiple documents that I’ve highlighted and sometimes I would like to just delete the highlighted sections but then it would delete my pen notes and it’s tedious to use the erase for just highlights

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