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  1. When using the fountain pen with Apple Pencil rotation enabled, users must constantly re-adjust their grip to keep the nib horizontal. Locking rotation forces a fixed default angle that often looks unnatural for a fountain pen.

    Please add the option to lock the nib at a user-defined angle, for example by letting the user set the angle with a slider so the pen hits the page the same way every time. See image for example. This would greatly improve writing flow, style and comfort.

    6 votes

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  2. Good morning,

    I am leaving this comment because I believe it could help improve the user experience of the application. I am a student, and I use it daily for reading, highlighting PDFs, and taking notes, especially on texts.

    One of the main issues I encounter when studying on a tablet is that, when using the stylus with the highlighter function, my hand is not very steady, and the lines I draw are usually uneven. I know that by holding the stroke at the end it automatically straightens, but in many cases my stroke is so irregular that the correction…

    2 votes

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  3. I love the new whiteboard feature, but it seems that it has been built without exporting in mind with the only option to export still being a PDF file. This makes it impossible to export most whiteboards without losing quality, and making large whiteboards unreadable. Similar to Microsoft whiteboard, it would be fantastic if there was the option for a high resolution JPEG image export feature to complement the new update. Thank you!

    2 votes

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  4. On iPad, when I place a Sticky Note near the page margin, the pop-up opens partially cut off/off-screen and it’s inconvenient to use. It would be helpful if the pop-up could extend beyond the page edges or automatically reposition, so it always stays fully visible.

    I’m attaching a few screenshots:

    (1) note placed near the margin (highlighted)

    (2) pop-up being cut off/off-screen

    (3) example with the note closer to the center where the pop-up is fully visible

    5 votes

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  5. When importing a multi page PDF into a GoodNotes whiteboard, the pages are currently placed off to the right and arranged in a grid like layout. This forces users to manually reposition every page to create a readable top to bottom flow.

    For large lecture PDFs or study materials, this manual reorganization is inefficient and time consuming.

    A significant improvement would be an automatic vertical layout option where PDF pages are imported in a single straight column, stacked from top to bottom, similar to continuous scroll behavior. Ideally, this would be the default behavior, with an optional toggle to switch…

    4 votes

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  6. How about you stop changing the layout/form or how thing work. You make it impossible for me. Always changing how tu bullet points are laced out, the padding, saving the default text. Now half my notes are laced out differently and worse form the other half. Genuinely inconsiderate. Making so many unnecessary changes.

    2 votes

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  7. A side bar / the option to leave comments in the documents (just like in Word) so that you can quickly see the notes you took and don't have to scroll through the whole document searching each page to find them.

    This would be even better if there was an option to export only the notes from the sidebar, and ideally also the highlighted passages of a text.

    This would make GoodNotes much more competetive in relation to other pdf editing programs and much more useful for academic researchers

    1 vote

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  8. Currently, GoodNotes AI can only be used for basic document search (an advanced version of search) and asking questions within a document. Even when hints or correct answers exist in the document, it often responds with messages like, β€œThe requested content cannot be found in the document. I will answer using general knowledge.”

    In addition, I would like the AI to provide answers that directly address my questions, but instead it often gives summarized or reorganized responses, making it difficult to find the exact answer I am looking for.
    For example, when I ask, β€œIs XX correct?”, the response usually…

    7 votes

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  9. Hi development team, can you develop a swap function between question and answer in flash card (suggest to add when you take the practice or smart learn)? It could help us a lot to learn new word

    11 votes

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  10. I am writing this suggestion as a response to how obnoxious it is to set up a workflow that mirrors the Goodnotes Library across different, external applications.

    The current system has obvious limitations; the automatic Backup to Google Drive (or DropBox, OneDrive and WebDAV) is very useful for keeping an up-to-date PDF copies of Goodnotes documents, however it behaves solely as a backup rather than a true mirror (this is fine, but there is an audience that desires a true mirror that isn't accommodated for, even if they themselves don’t fully know how useful it would be). Currently:
    - creating…

    1 vote

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  11. Iβ€˜m lucky to have the ability to define an URL on a text. But I really would like to be able to define a hyperlink on an image.

    3 votes

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  12. I just want to be able to have everything in front of me without pressing a billion different buttons for the sake of cleanness. Give me the keyboard button back and put all the customization buttons right below the toolbar, just like it was before, I am begging you.

    9 votes

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  13. Please increase the size of the page overview (thumbnail) pane in the document. It has become way too small on iPad, making it really inconvenient to use. Please revert it back to how it was.

    1 vote

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  14. Ich wΓΌnsche mir eine Erweiterung der bereits vorhandenen gelben Haftnotizen (β€œSticky Notes”) um eine Option, mit der diese Notizzettel – inklusive ihres Inhalts – nicht auf einen extern angeschlossenen Bildschirm oder Beamer gespiegelt werden.

    Anwendungsfall:
    Beim PrΓ€sentieren oder Unterrichten ΓΌber einen externen Monitor/Beamer mΓΆchte ich mir private Notizen, Stichpunkte oder Erinnerungen auf einem Sticky Note direkt auf meinem eigenen GerΓ€t (iPad) machen kΓΆnnen, ohne dass diese fΓΌr das Publikum auf der Leinwand sichtbar sind – Γ€hnlich wie ein β€œPresenter-Notizen”-Modus, wie man ihn z. B. aus PowerPoint kennt.

    GewΓΌnschtes Verhalten:

    β€’ Der Notizzettel bleibt auf dem eigenen GerΓ€t sichtbar und bearbeitbar.
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    1 vote

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  15. Personally, I can only really use GoodNotes when it is the only app on my screen, because my normal writing habit for paper is to have the paper at between a 40 and 60 degree angle.

    When I am only writing with GoodNotes, I can turn my whole iPad (which is challenging when traveling on a train but still possible). If I have multiple windows open for references, though, it makes this especially challenging and causes my wrist to hurt very quickly. My husband who is left handed also turns his paper the other way out of habit, and cannot…

    2 votes

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  16. I find Goodnotes very hard to use. A lot of digital planners that I follow state that you are to learn how to use it and that it takes practice. I don't have time for that.

    1 vote

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  17. Es wÀre sehr hilfreich, mehrere Bilder beim Einfügen auswÀhlen zu kânnen und diese dann in der Datengrâße zu reduzieren. Ich habe Notebooks, die sehr groß sind, weil sie viele Bilder enthalten und das führt auch dazu, dass die Backups sehr oft nicht funktionieren, weil dies sehr lang dauert.

    1 vote

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  18. Please, could you add the option of being able to insert equations and characters directly with the keyboard. Just as it is done in Microsoft Word, it would help and speed up the process of inserting and writing equations directly with the keyboard of the iPad or computer

    9 votes

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  19. My idea is make the voice imported from voice memo or export it alone or within the file itself ( as in the pdf expert and document app ) as shown in the photo below

    Please voice this as it is crucial for every persone to save there files for the future

    10 votes

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  20. 타이핑을 주둜 μ“°λŠ”λ°
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    1 vote

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