List of things I think would be beneficial for everyone
Allow the eraser option to either remove by stroke or just the way it is
Making our own pallete (this would include a colour picker)
Allow the users to have the ability to control their pen stabiliser (similar to that of digital drawing softwe)
Making our own page templates or importing from the web
Pinning pens with different colours
Most windows styli has two buttons it would be great to allow the user to change commands between those two buttons
Zooming in and out is a bit laggy as well as writing very quickly
Costumising page size
Brush imports or customising brushes within the app
Shape recoginition for triangles circles squares etc
Voice recording
Having access to the Goodnotes sticker library
Being able to work offline
Syncing with a cloud apple,onedrive or google drive.
Adding a texting box
Adding GIFs to our notes
Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. As this topic has been ongoing for several years, some of the features mentioned are already live.
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Saldaña Eva commented
I need this so bad.
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Joey K commented
I think before adding new features to the IOS version they should shift their focus to Android. They should ensure they both have the same features instead of favouring IOS. Once they have focused and allocated enough resources to give Android the same features as iOS they should then update GoodNotes together in which they both get the same new features in future updates.
I think GoodNotes favouring of IOS is unacceptable and needs to stop. It should treat IOS and Android equally as not everyone agrees with Apple or has the money to afford Apple products.
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Nadine commented
Elaborating on Previously Introduced Ideas:
Comment on 7) Look up handwriting to find documents:
Or at least have an opporunity to set up a table of content with links to pages. Similar to Page highlights, but maybe you can build in an option to set titles to the highlighted pages and that they can be grouped together to give surtitles.Comment on 10) Better exporting i.e to PDF or straight to email
For me, "better" would mean that the name of the notebook is also automatically selected as the PDF name. It would also be nice if you could export entire folders and then all the text files they contain would be exported as PDFs
Comment on 18) Ability to view notes on the phone:
It's only possible in the browser right now, but an application would be nice. For a beginning it's not necessary to be able to edit on Android aswell, first a "file viewer" would be fine aswellComment on 25) Make it as similar to iPad as possible but take advantage of the high power of windows and laptops:
A non web application would be very nice. I think it would be less laggy, because i have to wait several seconds if i want to quit a note and switch to another one. If i have to leave more than one folder, it takes me up to one minute to get out of the two folders until Goodnotes is ready to open the one i wanted to switch to.But overall i experienced a lot of nice improvements during the last months and i am very happy switching from OneNote to Goodnotes.
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Becca commented
Different fonts would be amazing
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Malin Holmgren commented
Features on Goodnotes that apple has but not in Android:
- Abel to open several notes at the same time!*This one is very importan, because I come from having an Apple tablet, and if I knew this I would never have changed to an android tablet....
- Able to have more than 3 colors!!!
- Seamless sheets!
- When cutting out a text, its not possible to drag it onto another sheet, and that very annoying. So then I hace to rewrite the whole thing or do the figure all over agin. Its not efficient!
There is many more things, but this is a few of the must essentials! And since Goodnotes has a collaboration with Samsung tablets, this will make more people who buy tablets for studying reasons more likely to buy samsung tablets.
Please do something about this!
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Diana Bahramian commented
I recently became a premium member and I really need fonts changing in goodnotes for windows and convert the handwriting into fonts. I don't want to regret buying premium plan. Thank you so much!
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rose commented
the ability to change fonts, to convert handwriting into fonts, to add personal photos to folder covers, more pen options and a voice recording feature should be added in short, most of the features in iOS
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Jasmine Nada commented
1. More than 3 slots for pen and highlighter colours
2. Ruler feature with accurate measurements
3. Open two (or possibly more) documents at once
4. Scribble-to-text
5. The "tape" feature that covers up writing/text
6. AI included (while typing, writing, and in study content as a helper)
7. Being able to crop photos
8. Fonts and colours available for typing feature
9. Voice feature
10. Overall iOS app layout
11. Fixing the constant lags and slow performance
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CNeuman commented
Organizar e colorir. Isso era tudo que gostaria que fizessem também, sinto falta de cores e mais liberdade de digitar em formas e tudo bem colorido...vou aguardar essa assinatura acabar, mas não renovarei se não fizerem esses aprimoramentos.
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simeon hector commented
almost a year later, and it stii is nowhere near the original version.
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Elaine A commented
I'm not sure if we still on Beta, but it still doesn't work. I'm seriously thinking about getting back to ipad because the lack of a good fit for samsung is awful. Besides, there I still have my one time subscription and won`t fell into that that annual fee bs. I would pay happily if I was assured it would meet the ios system if not overcome it. For now it's just have a better layout than Samsung Notes, but the features...
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sophie martin commented
YES please
*linked PDF file jumping -hyperlinks (as example digitatal planner from page 1 jump to page 16) -
Sandrine GRANDJEAN commented
And hyperlinks (recognize and create)
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Sandrine GRANDJEAN commented
when will Goodnotes be the same application as goodnotes 6 which is really great ?
I'll pay for Goodnotes 6 in Android not for this light current version.
Goodnotes 6 is the complete app that I expect.
It will be awesome and I'm waiting for update. -
Bill Watson
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I have been getting emails that the current Android beta is ending. The current beta is no where near as full featured as the IOS. The IOS version is a favorite app for both student notetakers and professional note takers. The Android app currently allows you to take handwritten notes Bells and whistles are nice but there are two key features missing.
1. You need to be able to take notes anywhere, even when an internet connection is not available.
2. You need to be able to find the notes you have taken when you need the information. Quickly and easily.
These are core features any note taking app must have in order to do its job and get people to pay to use it. -
Bettina
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So far the beta version is nothing like I've seen in the original good notes. How long will it be until this Android version of good notes is as versatile and usable and functionable as the original good notes to make it worth using?