Great app but … missing basic functionality
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danimalpanda –
2022-11-10
Versie 5.9.53
No way to leave feedback on the app, so I guess app store is the only avenue of communication. There is only a suggestion forum.
[1]
OSX app Constantly Crashes, multiple times per day. THey really need to get it functioning at a basic level before trying to open a pop up shop and community notes.
[2]
Text function has poor functionality. (A) Very often will not allow typing, it just makes an error sound on any key stroke. This occurs more often when two docs are open. It doesn’t matter if you have any different tool selected. The only way to correct it is to close the app and reopen it. (B) If you change the size of a text, it makes all formatting uniform, eliminating all your bold words.
[3]
SEARCH FUNCTION GLITCHES: Search normally highlights target text on the document itself, however it fails if you are using a text background color (preset or custom). This occurs on both iOS and OSX apps. The highlighted target text only shows in the preview under the search menu after entering text, but are occluded by the background when looking at the actual document. That means if it appears multiple times per page, you only see one and may not easily locate the text of interest.
[4]
(A) SLOW SYNCING: Syncing is very slow on occasion, taking 30 minutes to days. It is improving over updates, but often will notice changes not syncing bw devices for extended periods of time. (B) Updates: Syncing fails after an update is released - Docs don’t sync changes unless ALL apps are updated, so if you take notes on both a mac and ipad simultaneously, this means you have to download on each device after any given update, sometimes weekly or biweekly.
[5]
These are basic functionality items that should be smoothly running BEFORE trying to get all the little frills Goodnotes has in the works, such as the ‘pop-up shop, the ‘community’, etc
[6]
Expanded note space. Critically Needs a function to add margins. You can already change the note size, but what if you could just add a half-page of space for taking notes to the right of a pdf. This would be fantastic.
Things I love
presentation tools, pen strokes, notebook feel, search function better than any other notetaking app, organization and folders, favorites for quick access to recent docs.
Things lacking
[1] bookmark variety so you can easily filter by bookmarks of different colors or custom bookmarks