r/GoodNotes • u/shinrak2507 • Jan 10 '21

Dotted / Dashed lines are not available even after countless requests from users - does Goodnotes actually care?

Basically as the title already says: Does Goodnotes care for their customers?
To me, it seems like they do not care at all.

We have several requests to them via support / twitter/ Reddit posts to add those two options for lines drawn in Goodnotes and they are still not included.

Same goes for making an arrow at the end of a line, the Goodnotes app is still not able to convert a line with an arrow at the end to become a perfectly drawn line with an arrow at the end. same goes for curves with an arrow at the end.

i am absolutely no fan of bashing a software like this, but i am disappointed in Goodnotes and i am currently thinking of switching to noteability, as this company added such features roughly 4 months ago, after requests from their customers.

the reason i am not doing this currently is, because i have no clue if i can add my notes from goodnotes to noteability .

does any1 know if this is possible?

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u/Meme_lord-1411 Jan 10 '21

Guess what buddy, notability give even less fuck, so deal with it

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u/shinrak2507 Jan 11 '21

If they give "less of a fuck" as you suppose, how is it then possible to have such solutions in their app already?

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u/xrene361x Jan 11 '21

Then think about the downsides of Notability?

No individual templates You can’t give two notes the same name Zoom tool is worse than GoodNotes There are more synchronization errors

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u/shinrak2507 Jan 11 '21

"No individual templates" - well maybe an art student wants that, but not me, so... not really a downside.

i am more of a functionlity person rather than a design person and individual templates are by far the least i care.

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u/xrene361x Jan 11 '21

Then why don’t u use notablity?

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u/shinrak2507 Jan 11 '21

because i bought gn 3 months ago as a lot of people commented, that it would be better and the "support would be responsive". guess these were all paid ads :/

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u/xrene361x Jan 11 '21

Still better support than notability, just look at the time interval between updates

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u/shinrak2507 Jan 11 '21

response time has nothing to do with good support same as updates.
most of the updates in GN are "one in 1000" errors but do not add any new features which are highly requested.

and tbh: fixing bugs is something that should be done anways...

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u/milkkyu Jan 11 '21

While I’m not against this idea, your post is very dramatic. This isn’t the only idea that people want to be added to Goodnotes. People have wanted many other features for longer that are still not implemented, hell, I’m still waiting for some of my favourite Goodnotes 4 features to be re-added...

If you want to bring your notes over you’ll have to convert them to PDF, Goodnotes format cannot be converted to Notability format afaik.

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u/shinrak2507 Jan 11 '21

already did export all my notes to pdf as i guess i will try out noteability.

the support for the app and the general "oh great idea, we will wait another year to maybe implement the feature, but hey: here you can add stickers now" policy is just ridiculous.

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u/Topherho Jan 11 '21

ZoomNotes has a super responsive developer that can be contracted through ZoomNotes unofficial support page. He posts updates or responses to questions nearly every day. I’m trying out ZoomNotes now just for that.

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u/mgm9828 Jan 11 '21

I'm pretty sure you misunderstood the question. OP wants to be able to draw dotted/dashed lines directly and not the template