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  1. Please support Boxcryptor. This allows to store files encrypted on Dropbox. You support dropbox - you should support Boxcryptor as well. Never mind - but who wants to store his private stuff in the cloud without encryption ... :).
    Thanks for realization!

    29 votes

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  2. Add an option to easily edit text inserted in a text box, please.

    12 votes

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  3. Maybe I am missing some setting or documentation, but I spend a lot of time marking up documents and bookmarking those notes, only to have the bookmarks not Export with the document. Frustrating.

    31 votes

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  4. It appears that when PDFs are exported they are done so as a "flattened" PDF. It would be great if the PDF elements were still editable after export - both the written notes and any fields if they were included in the original PDF.

    26 votes

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  5. I'm a student so sometimes while typing my notes, my professor makes an error or changes something so I can't go back to the text box to edit it. Also, whenever I want to bold one word or sentence, the entire sentence gets bolded. You guys should change this and allow us to only bold, italicize, and underline the words we want. Also, please please PLEASE give us the option to go back to our text box that we were typing in.

    10 votes

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  6. It should be able to export with customizable resolutions, since for some notes we do not need high resolution and for dense pages the PDF generated with the current version is heavy and difficult to upload in slow connections.

    23 votes

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  7. 25 votes

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  8. Sometimes when I make a mistake while hand writing in good notes I just scribble the word out then have to erase it later. Some sort of feature that recognizes I scribbled out a word and then erases it would be superb.

    23 votes

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  9. A few versions ago, the zoom functionality worked so that if you were zoomed more than 100% and zoomed out, it would snap to 100%. And the same goes for being zoomed out less than 100% and zooming in; it would snap to 100%.

    13 votes

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  10. Today my iPad ran out if storage space. I checked the usage page in Settings and Goodnotes was taking up 4GB of space. A few minutes later the iPad automagically launched into "cleaning" mode for Goodnotes and then, voila, the app's usage had dropped to 65MB. I create a lot of big files in Goodnotes but regularly clean them out when I'm done. It would be great if I could manually trigger a cleaning of the app's cache so that it doesn't grow to several GB again.

    15 votes

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  11. Can you add a Wuala cloud sync or backup?

    3 votes

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  12. I think Goodnotes Smart Learn seriously needs a daily card limit system similar to Anki.

    Right now Smart Learn can become very aggressive with recommendations when you have a huge number of flashcards.

    Imagine being a med student with:

    • separate study sets for every chapter
    • thousands of flashcards
    • eventually 20,000โ€“30,000+ total cards

    At that scale, unlimited recommendations can become stressful and mentally overwhelming.

    I think there should be a feature where users can set:
    โ€œSmart Learn can only recommend X cards todayโ€

    Example:

    • Today limit = 200 cards
    • Smart Learn then intelligently chooses the MOST important 200 cards from allโ€ฆ
    1 vote

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  13. Feature request:

    Hi GoodNotes team,

    I would like to suggest a feature for better dark mode note-taking.

    When the page background is dark, it would be very helpful if pen colors could automatically reverse or adapt for visibility. For example, black handwriting could appear white on a dark background, while still preserving readability.

    Also, when exporting notes, please allow users to choose whether the handwriting should be exported as black or white. This would be especially useful because notes that look clear on a dark background may become hard to read when exported or printed.

    Suggested options:

    Auto-invert pen colorโ€ฆ

    1 vote

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  14. I think part of handwriting with pen/pencil is ruining your page with endless eraser marks. To mimic the slow and deliberate process of writing on physical paper, I'd like there to be the option where pen cannot be erased and the entire page must be tossed. You can implement a 2-step verification feature for those that really want to modify their pen marks so they don't have to restart a cheat sheet if their pen slips...

    1 vote

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  15. This option adds a 2,5 inch margin at the right side of the document for annotating. The margin is collapsible afterwards or can be kept open permanently. This way one can annotate on PDFs with tiny margins without having to compress all the info.

    1 vote

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  16. Please look at the attached photo. Does this look normal to you? Even after hiding the status bar to secure more screen space, it still looks like this. It is extremely irritating that one-fifth of the screen is wasted for stacks of some 'bars' that are useless 95% of the time, and I want to hide ALL OF THEM immediately.

    1. Please make it possible to enable read-only mode + hide tab bar + hide tool bar even while writing.
    2. JUST LET ME TAKE NOTES IN FULL SCREEN WITHOUT ANY DISTRACTIONS

    I simply want to take notes in full screen. Iโ€ฆ

    1 vote

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  17. ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํ•œ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์„œ ์˜ฎ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ• ๋•Œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ถˆํŽธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    1 vote

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  18. Tape๋„ ํŽœ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง์‚ฌ๊ฐํ˜•์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์„๋•Œ ์•ˆ์—๊ฐ€ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ง€๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ํ•„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜์—ฌ ํฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ž‡ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ˆŒ๋ €์„๋•Œ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ‘์— ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ค๋‹ต ํ•™์Šต์„ ํ• ๋•Œ ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    1 vote

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  19. Tape๋„ ํŽœ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง์‚ฌ๊ฐํ˜•์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์„๋•Œ ์•ˆ์—๊ฐ€ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ง€๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ํ•„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜์—ฌ ํฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ž‡ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ˆŒ๋ €์„๋•Œ ๊ทธ ๋ฐ‘์— ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ค๋‹ต ํ•™์Šต์„ ํ• ๋•Œ ๋งค์šฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ค์šฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

    1 vote

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  20. Although GoodNotes AI is currently somewhat limited, I hope it evolves to include a wide range of features similar to the Chromium browser extension Sider.

    • Support for multiple AI models beyond the standalone GoodNotes AI model using a credit-based system (e.g., GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, etc.)
    • Screenshot functionality
    • File attachments (โ€ข Supported: web pages, PDF, DOC, XLSX, CSV, JPG, JSON, MP3, WAV, M4A, MPGA, etc. โ€ข Limits: up to 6 files, maximum 100MB per file)
    • Read this page aloud
    • Artifacts: Easily create and present within the GoodNotes document window, enabling real-time interaction and aโ€ฆ
    1 vote

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