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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. As a medical student I often take photos of lecture slides from various angles, currently cropping these images results in distorted or skewed perspectives, leaving me with “uncroppable” parts.

    I would love to see a feature similiar to the Notes app in IOS when scanning a document, it would help me make better notes for me.

    Best regars, Josef.

    3 votes

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  2. I believe the highlighting process would be more efficient if a PDF mode were added under the Highligher settings. In the PDF mode, the highlighter recognizes the text and snaps.

    In the current version, the only options are either manual highlighting, or pressing the text then choosing the "Highlight" option (w/ only yellow as the available color).

    2 votes

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  3. Please enable the masking tape feature to be opened and closed even when using the pointer mode, to make presentations and lectures more seamless.

    8 votes

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  4. A pen that automatically underlines with A squiggly line like the freenotes app does. Also, an automatic handwriting to make sloppy handwriting into better handwriting without having to use the typing tool like the free notes app does. If you do this, the app would be perfect!

    2 votes

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  5. Be able to grey out entire parts of an image/page. So you could navigate/sort slides that have a lot of useless information to only keep the parts you need.

    A tool where you could e.g. grey out the entire image (like lowering the opacity) and select the parts you would like to keep.
    In a sense a new tool that is the opposite of a highlighter.

    1 vote

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  6. For colours you can add as many to the menu as you want. do the same for strokes (sizes) so you can add more than 3 strokes to the menu and swipe between them.

    1 vote

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  7. ノートを「読み出しのみ」にしてるときに縮小した「付箋」を開けるようにして欲しいです。というかワンタップで拡大縮小できるようにして欲しいです。

    1 vote

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  8. Allow us to form perfect arrows when using draw and hold. It often slows my progress switching between the Pen Tool and the Shape Tool, and I'd much rather have the ability to automatically make an arrow using draw and hold, just like other shapes

    2 votes

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  9. Tape도 펜처럼 직사각형을 그렸을때 안에가 채워지면 좋겠습니다. 그리고 그 위에 필기를 할 수 있도록 하여 포스티잇 처럼 눌렀을때 그 밑에 내용을 볼 수 있고 다시 누르면 위에 내용을 볼 수 있도록 할 수 있으면 좋겠습니다. 이렇게 하면 특히 오답 학습을 할때 매우 효과적이고 실용적으로 사용할 수 있다고 생각합니다

    1 vote

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  10. I layer elements often and use a white shape to hide parts of my planner I’m redoing- but new things I add snap to the shape automatically. I click bring to front and it won’t unsnap from the shape. It has really been frustrating and has made my planner use tedious.

    1 vote

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  11. Description

    Hi Goodnotes Team,
    I would love to see a new "Workspaces" option added to the main page sidebar (which currently only includes Documents, Favorites, Shared, and Market).

    This feature would allow users to save and switch between different working environments tailored to specific scenarios (e.g., different classes, meetings, or projects).

    Ideally, a custom Workspace would save:
    • Specific files/tabs: The specific notebooks or PDFs that need to be opened together.
    • Tool configurations: Custom presets for pen thickness, color palettes, and default tool combinations applicable to that specific scenario.

    Use Case:

    For example, if I am about to study…

    2 votes

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  12. I use Goodnotes on my iPad primarily and always keep tabs open for work to refer to at any time easily. I keep these open all the time because it's either a standard of procedure that I reference like my bible or documents pertinent to a project I'm working on over the course of a couple days, weeks, or so.

    I find that sometimes I will accidentally click to close a tab and not know what tab I closed. I would love for a setting to toggle hiding the close tab button to prevent this.

    1 vote

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  13. For function like y=sin(x°), the range and domain are very different ( -1 to 1 vs 0 to 360). The graph displayed is too flat for any visual understanding.
    It would be great to be able to adjust the interval of x/y-axes seperately.

    In desmos, it is done by dragging the x/y-axes with two fingers.
    In Apple Notes, it is auto-adjusted with "centered"

    1 vote

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  14. be able to zoom out, and allow the page to stay zoomed out. i would like to be able to have buffer room on the left and right of the page, as of right now, you can only zoom in, any attempt to zoom out (to see multiple pages at once, or understand where the edge of the page is) the page bounces back to fit the screen width.

    3 votes

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  15. Add an option to customize the lasso select menu after something is selected to be more like goodnotes 5. one thing I do all the time is lasso and then 'copy' but now I have to click an extra button to get to the 'copy' button. it was better on goodnotes 5.

    2 votes

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  16. Add an option for the tape feature to toggle all on or all off, in addition to the remove all feature. I don't want to go through my entire document to open them all or close them all. One button is better.

    2 votes

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  17. Currently, we can add preset colours to pens, highlighters, text, etc. but individually. I think it would be practical if the preset colours were added to every tool instead of having individual preset colours (example: I sometimes want my text to be the same colour as my pen, or my pen the same colour as my pencil, or my highlighter the same colour as my side notes, but I have to go fetch the colour again every time to add it to all the other tools)

    Also, for text boxes, the eye drop tool is not available for the background…

    1 vote

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  18. Every time I erase something with "Erase Highlighter Only" enabled, I get a popup asking if I want to disable the setting. When I hit "ignore," the popup goes away, but then it comes back the next time I erase something! I do, in fact, sometimes want to erase highlighter only. The "ignore" button should prevent the popup from happening at all, maybe until the next time I change the setting

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  19. The June 2026 update removed Undo and Redo from the Top Bar of GoodNotes 5 when in split screen. I use Undo constantly when taking notes. The option to customize the toolbar is disabled for me, so I can’t add Undo to the toolbar either.

    Please add Undo back to the top bar when running in split screen, or allow customizing the toolbar so that I can add it there.

    1 vote

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  20. I want you to return it so that "Select" and "Select All" can be selected immediately when surrounding the text. It used to be possible, but now it's inconvenient because it can't be done. I look forward to working with you.

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