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Make the Grid Size of the Paper adjustable
Please make it possible that one square of checkered paper can be adjusted to be 0.5 cm wide. Do the same with the distance between dots on dotter paper and so on…
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Universal Color Palettes
Hello, could you all add the ability to have all of our colors be universal across all pens, pencils, sticky notes, text, and etc.? It is annoying trying to use a color that I know I have added with the pen but did not feel like adding to the pencil, text, and highlighter separately. Could we also have the ability to create color pallet groups? Similar to the one in procreate (Picture below). Sometimes it is over whelming trying to find a color. And most of my colors mimic my real life pen colors. So being able to place colors…
55 votes -
GoodNotes AI is Unnecessary
The new features feel unnecessary and almost like bloatware. Other LLMs, such as DeepSeek, Gemini, etc are AI tools that other companies, universities, etc have licenses with. The AI credits are also useless - what is the incentive to use GoodNotes AI vs DeepSeek, Gemini, GPT4, etc, if you need to pay $9.99 more per month.
There isn't a way to turn off AI in GoodNotes either, which is pretty frustrating.
A huge motivation for people to switch from Notability to GoodNotes was the better UI and affordability. Paying $9.99/month for AI credits, for a feature I haven't seen many…52 votes -
Drawing on text document
Following the recent update which added the text document, I think that users should be able to have the option of writing, drawing and highlighting on the page. For me my study method is typing out my lecture notes in OneNote and then exporting to Goodnotes to highlight and annotate. However, if I was able to do this with the text document feature, it would make things so much easier. Not just for me but other users also.
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PDF Conversion, OCR, and Batch Utility (Converter Hub)
Requested Features (Suggested Priority)
1) OCR for Imported PDFs
Generate an OCR text layer for imported scanned PDFs, making them searchable within GoodNotesOptional settings:
Language selection
Accuracy-priority vs speed-priority modes
Non-destructive OCR (preserve original images while adding a text layer)
2) Document Conversion (Import / Export)
Convert the following into PDF, then import directly into GoodNotes or auto-create a note:Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Images / TXT / HTML / ePub
Optional export conversions:
PDF → Word / Excel / PowerPoint
PDF → Image (PNG / JPEG / TIFF / GIF)
PDF → TXT / HTML /…
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Two Pages View
I would like to suggest a new feature that I believe could be very useful for many Goodnotes users, especially students and people who regularly read and study PDF documents.
The feature I would like to suggest is a “Two Pages View” option, allowing users to display two pages of a PDF side by side, similar to the reading modes already available in other PDF and document applications.
As a student, I find this feature particularly useful when studying from textbooks, lecture notes, academic articles, or other documents in PDF format. Being able to see two pages simultaneously would make…
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Feature Requests and Improvement Suggestions for Goodnotes
Dear Goodnotes Team,
I would like to share some feature requests and suggestions that I believe could make Goodnotes even more useful, especially for studying, teaching, presenting, and working with Whiteboards.
- Customizable Laser Pointer Duration
It would be very useful to make the display duration of the Laser Pointer adjustable. Users could choose how long the laser line remains visible before automatically disappearing.
- Toggle Function for Taps
I would really appreciate a toggle function for Taps. There could be a switch that allows all Taps used within a notebook or Whiteboard to be revealed or hidden at once.
Currently, if…
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Increased Zoom Level for Pages
Hi Goodnotes Team,
I’m a medical student and have been using your wonderful app, including a paid subscription, for several years. Goodnotes has become one of my main study tools, and overall I’ve had a very positive experience with it.
However, my main issue has always been the limited maximum zoom level.
As a medical student, I often create very detailed pages containing multiple questions, explanations, diagrams, and summary tables all on one page. Because of this, some of the text can be quite small, and I often need to zoom in further to read it comfortably. Unfortunately, the current…
3 votes -
[Import] Vertical Auto Layout for PDF Import in Whiteboards
When importing a multi page PDF into a GoodNotes whiteboard, the pages are currently placed off to the right and arranged in a grid like layout. This forces users to manually reposition every page to create a readable top to bottom flow.
For large lecture PDFs or study materials, this manual reorganization is inefficient and time consuming.
A significant improvement would be an automatic vertical layout option where PDF pages are imported in a single straight column, stacked from top to bottom, similar to continuous scroll behavior. Ideally, this would be the default behavior, with an optional toggle to switch…
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[New feature] Visual preview of Links
VISUAL PREVIEW of LINKS that can be made by attaching or copy pasting the link within the goodnotes. Freefoam offers it.
3 votes -
Give users "a button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable the liquid glass effect within the software!
Please completely disable the Liquid Glass dynamic effect for older devices (such as my iPad Pro 2018, 12.9-inch with A12X processor), or provide users with a "button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable this feature within the app!!!
(Before Apple required apps to support Liquid Glass effects as a condition for listing, GoodNotes ran extremely smooth and fluid! After recent updates, it has become laggy, frequently killed in the background, and suffers from delays.)
Since the app introduced the Liquid Glass effect a few months ago:
❶ Typing is noticeably sluggish, with an average delay…2 votes -
Exact Phrase Search
Exact Phrase Search – The search function can sometimes be too broad. An “Exact Phrase search option would be very useful for finding specific words or phrases without unrelated results.
- Default Font for Sticky Notes – Please add an option to set a default font, font size, and formatting specifically for Sticky Notes, so users don’t have to manually change the font every time they create a new one.
3 votes -
Built-in browser
Built-in browser or web search panel
When working on a note, project, or research database, I often need to look up information on Google or check the reference on the website.
With an in-app browser or a small search panel, users can browse and take notes without leaving good notes, creating a smoother and more efficient workflow.
11 votes -
New version is so much worse
Now its nearly unusable,I can’t edit a type-in document,It won’t let me change the colors or edit the title type,it is not comfortable to find the type-in part either.It just got so much worse,I’m close to switching to another note taking app.Please fix these and let us get back the previus version !
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Links to connect a word to a separate part of a whiteboard or page.
I think an option to link words in a definition to another part of the whiteboard it's in would be nice to see. Perhaps even connecting other pages and workbooks together, just to make studying easier when you forget a certain word's definition. I attached an image as example with an underlined word that would contain a link, in case my explanation wasnt clear
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Please add a feature where to screenrecord
It will be great if Goodnotes can have a screen record, or import video option. I learn by teaching myself, cand its important for me to sometimes screenrecord what im saying and how things works especially for future references.
2 votes -
画像の背景透過
画像の背景透過
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New update = hot garbage
- The tool bar being ON my document is blocking parts of my notebook, making my working area smaller.
- When in split screen mode half of the toolbar disappears(we used to be able to scroll over still) and will only reappear if i make the window bigger.
- Instead of functions being displayed on the toolbar i now have to press extra buttons to get to things like the bookmark, but why?
- Why is my pen automatically the lasso? In GoodNOTES you would think i would automatically need the pen no?
- Not everything needs to be a drop down menu! The double…
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Add a built-in translation feature
Add a built-in translation feature that allows users to select any word, sentence, or paragraph and translate it directly in Goodnotes, especially when studying PDF files. This would be very helpful for students and would save us from switching between Goodnotes and other translation apps.
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Please Add an Exact-Match Search Function
I would like Goodnotes to support exact-match searches.
More specifically, I would like the search function to be designed with dictionary-like use in mind, such as extracting only the relevant pages containing a specific term from textbooks imported into Goodnotes.
Currently, for example, searching for “cisplatin” may return results containing unrelated words such as “amyloidosis,” which makes the search function difficult to use.
This happens consistently when searching Japanese text and is extremely inconvenient.
2 votes
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