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1. Folder Sharing

   Feature Request: Shared Folder Collaboration with Real-Time Updates

   Dear GoodNotes Team,

   I am a teacher who relies on GoodNotes daily for lesson planning, organizing resources, and collaborating with colleagues. While I truly appreciate the powerful tools GoodNotes offers for handwriting and annotation with the Apple Pencil, there is one feature that would greatly improve collaboration for educators:

   The ability to share entire folders with colleagues so that multiple users can:

   Add new documents to a shared folder.

   Write on and annotate shared documents using the Apple Pencil.

   View and access changes in real time, including edits, new notes, or added files.

   Currently, we can share individual documents, but the inability to collaborate across entire folders makes it difficult to manage shared lesson plans, student resources, and collaborative projects efficiently.

   Providing folder-level sharing with real-time updates would make GoodNotes an indispensable tool for teams of teachers who need to work together seamlessly. This feature would allow us to better serve our students and streamline collaboration across classrooms.

   Thank you for considering this request. Many educators would greatly benefit from these enhancements, and we would be excited to see GoodNotes continue leading the way in digital learning tools.

   Sincerely,
   Desperate Teacher

   Feature Request: Shared Folder Collaboration with Real-Time Updates

   Dear GoodNotes Team,

   I am a teacher who relies on GoodNotes daily for lesson planning, organizing resources, and collaborating with colleagues. While I truly appreciate the powerful tools GoodNotes offers for handwriting and annotation with the Apple Pencil, there is one feature that would greatly improve collaboration for educators:

   The ability to share entire folders with colleagues so that multiple users can:

   Add new documents to a shared folder.

   Write on and annotate shared documents using the Apple Pencil.

   View and access changes in real time, including edits, new notes, or added… more

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2. Make the tabs pinnable

   I want to make the tabs pinnable, shrinking them into small icons in the corner. It prevents clutter but keeps them handy, since I use them too often to close or scroll for finding them every time.

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3. [Outline] Custom order

   allow for custom outline order, current outline is in order outline is added (not in page order), allow to for choice of how to order outline titles (alphabetical, page #, date added, etc). also after closing app, view options for seeing/not seeing for example pdf outlines resets-- make choice semi-permanent or until you manually change and select or unselect an option again.

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4. Duplicate a folder

   You can duplicate a file but you cant duplicate a folder. I create template folders and it would be useful to duplicate the master folder.

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5. Locking Objects

   Need to be able to lock individual items. In planners sometimes the layout itself is a sticker. Need to lock that so I can move the stickers above without the bottom one moving.

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   In progress  ·  AdminGoodnotes (Moderator, GoodNotes) responded

   Thanks for your suggestion! We’re happy to share that we’ll be introducing the ability to lock objects very soon.

   We’ll keep you posted once it goes live.

   Stay tuned for app updates and announcements!

6. Remove floating text bar

   The old text at the top was better now its hard to change font size and things like that

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7. Custom folder colors

   Custom folder colors! I’m happy to have different colors to pick from, but I would love to use a color wheel for more colors like orange or different shades!

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   In progress  ·  AdminGoodnotes (Moderator, GoodNotes) responded

   Thanks everyone for contributing to this idea! We're currently working on adding more folder colors.

   Stay tuned — we'll keep you posted once it goes live!

8. [Animations] Reduce opening animation time for folders and sidebars

   GoodNotes feels very slow and outdated when it comes to the slow animation when clicking on folders. Instead of feeling snappy and responsive the long animation leaves me feeling sluggish.

   The same goes for when I open the page view sidebar and the search sidebar. These slow opening animations are outdated and make GoodNotes feel unnecessary sluggish when compared to Notability’s snappy, simple animations.

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9. less submenus

   Many functions you have placed in submenus could easily fit into their respective window headers, toolbars etc. - thereby becoming more obvious and faster/easier to access.
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   1) The filter for bookmarked pages in the page browser is now the single item in a submenu. Unnecessary - there is easily enough room for 4 tabs - even when viewed as sidebar and in portrait orientation. img_0387

   2) Select pages and sidebar/popup toggle hide behind a 3 dots menu in the page browser. Why? There is enough room there to show these directly. Esp. if you implement the toggle as one button that changes it‘s icon accordingly. img_0385

   3) The auto advance setting for the writing zoom window ist hidden 2 levels deep in the document settings. This setting is very situational (columns, tables, equations vs plain text) and has to be easily accessible - either directly in the zoom window toolbar or at the very least in the 3dots submenu that‘s already there and has only 2 entries! img_0386

   4) In the document browser the „select items“ button is again hidden in a submenu, and even worse in one that is meant for viewing and sorting options. This needs to become top lvl accessible.
   Also atm this menu bar scrolls out of view. It should stay on top/visible when scrolling down. It is absolutely aggravating to have to scroll all the way up to the top and then down again just to select documents that are further down. img_0388

   5) Also in the document bowser: the filtering to show „documents only“, „folders only“ , and „all“ is clearly a viewing option. I think we don’t need a second submenu for this in the same menu bar. Why not place this as an additional options group in the other viewing submenu (with the grid icon) and place this icon on the left instead. ( Where the viewing/filtering options for pages in the page browser of the document editor are situated as well) img_0388

   I love that you steadily move to icon based menus. For me as a daily user this is faster, easier to grasp at a glance and screen space saving. Thank you for reworking this whole ui und steadily improving still.

   Many functions you have placed in submenus could easily fit into their respective window headers, toolbars etc. - thereby becoming more obvious and faster/easier to access.
   examples:

   1) The filter for bookmarked pages in the page browser is now the single item in a submenu. Unnecessary - there is easily enough room for 4 tabs - even when viewed as sidebar and in portrait orientation. img_0387

   2) Select pages and sidebar/popup toggle hide behind a 3 dots menu in the page browser. Why? There is enough room there to show these directly. Esp. if you implement the toggle as one… more

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10. Pin folders and notes to the top

    Please add a feature to pin folders and notes to the top regardless of their sort order. I believe this request has been made before, but it seems to have disappeared—perhaps merged with other requests—so I'm posting it again.

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11. Make a visible scrolling bar

    it's really annoying to have to leave the pen to scroll with the mouse because the scrolling bar is invisible. WHY?! i want to scroll with the bar on the side without putting away the pen to grab the mouse and scroll with the wheel. yes the scroll bar reappears when i scroll, but it's useless because it disappears after 2 seconds and does not appear in any way other than wheel scrolling with the mouse. VERY ANNOYING! scrolling should be available in few ways (like Adobe Acrobat) but here for some reason you only can scroll with the wheel. again, WHY?!

    it's really annoying to have to leave the pen to scroll with the mouse because the scrolling bar is invisible. WHY?! i want to scroll with the bar on the side without putting away the pen to grab the mouse and scroll with the wheel. yes the scroll bar reappears when i scroll, but it's useless because it disappears after 2 seconds and does not appear in any way other than wheel scrolling with the mouse. VERY ANNOYING! scrolling should be available in few ways (like Adobe Acrobat) but here for some reason you only can scroll with the wheel.… more

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12. Remove blue from the top nav bar

    The blue main menu at the top is quite disturbing. Please make it possible to hide it or change color to white/black depending on system light mode.

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13. Selection tool

    Dear Goodnotes Team,

    I hope you are doing well. I am writing to share feedback regarding a recent change in the selection tool behavior in Goodnotes Web.

    After the latest update, whenever we select elements on the canvas, several options such as Copy, Cut, Transform, Change Color, etc., automatically appear directly on top of the selected content. This makes the canvas look cluttered and makes it harder for both teachers and students to clearly view or reposition the selected items.

    Earlier, the selection experience was much cleaner. When using the lasso selection tool, only the blue dots appeared around the selected area, which allowed us to move or adjust content without any obstruction. And when we needed additional options like color change, copy, or cut, we could simply right–click, and a small dropdown menu would appear. This old system was simple, non-intrusive, and much more comfortable for teaching environments.

    For those of us who use Goodnotes for online classes, clarity and a clean canvas are extremely important. The new overlay covers the writing area and distracts students during lessons.

    I kindly request your team to consider:

    Bringing back the old clean selection style, or

    Adding an option to hide or disable the automatic floating menu,

    or allowing users to switch to the previous “right-click dropdown” style.

    Goodnotes is an excellent tool, and these small adjustments will greatly improve the teaching experience.

    Thank you for your time and for continuously improving the app.

    Warm regards,
    Praphul P

    Dear Goodnotes Team,

    I hope you are doing well. I am writing to share feedback regarding a recent change in the selection tool behavior in Goodnotes Web.

    After the latest update, whenever we select elements on the canvas, several options such as Copy, Cut, Transform, Change Color, etc., automatically appear directly on top of the selected content. This makes the canvas look cluttered and makes it harder for both teachers and students to clearly view or reposition the selected items.

    Earlier, the selection experience was much cleaner. When using the lasso selection tool, only the blue dots appeared around the… more

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14. Table of Contents

    Please create an auto-generated table of contents template, that can also be edited. This should include an option to sort by date, through your outline, or topics.

    Someone else said "Allow me to select the text, eg my page heading like (meeting to discuss projected financial) and then click on a button which shoots the page heading to an automatically generated table of contents in the front of the Notebook. Table of contents will be built using all the specified headings, and should also display the date of that entry for easy reference." THIS IS GREAT AND SO HELPFUL.

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15. subject division withinn notebooks

    having the option to swipe around your notebook while uniting few pages so that you can open them if you need this subjects or just keeps swiping without opening them to save time.

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16. Remove auto-hotbar when using lasso

    When you select something with the lasso, and the hot-bar of options immediately comes up, it gets in the way when you're trying to move things to a specific place, it would be much better if it went back to what it was - selecting using lasso, then tapping the selected area to pull up the object options.

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17. Quick access to all pages marked as favourites

    Before the latest update there was the option to access an overview of all pages I marked as favourite pages after clicking on the „four rectangle“ buttom at the top left hand corner.

    There the first tab displayed the overview of all pages and THE SECOND TAB displayed the option to quickly access all my marked favourite pages.

    Now the second tab is the document outline (which was the third one before) and the third now is an overview of audio files. I almost never need audio files but I need the quick access of ALL my favourites sometimes just daily!

    I cannot scroll the first tab with all pages to look for the favourites (sometimes I read books with 1000 pages. If page 567 is the favourite I‘m looking for you are knowing how much time it‘d take searching it!)

    Please make it possible to change the options what these three tabs should display so I can adjust it like I need it or take back the old menu for the three tabs with 1. all pages overview, 2. all favourites overview and 3. outline.

    Thank you :)

    Before the latest update there was the option to access an overview of all pages I marked as favourite pages after clicking on the „four rectangle“ buttom at the top left hand corner.

    There the first tab displayed the overview of all pages and THE SECOND TAB displayed the option to quickly access all my marked favourite pages.

    Now the second tab is the document outline (which was the third one before) and the third now is an overview of audio files. I almost never need audio files but I need the quick access of ALL my favourites sometimes just… more

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18. フォルダの最終更新日の扱いについて

    いつもGoodnotesを快適に使わせていただいております。
    ​さて、今回ご相談したいのは、ノートブック（ファイル）の最終更新日の表示とソート機能に関する改善についてです。
    ​現状、ファイルを「最終更新日」で並べ替えた際、ファイル内のページを編集した日付（書類の最終更新日）ではなく、ファイルそのものが作成または移動された日付が基準となっているように見受けられます。
    ​多くのユーザーは、次に作業するノートを見つけたい時に「最終更新日」でのソートを利用するかと思います。そのため、ファイル内の書類（ページ）を最後に編集した日付が、ファイルそのものの最終更新日として反映され、その日付で正確に並べ替えができるような機能の追加をご検討いただけませんでしょうか。
    ​この機能が実装されることで、頻繁に利用するノートへのアクセスが格段に向上し、Goodnotesをさらに便利に活用できると期待しております。
    ​お忙しいところ恐縮ですが、ご検討いただけますと幸いです。

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19. Foulders for favourites

    It would be very helpful if the objects saved in “favourites” could be further organized, for example by allowing users to sort favorites into folders. Thank you very much.

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20. Table of Contents Efficiency

    When I am working in a large document (several hundred pages), navigating the TOC is cumbersome. If I’m on page 23 of 900, and know I need to go approximately 3/4 of the way into the document to a chart, I have to scroll and scroll and scroll until I get there.

    The app I’m attempting to replace with Goodnotes, GoodReader, has an extremely efficient TOC that you can click through easily. You can see the entire document and just tap where you want to go. If I need to navigate the documents actual TOC, bookmarks, or any annotations I made, there’s a button to bring those up.

    I am constantly jumping back and forth through documents and honestly despise the current method. This is one feature that might make me stay with my current app.

    When I am working in a large document (several hundred pages), navigating the TOC is cumbersome. If I’m on page 23 of 900, and know I need to go approximately 3/4 of the way into the document to a chart, I have to scroll and scroll and scroll until I get there.

    The app I’m attempting to replace with Goodnotes, GoodReader, has an extremely efficient TOC that you can click through easily. You can see the entire document and just tap where you want to go. If I need to navigate the documents actual TOC, bookmarks, or any annotations I… more

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