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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. It would be really helpful to have „View only links“ as an alternative to collaboration. This would enable us to share information without giving permission to edit it. I would use this really often in a school and work context.

    32 votes

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  2. Please, It shows on the plan that sync between platforms will be available soon. I really need it…

    27 votes

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  3. share FOLDERS with each other not just specific files or documents. I am a long time user of Goodnotes (about 6/7 years now). I have seen the amazing changes to this platform. However, recently, I received a school iPad and am forced to make a new account. Sharing files from my old account to my new account has been a real hassle. is there a way to share folders across different devices? This would be HUGE game changer.

    2 votes

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  4. Please add a public API and developer resources so files can be automatically imported and organized into folders by class, week, and lecture. Better automation support would make Goodnotes much more powerful for students and developers building academic workflows.

    5 votes

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  5. I am a user who subscribed to the Goodnotes Essential plan a few days ago. I was looking into why my Goodnotes library won't sync between Windows and iOS, and I found the following text:

    'If you purchased this plan before September 23, 2025, you are eligible for Goodnotes Cloud. If you purchased this plan after September 23, 2025, you will need to upgrade to the Goodnotes Pro plan to use Goodnotes Cloud.'

    When will cross-platform sync be supported for the Essential plan? I subscribed to this plan because the pricing clearly indicated that the Essential plan also supports cross-platform…

    22 votes

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  6. Currently, Google Drive Auto Backup is restricted to the root level of My Drive. I use Goodnotes together with Obsidian, with my Obsidian vault stored in Google Drive. I would like to back up my handwritten notes as PDFs directly into a folder such as:

    Google Drive → Obsidian Vault → Goodnotes

    More generally, allowing users to select an arbitrary Google Drive folder would make Auto Backup much easier to integrate with file-based workflows and other applications.

    Ideally, tapping Backup Location would open a Google Drive folder picker where the desired destination can be selected.

    3 votes

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  7. You can make backups, but what would be nice is being able to have them kind of "cached" and saved on the devices storage for faster loading (loading in the app on android is pretty slow) and for access offline, but it still syncs back and forth when connected to internet. Mostly if loading could be faster, there's a lot of lag and it takes forever for things to open on the android app and sometimes on the web app too.

    2 votes

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  8. Goodnotes Cloud synchronisiert derzeit die gesamte Bibliothek. Für berufliche und private bzw. schulische Inhalte wäre eine Einstellung sinnvoll, mit der einzelne Ordner von der Cloud-Synchronisierung ausgeschlossen werden können. So könnten Nutzer gemeinsam an bestimmten Dokumenten arbeiten, ohne vertrauliche berufliche Inhalte hochzuladen.

    1 vote

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  9. Remove Goodnotes watermarking from exported PDF files.

    1 vote

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  10. Problem:
    When I back up documents built on imported PDF plans (A1 format), the Auto-Backup PDF sometimes contains only my handwriting, symbols and photos. The imported plan itself is missing. Other documents back up correctly, so there is no warning that anything is wrong. The .goodnotes backup of the same document is complete.

    Why it matters:
    Not everyone can open .goodnotes files. Colleagues and customers need the finished PDF (plan + annotations). A backup PDF without the plan is useless, and the failure is silent.

    Suggestion:
    1. Make Auto-Backup PDF always include the imported PDF page background.
    2. If the…

    1 vote

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  11. E-commerce Website Development Bhutan

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    1 vote

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  12. Implement Dual-Page and Quad-Page View Modes in GoodNotes(like the following fig)
    Dear GoodNotes Development Team,
    I am a dedicated user of GoodNotes and would like to express my appreciation for the excellent note-taking and PDF annotation features your app offers. As someone who heavily relies on GoodNotes for academic research, document organization, and creative projects, I have found the app to be indispensable. However, I would like to suggest a new feature that I believe could significantly enhance the app’s flexibility and productivity: the ability to display two-page or four-page views simultaneously.

    1 vote

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  13. when collaborating, it would be nice if we had a setting to disable the "Live Cursor". A lot of time when someone edits, their Live Cursor stays in that spot and covers the edit. If you could make it hide after a few seconds of inactivity, or just a setting to turn the feature off altogether, that would be great.

    1 vote

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  14. I would like to suggest an improvement regarding font management and text formatting across devices, specifically on the Desktop/Windows app.

    Currently, when writing or adding typed text using custom fonts on the iPad version, the formatting gets completely messed up when viewing or editing the same note on the Windows/Desktop version. The text alignment shifts, fonts reset, and the layout breaks.

    Proposed Solution:
    Please allow users to change, edit, or customize fonts directly within the Desktop/Windows app, or improve cross-platform font syncing/rendering. This will ensure that document layouts and alignments remain consistent across iPad and PC/Windows.

    1 vote

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  15. On Windows 11, the GoodNotes app doesn't work as well as I would like.
    The documents written in GoodNotes doesn't sync onto the Windows 11 app. Instead, I have to share them VIA a link and access them that way. I also use gDrive to sync my GoodNotes, but the UI of viewing GoodNotes files on gDrive is just ... ugly... Would much rather prefer to use GoodNotes on Windows 11 and my iPad.

    10 votes

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  16. I am writing this suggestion as a response to how obnoxious it is to set up a workflow that mirrors the Goodnotes Library across different, external applications.

    The current system has obvious limitations; the automatic Backup to Google Drive (or DropBox, OneDrive and WebDAV) is very useful for keeping an up-to-date PDF copies of Goodnotes documents, however it behaves solely as a backup rather than a true mirror (this is fine, but there is an audience that desires a true mirror that isn't accommodated for, even if they themselves don’t fully know how useful it would be). Currently:
    - creating…

    1 vote

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  17. I'vepaid gootnotes a few days late since I've been not using it. And noticed that all notes are gone. Can you help me restoring them?

    1 vote

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  18. Title
    Feature Request: Support for Personal Server & NAS Backups (WebDAV / SMB / SFTP / HTTPS API)

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    I would like to suggest adding support for personal server and NAS-based backups in GoodNotes, in addition to the currently supported cloud services.

    Many users operate their own servers or NAS solutions (such as Synology, QNAP, or self-hosted servers) for data ownership, privacy, and long-term storage. Supporting standard protocols would allow these users to back up GoodNotes data more flexibly and securely.

    Suggested supported protocols include:

    WebDAV

    SMB (Network Share)

    SFTP

    HTTPS-based API endpoints

    Potential benefits of supporting personal server or…

    4 votes

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  19. When using cloud backup (e.g., Google Drive) in GoodNotes, it would be very helpful if deleting files or folders within GoodNotes also synchronized the deletion in the cloud drive.

    Currently, even after files are deleted in GoodNotes, residual files remain in Google Drive, requiring users to manually delete them separately. This creates unnecessary inconvenience and extra management work.

    Please consider adding two-way deletion synchronization between GoodNotes and cloud backup services.

    5 votes

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  20. 2 votes

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