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  1. I'm a STORYBOARD ARTIST and I REALLY LOVE GOODNOTE'S Pencil tool!
    But for a decent Workflow I need to make THUMBNAIL DRAWINGS in BLUE or RED first and then LATER INK THEM in BLACK on top.

    Therefore I would EITHER need a SELCTIVE COLOR ERASER, and/or a
    SELCTIVE COLOR LASSO..

    I then could ALTER the BUE SKETCH below , by either changing it to a different color, that'a not as visible ( a light GREY for example) OR erase /delete it ALLTOGETHER, with my BLACK Drawing intact!!

    That would be a GAME-CHANGER for my workflow and would imitate a more…

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  2. How COOL would it be it you could take stokes that you had already made, and colorize them? so you wrote in white, but you want to make the stuff your pen stoke touches to be a blue color.

    I know right now the alternative is to select and then change color but for many situations this is a better user experience

    Think about it as a color fill tool.

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  3. Add a feature that allows teachers to send single pages to individual students — for example, to share missed lesson notes directly in the classroom notebook, in the exact place where the original worksheet was worked on.

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  4. Please simplify the current "select -> screenshot -> share -> copy" function of the selection tool to simplify copy and paste parts of PDFs. Notability has this and it's MILES better than GoodNotes implementation which takes forever to copy a section of a PDF when I'm copying problems from my lecture slides to my notes.

    This will make my, and so many students, note-taking so much easier.

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  5. It would be nice to be able to use multiple devices at the same time on the same GoodNotes page. I study medicine and it would help me a lot.

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  6. I think the lasso tool doesn't work properly on desktop and isn't natural to use.
    To select text is it fine, but if you want to move a shape or text you have to clic on it to select and then move it. There should be a way for it to recognize the object and move on the first clic. Also, on mac you are able to duplicate something by pressing option and dragging it somewhere else. Text options should allow us to put indexes and exponants, this would be great for math formulas and we need more options for…

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  7. Give users full control over adding and styling page numbers in their notebooks—just like in Google Docs—so they can improve navigation and presentation without having to draw them by hand.

    Key Capabilities:

    • Automatic Page Numbering:
      Insert page numbers on every page (or a specific page range) with a single tap.

    • Flexible Positioning:
      Choose where the number appears:

      • Top-left, top-center, or top-right
      • Bottom-left, bottom-center, or bottom-right
    • Typography Options:
      Select font family, size, weight (e.g. regular, bold), and color to match your notebook’s style

    • Numbering Formats:
      Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3…), Roman numerals (I, II, III…), or custom prefixes/suffixes (e.g. “Page 1…

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  8. Owning an iPad Pro with an OLED screen with fantastic pixel response, I can't but go back to Apple Notes to enjoy the note taking experience with almost no perceivable latency and instant real-life note taking experience.

    Unfortunately GoodNotes 6 has a noticeable latency that can be eliminated if the team can implement the same algorithms used in Apple Notes app.

    To repreduce this you can draw a straight line on a blank page from the bottom of the iPad to the top, you'll see a gap on GoodNotes 6 between the tip of the pencil and the line as…

    6 votes

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  9. When the screen is split, the UI feels very intrusive. In particular, the recording icon appears on both screens and is quite large. The same goes for the Undo button. I think unused tools should be consolidated into one place, and the freed-up space could be used for tools that are actually needed. This idea aligns with your philosophy of being “all in one.”

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  10. Allow Notebooks from Goodnotes to be uploaded/shared (to Chatgpt/email/etc) directly from Goodnotes without needing to export it first, as it takes up double the space on the computer; plus it exports as a zip file when its more than 1 notebook, making bulk sharing/uploading very tedious

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  11. I would appreciate it if, similar to colours and font weights, it were possible to create "favourites" for fonts and line spacing, although the issue with line spacing not automatically being saved as I had specified should be resolved first.

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  12. Ich fände es gut, wenn man ähnlich wie bei Farben und Schriftdicken auch bei Schriftarten und Zeilenabständen „Favoriten“ anlegen könnte, wobei bei Zeilenabständen vorher der Fehler, dass diese bei mir nicht automatisch so sind, wie ich sie gespeichert habe behoben werden sollte.

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  13. I would love to have virtual paperclips to clip papers together.

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  14. It would be great if GoodNotes allowed users to rescale existing paper templates. For example, when using an A4 template with a squared pattern, users could adjust the grid size (e.g., 4 mm, 5 mm, 1 cm, etc.) without changing the overall paper format. This flexibility would make it easier to customize templates for different needs—such as technical notes, sketches, or graphing—while maintaining a consistent page size and layout.

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  15. Make possible to draw a straight line but with different slants: when I take a picture of a text, sometimes the text is not perfectly straight, it’s abi tilted and it’s impossible to highlight it with the straight feature cause the highlight won’t correspond to the tilted text.
    Thanks

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  16. I find writing with a keyboard more difficult since the last update. You have removed the keyboard function in the toolbar, and now I have to tap and hold to start writing in a regular notebook. This is useless.

    Text documents are not a terrible thing, but you should add the possibility to highlight or write with a pen on them. Personally, I chose GoodNotes because it allowed me to both write with a keyboard and with a pen on the same file.
    With text documents you can finally write without pages and the issues that come from it (having…

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  17. please take away the automatic tool bar that pops up after encircling. every time I want to rearrange my notes, it pops up and BLOCKS the FOV that I'm moving it to.

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  18. After element button is selected, the collection bar at bottom should be able to be made bigger when opened, the images are so small it's hard to see them even on a 12" iPad

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  20. Su template scuri l’evidenziatore sembra non funzioni bene, nel senso che perde il colore originale diventando sbiadito.

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