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  1. Can we get some more pens, perhaps gel pens? Offer metallic and glitter font color choices.

    3 votes

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  2. Automatic page centering is visually pleasing, yes. However, page centering (meaning you are unable to zoom anywhere you want to (for example, having 70% space and 30% page on your screen)) is very impractical. It means you have to move your arm and wrist around to the very left of your device and then to the very right when writing full pages. This is not only very tedious and strenuous on muscles, but it is also genuinely very annoying to deal with.

    Make page centering or realignment an option, there's a reason why most, if not all, drawing programs don't…

    1 vote

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  3. In folder A there is a document on the brain
    In folder B I can also access and see the same document on the brain
    This way I don't have to move it from the original folder (A) but I can add it to other folders that are relevant to the topic.

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  4. Dear Goodnotes Team,

    I’ve been experiencing persistent issues with palm rejection while using a 3rd party stylus on Goodnotes, and I wanted to bring this to your attention.

    While writing with my palm resting on the screen, unintended actions frequently occur — the floating menu (cut, copy, paste, etc.) often pops up, and in some cases, it even selects underlying text or content where my palm touches. This leads to the stroke I was making getting disrupted or vanishing altogether.

    This not only causes missing portions in my writing but also severely hampers the flow and accuracy of note-taking, which…

    1 vote

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  5. Hi team,
    Could you consider adding a "Free Up Local Space" feature, similar to macOS iCloud and windows OneDrive file management? This would allow users to remove local copies of documents while keeping them in iCloud, saving device storage. Files could be re-downloaded when needed. Thanks!

    4 votes

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  6. We need a box for FAVOURITE TEXT STYLES.
    For my documents I use different fonts but each font is associated with a different text size and line spacing. it's very difficult for me to change the text and every characteristic each time in order to have the style I want, instead it would be very useful if I had a box with my favourites.

    2 votes

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  7. Improve pencil drawing quality - currently too light to use and must be part of pen options rather than standalone as present.

    4 votes

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  8. Hi Goodnotes team,

    I love using Goodnotes for creating my presentation slides — it's intuitive and works really well for my workflow. However, I still have to export my slides as a PDF and import them into PowerPoint in order to present them properly. This step feels unnecessary and could be avoided if Goodnotes had a few key presentation-friendly features:

    A presenter mode where I can see my personal notes while the audience only sees the slides
    Simple animations or progressive reveal of elements during the presentation
    Remote control support, e.g., using a smartphone as a presenter or clicker
    Adding…

    1 vote

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  9. BUT IT WORKS WELL ON IPAD. FIX IT IMMIDIATELY!!!!!!!

    3 votes

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  10. Currently the writing tool in Goodnotes is a little useless in my opinion there are like 5 styles I can choose from.
    Why can’t I change the font?
    Why can’t I change the size specifically?
    Why can’t I insert pictures that move with text or wrap the Text?
    Why can’t YOU use the existing feature of the Textbox for the Writing Tool?
    And then just try once to change the color of a text snippet to a custom color…nice menu…but I can’t scroll because my onscreen keyboard is in the way and therefore I can’t select the color wheel (which…

    2 votes

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  11. The App loads for five seconds every time I switch from another app to Goodnotes that’s incredibly annoying and Please, Please fix this. Generally the App is really slow even on a fast device.
    I think you should fix such problems first instead of inventing the 3rd AI feature or a nasty animated circle around the active tool. I mean wtf nobody needs this. I just want a working app.

    3 votes

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  12. Let the shadow function of Apple Pencil Pro work.

    5 votes

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  13. I wish a copy-and-paste feature of notebook to another folder, as a single action.

    When I need to make copies of a file and put them in multiple folders, I have to repeat the operations: 1. Copy the file, which creates a copy under the name of 'Copy of foobar', 2. Move it to a folder, 3. Change the name of the moved file to delete the prefixed 'Copy of'.
    This is a very awkward way of making multiple copies. I would like to operate like the Move operation: Long tap on the notebook -> Seclect Copy-To -> Select the…

    1 vote

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  14. Dear programmers,

    Please, Allows us to use shortcut to change colors while using Keyboard for take notes. That’s really useful… we need to use hand/pencil to change colors and this take some time.
    Example: cmd + r (change to red) or maybe we could setup our preferences though
    Bye bye bets programmers in intire swift world. Haha

    2 votes

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  15. Is there a way to store individual GoodNotes Files on iCloud instead of restoring the whole documents
    Some files I have aren’t needs to be stored on iCloud

    2 votes

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  16. 2 votes

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  17. When drawing an arrow freely with the ballpoint pen tool, it would be fantastic if GoodNotes could automatically convert it into a neat, straight arrow. This feature could also adapt to curved arrows, subtly smoothing out the lines without losing the intended shape. For example, if the user creates a zig-zag arrow, the feature would only refine the edges slightly to make it look smoother, without drastically altering the zig-zag style.

    If this doesn’t consume too many resources on the iPad, it would be a great addition to improve the visual appeal of notes, allowing for more polished and professional-looking…

    7 votes

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  18. When writing continues from the current page to the next, the next page should be automatically added, and the handwriting should seamlessly extend to the following page rather than being "cut off" or "eaten" by it. (Similar to the writing experience in Notability, which handles this particularly well.)

    2 votes

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  19. Hello GoodNotes Team,

    Thank you for the great app! I really enjoy using the audio recording feature while writing notes, especially because it syncs perfectly with my handwriting.

    I would love to have an option to export the note with both the audio and the synchronized handwriting, either as an interactive file or a video. This would allow me to share my lecture notes with friends in the exact way I experienced them — with the timing of each written point aligned to the recording.

    Currently, sharing a PDF or exporting as images loses that functionality, and it’s a big…

    1 vote

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  20. I paid for GoodNotes 5 as well as the interim GoodNotes 5 upgrade. My app was upgraded to GoodNotes 6 during iOS App Store updates. Now I’m being forced to purchase a GoodNotes 6 subscription with a nag screen even though I’m running version 5. I suggest that you leave us happy version 5 people alone, stop holding our data ransom and avoid a class action lawsuit suit.

    4 votes

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