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1. selecting text using a cursor on ipad

   When selecting text on an iPad on a pdf, I have to hold down on a word and manually drag the selection as if I am using my finger. The drag function with a cursor on iPad is currently used to scroll through, but this is much less useful than using two fingers on a trackpad or a scroll wheel. Could the ‘drag cursor’ function please be reprogrammed to select text instead (like in every other application) please??

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2. Better Pencilsketching and Erasing workflow

   I like to do STORYBOARD Thumbnail Sketches in Goodnotes!!

   I really like the PENCIL tool!
   But often times I sketch in one colour ( light blue or red)
   and then CLEAN UP the drawing in dark grey or black..

   I would really like to:
   - THEN ERASE THE LIGHT BLUE SKETCH underneath, only..
   NOT my sketch above!!
   Right now this is NOT possible, because we have an ERASE HIGHLIGHTER ONLY option , but the Highlighter is too BIG for sketching!!

   Soo It would be indeed very helpful to HAVE a "colour-pick eraser.."

   That way we could sketch in ONE colour, then INK in another colour above and later erase ONLY the UNDER LYING DRAWING!! That would be a GAME-CHANGER, for SKETCHING! I need to go to 3 different apps now for this only!

   AND MAYBE add the SAME OPTION for the LASSO TOOL!
   THAT way I could later colour Pick ONLY the BLUE COLOUR and CHANGE it to let's say GREEN or DARK BLUE or GREY, WITHOUT AFFECTING my SKETCH in BLACK ABOVE!

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   I like to do STORYBOARD Thumbnail Sketches in Goodnotes!!

   I really like the PENCIL tool!
   But often times I sketch in one colour ( light blue or red)
   and then CLEAN UP the drawing in dark grey or black..

   I would really like to:
   - THEN ERASE THE LIGHT BLUE SKETCH underneath, only..
   NOT my sketch above!!
   Right now this is NOT possible, because we have an ERASE HIGHLIGHTER ONLY option , but the Highlighter is too BIG for sketching!!

   Soo It would be indeed very helpful to HAVE a "colour-pick eraser.."

   That way we could sketch in ONE colour,… more

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3. The new unified writing tool is very inconvenient

   Hi, I’d like to share some feedback about the new “Unified Drawing Tool.”

   I use GoodNotes professionally as a teacher — during presentations, I do live-style writing and drawing on the screen.
   In my workflow, I switch very frequently between the pointer, pen, highlighter, eraser, and lasso selection.

   After the recent update, all the writing tools are grouped under one button, making it much slower to switch tools and really interrupting my work.
   For me, it’s essential to have my writing tools on the same toolbar level as the pointer and lasso.

   Please make this customizable again, or at least bring back the previous toolbar option.
   The extra step to open the grouped menu may seem small, but it adds up and causes real disruption when teaching live.

   I read that customization might be added in a future update, but I really hope this can be prioritized — the current design is a serious downgrade for anyone using GoodNotes in professional or teaching contexts.

   Hi, I’d like to share some feedback about the new “Unified Drawing Tool.”

   I use GoodNotes professionally as a teacher — during presentations, I do live-style writing and drawing on the screen.
   In my workflow, I switch very frequently between the pointer, pen, highlighter, eraser, and lasso selection.

   After the recent update, all the writing tools are grouped under one button, making it much slower to switch tools and really interrupting my work.
   For me, it’s essential to have my writing tools on the same toolbar level as the pointer and lasso.

   Please make this customizable again, or at least… more

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4. Rubber in the main menu

   If you use for example the new forms and switch to the rubber by tapping your Apple Pencil and then you open the Pencil Menu, the rubber is selected.
   I would prefer the rubber as an independent tool like the powerpointer.

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5. highlighter memorisation

   I want to have a highlighter that blocks out whatever is highlighted when toggled on. Just like how you can block the words that are highlighted in red by green screen.

   It will be useful when you are trying to remember keywords and equation.

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6. Let users remove all AI bloat from app

   I am not going to pretend that NOBODY uses Goodnotes AI but lets be real here, you guys must read what people say online, it is NOT as popular as the updates and focus on AI would make you believe.

   But just because its trendy and a fraction of people use it, the rest of us are forced to have this stuff taking up spaces and hogging resources when it provides us with no use whatsoever.

   In an ideal world you would have classic Goodnotes being worked on and improved consistently and then a separate Goodnotes AI app for the folks that want to use that stuff.

   Either way, you guys must be aware of how much people resent you spending so much time on AI junk. Please reconsider or at least give us options!

   I am not going to pretend that NOBODY uses Goodnotes AI but lets be real here, you guys must read what people say online, it is NOT as popular as the updates and focus on AI would make you believe.

   But just because its trendy and a fraction of people use it, the rest of us are forced to have this stuff taking up spaces and hogging resources when it provides us with no use whatsoever.

   In an ideal world you would have classic Goodnotes being worked on and improved consistently and then a separate Goodnotes AI app for the… more

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7. Stickers - bring back the old menu

   Please bring back the old method of being able to tap anywhere on screen to show the sticker menu and have the sticker placed exactly where you tapped on screen. The new method of tapping the sticker icon in the toolbar, selecting a sticker, the. Having to find the sticker randomly placed on the page, then move it where it’s required is such a backwards step and waste of time!

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8. Bring back old text box mode (no double tapping for confirmation and unlimited boxes)

   The new update on the text box mode needs to be reverted. Firstly, you have to tap twice in order to confirm the box, which is already inconvenient enough, but on top of that the text box mode will switch to the lasso tool after one box??

   It is VERY inefficient to take notes on lecture manuscripts, now you have to double tap everytime to confirm it and then you need to reselect text box mode...

   Before that you could place unlimited boxes and you didn't need to double tap to confirm. Bring it back please!!!

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9. New updates are glitchier/less smooth than previous releases!

   Writing using pens is glitchy, I see the line or letter I am drawing flicker from visible / invisible, drawing shapes is terrible and can't be rotated! Erasing seems glitchy with shapes too.

   Please revert back to old releases until the bugs are worked out on these new algorithms, because the writing process is now, at this point, user UNfriendly.

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10. ocr pdf export

    Be able to export pages with handwritten text from a notebook as seachable PDF, so including the (already existing) OCR-layer. So my exported PDFs become seachable, too.

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11. From Engineer’s Dream to Daily Frustration: What Happened to GoodNotes

    I’ve been using GoodNotes for nearly five years, and this new update is by far the worst one I’ve ever experienced. It’s not just me — all of my fellow students are on the brink of a mental breakdown. Everything related to engineering drawings and technical plans used to work perfectly before. Now, it’s an absolute pain.

    The “draw and hold” function is especially terrible. In the old version, you could draw a rectangular shape and edit it while still holding the pen. The resizing started from one corner of the shape, and you could make it bigger or smaller from that point. Now, when you draw a shape, it expands in all directions — it’s always too big, and you can’t make it smaller.

    You also can’t extend a line anymore. If you try to draw a new line in addition to an old one, the new line doesn’t keep the same angle and is never aligned correctly.

    If you activate shape filling with “draw and hold,” you can’t delete the filling. That’s really disappointing. I used to love this feature, but I can’t use it anymore because it fills areas even when you don’t want it to. Normally, you could just delete the filling and move on — but now, that doesn’t work.

    Another big issue is with shape recognition. I draw a line, and GoodNotes turns it into an ellipse or some completely random shape.

    And one more thing: if you want to write a quick note — in the old version, you just clicked the button and could immediately type with the keyboard on the whole page, like in a Word document. Now, you have to long-tap and select the function from a second menu. That’s three extra steps for something that used to take one. Why?

    On top of that, you can’t rotate shapes anymore, and you can’t draw rectangular shapes unless they’re perfectly aligned with the page lines. That completely ruins flexibility for technical or engineering sketches.

    This just goes on and on — it’s such a mess. I honestly don’t understand why they changed everything from a perfectly functional, engineering-friendly tool into this chaos. I’m so frustrated.

    I’ve been using GoodNotes for nearly five years, and this new update is by far the worst one I’ve ever experienced. It’s not just me — all of my fellow students are on the brink of a mental breakdown. Everything related to engineering drawings and technical plans used to work perfectly before. Now, it’s an absolute pain.

    The “draw and hold” function is especially terrible. In the old version, you could draw a rectangular shape and edit it while still holding the pen. The resizing started from one corner of the shape, and you could make it bigger or smaller… more

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12. formula fonts customization

    I hope the the formula function could allow customization of fonts

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13. Please return the Timekeeper and Bookmark to before the update

    After the update, the timekeeper is hidden and the time seems too small, so it's uncomfortable. Please return the bookmarks as well

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14. Request for this update

    The context can be strange because I use a translator. Please understand.
    1. Laser points written as lines have become less readable since this update. Please go back to before the update.
    2. I wish I could modify the sidebar. In my case, I don't use pencils well and often use nooses, so it would be convenient if I could add nooses to the sidebar. And I set it to change to the tool I used automatically if I use the eraser, but after this update, if I use the noose and choose the handwriting tool again, the eraser will automatically be selected. I will upload a file on this issue.
    3. I hope Korean users can also use handwriting alignment.

    The context can be strange because I use a translator. Please understand.
    1. Laser points written as lines have become less readable since this update. Please go back to before the update.
    2. I wish I could modify the sidebar. In my case, I don't use pencils well and often use nooses, so it would be convenient if I could add nooses to the sidebar. And I set it to change to the tool I used automatically if I use the eraser, but after this update, if I use the noose and choose the handwriting tool again, the eraser will… more

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15. Toolbar disappear

    I like the new update, especially where you can make the toolbar disappear, but still write. I want it to stay gone when I double-tap my Apple Pencil to erase. It increases space on the page with it gone, but I would love to be able to switch to my erase (by double-tapping), and not have it pop back up.

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16. Revert shape tool to Goodnotes 6 Version

    Ever since the new update to Goodnotes 7, the shape tool is a lot less flexible and very strict and jerky when drawing shapes, and is very frustrating to work with. The previous version was much more user friendly and I have no idea why anyone thought messing with something that was working just fine was a good idea. Please change it back to the previous version or at least provide a toggle so we can choose which version we want to use instead of forcing this downgrade on everyone. Thanks!

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17. [Toolbar] Make the New Floating Toolbar Optional / Revert to Old Toolbar

    The latest update introduced an obnoxious and distracting floating toolbar below the primary toolbar, taking up more space and reducing the amount of room there is to actually write on the document. Further, it’s shorter in width, so you have to scroll more to find different highlighter colors, pen options, etc.

    The new toolbar offers LESS functionality than before and I didn’t see anyone complaining or asking for it to be overhauled for everyone. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Please introduce a toggle where you can choose whether you want this new toolbar or the old one, as it’s fine if it’s an option but the old toolbar that a lot of people liked should also be an option still.

    The latest update introduced an obnoxious and distracting floating toolbar below the primary toolbar, taking up more space and reducing the amount of room there is to actually write on the document. Further, it’s shorter in width, so you have to scroll more to find different highlighter colors, pen options, etc.

    The new toolbar offers LESS functionality than before and I didn’t see anyone complaining or asking for it to be overhauled for everyone. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Please introduce a toggle where you can choose whether you want this new toolbar or the old one, as… more

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18. Reverse updates to keyboard of September/October 25 update

    I just want to be able to have everything in front of me without pressing a billion different buttons for the sake of cleanness. Give me the keyboard button back and put all the customization buttons right below the toolbar, just like it was before, I am begging you.

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19. Joining pages together for cross stitch

    I use Goodnotes for cross stitch. Many of my patterns are PDF files with multiple pages. It would be nice to be able to join the individual pattern pages together to create one seamless picture.

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20. Different Interface and tools

    The new update is terrible, the toolbar I don't mind very much (annoying but I can live) but the shape features are absolutely terrible. Before the new update I could make circles at an angle and trapezoids to my liking, and perfect right angles (stem major so every important) and now the only thing I can draw are ovals straight across, I cant even make a trapezoid, when I use the hold feature to draw a right angle it doesn't come out a perfect right angle it is always slightly off, and when I use the shape feature to make a right angle it always comes out as a curve instead as a corner and you cant change it!!!

    Ways to fix this:

    -for the circles let us draw a circle and then bring up one of the little rotation toggle to rotate shapes

    -make the hold to snap for angles a right angle not slightly off

    -make the shape tool snap to whatever shape you initially drew then bring up an option (when you tap on the shape) to turn it into a rectangle so that we are able to keep whatever shape we wanted initially

    -for the line feature of the shape tool make it so that if you tap on the line feature there is a drop down box and in the drop down box there is an option of "sharp angles" or "natural angles"

    The new update is terrible, the toolbar I don't mind very much (annoying but I can live) but the shape features are absolutely terrible. Before the new update I could make circles at an angle and trapezoids to my liking, and perfect right angles (stem major so every important) and now the only thing I can draw are ovals straight across, I cant even make a trapezoid, when I use the hold feature to draw a right angle it doesn't come out a perfect right angle it is always slightly off, and when I use the shape feature to make… more

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