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Bring Back the Previous Typing Feature
I would like to share some feedback about a recent change in the app. There used to be a specific typing section for entering the words, and it worked really well. It was much more practical and easier to use.
Now, with the text boxes, the experience has become a bit more difficult. The text boxes often appear misaligned and don’t work as smoothly as the previous format, which makes the gameplay less comfortable.
If possible, I would really appreciate it if you could consider bringing back the previous typing format or improving the current system so it becomes more…
2 votesThanks so much for sharing your feedback — we really appreciate you taking the time to let us know about your experience.
If it helps, you can still use Full Screen Typing, which provides a more focused typing experience similar to what you described. It allows you to type more comfortably without being constrained by the text box layout.
You can find out how to enable and use it in this Help Center article.
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edit
hi, i have one suggestion for editing
when writings and draws with apple pencil are selected by lasso tool, it shows up some editable options. but there're no options to edit the size and color and stroke setting. if i want to change that, i must delete them and rewrite. so i strongly suggest that those features gonna work more effectively.1 voteHi! Thanks so much for sharing your suggestion — we really appreciate the feedback.
Good news is that this feature actually already exists in Goodnotes. When you select handwriting with the Lasso Tool, you can change properties like color and resizing items using the editing options that appear after selection.
You can find more details on how this works in our Help Center article here.
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Dual-Page PDF View
Dear Goodnotes Team,
I am a dedicated Goodnotes user, and the app has become essential to my daily studies. I am currently preparing for the Judicial Scrivener (Shiho Shoshi) exam and would like to suggest a feature that would significantly improve my workflow.
Dual-Page Display for PDFs
When reading extensive legal texts and Ito Juku course materials, being able to view two pages side-by-side is crucial. It helps maintain context, compare clauses, and cross-reference information efficiently.
Adding a dual-page view for PDFs would greatly enhance reading and annotation, especially for users working with dense academic or legal materials.
Thank you…
1 voteHi! Thanks for your suggestion!
You can already view two PDFs side-by-side in Goodnotes by using iPadOS multiple windows. This lets you open two pages of the same document (or two different documents) in Split View.
You can find step-by-step instructions here:
https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/7353757107215-Open-Goodnotes-in-multiple-windows-on-iPadOS
Hope this helps with your study setup!
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Dual-document view / split-screen inside the app
Right now, GoodNotes doesn’t allow opening two documents side by side within the same app window.
• You wish it worked like FreeNote S, where you can view and interact with two notes or PDFs at the same time. This is useful for comparing notes, referencing one document while writing on another, or dragging content between them without constantly switching tabs.2 votesHi! Thanks for your suggestion!
You can already view two pages side-by-side in Goodnotes by using iPadOS multiple windows. This lets you open two pages of the same document (or two different documents) in Split View.
You can find step-by-step instructions here:
Hope this helps with your workflow!
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Request for dual page view in landscape mode.
Hello,
I’d like to suggest a feature that would really help when studying.
It would be great if we could view two pages side by side in landscape mode, like an open book. When working with PDFs or textbooks, I often need to look at a problem and its solution at the same time, or compare a question with its answer choices. Right now, switching back and forth between pages breaks the flow.
Even having this option only in landscape mode would make a big difference.
Thank you for your time and consideration.1 voteHi! Thanks for your suggestion!
You can already view two PDFs side-by-side in Goodnotes by using iPadOS multiple windows. This lets you open two pages of the same document (or two different documents) in Split View.
You can find step-by-step instructions here:
https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/7353757107215-Open-Goodnotes-in-multiple-windows-on-iPadOS
Hope this helps with your study setup!
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Goodnotes Team
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Use on IPhone
Would like to use Goodnotes both to view and creat/edit on my iPhone 14 Plus. I ALWAYS have my phone accessible as I do not carry my iPad out with me and would love to be able to make corrections/additions to my planner
1 voteHello,
The Goodnotes app is available to download on your iPhone.
Once you download it, you can log in and access your notes. You’ll be able to view and edit them according to your plan.
Give it a try and see how it works. If there’s a specific improvement you’d like to see on iPhone, let us know by submitting a new idea or checking existing ones 🙂
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Table of Contents
Hello GoodNotes Team,
I love using GoodNotes for my medical study workflow.
I would like to request a Table of Contents, Sub-contents navigation feature for PDFs.This would make navigating large textbooks much easier, especially for students and professionals working with multiple long medical PDFs.
Thank you for considering this feature and for continually improving the app!
1 voteHello,
The option to create navigation within files already exists—you can find it in the Outlines section of the sidebar.
Let us know if this is what you’re looking for!
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outiline sort by page number defaultly
Please add an option to sort the Outline/Table of Contents by page number by default. Right now, outline items often appear in the order they were created or imported, which makes long documents hard to navigate. A default “Sort by page number” setting (ideally per-document, with a global default in Settings) would improve usability and reduce manual reordering. If users prefer custom order, they should still be able to switch back to manual sorting.
1 voteHello, thanks for sharing the idea!
The option to sort the outline by page number just went live in the recent iOS release (version 7.0.22).
To enable it, tap the top-left icon in the Outlines sidebar and select Sort by page number.
Please note that switching to this option will remove any custom ordering.
You can read more details about outlines here.
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BRING BACK THE AUTOMATIC FULL-PAGE TEXT BOX
Ever since they have removed the automatic full-page text box, it has ruined note taking as a whole. It is such an inconvenience to use text boxes, as it is harder to manage and just overall too much to use. I would like to bring back the automatic full-page text boxes as it made note taking more convenient, efficient, and easier to manage.
1 voteHello,
Full-page typing is available for text boxes.
To enable full-page typing within a notebook, select the Text Tool > long-press on the page > choose Start Typing.
If you’d prefer a dedicated full-typing experience, you can also try Text Documents, a file type designed specifically for typing.
Let us know if this works for you!
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Goodnotes Team
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Single page whiteboard
My notebook has too many pages to convert to whiteboard. Please enable single page whiteboards.
1 voteHi Jennifer,
Thanks for your request!
The option to convert one or multiple pages from a notebook or PDF to whiteboard already exists.
Here’s how to do it:
- Go to Pages navigation
- Tap the three dots (⋯) → Select Pages
- Choose the pages you want to convert (one or more)
- Tap More → Convert to Whiteboard
Let us know if that works for you!
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[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.
42 votesHello, thanks for sharing the idea!
Currently, there are 2 options for ordering sub-items in the outline: manual ordering and sorting by page number.
1) For custom ordering, simply drag and drop items to a new position between other items.
2) The option to sort the outline by page number just went live in the recent iOS release (version 7.0.22). To enable it, tap the top-left icon in the Outlines sidebar and select Sort by page number. Please note that switching to this option will remove any custom ordering.
You can read more details about outlines here.
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[Lasso] Allow creating multiple text boxes without switching to the lasso
Stop having lasso be the default tool. I cannot even remove it from the toolbar. It is frustrating that everything always goes back to lasso. I can’t even do multiple text boxes one after the other because once you type in a text box once and click off it goes straight to lasso instead of having text toggled on like it used to
543 votesHello! Thanks so much for your feedback and for sharing your ideas with us.
We’re excited to let you know that we’ve updated the Text tool and introduced a new dedicated floating menu for text boxes, including more customization options.
One of the new tools is Pin Text Tool — when enabled, it keeps the Text tool active so you can create multiple text boxes continuously without having to reselect it each time.
This is especially helpful when you're focused on adding or adjusting text in your notes. The pin will automatically turn off once you switch to another tool.
Feel free to try it out and let us know how it works for you!
This improvement is available in the latest Apple update.
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Allow deleting outlines on shapes
With the new update my shapes have to be equipped with an outline. I preferred using the transparent filler colour as a decent highlight for my study notes, which I got by either erasing the outline with a stroke eraser or by pressing "back" once. Please bring back this feature or add the option of "no-outline" when creating a shape.
I'd also love to have my colour presets in the auto-shape menu. It isn't useful to me, when it doesn't align with the colour scheme I use.
1 voteHello,
If you’d like to remove the outline from shapes, you can adjust this in the Stroke settings by selecting the object. There are 4 available styles: None, Solid, Dashed, and Dotted. For your case, select None.
To set default colors and stroke settings for shapes, you can adjust these options in the floating menu of the Shapes tool.
Let us know if this works for you!
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[Toolbar] Support Customization
Bring back the option to customise the toolbar. I see a recent update has partially returned this feature (allowing to customise the main toolbar options), but this needs to carry over to each toolbar options (pen, pencil, highlighter, etc). Allow reorganising the squeeze pop up menu. This is meant to help streamline productivity, but now having my most used tools all over the place, I’m wasting time scrolling to find them.
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1,549 votes[Toolbar Customization is live for Android, Windows and Web 🎉]
Hello,
We're happy to let you know that Toolbar Customization is now live for Android, Windows and Web apps.
For iOS users, this feature has been available since the November 2025 release — and now we’re excited to bring the same flexibility to more platforms.
You can now customize your toolbar in Notebooks and Whiteboards by hiding or showing tools, and reordering them to match your workflow.
Access Toolbar Customization from the Accessories Overlay or from Document Settings (in Notebooks).
For more details, please check out this article: Customize the toolbar.
Feel free to share your feedback and let us know how the feature works for you!
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[Shapes] Improve Rotation
Why can't I rotate shapes? This is a very basic function of all note taking apps.
Why can't I make shapes smaller than an arbitrary vertical size threshold? You can make shapes as skinny as you want, but you cannot make them shorter than some random limit the team(?) decided was an appropriate size.
Not being able to make small shapes and/or rotate shapes at all severely limits my ability to take notes and make diagrams in classes like biochemistry and biology (which is probably a significant portion of your users, btw!).
This existed in 6... why would you remove…
92 votesThanks for your feedback!
Shape rotation has been fixed and available in today’s release. With the new v7.0.8 update, shapes created by drawing and holding with the pen tool can now be rotated.
Update your app to try it out!
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Increase Whiteboard Limits!
9 votesHello, thank you for sharing your feedback!
At the moment, there are no limit warnings when using the whiteboard. You might have encountered this issue between September and November 2025, when the whiteboard was first released to early users and some usage limits were in place. These limits have since been removed, and you can now use the whiteboard freely.
Please let us know if you have any other suggestions or feedback about the whiteboard experience!
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[Sep 2025 Launch] New Toolbar Suggestions
Thread for feedback on the new toolbar.
Feel free to share any bugs or suggestions for improvement regarding the updated toolbar.459 votesThank you so much for sharing your feedback on the toolbar updates. Over time, we’ve addressed most of the points raised, and all the toolbar improvements we’ve shared and released are listed here.
Since this thread includes multiple ideas, some of which have already been addressed, it’s challenging to respond to each one individually or determine which topics need further attention. To keep the forum organized, we’ll be closing this topic for now.
If you have multiple ideas and would like them to be actionable, we recommend sharing them in separate threads (1 feature request = 1 thread). This helps other community members discover, discuss, and vote on ideas, and allows us to better understand which improvements are most important to you. We also recommend checking for similar existing ideas and adding your vote to strengthen them.
Please also review the forum for existing similar ideas and add…
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Remove all the scam posts here
This is a great place to inform the GN developers of customer feature requests but it's currently infiltrated by scam ads and marketing that just clog the system. There must be a way to stop such parasitic behaviour.
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Changing Default Font TextBox
After the latest update, I can’t find a way to set a default font and size for the textbox, unlike before when you can just click the icon and store the current font and size as default. Right now, every time you add a textbox, you have to start typing from blue, size 10, Modern font and change it manually.
105 votesHello! The option to set the default style for text boxes is already available.
You can do it in two ways:
- From the text box object menu (tap the three dots → Save as Default).
- From the Text Tool floating menu (tap the T with a heart icon). This icon becomes active whenever your current settings differ from the default.
You can save any settings as default: color, size, font, text style, alignment, line height, and text box style.
Let us know if it works for you!
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Price
What are the prices for GoodNotes? I can't find any prices on https://www.goodnotes.com/pricing
1 voteHello! The prices are now available on the pricing page of our website. However, they may vary by region, so we recommend checking the pricing directly in the app.
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