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  1. I used to use the shape snap feature when writing notes. Previously the shape would automatically fill in with a less opaque colour, and I had the option to erase the filled colour using the erase tool, or leave it but change the colour(both of which I used on different occasions). In the new update I can't erase or change the filled in colour and my only options are to disable the autofill colour altogether, or to just ignore it. I don't understand why this feature was removed.

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  2. When importing files such as PDFs into GoodNotes 6 for Mac, the document name keeps the filename extension (e.g., โ€œDocument.pdfโ€).
    Please automatically strip extensions upon import, or at least provide a toggle in settings.

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  3. Please allow us to choose image after tapping on desired location like earlier rather than Choosing the image then moving it to desired location as it doubles the work.

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  4. ์ƒ๋‹จ๋ฐ” ๋‚ด์˜ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ๋“ค ๋ˆŒ๋ €์„ ๋•Œ ์˜ต์…˜์ฐฝ์ด ๋ฐ‘์•  ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ , ์ง„์งœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚œ๋‹ค.
    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ธ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋ณด๋Š”๋ฐ, 9์›” ์ „์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ ค๋†“์€ ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์„๊ฑฐ์•ผ.
    ๋„ˆ๋Š” ๊ณต์ฑ…์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ฑ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด? 5๋„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  6๋„ ์ƒ€๋Š”๋ฐ ์ง„์งœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณ€์‹ ์ด ์ตœ์•…์ด๋‹ค.
    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ €์ฃผํ• ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.
    ์ง„์งœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์งœ์ฆ์ด ๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋ญ ์ž๊พธ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฑฐ ํ•˜๋ ค๋“ค์ง€๋ง๊ณ  ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜๋‚˜ ์ž˜ํ•ด์ค˜.

    I truly donโ€™t understand the decision behind the new toolbar behavior.
    Having option panels suddenly appear below when tapping buttons on the top bar feels incredibly counterintuitive and distracting.

    Iโ€™ve never submitted feedback before, but I really believe reverting to the pre-September design would be a wiseโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  5. Thank you for reworking the sticky notes <3 . They are almost perfect now.
    One thing is still impractical though.
    All sticky notes open to the lower right - regardless of their position on the page. It would be great if they intelligently recognized the page borders and opened in such a way as to stay completely visible.
    Reason: Many textbooks and almost all scientific papers have a 2 column layout with only a narrow gap between. Is is only natural to place notes for the right column in the right margin. See image.

    (Another but minor improvement: When aโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  6. I wish there would be a setting to globally turn off snap to other shapes. I often find it rather annoying when trying to draw lines closely together. A global setting to not be on by default would be a game changer for me.

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  7. Subject: Ink layer jumps behind imported graph elements when selected in GoodNotes 7

    Description:
    When using GoodNotes 7 (currently on version 7.0.8), any ink drawn on top of an imported image or element (for example, a coordinate-grid or graph) behaves incorrectly after being selected.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Insert an image or element (such as a coordinate grid) onto the page.
    2. Send the image to the back.
    3. Draw a parabola or any ink stroke on top of the grid using the Pen tool (optionally with Shape Recognition enabled).
    4. After the ink snaps into shape, tap it onceโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  8. Have the pen colours and highlighter colours be able to be organised into different colour palettes. Also be able to have different presets for different notebooks!

    2 votes

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  9. When exporting PDFs into and out of Goodnotes, accessibility features like alt text on images, reading pane orders, etc. are totally lost. As an instructor, I have been using Goodnotes to annotate pdfs of notes in class, but I cannot post those annotated pdfs because they do not meet our University's accessibility standards. Exporting as editable or flattened files does not help with this.

    Creating a PowerPoint and setting up accessibility info. in it is not difficult, and those translate perfectly to Adobe Acrobat and are recognized by Canvas. Ideally, it seems like Goodnotes handwriting recognition could essentially add alt.โ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  10. Since the newest update, the straightening of the highlighting tool has been "improved", i.e. when highlighting and holding at the end of the line, the shape resembles the original handwriting with more details. But that brings a rather glaring downside: when marking, one usually does not highlight in a perfectly straight line but rather with multiple bumps etc. When holding now, the highlighter often is not converted into a straight line through the text but rather a bumpy line with multiple edges and curves. It therefore does not go straight through the text anymore.

    It would be lovely, if GoodNotesโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  11. For some reason, after the recent update, the pencil tool's color has become very light, and there's no setting to adjust it. I hope you can make the pencil color darker, or add an option to adjust its darkness/opacity.

    2 votes

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  12. When you select something with the lasso, and the hot-bar of options immediately comes up, it gets in the way when you're trying to move things to a specific place, it would be much better if it went back to what it was - selecting using lasso, then tapping the selected area to pull up the object options.

    2 votes

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  13. After updating goodn0te tools bar in Sep2025 I found one issue which is after changing back from the lasso tools to writing tools, it's always the eraser. Nomatter what writing tools i used before lasso ( such as pen highlight etc), it is always become erasor

    2 votes

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  14. Before the latest update there was the option to access an overview of all pages I marked as favourite pages after clicking on the โ€žfour rectangleโ€œ buttom at the top left hand corner.

    There the first tab displayed the overview of all pages and THE SECOND TAB displayed the option to quickly access all my marked favourite pages.

    Now the second tab is the document outline (which was the third one before) and the third now is an overview of audio files. I almost never need audio files but I need the quick access of ALL my favourites sometimes justโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  15. Please bring back the setting, that you can customize you text field and save the customization. In earlier versions it was able to fine tune the line spacing, now it is too imprecise. It is very bad

    As well we need the function to create tables. It would make so many thing so much easier. Please invent it

    2 votes

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  16. As a apple pencil pro user. The squeeze feature for openning the circle toolbar is self sufficient for changing tools so a settintgs that remove the horizontal toolbar when using apple pencil pro would be a great and easy way to get more space for notebook and usage of the squeeze feature on the pencil. Hope the idea seems great !

    2 votes

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  17. Before the update you used to have the option of draw and hold for the highlighter. No you canโ€™t switch it on or off. And the โ€žmandatory draw and holdโ€œ that you provided the highlighter with now is bad. It doesnโ€™t correct the actual wobbles and curves itself but just the last part that comes after the wobbles or nothing at all and it just makes the wobbles more appealing and aesthetically. But its nerve wracking if you mark things fast during lectures and have to fight with not straight lines that sometimes cover the lines below or under. Iโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  18. We need a spline function, it is really hard and long proctor draw a functions, plus with the new update the connection dots are much bigger and canโ€™t even get a good connection between curves, it drives me crazy because I draw a lot of functions

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  19. [KR]

    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Goodnotes 7.0.6 ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์ดํ›„ Shape(๋ชจ์–‘) ๋„๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‹œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰(0ยฐ) ์Šค๋ƒ… ๋ฐ‘์ค„์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ€ข ๋ฌธ์ œ ์š”์•ฝ: Shape ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ง์„ ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋„ ์ด์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ 0ยฐ๋กœ ์Šค๋ƒ…๋œ ๋ฐ‘์ค„์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์Œ.
    โ€ข ์žฌํ˜„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„:
    1. ๋ฌธ์„œ ์—ด๊ธฐ โ†’ 2) Shape ๋„๊ตฌ ์„ ํƒ โ†’ 3) ํ…์ŠคํŠธ ์•„๋ž˜์— ์ง์„ ์„ ๊ธ‹๊ธฐ โ†’ 4) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ด ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ
    โ€ข ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ๋™์ž‘: Shape ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ Line์ด 0ยฐ๋กœ ์Šค๋ƒ…๋˜์–ด ๋ฐ‘์ค„๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
    โ€ข ์‹ค์ œ ๋™์ž‘: ์Šค๋ƒ…์ด ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒ, ๋ฐ‘์ค„ ๋Œ€๋Ÿ‰ ์ž‘์—… ์‹œ ์ •๋ ฌ ํ’ˆ์งˆ/์†๋„ ์ €ํ•˜
    โ€ข ์˜ํ–ฅ๋„: ์ˆ˜์—… ์ง„๋„ ์‹œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ~์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฐ‘์ค„์„ ๊ธ‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” Ruler(์ž) ๋„๊ตฌ๋งŒ์ด ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•ด, ์ž ๋ฐฐ์น˜/์ด๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€โ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  20. The option to change the default setting on Goodnotes on Mac DISSAPPEARED. Doing my state exams rn and I need that option back.

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