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  1. Hello Goodnotes Team,

    I am a long-time user of Goodnotes, and I recently upgraded to Goodnotes 6. I am writing to request a crucial improvement regarding text formatting and tables.

    In Goodnotes 5, when I copied a table from ChatGPT or websites and pasted it into a text box, the table structure and grid format were preserved perfectly. However, in Goodnotes 6, this formatting is lost upon pasting; only the raw text appears or the table breaks entirely.

    Copying and pasting digital study materials (like ChatGPT tables) is essential for my workflow. It is very inconvenient to have to use…

    2 votes

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  2. The undo button has been migrated to an inconvenient location. Please revert this change.

    I use split screen mode very often on my tablet, with Goodnotes on one side and lecture slides open on the other. The undo button was easily accessible before.

    Now I have to tap the 3-dot menu just to undo one change. The only other options are to use Goodnotes fullscreen (not ideal), or surgically erase things on diagrams I've drawn.

    This was so disruptive that I've already started moving to a different service. I'm aware there are smart gestures available, but I still heavily prefer…

    2 votes

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  3. Add a built-in translation feature that allows users to select any word, sentence, or paragraph and translate it directly in Goodnotes, especially when studying PDF files. This would be very helpful for students and would save us from switching between Goodnotes and other translation apps.

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  4. Please completely disable the Liquid Glass dynamic effect for older devices (such as my iPad Pro 2018, 12.9-inch with A12X processor), or provide users with a "button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable this feature within the app!!!

    (Before Apple required apps to support Liquid Glass effects as a condition for listing, GoodNotes ran extremely smooth and fluid! After recent updates, it has become laggy, frequently killed in the background, and suffers from delays.)

    Since the app introduced the Liquid Glass effect a few months ago:

    ❶ Typing is noticeably sluggish, with an average delay…

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  5. To add more handwriting languages!! I am a Swedish student that uses digital notetaking on a daily basis, and sure, English is close to our language, but å, ä and ö aren't in the English alphabet; it would greatly help to get Swedish in handwriting and into the app itself!
    And since I've seen that zero have been done to get this done, and a lot of people still want languages such as Polish, Swedish, etc., and no updates, GoodNotes focuses too much on the aesthetic of the app instead of the functionality that it's supposed to give to students!…

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  6. I would like Goodnotes to support exact-match searches.

    More specifically, I would like the search function to be designed with dictionary-like use in mind, such as extracting only the relevant pages containing a specific term from textbooks imported into Goodnotes.

    Currently, for example, searching for “cisplatin” may return results containing unrelated words such as “amyloidosis,” which makes the search function difficult to use.

    This happens consistently when searching Japanese text and is extremely inconvenient.

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  7. Wir brauchen die Zoom-Ansicht für das Whiteboard!
    Ich liebe das Whiteboard & finde es total praktisch, das einzige was fehlt, ist die Zoom-Ansicht, dass man genauso entspannt schreiben kann wie in anderen Formaten, das wäre toll!!

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  8. Hello Goodnotes Team,

    I would like to submit a feature request regarding interactive PDF support in Goodnotes.

    We are developing interactive PDF documents generated programmatically with LaTeX. These documents are intended to provide a much more interactive learning and working experience inside Goodnotes.

    For this purpose, we would like Goodnotes to implement broader support for interactive PDF buttons and actions.

    In particular, it would be very useful if imported PDFs could contain functional interactive buttons, for example to:

    • show or hide solutions, hints, or additional content
    • reveal content after pressing a button
    • trigger different actions within the document
    • navigate between…
    2 votes

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  9. This is what makes goodnote useless to STEM students and engineers.

    No Code Formatting: Lacks dedicated code snippet boxes or syntax highlighting, meaning you must paste code as flat images or screenshots.

    Less Copy-Paste Utility: You cannot easily copy text out of a handwritten note into your IDE

    plus latex style formatting,
    connecting chatgpt and claude. goodnotes ai was a good idea, but it's not fully matured as well as the plugin for goodnotes and chatgpt. it's not functional.

    i love goodnote

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  10. Currently when you highlight text and select “Speak” option the text is red quite well but there is no way to pause, reverse, skip or cancel the feature.

    Please bring these features so I can use only this app to do all my studying, as currently I have to use browser to do the reading and GoodNotes for highlighting.

    2 votes

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  11. Can we duplicate folders or copy it or something and CAN WE upload folders please heavy on the 2nd suggestion because why is it not there bruh... thanks ig

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  12. Save photos to the Photos app – Photos taken directly through Goodnotes should optionally be saved to the device’s Photos app. This would make it much easier to share, organize, and compile them outside of Goodnotes.

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  13. Ich wünsche mir eine Erweiterung der bereits vorhandenen gelben Haftnotizen (“Sticky Notes”) um eine Option, mit der diese Notizzettel – inklusive ihres Inhalts – nicht auf einen extern angeschlossenen Bildschirm oder Beamer gespiegelt werden.

    Anwendungsfall:
    Beim Präsentieren oder Unterrichten über einen externen Monitor/Beamer möchte ich mir private Notizen, Stichpunkte oder Erinnerungen auf einem Sticky Note direkt auf meinem eigenen Gerät (iPad) machen können, ohne dass diese für das Publikum auf der Leinwand sichtbar sind – ähnlich wie ein “Presenter-Notizen”-Modus, wie man ihn z. B. aus PowerPoint kennt.

    Gewünschtes Verhalten:

    • Der Notizzettel bleibt auf dem eigenen Gerät sichtbar und bearbeitbar.
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    2 votes

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  14. Hi Goodnotes team,

    I’d love to see native iOS Translate support added to Goodnotes.

    In many iOS apps, when you select a piece of text, the standard context menu includes a Translate option. Tapping it immediately opens Apple’s built-in translation interface and lets you translate the selected text into your preferred language.

    Currently, this option doesn’t seem to be available when selecting text in Goodnotes. It would be extremely useful, especially for people who use Goodnotes for studying, reading, or working with materials in foreign languages.

    It would be great if Goodnotes could support the native iOS Translate action directly…

    2 votes

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  15. English: Hello! I would love to suggest a feature improvement based on an issue I've run into. When I used my Apple Pencil to take notes while recording audio, I loved how the playback showed my handwriting stroke by stroke in sync with the audio. Since I switched to typing with my keyboard a few months ago, I noticed it only displays the entire paragraph at once once you finish typing. It would be amazing if the keyboard typing could also sync up and display word-by-word or letter-by-letter in real time during audio playback, just like the Apple Pencil.

    Spanish:…

    2 votes

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  16. Please revert the elements selection back to its original form:
    - click on the elements tool and it remains selected just like the pen tool.
    - Tap anywhere on screen and the elements dropdown shows
    - tap on an element to paste it onto the page in the location that was originally tapped
    - if more elements are needed, continue to tap in screen where you would like the element then select the element from the dropdown.

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  17. Dear Goodnotes Product & Support Team,

    First, thank you for continuously pushing the boundaries of digital note-taking. Goodnotes is undeniably the gold standard on personal devices, but there is a massive, untapped frontier waiting for you: Interactive Smartboards in Education and Enterprise.

    Every day, thousands of educators, presenters, and teams use high-end interactive displays like Senses, ViewSonic ViewBoard, and SMART displays. However, the default whiteboard software on these panels pales in comparison to the fluid experience, organizational depth, and ink engine of Goodnotes.

    Bringing an optimized "Goodnotes for Smartboards" edition (or dedicated display mode) to these platforms would completely revolutionize…

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  18. I would like to request an option to reverse the page-turning direction of notebooks and PDF documents.

    Currently, Goodnotes is primarily designed around left-bound documents, where pages progress from left to right. However, traditional Japanese documents that use vertical writing are generally right-bound, with pages progressing from right to left.

    This is not limited to books, manga, or traditional publishing. It is also an important issue for professional users in the Japanese animation industry.

    Japanese Animation Production Scripts

    In Japanese anime production, scripts used for voice recording and audio production are traditionally formatted with vertical Japanese text and right-to-left page…

    2 votes

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  19. I really enjoy using GoodNotes and I’m very happy with the app.

    One feature I’d love to see is support for a smart pen made for GoodNotes, whether developed by your team or through a partnership.

    Sometimes it’s easier to quickly write ideas on paper. If those handwritten notes could be transferred directly into GoodNotes while preserving the natural feel of handwriting, it would create a great bridge between analog and digital note-taking.

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  20. Custom Page Names Instead of Only Page Numbers

    I would love to have the option to assign custom names to individual pages, instead of displaying only page numbers.

    Currently, pages can only be identified by their numbers, which makes it difficult to quickly find specific notes in larger notebooks. It would be much more convenient if users could give each page a custom title, such as “Meeting Notes”, “Chapter 3”, “Ideas”, or “To-Do”.

    This feature would make navigation much faster and improve organization, especially for notebooks with many pages. It could work similarly to naming tabs or sections, while still…

    2 votes

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