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  1. To build a special tool (as a highlighter) that allows to highlight all the title of document and creates, automatically, the index of document in order to avoid manually creation titles.

    8 votes

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  2. Guys - the ability to snooze/set a reminder for a note would be amazing. When i'm using notes to generate ideas etc i often want to come back to them but you get busy and forget. A prompt would be invaluable (similar to 'nudges' in gmail) thanks

    8 votes

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  3. It is very irritating when you touch a Note Tab, either deliberately or by accident, then that not opens at the cover page, not at the last page being edited. You have to select the thumbnails and scroll to the last page. Have an option in settings that states when selecting a note tab continue at the last page being edited or cover page.

    8 votes

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  4. Currently, Goodnotes5's favorites are displayed using thumbnails. This makes it very difficult to find the page that I want to read - have to keep scrolling. Bookmarks/favorite has always function as an outline for me when I used Goodnotes 4.

    I suggest to allow users to have the option of switching between 1. having thumbnails or 2. without thumbnails and only display the title of the bookmark/favorite (like goodnotes4)

    8 votes

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  5. Enable a way to create a shortcut on the homescreen on your device. So instead of having to open goodnotes and then your notebook, just be able to open your notebook directly from the homescreen of the device.

    8 votes

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  6. When displaying a note to a display like a TV via AirPlay, you should be able to “lock” a note to the external display and allow the person using an iPad reference other notes without showing them to the audience. In other words, selecting a single document/page as the “Live” document in the presentation.

    8 votes

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  7. Option to not change the stroke size of the pen during scaling a selection.

    8 votes

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  8. The one that changes when clicking Select, Edit, Text, Pen, Highlight, Eraser...

    I honestly think it doesn't make sense to have that toolbar always active when you are just visualizing a document without editing it. It takes up valuable space for visualization! (specially in Macs with small screens).

    Is there a way to disable that "sub-toolbar"?

    8 votes

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  9. hi
    do you have a plan for add voice recording?
    are you support left to right language like arabik and persian?
    thanks alot

    8 votes

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  10. Every goodnotes update is worse and worse... dont fix it, if it aint broken!!! When I click to go see and scroll through all the pages in a document I dont want a measly 3 pages that I can see per line. I'm a medical student and my lectures that I take notes on from good notes are 100s of pages long and this makes scrolling through large documents extremely inefficient. Bring back the 5 pages per line!!!

    7 votes

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  11. When I have a document open, the tab bar shows a tab for each open document. Also, the Home tab appears on the left in the tab bar. When I click on it, the tab bar with the open documents disappears. To get back to the open documents, I then have to open a document again.

    It would be easier if in the Home view (a) the tab bar remained permanently at the top (so that the Home view is just another tab), or (b) there was a shortcut called “Open documents” on the left.

    7 votes

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  12. Currently, GoodNotes AI can only be used for basic document search (an advanced version of search) and asking questions within a document. Even when hints or correct answers exist in the document, it often responds with messages like, “The requested content cannot be found in the document. I will answer using general knowledge.”

    In addition, I would like the AI to provide answers that directly address my questions, but instead it often gives summarized or reorganized responses, making it difficult to find the exact answer I am looking for.
    For example, when I ask, “Is XX correct?”, the response usually…

    7 votes

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  13. Why can't GoodNotes find certain words from inserted images when I use the search feature? The goodnotes team should really implement an optical character recognition feature, like the ones that one note and notability has. It is so disappointing that we are unable to search for words in a document with images, which would help a lot of students studying in med professions.

    7 votes

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  14. It would be really helpful if, when creating a new notebook or whiteboard, GoodNotes could automatically include the current date (e.g. “September 1, 2025”) and optionally the name of the folder (e.g. “NameFolder – September 1, 2025”) in the file name.
    This would greatly improve file organization, especially for users who create many documents daily (like teachers) and want to keep everything tidy without having to rename files manually.

    7 votes

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  15. Many functions you have placed in submenus could easily fit into their respective window headers, toolbars etc. - thereby becoming more obvious and faster/easier to access.
    examples:

    1) The filter for bookmarked pages in the page browser is now the single item in a submenu. Unnecessary - there is easily enough room for 4 tabs - even when viewed as sidebar and in portrait orientation. img_0387

    2) Select pages and sidebar/popup toggle hide behind a 3 dots menu in the page browser. Why? There is enough room there to show these directly. Esp. if you implement the toggle as one…

    7 votes

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  16. I think it would be an excellent feature to have a seamless integration of numbers or excel with Goodnotes. Basically the idea would be to connect a spreadsheet with your notes in order to be able to insert Numbers' or Excel's tables and plots that can be dynamically updated every time you modify the spreadsheet.

    7 votes

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  17. Hi, I'm an iPad user. The new design is currently very inconvenient to use. The floating design of the writing toolbar feels awkward and cramped. Moreover, bugs occur when switching to other tools. The recording tool occupies too much space, and the large, noticeable logo during recording makes me feel unsafe. Additionally, having to open the toolbar to record is very troublesome. After clicking to record, switching to check slides is cumbersome because it requires multiple clicks. To bookmark important slides quickly, you must first open the tool list, then add them, which is very inconvenient. I really hope it…

    7 votes

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  18. With the new update, it seems that the it is difficult to draw normal straight lines with the draw and hold. Now, it draws a bit of a straight line and then starts another line. Before, I could draw a line and adjust the end point. Now it seems that it just starts an alternate line. Additionally, if line is too short, it makes a twisted circle shape…

    7 votes

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  19. There’s a phrase ‘Answer is ready’ before name of the file,
    it made me can’t see the name of the file and I have to open all of that to find the file I want to use, so I suggest to add an option to close that phrase for more comfortable in use of Goodnotes.

    7 votes

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  20. Design a novel user interface (UI) incorporating features and aesthetics reminiscent of the Liquid Glass technology employed in the iPhone. This design concept aims to create a sleek and distinctive visual experience.

    7 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions!

    Great news — our Liquid Glass UI is currently rolling out 🚧. You can experience the latest UI by updating your app to version 7.1.0, with more refinements and improvements coming in upcoming releases.

    We'll keep you updated as we continue rolling out enhancements, and we'd love to hear your thoughts or any additional feedback in the meantime!

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    Goodnotes Team

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