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  1. Thank you for always having a great app.

    I love it as a long-term life log, such as diaries, thought records, and creations.

    While using it, if you can consider it in the future, we will send you some happy function requests.

    ・Since the number of notebooks has increased, it would be very helpful to have a function that allows you to manually clear the cache.

    ・Since it is used for diary purposes, it would be nice to have a mechanism that can record and link location information when a function like a map database is added in the…

    1 vote

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    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas.

    It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us and other users to discuss, vote on, and track each idea individually properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting.

    That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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  2. 1) No “Recently used templates” when adding a page

    Issue: When adding a page, GoodNotes doesn’t show recently used templates—it mainly suggests templates “most like the previous page.”
    Why it’s annoying: Adding pages becomes slower and repetitive if you rotate between the same few templates.
    Request: Add a “Recently used templates” row (and ideally let users pin a few templates there).

    2) Favorites are too hidden

    Issue: Favorite pages aren’t quick to access.
    Why it’s annoying: Favoriting loses its purpose if it still takes extra taps to find the pages you marked as important.
    Request:

    Add a Favorite button in…

    1 vote

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    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas.

    It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us and other users to discuss, vote on, and track each idea individually properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting.

    For example, for the custom outline you can join that idea.

    That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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  3. Ben lise öğrencisiyim ücretsiz şekilde uygulamanızı kullanıyorum ücretsiz 3 not tek kullanabiliyorum bu sayının artmasını talep ediyorum lütfen !!

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    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →

    Hello, thank you for choosing Goodnotes!

    On the free plan, you can create up to 3 files. If you’d like unlimited files, you can upgrade to one of our subscription plans—pricing details are available here.

    In the meantime, you can still create multiple pages within a single document, or use a Whiteboard with unlimited space if that works better for you.

    Goodnotes Team

  4. You could replicated what Spotify does for their music. This would consist of how many notes taken, what percentage of note takers your in, how long you spend studying compared to other people, favorite tools, most used document, and ect.

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    0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →

    Thank you so much for sharing your idea and the specific information you’d like to see in your personal Wrapped!

    We don’t have plans for a personalized Wrapped this year, but we’ll definitely take this into account and consider your suggestions for next year.

    Stay in touch!

    Goodnotes Team

  5. (eng)
    Hello, I'm a user of GoodNotes 6 and I have a few suggestions and issues I'd like to share:

    Highlighter Layering
    When I write something and then use the highlighter on top, the highlighter covers the text, making it look very blurry. I would really appreciate it if the highlighter could automatically go behind the text by default.

    Search Function
    GoodNotes allows searching handwritten text within a note, which is great. However, it doesn't support searching content within uploaded images. It would be much more powerful if the search function could also recognize and include text within images.

    Split…

    1 vote

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    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now. It currently includes multiple suggestions, where some of them already live, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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  6. Tapes to hide content - right now if the app crashes or refreshes, the tapes you’ve taken off to quiz yourself reset and hide the content again

    • suggestion- A button to manually reset the tapes that way you know what content to revisit rather than losing all your progress

    Index words on pictures- right now if you screenshot a document and upload it into good notes, the words on the picture aren’t searchable

    • Suggestion- being able to search words on images

    AI quiz questions-right now if you do multiple quizzes on a document, the AI repeats the same questions unless…

    1 vote

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as some of the ideas already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    1. A history of all notes opened. This should have a duration limit. Say if someone spends 10 minutes reading or revising a note it should go into history. Or let each history entry be deletable.
    2. Calendar view of which notes were opened on what dates and what time.
    3. Ability to schedule entire notes or pages of notes into a spaced repetition system.
    4. Ability to rate how well you know the notes.
    5. Noteful introduced tape feature to hide parts of notes similar to cloze feature of Anki. They have Layers as well. Goodnotes should introduce these features
    31 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Admin →

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now. It currently includes multiple suggestions, where some of them already live, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    Goodnotes Team

  7. according to textbox:
    1. different border styles for textboxes (dotted, dashed, ...)
    2. textbox-shadows also on other sides, not just bottom (for example: just on the left side, ...)
    3. multiple favorites including line height for usage in different paper styles

    according to full-page-text-typing
    1. option to change the font and color of H1, etc. (for example: I want a blue headline and black text for my notes, so i can manually change this to the font and color I like and dont need to recolor after writing notes)
    2. multiple textboxes in different templates (for example: in the 2-columns-paper…

    3 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as most of the ideas already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    Goodnotes Team

  8. indent feature
    - allow bulleted items to have multiple different horizontal start locations
    - "tab" key on keyboard asks like indent button
    - select / highlight bulleted items, click tab key or indent button --> goodnotes indents selected lines (instead of deleting them)
    - click tab key or indent button, type "- " to create a new bulleted item --> goodnotes begins a new list item indented one level inwards

    improved line spacing option
    - line spacing could automatically align with the lines on the default papers (like the graph paper)
    - input value instead of slider

    specific "list" feature…

    18 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Admin →

    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as some of the suggestions are already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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  9. 1 vote

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  10. It would be cool if there is a solution pen that is only displayed when you switch to a solution mode, because for example you have a whole list full of sentences that you have to learn the answer to, and so you can just query it yourself, (the flashcards are handy, but with whole pages full of questions it gets too much). Example. You write down the questions with the normal pen, and then switch to the answer pen, with which you write down the answer.

    I would also like to be able to synchronize certain OneNote pages with…

    4 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as some of them already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    • audio recordings that sync to the handwriting (fundamental)
    • the possibility to use light or dark mode independently from the system
    • have only one color palette for both pens and highlighters
    • the dropper tool to add colors to the palette
    • edit / personalise toolbar with the possibility to hide features that we don’t use often in a little “+” sign where we can find all of them that one time we need to (this would be AWESOME)
    • improvements on the text tool (add the option to write all over the page like in word and not only within text boxes
    • infinite…
    3 votes

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    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them, and team will consider them 🙏


    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively on this forum, we’re going to close this idea for now. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly for the forum community.


    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.


    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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  11. customization of the tools in the toolbar.
    -To be able to place the tools in the order you want
    - Within the tools as a marker, you can choose the intensity of the color (brightness)

    • Be able to create annotation routines, for example that the program detects or you introduce some patterns so that when you select a certain color or marker it already acquires a certain thickness or (better option ->) recognition of certain symbols so that it automatically changes to a tool (previously defined) and to save us having to change manually (((for example I write a "-"…

    4 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas — we really appreciate the thought and effort behind them 🙏

    To help us review and prioritize feedback more effectively, we’re going to close this idea for now, as most of the ideas already live. It currently includes multiple suggestions, which makes it harder for us (and other users) to discuss, vote on, and track each one properly.

    If you’d like, please feel free to submit each idea separately, or add your vote to existing ideas that match what you’re suggesting. That really helps us understand what matters most to the community.

    Thanks again for sharing and for helping make the forum better!

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    Goodnotes Team

  12. 1 vote

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  13. Now, when importing a word file it isn’t imported properly and everything is shifted, some things are missing and it just doesn‘t work. We‘d like, that it works as good as importing pdf files! Because that’s just awesome!

    2 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Admin →

    Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortuantely, sometimes the format of Word documents can’t be read by our PDF converter correctly. In cases like this, please save the Word document to PDF first and then import it with GoodNotes.

  14. This is all about sidecar. If you don't know what that is, here's a link that explains what it is: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210380.

    I use my iPad as the second display of my mac so I can be on zoom on my laptop and take notes on my iPad by typing on my laptop - this is easier than typing on my iPad. This really makes it convenient for me as a student. However, one thing I noticed is that there is a HUGE delay between my action and reaction. Basically, when I scroll on my mouse, it takes 1-2 secs…

    2 votes

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  15. I would like if the scrolling feature using my finger to slide the pages up (I use vertical) would be more smooth and consistent. It is so frustrating when my first swipe is ignored, then the next one is slow and it seems like it does not respond consistently. I just want a smooth scroll when going through my lecture slides and taking notes quickly.

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    Sorry to hear about the issue. It sounds like you’re experiencing a bug that we should be able to fix for you. Please check if you’re running the latest version of GoodNotes which is 5.4.46 at the moment. If it is happening in the latest version, report a problem to our support team through the following link: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Please include more information, ideally also a video recording where we can see the problem you’re experiencing.

  16. I really love working with GoodNotes, especially when I mark my eBooks and PDFs.
    Those have often a length of more than 200 pages.
    Sadly, it often happens that (even though the order is correct in the „miniature-view“) some pages appear in a different order.
    The problem can be fixed with a reset of the app but it’s very annoying I have to say.

    1 vote

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  17. Most of the time, synchronicity across multiple devices is quite quick, however I've begun to notice it sometimes takes a while or I've had to restart the app. I am a university student and I use goodnotes on my macbook and ipad pro, which is great because I can screenshot things on my macbook and write notes on them on my ipad (almost) straight away.

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    The speed of iCloud Sync is not something we can influence from our side. It should sync automatically every 15-30 seconds and it also depends on the size of the data that needs to be synced as well as external factors like your internet speed. In case you notice it is taking far too long or is not working at all, please report a problem to our support team so that we can investigate the issue: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Make sure to export the diagnostic data from GoodNotes > Menu > About and include it in your support request.

  18. Whenever you want to zoom in or out or even scroll up or down, the app reacts with a large latency - with some updates it was improved but at the moment it is sadly worse. Like that its definitely not fun to use, near impossible to work with to be honest. Would love if that matter could be looked into. - Love the app otherwise!

    1 vote

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    Sorry to hear about the issue. It sounds like you’re experiencing a bug that we should be able to fix for you. Please check if you’re running the latest version of GoodNotes which is 5.4.46 at the moment. If it is happening in the latest version, report a problem to our support team through the following link: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

    Please include more information, ideally also a video recording where we can see the problem you’re experiencing.

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