I've been using GoodNotes for a while now, and one feature I think could really improve the user experience is a smarter tagging system for organizing notes. Currently, folders and search functions work well, but when you have hundreds of notes, it becomes more difficult to manage.
My suggestions:
Allow users to add multiple custom tags to a note.
Enable tag filtering, so we can quickly find notes by combining different tags.
Add automatic suggestions based on frequently used tags, or even AI-driven suggestions from the content of the note.
This would make managing study materials, projects, or research topics much easier without having to constantly reorganize files into separate folders. I believe this will be useful for students, professionals, and anyone who uses GoodNotes as their primary productivity tool.
by [that's not my neighbor](https://thatsnotmyneighbor.org/)

I would like to have my Apple tages work in Goodnotes so when I am tracking a topic in good notes I can find it with ease.

This is a very important matter. Especially for users who constantly take notes during meetings, the tagging feature exists in other applications. Therefore, it definitely needs to be added to GoodNotes as well."

This is such a basic feature, even the default iOS Notes app has tagging. Come on Good Notes!

yes please! that would be gamechanging! i thin apple notes and apple files makes a great job! e.g. in notes you just write in the document #recipe and then, in the list of all the folders down below is the category „tags“ and ten these are all listed and you can click on them. super easy and customisable.
the files app from apple is also great. they do it similar but with additional colors as well.
i just love, that i can tag one document with more than one tag. sometimes an underfolder just doesn’t work because one document needs two categories, then it just is not possible to use an extra folder :/ and now i have one folder in goodnotes with soo many documents it’s very very unorganized :(

In addition to being able to “star” or “favourite” documents, it would be great to be able to tag or label documents as “read/complete”, “review again”, “unread”, “in progress”, etc… kinda of like progress labels so when I’m doing readings for school, I know which documents I’ve read, which I am in progress of reading, and which I haven’t started. Rather than using the single-use “ favourite feature, which limits the categories I mentally view my files in. It would be nice if the star remained where it is, and right beside it you could select from a drop down list of other tags, and even customizable tags which would form a folder in the side bar.

Please this is much needed!!!

This is so important!

Just Let the ipad app and the windows app sync together, else it is of not a great use i guess.

Please implement this.

I need desperately need this feature. Please take this one in your next feature update. Thanks

Edit: hashtags don't work, so I am am using "tag:blahblahblah" in a text box instead, so searches for "tag:" bring up all tags and searches for "tag:blah" will bring up anything tagged "blah". Tenth anniversary of this feature request. Not structured, but until they get around to it, this will maybe be ok instead. If they do,they should make it easy to convert "tag:" or any arbitrary text string to their tagging format.

This would be amazing. I would love to use goodnotes for a recipe notebook, but the lack of searchability makes it hard. Yes there are template solutions but those put hard restraints on the number of pages etc, so that detracts from the flexibility a digital solution should have

I desperately need tags. It's honestly wild that it hasn't been implemented and isn't on the features they are working on. Instead it only refers you to the outline feature as an option to tag pages, being able to use it multiple times per page, completely missing the point that I'd like to use ONE tag on MULTIPLE pages, not the other way around.

I tried out Noteful and I honestly am considering to switch over there, but I'd hate to be giving up the option to search my handwritten notes, plus the large amount of notes I have already created in Goodnotes.

I am really looking for a tagging system like people such as Isla, Eric and Jennifer have commented below, for the purpose of searching and finding information quickly across a notebook but also across all notes. For me this is why I keep looking at other apps at the moment

Love this!!! Would be great if tags could be as comprehensive as Evernote. Not necessarily colored but tags for subjects that can be user defined

Other apps do this (OneNote, Evernote come to mind), but GoodNotes is the most elegant for those of us who like hand-writing our notes. It’s great that you all are adding all of the stuff for the planning community, but please catch up with features for professionals and graduate students. THIS tagging feature is essential for us.

I have checked all over the internet and App Store for websites or apps that actually have this system of tagging, but none of them are sufficient.

I tried Noteful, but it didn’t work out like what I was looking for. It had tags, but you had to exit out of your notebook and click on that tag name to see all the pages that had that tag (it collects all pages in all of your notebooks that have that tag somewhere on that page). In addition, it didn’t have all the other awesome features Goodnotes had.

The Tagging System I’m looking for:

1. I want something that would let you create, search, and edit tags inside individual notebooks (with the option of making select tags universal like how Noteful works) so that when I searched for the tag, all parts of the pages that I tagged with a tag box (like exactly everything that is inside that tag box) would pop up in chronological order (this can help me keep out currently unimportant parts of my notebook like practice problems). I want to also be able to tag whole notebook pages.

2. In addition to filtering sections of my notebook with the tag, I want to be able to still search inside my handwriting or outline inside the already filtered material (this would be really helpful when I’m doing a quick study and searching for keywords).

3. I also want to be able to overlap tags when I am assigning them and searching for them. (Like search for two or more tags and being able to continue overlapping more tags as long as there is a page with that combination of tags.)

I understand that this is a complicated request. However, it can be a game changer for any iPad notetaking app.

To me, if there is an iPad notetaking app that has this exact tagging system, offline editing, and the ability to work with large files, I would immediately transfer all my notes into it and use it until there is an alternative with more features.

I have attached 3 pages of a visual. Due to file size limits, most of my visual was cut off. Please open this link to view my full visual: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ExeKpQQK8ITinUnj-VQRGPfHaa4S8Yqha-EczE2xo8/edit.

Add the ability to add search tags or search keywords to the page of a document.

I am a professional who has started using good notes. I need this feature because I’m often in back to back meetings and taking notes on either client needs or doing people management activities. I don’t always have time to fumble around and find the folder or re arrange pages into folders or notebooks. Tags would be a great way to quickly organize notes based on multiple dimensions. Similar to one note with tabs but even more streamlined.