This one feature is making me consider going to one of your competitors and dumping Goodnotes. . :(

So sad 😭 neeed ittttt

In my opinion, Goodnotes 5 is almost perfect and far ahead of other notes apps. The main area that it needs improvement is in the ability to draw diagrams that are organized and clean without taking ages to do it. This problem could be easily solved using layers and a fill tool. While some have suggested that a simple “front to back” or “back to front” layering system would suffice, a comprehensive layering system in which each layer is treated as a separate document layered on top of or underneath another would allow for complex anatomical diagrams like I use for med school or just simply creating flow charts. Second, the current “fill color” option for shapes needs a lot of work. While it is nice to have certain shapes automatically fill, there is currently no way to change the opacity of the fill. Second, it would be great if there was a better way to fill shapes manually, similar to Microsoft Paint’s bucket tool.

GoodNotes 5 is single-handedly my most used iPad app. It is the BEST for note taking. But, it falls short when it comes to drawing sketches for my notes. Other note taking apps, like notability, also have issues when it comes to sketching notes.

Drawing a diagram of the layers of the skin, or the cores of the Earth, is time consuming and overly difficult. I like to test out many different custom colors from the color wheel to get the right colors, and unless you save every single custom color you make, there’s no chance you’re getting that color back without trying to recreate that color. It’s also quite annoying to have a bunch of random colors in your pen color section when you’ll only use those once for that one diagram. It would be amazing if we could actually pick custom colors from an eye dropper tool. This would solve so many problems I and many other people face.

I also find myself constantly making mistakes while drawing (I’m not an arts major, after all) and needing to erase things. Unfortunately, in GN5 there is no way to layer text, images, or even different pens/drawings. It would be dope if we could layer different items on top of each other. What would be even better on top of that is the ability to lasso an area and have an option to see “layers,” and if we clicked on that, we would be able to see the different layers of each object present in that space, isolate them (to delete them, erase specific parts, etc.), or change their layer position.

I know these are big asks and are likely complicated to implement, but I do think these would significantly improve the user’s quality of life and put GoodNotes 5 at an advantage over its competition.

It would be nice if you could lock elements on the page so you do not move them by mistake. blah, you will easily move a widget when you have to write on top of it

With the number of people requesting this, including myself, the developers should make this a priority. Your competition already has this feature and the send back and bring forward features. These are extremely useful features to have.

Please add layers with opacity!
This will Aid drafting.
And It can record our mind!
Please Take This into Consideration!

Any update on this feature yet?

To be able to draw in different layers and to be able to see a transparent version of the thing on the layer behind the one you are on

YESSSSSS!!! It’s really frustrating without it

Does anyone from Goodnotes even look at these?? This idea is from 2013 and here we are 8 years later and STILL NO LAYERS!!

That would be amazing for notes / added explanations or even solutions for problems

This would be an amazing feature. I teach piano and have to use the same pdf with different students. Layering would be amazing. In the meantime I will look at zoom notes since someone mentioned it had that option.

This would help me so much!

Yes, very practicable that would be, indeed...Wondered the same

Hi,

i would be good if we can import and manage the layers inside PDF.
(show and hide function)

We definitly need a layer system inside Goodnotes to create, delete, move
custom layers and the option to move our notes to a specific layer.

I have a brand new iPad Pro M1 and my imported PDF are very slow to handle
(it takes a lot of time to show them sharp!).

We need a ruler, triangle ruler and protractor.
and the abibility to force specific alignments for lines (0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, ...)

We need a grid a standard mm-grid (some lines are thicker than the others)
or the abibility to set a custom grid ....
a isometric grid would be also awesome!

Greetings from Germany
Tobi

Yes!

With the new sticky notes, this is practically essential now!

Please. This is the simplest feature that can probably be implemented over the air. Please give me the option to disable highlighter layering. This is very annoying when doing diagrams but instead y’all add “elements” when we can already import pictures :( Please add this soon or I might have to find another app to do diagrams (like Procreate) and transfer over, which is very inconvenient in lecture. Thanks.

Sometimes, I wanna to edit the page after I did notes. Like add a picture. If GoodNotes has a function can put handwriting notes into a transparent layer, I can move it to anywhere, even move to another page. So that I don’t have to erase and write again.