In addition to my college notebooks, I also use GN for art sketching. GN's powerful, lag-free vector ink is more responsive and accurate than any other drawing app I have tried, including Tayasui Sketches, Adobe Illustrator Draw and SketchBook. Most of the drawing apps are actually rasters, meaning that you can't scale them without loss of quality. Those that use vector have a noticeable lag, or the strokes aren't as clear as GN. I have copied my drawings to Affinity Designer in my laptop and was able to seamlessly further modify them. For those of us using GN as a sketchbook, adding layers would allow the line drawing to be on one layer, and the colors on another layer(s). Also, one could import an image on the lower layer and trace on the upper layer, and then delete the image, keeping the drawing. Layers would also have the many applications other users have stated in terms of text notebook use.

After 4 years, I still waiting for layers :(

It would make GN much much more valuable if layering is adopted.

First of all, thank you for this good app.

I support this idea.
This would be very helpful for drawings as one could separate e.g. a diagram from the text.
I would like to have something like this:
1. layer - draw a box
2. layer - add some text comments
3. layer - color the area of the box
In case I decide for a other color or I need to change the text - the drawing would be save.
This would speed up the working with goodnotes.

I use GN for my work of building design.
Layering would be greatly useful to sketch multiple version of a design.

Layers. I past shapes into my notes and write on top of them. It is hard to work with text on top of graphics. For example, entering risk on top of this risk graphic.

exactly what I have been missing

I also miss layers - perhaps having a look at lecturenotes on an android-device could be inspiring in this regard...

I use GoodNotes to draw a lot of flow charts and most of the time that I need a tool that can switch between layer so that I can erase or edit just a portion of arrow in the same page. Most obvious example is like layers in photoshop or Sketch apps.

BRING SOMETHING FORWARDS / BACKWARDS!
I just wasted 2 hours of work because I ve done this lovely graph with notes, drawing and images and then I needed to place an image on top. Result? I can't bring the image backwards... all the work is LOST!

I agree, layers would be a useful addition.

Please add this feature.
Thanks.

Layers would help me. I want to write consultation notes and sometimes need to print them. If I could just print the "new layer" on the previous printed paper copy I wouldn't have to print out the whole page with each new addition, just feed the old one into the printer and print the new layer as an addition.

This is important. Either that, or being able to select some portion of what's written/drawn and "locking" it, so that you can write over it and erase without affecting the locked portion.

This feature would allow more precise edited without messing up previous work. If file size is a issue add a flatten layers feature.
Cool app by the way

I would be really happy with the possibility to use layers. For example Zoomnotes has already offer it...

Layers would make the app more useful

I use goodnotes exclusively when I am designing buildings and putting objects on layers would be such a useful feature

I use goodnotes for sketching and layers would enhance the product a great deal

Add a lock text/drawing feature so that you can selectively not erase it (i.e. Lock it, write over it and be able to erase only what you wrote over it.)