Would love to have the use of Layers!

Please add layers with opacity!
This will Aid drafting.

As a musician who likes to study musicial compositions having the ability to add or remove layers on top of layers would be very useful.

Layers would be useful when playing with ideas. The ability to put different ideas on different layers could help organize concepts based on their “stability”. For example a layer with unresolved questions so that it can be independently manipulated or erased without affecting the underlying notes/sketches.

Yes! Use layer would be great. Please add!!!

Allow layers when writing on notes so you can show with or without various layer.

This sounds like a great idea for a different app. If you add layers please make it under a different, more complicated app, and keep Goodnotes uncomplicated.

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.

Allow Goodnotes to run in the background and select an option to annoate any screen.

Or from Goodnotes app, import a transparent layer that includes iPad running other apps as the Goodnotes content.

Annotations would not be "part of" the running app - just placed over them (could save as "export current screen with notes as PDF or Goodnotes file."

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!

In school I want to substitute the blackboard by GoodNotes with a projector. I like to make some notes that the students doesn't the on the projector screen. Multiple layers (with option shown on projection or not) would be nice.

I agree, layers would be a useful addition.