Layers
Allow users to put comments on different layers. It would be helpful if these could be turned on/ off, or have their transparency % adjusted like in the Photoshop Touch application. Selecting annotations on one layer only or locking others would be useful as well.
[Layers is in progress š§]
Hello,
Weāre thrilled to say that we hear youāone of our most-requested features, Layers, is on its way!
Layers is gradually rolling out to Goodnotes Pro users on iPad and Mac. This early version supports up to 5 layers in notebooks. Please note that it isnāt available during a Pro trial.
Layers is currently experimental, so your feedback is especially important. Please share your experience to help us understand howāand whetherāwe should develop the feature further.
Learn more in our Help Center.
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Goodnotes Team
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Susie Arnholt
commented
Yes!
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Susie Arnholt
commented
With the new sticky notes, this is practically essential now!
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brandonchorn
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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 yāall add āelementsā 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.
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Jessica
commented
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 donāt have to erase and write again.
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Latrice London
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Please please add a layering option for photos and stickers. This is vital vor digital planners like myself. Thank you! š
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Anonymous
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I would LOVE layers ability . I am looking at other apps that have that feature
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catloaf
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Yes!!! I have been wanting this
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MaryClare Rovere
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This feature would be incredibly useful and is the sole thing holding me back from good notes. Please please do this as far as I can tell no note-taking app or PDF annotator has this feature and it would set it apart from competing note-taking apps.
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bruneian
commented
yes please. layer is a MUST have.
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Anonymous
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That's an awesome idea.
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Anonymous
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I wish there was an option for disabling the layering of the highlighter tool, since sometimes we need to colour diagrams or doodles and it gets impossible to do so with the highlighter because you have to do it correctly in only one stroke. If layering could be disabled, the highlighting would all be in one layer, and colouring in multiple strokes would be uniform and not look overlapped and irregular.
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å°¤ē
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The would be so helpful!
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Marcus Villaboim
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I learn german. My classbook has some exercises on it. After I wrote the answers on class and read the page at home, itād be nice, if I can hide the answers and try to do the exercises again. Goodnotes has in menu item More, an option to clear page. It could also have an item to hide page annotations. So I could do the exercises again, then unhide the layer with the answers and see if I made all right!
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SIBO DING
commented
When I select something (handwriting, images, text box) and overlap others. I cannot control which layer is at front or back. That means the one I want to show may be hidden.
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Johanna
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I really need a option to put pictures in the background regardless the order I add the pictures into my document.
Please add a layering function so that i can also just select one layer with the lasso tool. -
Anonymous commented
YESSS. I'm so tired of adding text as a title to a document and then accidentally lassoing it to move something else. SO ANNOYING.
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Valerie Chai commented
I want to be able to use the lasso tool to select images, highlighters or my notes and be able to choose whether they are supposed to be on top or below. Cause if I write something and add an image, the image will cover up my words but if I write after the image it stays as the top layers. So Iāll want to be able to change the layers and itāll be a lot more organized for me.
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Nicolas Billard
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Hello,
I am a great user of the app, using it to design furnitures and on measure wood work. Good notes is so fine but two major improvement should be released on the next update :
I am writing my notes in French and in English. For this I need to create two documents. If you could create a Ā« layer Ā» option, I could simply choose the language I need to export in the same document. The top of the top would be layers even for the draws themselves. I could take a picture of client interior and put one two or three layers to make the draws.
The second thing is about getting a very basic architect map. You should allow to put a manageable Ā« scale Ā» on the draws.
You should have a look on what procreate do for this.
Last thing is about the line draws. We should be able to draw a line by simply putting the two point on the beginning and the ending of the line. Very often, my line are not Ā« vertical or horizontal Ā». But your tool always want to make it like this....
If you do those improvement, architects or people like me will more likely to use Good note because itās so simple, than procreate...
Hoping you can, ear me and thanks to the team
Best regards
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Steve Mouzon commented
The single biggest thing you could do to improve GoodNotes is to add layers.
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Krystal Cheung
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A feature where you can lock images and handwritten notes and canāt be erased but you can still use highlighter on them and they will go under and they still remain high quality when you zoom in and not fuzzy like when i convert my notes to an image. And an unlock feature incase you want to re-edit it again instead of converting it into a flattened pdf then writting a lot of things on top of it then realising you need to change something but its flattened. Or this problem could be solved with layers.