Folder Sharing
Feature Request: Shared Folder Collaboration with Real-Time Updates
Dear GoodNotes Team,
I am a teacher who relies on GoodNotes daily for lesson planning, organizing resources, and collaborating with colleagues. While I truly appreciate the powerful tools GoodNotes offers for handwriting and annotation with the Apple Pencil, there is one feature that would greatly improve collaboration for educators:
The ability to share entire folders with colleagues so that multiple users can:
Add new documents to a shared folder.
Write on and annotate shared documents using the Apple Pencil.
View and access changes in real time, including edits, new notes, or added files.
Currently, we can share individual documents, but the inability to collaborate across entire folders makes it difficult to manage shared lesson plans, student resources, and collaborative projects efficiently.
Providing folder-level sharing with real-time updates would make GoodNotes an indispensable tool for teams of teachers who need to work together seamlessly. This feature would allow us to better serve our students and streamline collaboration across classrooms.
Thank you for considering this request. Many educators would greatly benefit from these enhancements, and we would be excited to see GoodNotes continue leading the way in digital learning tools.
Sincerely,
Desperate Teacher
Ragan
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Aaron McClain commented
Yes! This should be a critical next step for GoodNotes to add! We use the collaborator feature with discipleship documents for each person within our Church. It would save so much time to house all of these documents under one shared file RATHER than doing it document by document.
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Mr F
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I currently use this feature extensively on Notability and its lack on Goodnotes is the only thing stopping me from switching.
As a teacher it’s just too much work to convert to PDF, then share with students every time I make an edit, or complete another worked example. Whereas with this feature you just update the link (or it syncs in real time) and the students hit refresh on the same link.
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Tyler Drew commented
This will help our team collaborate on multiple files without having to share every file individually. And make it so when the owner uploads a new PDF or note to the "shared folder" then the entire team has access to the new file
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AR commented
share a folder and everything in it, plus enable viewing on web too. this would solve my problem of not being able to use cross syncing in windows and ipad.
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The Jazz Chef commented
WWDD? What would DropBox do? Sharing/Collaboration has to be greatly improved. I have a folder with 70+ notes files for my clients. My assistant has to access all of them. It took the better part of an hour to activate them all. Not fun. Not easy. Not good.
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J. Gilliard commented
Like, seriously? Must we even ask for this? Come on Goodnotes, stop sleeping!!! We need to share entire folders....I can be paying for this and then have to go through all this trouble to share with my team members!!! I am NOT happy!!!
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Crystal Lambert commented
This is our #1 request! Absolutely necessary for folders with multiple exhibits during trial
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Marco Fabbrini commented
Please add folder sharing functionality.
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Jonas Engeler
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Yes, I got the same problem as a teacher! Would be such a time saver!
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Stefano Betti commented
Extremely critical. Would be so helpful. I paid for Goodnotes 6 thinking I could do this like I do in ios notes.
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Taylor MacMann commented
If I could have a folder for each topic (marketing team, support team, exec team) that everyone could collaborate out of each folder.
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KP
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Absolutely need this function and, as another user has said, this is a paid app that should offer this functionality.
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Tyler S. Clark commented
Will cancel if this isn't added by end of year. 3 years and it's a must have feature for a paid app.
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Mystery Soldier commented
Extremely critical. Would be so helpful. I paid for Goodnotes 6 thinking I could do this like I do in ios notes. It’s even free to do there. Sad that I can’t do it here.
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David Dulong commented
Yes, this!
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Anonymous
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Instead of sharing every document on its own, it would help a lot, if one can share a collaboration link for a whole folder.
Especially for working in a group with several single documents, a shared folder would increase efficiency a lot. -
Lady Oz commented
This is a must
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Nick Carter commented
I am an instructor and 1 currently share my good notes by exporting to PDF, copying to onedrive, and sharing the link. I only want the students to have a read only copy. I have to do this every time I update a students record, several times a day.
The collaboration feature would be ideal if only you could have the option of making the document read only.
This feature would save a massive amount of time and effort. I could update the students progress and they could see the changes immediately -
Vanessa Guerrero commented
The sharing option that we have now is good but being able to share with classmates without them editing would be even better. It’s frustrating spending so much time on a document for someone to accidentally delete notes.
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Karen Silberg commented
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put this at the top of your list. I share my personal notes in college with classmates but DO NOT want them to have the ability to edit them. Sometimes when thumb scrolling on our phones, if the eraser tool is selected, sections can easily erased by accident.