There also seems to be a bug with shapes. I have noticed it with circles, first of all the preview when still holding the pen is a zig-zag kind of shape instead of the circle itself, secondly when you try to adjust the width and height of the circle it snaps to certain lengths and when you quit adjusting it snaps back to a different shape. its kind of hard to explain but just try making a small circle thats wide/high

When using the zoom window the pen automatically switches to the eraser sometimes. It seems to be linked to automatically switching back to the pen after having used the eraser because when I select the eraser and then the pen manually is doesn't seem to randomly switch to the eraser while writing.

Please bring back old tool the new ui is eye catching difficult to use

When using the eraser deselect feature, it will deselect into the previously used tool (not necessarily a writing tool). I'm not sure if this is meant to be a feature, but I personally prefer it to deselect into the last-used *writing* tool.

[ISSUE] When the floating toolbar is on the left side, it covers the page counter. I suggest the page counter be moved down slightly to compensate for the new floating toolbar (instead of shrinking the floating toolbar).

I see that a lot of people are complaining about the toolbar and shape tools.
I saw similar comments on X.
Are the goodnotes employees reading these comments?
You'll be fixed in the next update, right? I believe so.

Please restore the default tool to be the pen, and not the lasso tool. When I enter any note 99.9% of the time want to write something, and that other 0.01% is never lassoing as the first option.

Up until this afternoon i could change my pen color in split screen and now i have to exit split screen to change pen color! put the pen color back, every single update just makes things more inconvenient and harder to use. no one uses elements or the tape measure thing whatever that is. i want to be able to change pen color in split screen i dont need to see a pen and pencil option at the same time.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revert the toolbar back to the previous version!!! Having to expand things to do simple tasks is cumbersome and clunky. I hate not being able to quickly switch between editing and viewing as all the hyperlinks are ruined with this update.... GIVE ME GOODNOTES 6 BACK.

Please bring back the old toolbar and the ability to bookmark pages easily!! Your own FAQ page advises that I should bookmark pages I come back to all the time to make them easy to find, and now I need to go hunting for the button to do so? The new toolbar is terrible. Please, please just bring the old one back, or at least give us the option to revert back if we prefer the old format. I seriously would not have updated the app if I'd known I'd need to spend more than an hour today trying to figure out where everything is again.

This new update ruined the feature I used the most - straight line tool. The hold to snap does not work the same way. I use this for drawing basic building plans all the time and now it is terrible. I draw a small straight line and it puts a long straight line in a completely random place. I draw a short straight line and it makes it really long and curved in a place I didn't even draw it. The ruler is very difficult to move around as well. Please please please bring back the straight line feature in the shape bar. The toolbar layout was perfectly fine the way it was. I will switch to a different app if I can't get this to do what I need it to do. I don't mind adding features, but you can't just take away a feature - people are using it for those specific features.

I do not enjoy the new toolbar as it is very cumbersome. It seems to take up more screen real estate since the tools are in the main bar but I mainly use the writing feature which brings up another toolbar below. I would prefer for the main toolbar to expand when I use drawing tools instead of another dropdown bar. Additionally, I use two document open side by side and screenshot heavily for medical school lectures; when I return to the main note and click the writing tool it defaults to the eraser which is not intuitive as I wouldn't return to this note to start erasing immediately, I am looking to write/draw. Lastly, the lasso tool requires too many steps take a screenshot. I would prefer it to default for a screenshot that copies to clipboard after I highlight a section and click the camera (vs clicking camera>export>copy)

Goodnotes, are u seeing this comments? When will u bring back the old toolbar? Now I can't even draw a straight line with this new bogus toolbar. Everything messed up.I want ans.

I hate the new floating tool bar. I need to be able to access the fonts i regulaly use instead of having to look them up every time, additionaly the highlighters suck, they dont di straight lines like they use to, and the feature of holding to draw shapes is broken. I want the old set up back

New floating toolbar is a bad design, it covers the canvas and disrupts work. The traditional version with tools docked at top menu was much better. A lot of people expect it as before and complain on the current design.

Bring back the old tool bar. I hate having to keep clicking the text box each time for multiple text boxes. It defaulting to lasso each time is annoying. Plus having the floating toolbar for the pen and text box is annoying cause its in the view of things. Switch back to how things were before the update

I'll agree to to what the other users have been saying, like Ziblock Ziblock and Taro Yamada to name a few. I'll have also spoken to a couple of friends and they have switched over to Notability until this problem have been solved and for myself I am also strongly considering to switching to Notability if this problem is not resolved ASAP.

Please provide an option to dock the writing toolbar and the bookmark icon into the main top toolbar, similar to the previous version. Although Goodnotes 6 introduces many excellent and attractive new tools, the recent toolbar design changes have reduced my study efficiency.
For this reason, I have decided to downgrade and continue using the previous version. It seems that many other users are experiencing the same issue and requesting similar changes, as there are quite a lot of posts expressing the same opinion.
Would it be possible to make the great new features of Goodnotes 6 available with the previous, more user-friendly toolbar design? Restoring that familiar usability would greatly improve the overall experience for many of us.

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Please consider moving the "Add this page to Favorites" button back to the main toolbar. Additionally, in the page overview view, could the option to preview or manage favorited pages be placed directly in the long horizontal toolbar—rather than buried in a secondary menu as it is now?

As a student, favoriting pages is by far the most frequently used feature for me in GoodNotes. Currently, I always need two steps to save a page to favorites, which significantly slows down my workflow—and honestly, even affects my ability to keep up during lectures. This change has made the app feel much less efficient and has noticeably degraded my overall experience, which is quite frustrating.

I’d really appreciate it if the team could prioritize making favoriting pages as quick and accessible as possible. Thank you so much for considering this suggestion!