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[Sep 2025 Launch] New Toolbar Suggestions
Thread for feedback on the new toolbar.
Feel free to share any bugs or suggestions for improvement regarding the updated toolbar.413 votesThank you for sharing your feedback! We hear you, and we are working hard to continue building on what you love and make the necessary refinements and improvements in the toolbar.
Here’s a list of what we’re currently working on:
We’ll let you know once these changes go live! 💙
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[Lasso] Stop making lasso the default
Stop having lasso be the default tool. I cannot even remove it from the toolbar. It is frustrating that everything always goes back to lasso. I can’t even do multiple text boxes one after the other because once you type in a text box once and click off it goes straight to lasso instead of having text toggled on like it used to
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[Colors palette] Group colors, Colors categories, Colors folders
We should be able to make color palettes for our pen colors to make the colors easier to find.
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[Toolbar] Support Customization
Bring back the option to customise the toolbar. I see a recent update has partially returned this feature (allowing to customise the main toolbar options), but this needs to carry over to each toolbar options (pen, pencil, highlighter, etc). Allow reorganising the squeeze pop up menu. This is meant to help streamline productivity, but now having my most used tools all over the place, I’m wasting time scrolling to find them.
260 votesThanks for your feedback!
We’re happy to share that we’re actively working on improving customization options for the toolbar, and this feature will be available soon.
Here are the upcoming improvements plan we’re currently working on:
https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/14029000789519-Goodnotes-Updates-Upcoming-Improvements
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[Highlighter] Rectangle, Square style
Rectangle professional looking highlighter. Like in microsoft word, adobe acrobat reader or apple books.
Current one looks unprofessional with business or legal documents.324 votes -
[New tool] Post-it Tabs
One of the major issues in relation to using a digital file, compared to a traditional paper file is that in a paper file you can attach "post-its" to relevant pages which you can then refer to when you are using that file. This is an essential tool for lawyers, for example. So that, if you are referring to a bundle of files, you can have them in front of you where you can see the protruding tabs and refer to them immediately. The visualisation of the tabs – allows for easy access to the relevant page.
Whilst good notes…
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Image Borders, Shadows
Just a simple toggle to add/remove a border from an image. A collage of screen caps and images looks very disorganized without defined edges. This is the single most important request, please implement as soon as possible thank you.
41 votes -
The worst update ever
There are so many things that became inconvenient after this update. Here are just a few examples.
- The line spacing I saved as a default isn't applied when typing in a new text box.
- The toolbox sticks right next to the text box and blocks the background.
- Changing fonts or line spacing got much complicated.(especially line spacing, which now takes several steps.)
- After typing in a text box, it automatically deselects and switches to the lasso tool.
These are only some of the issues. The previous UI was more efficient and comfortable to work with. Please fix the bugs and…
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Get rid of the floating Menus or make it optional
Get rid of the newly introduced floating Menus. When using this app to annotate PDFs it blocks the document and makes this incredibly cumbersome. If you can't get rid of it, at least make it optional so I can put it back in the top navigation so its not in the way.
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Revert to old UI!!!
Please go back to the most previous UI. This new UI though more simplified, is more tedious to work with. I like the implementation of when you copy a photo, it directly sizes it from a corner instead of proportionally sizing everything. However, once you click off that image, you have to go back to the pen which wastes time during fast lectures.
The new text box interaction is also tedious since you have to hold down and click ‘start editing’ instead of just clicking a button to text on the whole page. And if you do just a small…16 votes -
Hide Floating toolbar!
I do not prefer the floating toolbar idea!
Why do you need two toolbars — One floating and one fixed? It reduces useful reading or writing space.
Need an option back to hide the floating toolbar and reclaim space.
UI elements are not supposed to be the focus, content is.
This inability to hide the added floating toolbar is causing me to not use the app at all!
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Tool bar
The new tool bar is killing me. My notes are taking longer because I have to do more taps to get to the tool I want. the highlighter won't highlight straight anymore. Also, the shape tool has its own colors that don't match my chosen pen presents anymore. Please please fix the straight line tool. I can't draw charts or get an actual straight line without using the ruler which adds more steps to my process. Lastly, the computer version now DOESN'T have an undo button, you have to go up to the top, press edit, then undo instead of…
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Make us go back to pencil mode after using eraser
Since the new goodnotes (7) update, I always go back to latest tool I was using before the eraser, especially to the lasso tool, I do not want it, I want to be able to go back to pencil mode after the eraser again.
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Make it quicker again
Goodnotes has become more cumbersome and slower with the latest update. I now need two clicks to switch between pens and the laser pointer. When I have images, there is now always a white border at the top of the projection, and I first have to switch to read-only mode to display the image in full screen.
The fold-out toolbox also takes up space on the screen.
Adding to favorites also requires one more click.
The updates have only increased the amount of work involved and represent a deterioration. On the other hand, I don't need AI or sound recordings.…8 votes -
After using lasso tool, put it back to pen tools.
Currently, after using lasso tools, tapping with Apple Pencil will switch back to the eraser forcibly. It is so inconvenient that doesn’t revert to the tools I was using before, like pen or highlighters. Before the updates, it was used as usual. So please.
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Shape tool is not as good as before
Shape tool has become worse than goodnotes 6. Earlier we could draw any shape by drawing and holding the shape but now it converts every weird shape into a perfect shape line like square, rectangle or star
Just make it as flexible as goodnotes 6 shape tool7 votes -
Reinstitute object selection toggle
Please put the object selection toggle back. When a writing tool, I do not want to select an image without purposely using the lasso tool. It makes writing on images difficult.
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Typing Feature in Toolbar
Please bring back the typing tool in handwritten documents as a separate button in the toolbar.
Also, please fix the overlapping of the typing “toolbar” with the title when typing.6 votes -
Toolbar: Fully customizable single row (Pen/Eraser/Highlighter/Shape/Lasso/Image)
TL;DR
Allow any tool—Pen, Eraser, Highlighter, Shape, Lasso, Image, etc.—to live side-by-side in one toolbar row with free reorder, show/hide, and (optionally) multi-row layouts.Problem
After 7.0.6, Lasso sits outside the main toolbar and Pen/Eraser are locked in “handwriting tools.” Switching between Lasso ↔ Pen, Eraser ↔ Shape costs extra taps during dense annotation.Proposal
• Make the toolbar fully flexible:
• Place any tool on the main bar; reorder via long-press drag.
• Show/hide tools to keep the bar compact.
• Optional multi-row layout for users who prefer more tools visible.Impact
• Reduces 1–2 taps per switch across…4 votes -
Add a bookmark button on the tab for easy access
Wow! This was already in goodnotes but it was removed for some reason, so add it back. There is no reason to remove this feature. Let is bookmark pages with just the toolbar without opening the pages tab or the more options menu
4 votes
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