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  1. Additionally, when using Shape Mode or the shape drawing tools, we hope that after completing a shape, the tool will not automatically switch back to the Lasso tool.
    The current behavior requires users to repeatedly switch tools, which significantly interrupts workflow and reduces efficiency.

    Furthermore, we hope that in Read-Only Mode or Laser Pointer Mode, users can still interact with tape elements, including tapping to show or hide content. This would allow greater flexibility during presentations or review scenarios without forcing users to exit the current mode.

    We also hope the software can better support the Apple Pencil Pro hoverโ€ฆ

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  2. we hope to introduce a dedicated pen tool for taking screenshots.
    Currently, the screenshot process is cumbersome, as users must manually crop the image after each capture, which is inefficient.

    We suggest adding a screenshot pen that allows users to directly draw a selection box around the desired area. Once the area is selected, the system would immediately capture that region, eliminating the need for additional cropping steps and significantly improving usability and efficiency.

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  3. TL;DR
    Please add (or restore) horizontal snapping in the Shape Tool so near-horizontal strokes become perfectly straight underlines without draw-and-hold.

    Problem
    In Goodnotes 7.0.6, to get a perfectly straight underline I must use Pen/Highlighter and pause for draw-and-hold on every stroke. This breaks flow when underlining many items per page.

    Current behavior
    โ€ข Pen/Highlighter: can โ€œperfectโ€ a line with draw-and-hold.
    โ€ข Shape Tool: lacks horizontal snap for quick, hold-free underlines.

    Proposal
    โ€ข Add horizontal snapping in Shape Tool: if the stroke angle is within a tolerance of horizontal (e.g., ยฑ5โ€“10ยฐ), snap to 0ยฐ/180ยฐ automatically.
    โ€ข Provide a quick toggle onโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  4. 1.ํŽœ ์ƒ‰๊น” ๋ณผ ํ™•์žฅ ์ถ”๊ฐ€
    2.์›ํ˜• ์ปจํŠธ๋กค๋ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ์›ํ˜•์ด ์ž‘์•„์ง€๋ฉด ์ปจํŠธ๋กค ๋ณผ๋„ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ ˆํ• ์ˆ˜์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋น„์œจ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์–ด์ง€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ํ•„์š”

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  5. With the latest updates to Goodnotes, the Copy function has been buried. The icon on the popup menu is now for Duplicate instead of Copy. If you truly want to Copy (select the item to paste elsewhere) instead of Duplicate (select the item to make a duplicate on that page), you have to click on the three dots and choose Copy. Bring back the Copy icon on the popup menu. No one wants extra work to do something so simple.

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  6. Hello i have been using the new collapsible sticky note function to help with organising my notes into different categories. Previously when i did this with the previous sticky note stickers i was able to use the search function to find handwritten content but now it doesnt recognise handwritten notes on the collapsible sticky notes. I think this feature should improve or the resizable sticky note stickers should come back.

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  7. I used to be able to select all by double tapping or holding in the midst of something I've written, now the option is gone.

    I also was able to press and hold in an area to paste something l had copied _ since the update these options are gone and every tune I want to paste this annoying pop up comes up - please never to the way it was before.

    2 votes

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  8. Please allow us to choose image after tapping on desired location like earlier rather than Choosing the image then moving it to desired location as it doubles the work.

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  9. ์ƒ๋‹จ๋ฐ” ๋‚ด์˜ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ๋“ค ๋ˆŒ๋ €์„ ๋•Œ ์˜ต์…˜์ฐฝ์ด ๋ฐ‘์•  ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ํ•œ ์ , ์ง„์งœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚œ๋‹ค.
    ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ธ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ๋ณด๋Š”๋ฐ, 9์›” ์ „์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ ค๋†“์€ ๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์„๊ฑฐ์•ผ.
    ๋„ˆ๋Š” ๊ณต์ฑ…์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ฑ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•ด? 5๋„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  6๋„ ์ƒ€๋Š”๋ฐ ์ง„์งœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณ€์‹ ์ด ์ตœ์•…์ด๋‹ค.
    ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ์ €์ฃผํ• ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.
    ์ง„์งœ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์งœ์ฆ์ด ๋‚œ๋‹ค. ๋ญ ์ž๊พธ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฑฐ ํ•˜๋ ค๋“ค์ง€๋ง๊ณ  ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜๋‚˜ ์ž˜ํ•ด์ค˜.

    I truly donโ€™t understand the decision behind the new toolbar behavior.
    Having option panels suddenly appear below when tapping buttons on the top bar feels incredibly counterintuitive and distracting.

    Iโ€™ve never submitted feedback before, but I really believe reverting to the pre-September design would be a wiseโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  10. I am begging you, as a teacher that teaches multiple classes each day to add a feature to erase all annotation on all slides with one click. Right now, we have to erase each slide individually and if you have 20 slides, that takes some time. Then, you have to do that 5 times a day if you teach that class over and over. Please, one click to erase all annotation so we can clear with one click and restart the presentation fresh.

    1 vote

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  11. I wish there would be a setting to globally turn off snap to other shapes. I often find it rather annoying when trying to draw lines closely together. A global setting to not be on by default would be a game changer for me.

    2 votes

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  12. I would like to request that all pen tools be displayed as floating toolbars to provide a wider and more comfortable writing area.

    I apologize for mentioning other apps, but these days, most appsโ€”such as Notability, Noteshelf 3, and Scrawlโ€”use floating toolbars, which makes writing feel much more comfortable. In contrast, GoodNotes has pen tools and tabs that occupy fixed space first, with an additional floating pen toolbar displayed below them. This results in a lack of writing space and makes the writing area feel narrow and uncomfortable.

    I hope GoodNotes can also move all pen tools to fully floatingโ€ฆ

    1 vote

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  13. After updating goodn0te tools bar in Sep2025 I found one issue which is after changing back from the lasso tools to writing tools, it's always the eraser. Nomatter what writing tools i used before lasso ( such as pen highlight etc), it is always become erasor

    2 votes

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  14. I am facing an issue with an old OST file that I can no longer access because my Outlook profile or Exchange account is no longer available. I have tried opening the OST file directly, but Outlook does not allow it. Can anyone guide me on how to recover data from an OST file and convert it into PST format so that I can access my emails, contacts, and other mailbox items in Outlook again? I am open to both manual methods and third-party tools โ€”just need a reliable and safe solution.

    1 vote

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  15. We should be able to select (i.e., highlight) text from an imported PDF across multiple pages. Not being able to is very limiting.

    2 votes

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  16. Return the way you can place stickers from goodnotes5 into goodnotes6. Itโ€™s weird that it was possible in goodnotes5 to select the sticker tool and then when I press on the page I can choose which sticker tool place but in goodnotes6 I need to create a sticker and only then I need to move it where I want it to be.

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  17. Before the update you used to have the option of draw and hold for the highlighter. No you canโ€™t switch it on or off. And the โ€žmandatory draw and holdโ€œ that you provided the highlighter with now is bad. It doesnโ€™t correct the actual wobbles and curves itself but just the last part that comes after the wobbles or nothing at all and it just makes the wobbles more appealing and aesthetically. But its nerve wracking if you mark things fast during lectures and have to fight with not straight lines that sometimes cover the lines below or under. Iโ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  18. The absence of the word "translation" on the bar containing (copy, define , strikeout,, โ€ฆ). I want to translate word in pdf itโ€™s useful for studying. Thank you

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  19. [KR]

    ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Goodnotes 7.0.6 ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ์ดํ›„ Shape(๋ชจ์–‘) ๋„๊ตฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์‹œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰(0ยฐ) ์Šค๋ƒ… ๋ฐ‘์ค„์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    โ€ข ๋ฌธ์ œ ์š”์•ฝ: Shape ๋„๊ตฌ๋กœ ์ง์„ ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋„ ์ด์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ 0ยฐ๋กœ ์Šค๋ƒ…๋œ ๋ฐ‘์ค„์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์Œ.
    โ€ข ์žฌํ˜„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„:
    1. ๋ฌธ์„œ ์—ด๊ธฐ โ†’ 2) Shape ๋„๊ตฌ ์„ ํƒ โ†’ 3) ํ…์ŠคํŠธ ์•„๋ž˜์— ์ง์„ ์„ ๊ธ‹๊ธฐ โ†’ 4) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: ์ˆ˜ํ‰ ์Šค๋ƒ…์ด ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ
    โ€ข ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ ๋™์ž‘: Shape ๋„๊ตฌ์˜ Line์ด 0ยฐ๋กœ ์Šค๋ƒ…๋˜์–ด ๋ฐ‘์ค„๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
    โ€ข ์‹ค์ œ ๋™์ž‘: ์Šค๋ƒ…์ด ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œ ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒ, ๋ฐ‘์ค„ ๋Œ€๋Ÿ‰ ์ž‘์—… ์‹œ ์ •๋ ฌ ํ’ˆ์งˆ/์†๋„ ์ €ํ•˜
    โ€ข ์˜ํ–ฅ๋„: ์ˆ˜์—… ์ง„๋„ ์‹œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ~์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ฐ‘์ค„์„ ๊ธ‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š” Ruler(์ž) ๋„๊ตฌ๋งŒ์ด ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ‰์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•ด, ์ž ๋ฐฐ์น˜/์ด๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€โ€ฆ

    2 votes

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  20. The option to change the default setting on Goodnotes on Mac DISSAPPEARED. Doing my state exams rn and I need that option back.

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