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1. Convert Handwritten Photos into Editable Digital Ink

   I would love to see a feature that allows users to take a photo of handwritten notes and convert them into fully editable GoodNotes digital ink.

   The key difference from importing a photo is that the handwriting itself becomes editable.

   How it could work:

   1. Take or Import a Photo

      • Users can take a photo of handwritten notes from:
        • Notebook page
        • Loose paper
        • Whiteboard

   2. Convert Handwriting into Digital Ink

      • GoodNotes AI analyzes the handwriting and reconstructs it as editable digital ink strokes.
      • The converted notes should closely match the original handwriting style and layout.

   3. Replace the Photo Background

      • Instead of keeping the original photo background, GoodNotes places the converted handwriting onto a standard GoodNotes page.
      • Users could choose lined, dotted, grid, or blank paper templates.
      • This creates a clean note page rather than a photo of a whiteboard or sheet of paper.

   4. Fully Editable Notes

      • After conversion, users can:
        • Erase individual strokes
        • Move handwritten content
        • Resize notes
        • Change ink colors
        • Use the lasso tool
        • Add additional handwriting
        • Organize content across pages

   Example Use Case
   A student takes a photo of a professor's whiteboard before leaving class. Instead of saving the image as a static photo, GoodNotes converts the writing into editable digital ink on a clean notebook page. The student can then reorganize the notes, add annotations, erase sections, and continue studying within GoodNotes.

   Benefits
   * Turns static photos into editable notes.
   * Makes classroom whiteboard notes much more useful.
   * Allows users to digitize old paper notes without manually rewriting them.
   * Creates cleaner and more organized notes by removing paper backgrounds, shadows, glare, and other image imperfections.
   * Bridges the gap between handwritten notes and digital note-taking.

   This feature would make it much easier for students, teachers, and professionals to capture handwritten information from the real world and seamlessly integrate it into their GoodNotes workflow.

   Don't import the photo—import the handwriting.

   I would love to see a feature that allows users to take a photo of handwritten notes and convert them into fully editable GoodNotes digital ink.

   The key difference from importing a photo is that the handwriting itself becomes editable.

   How it could work:

   1. Take or Import a Photo

      • Users can take a photo of handwritten notes from:
        • Notebook page
        • Loose paper
        • Whiteboard

   2. Convert Handwriting into Digital Ink

      • GoodNotes AI analyzes the handwriting and reconstructs it as editable digital ink strokes.
      • The converted notes should closely match the original handwriting style and layout.

   3. Replace the Photo Background

      • Instead of keeping… more
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2. Smart Learn Needs a Daily Card Limit Like Anki

   I think Goodnotes Smart Learn seriously needs a daily card limit system similar to Anki.

   Right now Smart Learn can become very aggressive with recommendations when you have a huge number of flashcards.

   Imagine being a med student with:

   • separate study sets for every chapter
   • thousands of flashcards
   • eventually 20,000–30,000+ total cards

   At that scale, unlimited recommendations can become stressful and mentally overwhelming.

   I think there should be a feature where users can set:
   “Smart Learn can only recommend X cards today”

   Example:

   • Today limit = 200 cards
   • Smart Learn then intelligently chooses the MOST important 200 cards from all pending cards using spaced repetition and forgetting probability.

   This would:

   • reduce stress
   • make revision sustainable long-term
   • prevent burnout
   • improve consistency
   • make huge flashcard systems actually manageable

   The goal of spaced repetition should not just be “maximum cards possible,” but “maximum retention with sustainable mental load.”

   I genuinely think this one feature could make Goodnotes much more powerful for serious students like med students, law students, and competitive exam prep users.

   I think Goodnotes Smart Learn seriously needs a daily card limit system similar to Anki.

   Right now Smart Learn can become very aggressive with recommendations when you have a huge number of flashcards.

   Imagine being a med student with:

   • separate study sets for every chapter
   • thousands of flashcards
   • eventually 20,000–30,000+ total cards

   At that scale, unlimited recommendations can become stressful and mentally overwhelming.

   I think there should be a feature where users can set:
   “Smart Learn can only recommend X cards today”

   Example:

   • Today limit = 200 cards
   • Smart Learn then intelligently chooses the MOST important 200 cards from all… more
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3. bring back old pen laser tool

   I use the laser pen tool for reviewing notes and repetition, but now for some reason the dots on the i’s and sometimes some short vertical & horizontal lines vanish, making it hard to study. please bring back the old laser pen tool

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4. 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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5. Add a way to close file navigator and return to document tabs

   There are two view modes in Goodnotes:

   1. File navigation
   2. Documents tabs (the documents already open)

   We can switch from 2 to 1.

   But for some baffling reason there is no way to simply switch from 1 to 2. Instead there is only the contrived way of having to open any file in order to return to 2.

   I do not know why Goodnote's UI/UX team has been thinking all these years that that be an okay solution. No other programme does this and it is counterintuitive.

   Could you please add this? It's so easy to do. E.g. you could add a close file explorer cross or a return to documents tab button in the file navigation view.

   There are two view modes in Goodnotes:

   1. File navigation
   2. Documents tabs (the documents already open)

   We can switch from 2 to 1.

   But for some baffling reason there is no way to simply switch from 1 to 2. Instead there is only the contrived way of having to open any file in order to return to 2.

   I do not know why Goodnote's UI/UX team has been thinking all these years that that be an okay solution. No other programme does this and it is counterintuitive.

   Could you please add this? It's so easy to do. E.g. you could add… more

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6. 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.

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7. Make making flashcards as easy as writing notes, i dont want to type

   I dont want to tap to edit everytime i want to make a flashcard by pen, i just want to write them then slide to a new one. Its exshauting to tap write save then exit everytime for someone who just wants to write them by pen

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8. Let us record normally without requiring “record and summarize”

   Can’t figure out a way to record without the dumb AI features. Unknowingly used all my credits in the span of an hour because I couldn’t just record audio and it forced me to do the ai summarize too. So annoying

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9. Stop moving the image after cropping

   It's a bit irritating that the entire image moves when I crop it, when I already have markings on it with the perfect positioning. I would prefer it, if it stays in the same place

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10. update study sets

    please update study sets
    i use it a lot for studying but it’s so difficult to use, for example:

    • currently you cannot press the apple pencil barrel to automatically turn to eraser (!!!!)
    • when zooming into top left corner, you cannot write because the undo button blocks it
    • add template options - currently it’s only a blank card, it would be better if there were lines to write on (!!!!)
    • allow copy and pasting individual flashcards
    • study sets are so laggy and most of the time when i make a new flashcards and write on it, it does not show up when i click “done”
    • make an option to swap “question” and “answer” when practicing the flashcards

    please update study sets
    i use it a lot for studying but it’s so difficult to use, for example:

    • currently you cannot press the apple pencil barrel to automatically turn to eraser (!!!!)
    • when zooming into top left corner, you cannot write because the undo button blocks it
    • add template options - currently it’s only a blank card, it would be better if there were lines to write on (!!!!)
    • allow copy and pasting individual flashcards
    • study sets are so laggy and most of the time when i make a new flashcards and write on it, it does not show… more
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11. Searchable comments

    The comment pop-up should be resizeable like in Adobe Acrobat.. Also I'd like to be able to add pictures in the comments to make my notes decluttered. And the text should be editable (like in the regular ...bullet points, bold etc)

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12. Please bring back our peaceful everyday lives!!! Why the latest update is so bad.

    I’ve been using Goodnotes every single day for years. I truly appreciated its clean interface and powerful features that supported my workflow. But the most recent update has drastically changed that, in all the wrong ways.

    I kept telling myself, “This update must be useful. I just need to give it time and get used to it.”
    So I patiently tried using it for several days, but in the end, I came to the conclusion that this update is harming my mental well-being.

    Let me outline a few reasons why this update has made the experience worse:

    • Inability to draw proper straight lines
    

    I often draw lines at various angles, but now the shape tool struggles with even basic diagonal lines. Why am I getting curves when I clearly intend to draw straight lines? Also, I can’t fine-tune the endpoints of lines by holding the pen anymore.

    • Eraser placement is inefficient
    

    Accessing the eraser now requires tapping into the pen tool. However, the eraser should always be one tap away, whether I’m using the shape tool or lasso. Hiding it under another layer slows down the process and creates unnecessary friction.

    • No way to draw complex polygons
    

    After the update, how am I supposed to draw pentagons or anything more complex? The shape tool turns them into circles, and of course, the long-press method(pen tool) can't help it.

    Additionally, sometimes I want a filled shape, and sometimes I don’t. But now I can’t erase just the fill color with the eraser tool — I have to turn off the fill option manually every time when I want to draw non filled shapes. That’s very inconvenient.Why must I toggle the “fill” option every single time? Let us erase just fill color like we could before.

    Editing shape points is also more cumbersome now—you have to tap them individually just to adjust. And rotation is inexplicably removed. Why take away such essential control?

    Oh, and by the way—parabolas? Gone.

    Many of the features that made me choose Goodnotes in the first place have vanished.

    Maybe there are some benefits to this update, but I haven’t found any. More importantly, why remove existing functionality that worked perfectly fine? That’s not an improvement—it’s a regression.

    Please, give us a way to revert to the previous version. I just want to return to the smooth experience I had before. Please bring back our everyday peace.

    I’ve been using Goodnotes every single day for years. I truly appreciated its clean interface and powerful features that supported my workflow. But the most recent update has drastically changed that, in all the wrong ways.

    I kept telling myself, “This update must be useful. I just need to give it time and get used to it.”
    So I patiently tried using it for several days, but in the end, I came to the conclusion that this update is harming my mental well-being.

    Let me outline a few reasons why this update has made the experience worse:

    • Inability to

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13. Free placement of images in text document

    Please add the ability to place and rotate images anywhere you want them in text document mode

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14. Align and space shapes

    Love the new shapes tool but it would very useful if shapes (or in a broader sense also all other objects like images, text, stickers, etc.) could be aligned and spaced out evenly to make notes look more professional.

    Also the option to eg. center elements on the page via an x/y axis. There could be an option to turn automatic snapping/ guidelines on or off.

    It is very difficult to eyeball objects to be consistently spaced and aligned and often results in pages not looking consistent.

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15. 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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16. No minimum shape size

    There is currently a minimum height that shapes can be using the shape tool. Please remove this feature!

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17. Change Record back to how it looked in Goodnotes 6

    The floating record numbers are extremely distracting and take up valuable space. Please revert it back to how it looked in Goodnotes 6 - a small unobtrusive icon on the toolbar.

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18. Where is my "copy" option when using the lasso tool?

    Oh... that's where the copy tool is! Buried behind the ( . . . ) menu, so now in layer two of the context menu when I have circled content I want to copy and move.

    Why?

    And I do realize there is a Duplicate option but I don't want to drag my content around behind me, I want to have the copied content ready to be pasted multiple times over without it visibly overlaying other content which Duplicate does.

    But maybe I am just super old fashioned and want to copy and paste content all the time and therefore I get frustrated by all the extra taps to get to "Copy"?

    Please, just please, make your menu options WAY more flexible or stop rolling out changes for a while.

    Oh... that's where the copy tool is! Buried behind the ( . . . ) menu, so now in layer two of the context menu when I have circled content I want to copy and move.

    Why?

    And I do realize there is a Duplicate option but I don't want to drag my content around behind me, I want to have the copied content ready to be pasted multiple times over without it visibly overlaying other content which Duplicate does.

    But maybe I am just super old fashioned and want to copy and paste content all the time and therefore… more

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19. Revert shape tool to Goodnotes 6 Version

    Ever since the new update to Goodnotes 7, the shape tool is a lot less flexible and very strict and jerky when drawing shapes, and is very frustrating to work with. The previous version was much more user friendly and I have no idea why anyone thought messing with something that was working just fine was a good idea. Please change it back to the previous version or at least provide a toggle so we can choose which version we want to use instead of forcing this downgrade on everyone. Thanks!

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20. Add Opacity Control to Pen Tools

    I would like to suggest adding an opacity control (0–100%) to pen tools such as the fountain pen, ballpoint pen, brush pen, pencil, highlighter, and tape pen.

    This feature would allow for greater flexibility and precision in note-taking, highlighting, and creative work.

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