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  1. Request to Increase Page Limit When Converting Regular Documents to Whiteboard

    When converting a regular document to a whiteboard, the page limit is currently restricted to about 20–25 pages. However, these days many lecture materials exceed 100 pages, and in some cases—especially for law-related subjects—they can easily go beyond 300 pages. I strongly suggest increasing this page limit.

    In addition, when a document is converted to a whiteboard, the content is currently transferred only as images. It would be much more useful if text recognition (OCR) were also applied during the conversion process, allowing the text to be selectable and…

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  2. Hello Goodnotes Team,
    I am a dedicated user of your app, and I love how it has transformed my note-taking. I have a feature suggestion that I believe would be immensely valuable for students and professionals in mathematics, science, and engineering: the addition of a built-in Cartesian Coordinate System tool.
    The Suggestion
    Currently, users must manually draw or import graph paper to create graphs. My suggestion is to implement a feature that allows users to instantly generate a customizable Cartesian coordinate plane on any page, similar to how the Shape Tool works.
    Key Customization Options
    This tool would be most…

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  3. In the current beta, the ability to type text directly into classic notebooks (e.g., DIN A4) has been removed. Instead, text can now only be added via individual text boxes. At the same time, you introduced the new “Text Documents” – a fantastic feature that I find very well implemented.

    However, the current setup lacks the flexibility to combine both writing methods within a notebook. Many users – myself included – like to work in a way where we write with the stylus on one page, type on the next A4 page, and then switch back to handwriting again. This…

    2 votes

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  4. Idee:
    anstatt nur oberhalb und unterhalb Seiten einfügen zu können, könnte es eine weitere Möglichkeit geben: man kann auf Goodnotes auswählen, ob man eine Mindmap Struktur, Baumdiagramm Struktur, oder viele weitere Strukturen haben möchte. (Alle rechte vorenthalten)

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  5. I'm using Goodnotes on iPad mainly on stage as a guitarist. As I'm not using real sheet music but have my own note-taking scheme, Goodnotes is the perfect tool for me. On stage I'm also using a bluetooth foot-switch (Boss FS1-WL) which is sending HID commands such as "Right arrow" to turn the next page in Goodnotes and it's working well.
    However I have the need to select the next "Performance" on my Amp-Modeler (this can be any MIDI device) at the same time. As the Foot-switch is only able to either being in HID- OR MIDI-mode, this is not…

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  6. 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 hover…

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  7. 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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  8. We hope that the button used to return to the desktop, as well as the button for selecting files from the desktop, can be made repositionable.

    This would help address the issue on iPad where, in Split View mode, these buttons are obstructed by the window control buttons, preventing users from returning to the desktop while using split-screen mode.

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  9. I have a personal goodnotes and a school goodnotes but I can never interchange between the two, can you guys make a feature where 2 goodnotes accounts can sync notes cause the document collab doesn’t work on my school account

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  10. Please create an auto-generated table of contents template, that can also be edited. This should include an option to sort by date, through your outline, or topics.

    Someone else said "Allow me to select the text, eg my page heading like (meeting to discuss projected financial) and then click on a button which shoots the page heading to an automatically generated table of contents in the front of the Notebook. Table of contents will be built using all the specified headings, and should also display the date of that entry for easy reference." THIS IS GREAT AND SO HELPFUL.

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  11. 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
    • Pen/Highlighter: can “perfect” a line with draw-and-hold.
    • Shape Tool: lacks horizontal snap for quick, hold-free underlines.

    Proposal
    • Add horizontal snapping in Shape Tool: if the stroke angle is within a tolerance of horizontal (e.g., ±5–10°), snap to 0°/180° automatically.
    • Provide a quick toggle on…

    2 votes

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  12. comment section in goodnotes is very limited
    Trust me majority of goodnotes users are medical students and they uses goodnotes for books mostle sometime for new notes
    so when you read and highlight premade books and pdf there is very little space for adding new points and pictures
    i want goodnotes team to upgrade the comment section so you can add pdf or pictures to the comment section and enable highlighting in comment section and when comment section popups on clicking on it it should be more larger windows so people can read the pdf/pictures/direct text with hightlights more easily…

    7 votes

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  13. Add an option to the document link that will open the linked document to the last viewed page instead of on a specific page number.

    Working on multiple projects that have multiple files can be challenging to navigate in Goodnotes. What I would like to be able to do is create an index page that will quickly let me open the files for a particular project. I can do this using document links, and that allows me to keep the logical structure of the project separate from the logical structure of the files. (For example, I might have a reference…

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  14. Be able to open outside link in notes and be able to scroll too

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  15. 1.펜 색깔 볼 확장 추가
    2.원형 컨트롤볼 그린원형이 작아지면 컨트롤 볼도 미세하게 조절할수있도록 비율에 맞게 작어지는게 필요

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  16. With the newest updates to Goodnotes, the order of menu items keeps changing. Sometimes, Copy is at the top of the menu, sometimes it is at the bottom of the menu. It appears this is called “Dynamic/context-sensitive menus” and it is terrible. You now have to read the entire menu every time to figure out where Copy is located within the menu because the location of Copy within the menu keeps changing. Simple Copy and Paste now takes so much longer. Please either bring back the fixed menu or allow us to toggle the dynamic/context-sensitive menu OFF.

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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. Align left and align right are options for default formating in the text tool. But select center and the default option grays out. This is infuriating and needs to be fixed.

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  20. 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.

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