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[Outline] Sub-Outlines / Tabs / Navigation in the notes
When I import some PDFs their outlines are imported too. I love this feature. I have noticed that when this happens, the outlines have sub-outlines to make navigating the outlines easier.
However, I can not create this in my own GoodNotes outlines. It only works when I import a PDF that already has this structure built into it.
I would like to have a feature in GoodNotes where I can create sub-outlines in my notebooks.
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1,434 votesSub-items in Outlines Now Available! 🎉
Hi there,
Thank you for requesting this feature and sharing your feedback with us!
We're excited to let you know that multi-level outlines with sub-items are now available in Goodnotes 7.0.22 on iOS and Mac starting today.
What's new:
- Nest outlines to create hierarchical structure (chapters, sections, sub-sections)
- Reorder outlines and sub-items by dragging and dropping
- Create sub-items manually in your handwritten notebooks and imported PDFs
- Collapse and expand sections to reduce clutter and navigate faster
This makes it much easier to organize and navigate large notebooks and PDFs without endless scrolling.
We'd love to hear what you think! Feel free to share your feedback with us.
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Goodnotes Team
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audio recording
Audio recording just like notability pretty please please. I am literally begging you guys.
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Toolbar location
It would be great if the user can decide where the toolbar located (Left, right, or Top)
Like other painting software, I can use left hand to switch between tools without moving my wrist29 votesThanks for your feedback!
We’re excited to share that in our latest update (September 2025), you can now place the floating toolbar anywhere on the screen: top, bottom, left, or right — for a more personalized and flexible workspace.
Make sure you're updated to the latest version to access this new feature.
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Quicker Outline Creation
I love using the existing outline in PDFs, but it's tough work to create one if it isn't already implemented. A great feature would be the possiblity to choose the option "set as outline title" for marked text to quickly greate an outline for a document.
29 votesHello,
At the moment, we don’t have an option to add a specific part of the text to outlines, but this is available in the page settings.
For faster outline creation—especially when starting from scratch—the best option is to generate an outline using AI, which has also become available recently.
For more details, please read here.
Give it a try and let us know if this works for you!
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Goodnotes Team
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Toolbar location
Can we please get the option to set the toolbar left or right. this way it is easier to switch pens and tools.
67 votesThanks for your feedback!
We’re excited to share that in our latest update (September 2025), you can now place the floating toolbar anywhere on the screen: top, bottom, left, or right — for a more personalized and flexible workspace.
Make sure you're updated to the latest version to access this new feature.
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Different color options for the folders
Currently all folders appear as blue. It would be great to organise folders with different colours (e.g biology- green and maths - red)
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More Platforms
Currently GoodNotes is only available to Apple Users.
If GoodNotes became available to Windows users, this would broaden their platform and reach over 100 million students.
Most college students are on a tight budget - by reaching the Windows platform you are reaching approximately 70% of college studentsMake GoodNotes available for Windows/PC users.
1 voteHello,
Goodnotes is available to download on Windows devices.
Download it on Microsoft Store.
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Goodnotes Team
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More toolbar customisation
It would be good to be able to customise the toolbar since I’m sure there are features that some of us don’t use and could use the space for something else.
- Toggle which icons appear in the toolbar. Personally I never use and will probably never use the in-app camera and presentation mode. It would be great if there was an option to just turn those off.
- Allow the option to have more colour and pen size presets. 3 isn’t enough!
- When the zoom window toolbar finally returns, it would be great to have the same level of customisation.
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Set a Default Font
It would be efficient and productive to be able to set a default font. Perhaps there is a way and I don’t know how to navigate it yet. But right now, every time I use the text box, and while I’ve already changed the font, it will default back to Helvetica Neue. Not a bad font, I just have work & schoolwork that requires a different font. It would be nice to just pick that font and stay until I decide otherwise.
2 votesYou can already save the current text box style as your default. Have a look at this article on how to do it: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000629696-Typing-text-with-the-Text-tool
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Perfect Shape Tool
Good Notes 4's shape tool was significantly better than Good Notes 5's tool. On Good Notes 5 it is almost always imperfect. Can you please add an option in the shape tool that allows for a subset of perfect shapes, like circles, squares, rectangles, etc... Another suggestion is that you could make it so that when we draw a shape using the pen tool and hold it the shape automatically snaps to a perfect shape. This would be incredibly useful for making graphs and charts that need precise lines. Not everyones hand is as steady as an artists and for…
98 votesWe’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection, and curve drawing.
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Outline freedom
I’ve seen lots of ideas about outlines and in conclusion I think a side view plus the ability to add outlines as one would see fit (wether it is notebooks within notebooks or just inside a document like in Word with headings and titles). This is really one of the biggest shortcomings of GoodNotes and makes the app always feel replaceble.
2 votesHello,
Outline creation is already available in Goodnotes. You can create outlines in both Notebooks and Text Documents.
There are several ways to create an outline:
- Import it with a PDF
- Generate it automatically with AI
- Create it manually
Please find more details here.
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Goodnotes Team
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Add page numbers feature so I don’t have to do it manually?
I could not find a way to add page numbers to my notebook. Is this feature already available or can it be added, including automatic page renumbering when pages are moved? Thanks
74 votesThe latest update GoodNotes 5.5 is now available on the App Store. While scrolling through your document, you can now see the current page number and the total number of pages in this document. If you don’t like to see the page numbers, you can disable it in Menu > Settings > Document Editing.
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Drag and drop to move text from one page to another
Instead of copying and pasting, I should be able to lasso text, and drag it to another page.
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Presentation
When I connect the presentation of reflection through AirPlay, found that in the Good Note application, can be extended or zoom the screen at the iPad normally. But the image that is reflected through AirPlay, found that the image drawing board of Good Note also shows only the full screen. And display the expansion or zoom screen, not same the screen of the IPad So Making it difficult for presentation. Please update as well.
1 voteWhen you’re mirroring the iPad, you can set one of 3 preferences for the presentation mode in the Share options. Tap on the Share button in the navigation bar and select “Mirror entire screen” or “mirror presenter page” so that your audience will also see when you are zooming in on the page.
https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001100576-Using-Presentation-Mode
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Select certain pages
We need to be able to select certain pages when exporting. Selecting only one page or all pages is annoying and if we have to submit homework or notes, some pages we don't need to submit. It would be helpful and practical.
2 votesTo export selected pages, open the thumbnail view with the overview of all pages in your document. Tap on the select button, then tap on the pages you want to export. You can now tap the “export” button at the top.
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Larger paper templates
I'd love to have the possibility of having larger than A4 paper templates.
A2, A1 and even A0 templates would be awesome when you have to create flow charts.2 votesHi there 👋 Thanks for the suggestion. GoodNotes allows you to add any PDF or image as a custom paper template to your template library and you can easily create your desired paper template size using a text editor like Word or Pages. Alternatively, you can find many additional paper templates for free (or a low price) online.
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GoodNotes 5? Hello??!
I'm starting to doubt that GoodNotes 5 team even visits this Feature Request page; there are MANY great, INTUITIVE features that have been suggested here YEARS ago and didn't come to life. Like, come on!
This is a paid app; it should get more attention than free ones. Before I purchased the app, I was really confused between which app to get, GoodNotes 5 or Notability? I chose GoodNotes 5 because I saw the potential this app could become. I read the requested features here and I believed it's a good investment if these requests later came to life. I…
2 votesHi there 👋 Please be assured that we’re reviewing the ideas in our feedback forum on a regular basis. In fact, we do visit it multiple times per week. The stories and ideas our users share with us are important factors that help us deciding on what to build, though there are other factors we also consider. We’re working hard and are constantly updating GoodNotes to improve it step by step! Thanks for being a fan!
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scrolling physical mouse
please add scrolling support for physical mouses like mx master 3.
Add the moment just nothing happens.25 votesOur latest update 5.6.46 adds supports for mouse scrolling in addition to scrolling with a trackpad.
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Return to current notebook from Documents view
Here is a common inconvenience: I am writing in a notebook. I hit the "<" icon in the top left and enter the "Documents" view where I can see all the folder structure. From here, there is no easy way to return to the notebook view - I must open a notebook or create a new one just to get back to my current notebook to carry on writing.
This is a particularly annoying problem when your position in the folder hierarchy in the "Documents" view does not contain your current notebook. Then you have to open a notebook you…
1 voteThanks for the suggestion. You can open the “Search” tab and find a list of recently opened documents. Tab on one of these documents to open them again.
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Hold stroke for perfect shape
It’s a bit tedious to switch to the shape tool every time you want to draw e.g. a perfect line. What about having GoodNotes draw a perfect shape when you hold your stroke like in Procreate or Notability? Bonus points when it’s possible to edit the shape size and anchor points.
107 votesWe’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection & editing, and curve drawing. It further improves the recognition of circles and squares and adds back the ability to draw shapes with the highlighter.
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