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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Exact Phrase Search – The search function can sometimes be too broad. An “Exact Phrase search option would be very useful for finding specific words or phrases without unrelated results.

    1. Default Font for Sticky Notes – Please add an option to set a default font, font size, and formatting specifically for Sticky Notes, so users don’t have to manually change the font every time they create a new one.
    3 votes

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  2. Please add a public API and developer resources so files can be automatically imported and organized into folders by class, week, and lecture. Better automation support would make Goodnotes much more powerful for students and developers building academic workflows.

    5 votes

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  3. Please add a feature to convert handwritten or scribbled chemical structures into printed ones.
    There is no good app or tool on the market for this.
    I am thinking similar to the math converter.

    2 votes

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  4. 텍스트 타이핑을 하고 나서 암기를 할때 테이프 기능을 자주 쓰는데 자꾸 테이프가 선택되는게 아니라 텍스트 기능이 선택이 됩니다.
    테이프 기능만 선택될수 있도록 설정을 넣어주세요.

    2 votes

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  5. Built-in browser or web search panel

    When working on a note, project, or research database, I often need to look up information on Google or check the reference on the website.

    With an in-app browser or a small search panel, users can browse and take notes without leaving good notes, creating a smoother and more efficient workflow.

    11 votes

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  6. Allow users to have a customized order of their folders where they can place folders in a specific order instead of being limited to either types, name, how recently modified, etc. Folders and files would be able to be customized into a certain order that allows the user to have more customizability in what goes where in their file organization.

    2 votes

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  7. Let us customize the background of our folder just like MacOS! I feel like I can put in quick info related to the folder in the background itself

    5 votes

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  8. I would like to be able to choose a custom sort order for viewing my documents.

    Currently, Goodnotes offers sorting by date, alphabetical order, and type. It is very limited.

    2 votes

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  9. add Czech language handwriting recognition

    2 votes

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  10. I am a user who subscribed to the Goodnotes Essential plan a few days ago. I was looking into why my Goodnotes library won't sync between Windows and iOS, and I found the following text:

    'If you purchased this plan before September 23, 2025, you are eligible for Goodnotes Cloud. If you purchased this plan after September 23, 2025, you will need to upgrade to the Goodnotes Pro plan to use Goodnotes Cloud.'

    When will cross-platform sync be supported for the Essential plan? I subscribed to this plan because the pricing clearly indicated that the Essential plan also supports cross-platform…

    22 votes

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  11. Hi Goodnotes Team,

    I frequently use Goodnotes to annotate directly on top of imported photos and images. Because the current pens only output solid, single-color ink, my handwriting constantly gets lost in the dark or busy areas of the pictures.

    It would be incredibly helpful to have a new pen tool—or a toggle for the existing pens—that automatically generates a contrasting outline (like white) or a subtle drop-shadow in real-time as I write.

    Right now, I have to interrupt my workflow to draw highlighter backgrounds, duplicate text to create manual shadows, or drop in pre-saved shape elements just to make…

    2 votes

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  12. I really like the feature that allows you to align Images and Elements with fixpoints that already are on a document.
    The next evolution of this feature I'd really like to see would be the possibility to select wether you want and Image or a section of selected handwriting to respond to said fixpoints.
    Sometimes when editing handwritten Text in a Document where you inserted a picture it is quite hard if not impossible to align it when it respons to a fixpoint.
    A on of switch for the selected text or image or whatever to be able to deselect…

    2 votes

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  13. I would be much more comfortable if only email addresses that I approved beforehand could send pdfs via email directly to my devices.

    Similar to the implementation SAP Concur uses...
    - you could add your own personal or work email address to your Goodnotes account.
    - Only emails with pdf attachments originating from these approved addresses are then imported to the Goodnotes account.
    - Emails originating from other accounts are automatically declined

    2 votes

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  14. I'd like to suggest a new feature for GoodNotes: when using Apple Pencil, long-pressing on the screen for a configurable duration (around 0.1–0.5s) would temporarily switch the tool to an eraser. The eraser would remain active until the pencil is lifted off the screen, after which it would automatically revert to the previous tool.

    This would make erasing mistakes much faster and more convenient than double-tapping the pencil to toggle between pen and eraser, since it eliminates the back-and-forth switching and keeps the workflow smooth and uninterrupted.

    Ideally, the long-press duration could be adjustable in settings to suit different users'…

    2 votes

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  15. 168 votes

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  16. Hello, I’ve been using GN for many years now. I keep my hardware as long as possible, and I’m increasingly finding that basic functions across my iPad and two MacBooks are no longer working. For instance, I can no longer exchange files in the Goodnotes format between my MacBook and iPad because the iPad version can no longer be updated. My iPad is running iOS 17, but the new GN version requires at least iOS 18. iCloud synchronization stopped working a long time ago. However, the fact that you can no longer even exchange the native Goodnotes file format is…

    2 votes

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  17. Now its nearly unusable,I can’t edit a type-in document,It won’t let me change the colors or edit the title type,it is not comfortable to find the type-in part either.It just got so much worse,I’m close to switching to another note taking app.Please fix these and let us get back the previus version !

    19 votes

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  18. A refinement on how to Pencil looks. Idk but it doesn’t look like a pencil sometimes. Looks like a dot of dots just put together.

    2 votes

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  19. It will be great if Goodnotes can have a screen record, or import video option. I learn by teaching myself, cand its important for me to sometimes screenrecord what im saying and how things works especially for future references.

    2 votes

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  20. I think as long as kids have a school email they can make a goodnotes education account so then if they forget there device they can log in on a another

    2 votes

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