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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. when collaborating, it would be nice if we had a setting to disable the "Live Cursor". A lot of time when someone edits, their Live Cursor stays in that spot and covers the edit. If you could make it hide after a few seconds of inactivity, or just a setting to turn the feature off altogether, that would be great.

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  2. It would be an amazing addition to be able to edit the textbox presets (i.e. Modern, Classical, Technical) to be what you want it to be. I find that I am switching between my default fonts and having to change everything again, just to write my text in a different way. This can be looped in to the idea for making presets for "body, heading, subheading" but this would be accessible to a notebook rather than only a document.

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  3. Ability to change color of hyperlink u decline or remove altogether

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  4. Currently, there’s no way to insert a real table in GoodNotes that you can type into directly with the keyboard — like you can in Apple Notes, for example. Right now you either have to draw the table entirely by hand (lines/shapes) and then place individual text fields for each cell, or import a finished table from Word/Excel as a PDF and overlay text fields on top of that as well. Both approaches are cumbersome, especially for larger tables.

    It would be great if GoodNotes could add a native “Insert Table” feature where you set the number of rows and…

    3 votes

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  5. Only 1-100 for for typed text, I want to use cute fonts for labels but the text size is limited.

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  6. I want to be able to search the text on my notes and pictures that I scanned and imported .

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  7. I would like to suggest an improvement regarding font management and text formatting across devices, specifically on the Desktop/Windows app.

    Currently, when writing or adding typed text using custom fonts on the iPad version, the formatting gets completely messed up when viewing or editing the same note on the Windows/Desktop version. The text alignment shifts, fonts reset, and the layout breaks.

    Proposed Solution:
    Please allow users to change, edit, or customize fonts directly within the Desktop/Windows app, or improve cross-platform font syncing/rendering. This will ensure that document layouts and alignments remain consistent across iPad and PC/Windows.

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  8. Hello Goodnotes Team,

    I would like to submit a feature request regarding interactive PDF support in Goodnotes.

    We are developing interactive PDF documents generated programmatically with LaTeX. These documents are intended to provide a much more interactive learning and working experience inside Goodnotes.

    For this purpose, we would like Goodnotes to implement broader support for interactive PDF buttons and actions.

    In particular, it would be very useful if imported PDFs could contain functional interactive buttons, for example to:

    • show or hide solutions, hints, or additional content
    • reveal content after pressing a button
    • trigger different actions within the document
    • navigate between…
    2 votes

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  9. When selecting a link with the Apple Pencil, it now shrinks the font (or in my case, an emoji). When resizing, it will return to its original size once you increase/decrease the size, but as soon as you deselect, it shrinks again. Started 2 updates ago.

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  10. This is what makes goodnote useless to STEM students and engineers.

    No Code Formatting: Lacks dedicated code snippet boxes or syntax highlighting, meaning you must paste code as flat images or screenshots.

    Less Copy-Paste Utility: You cannot easily copy text out of a handwritten note into your IDE

    plus latex style formatting,
    connecting chatgpt and claude. goodnotes ai was a good idea, but it's not fully matured as well as the plugin for goodnotes and chatgpt. it's not functional.

    i love goodnote

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  11. Currently when you highlight text and select “Speak” option the text is red quite well but there is no way to pause, reverse, skip or cancel the feature.

    Please bring these features so I can use only this app to do all my studying, as currently I have to use browser to do the reading and GoodNotes for highlighting.

    2 votes

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  12. It is recommended to add a zoom‑lock feature. After zooming in to a suitable position with two‑finger gestures, the zoom level will change again if you swipe left or right across the interface with two fingers.

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  13. Can we duplicate folders or copy it or something and CAN WE upload folders please heavy on the 2nd suggestion because why is it not there bruh... thanks ig

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  14. 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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  15. Save photos to the Photos app – Photos taken directly through Goodnotes should optionally be saved to the device’s Photos app. This would make it much easier to share, organize, and compile them outside of Goodnotes.

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  16. 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.

    1 vote

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  17. Could you add a middle-click to drag, or any other easy way to navigate a Whiteboard with a mouse?

    Navigating a Whiteboard with a mouse is unintuitive compared to how easily it's done with a trackpad. Currently, the only way is to use the small preview window at the bottom left corner, which can be quite limiting depending on your zoom level.

    Thanks in advance.

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  18. I am writing this suggestion as a response to how obnoxious it is to set up a workflow that mirrors the Goodnotes Library across different, external applications.

    The current system has obvious limitations; the automatic Backup to Google Drive (or DropBox, OneDrive and WebDAV) is very useful for keeping an up-to-date PDF copies of Goodnotes documents, however it behaves solely as a backup rather than a true mirror (this is fine, but there is an audience that desires a true mirror that isn't accommodated for, even if they themselves don’t fully know how useful it would be). Currently:
    - creating…

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  19. Ich wünsche mir eine Erweiterung der bereits vorhandenen gelben Haftnotizen (“Sticky Notes”) um eine Option, mit der diese Notizzettel – inklusive ihres Inhalts – nicht auf einen extern angeschlossenen Bildschirm oder Beamer gespiegelt werden.

    Anwendungsfall:
    Beim Präsentieren oder Unterrichten über einen externen Monitor/Beamer möchte ich mir private Notizen, Stichpunkte oder Erinnerungen auf einem Sticky Note direkt auf meinem eigenen Gerät (iPad) machen können, ohne dass diese für das Publikum auf der Leinwand sichtbar sind – ähnlich wie ein “Presenter-Notizen”-Modus, wie man ihn z. B. aus PowerPoint kennt.

    Gewünschtes Verhalten:

    • Der Notizzettel bleibt auf dem eigenen Gerät sichtbar und bearbeitbar.
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  20. It would be very helpful to be able to select multiple images when inserting them and then reduce their file size. I have notebooks that are very large because they contain many images; this often causes backups to fail because the process takes so long.

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