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  1. It is nice to be able to go to the next page going down instead of going left. It would also be nice if scrolling down to the next page continuous without jumping to the next page, so you can see the bottom of one page and the top of the next page.

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    Sub-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.

    Learn more

    We'd love to hear what you think! Feel free to share your feedback with us.

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    Goodnotes Team

  3. I would like to use TouchID to both open the app (a la Dropbox) and/or individual notebook TouchID verification.

    1,378 votes

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  4. Like in any application you can send images or objects backward, forward, etc. Would be great to have this especially when you want the handwritings to overlap with images or vice versa, or when you need to edit it.
    When I was still using a Samsung Note 8, I was able to do this so, im pretty sure the mighty iPad Pro can do it as well :)
    its pretty basic since many of the applications already in iOS do this. Would love for this basic feature to be available. if it already is, please... someone help me!

    1,346 votes

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  5. fonts installed on iPad via profile should be displayed. AnyFont app can be used to install fonts (http://www.anyfont-app.com). competitor Notebooks shows all fonts.

    1,239 votes

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  6. 1,173 votes

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  7. Please add this, its so important for any student or anyone else who has to take notes while in meetings or lectures. It should work like in Notability. You should be able to press a record button create an audio recording where you can click on a section that you wrote or typed and it will skip to the part of the recording that it's in.

    1,146 votes

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  8. Good Notes needs a universal search option, so that from the main screen, we can search for note titles, folder names, page bookmark and text (typed or written with OCR). Otherwise, it is nearly impossible to find notes back.

    1,037 votes

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  9. Need to be able to lock individual items. In planners sometimes the layout itself is a sticker. Need to lock that so I can move the stickers above without the bottom one moving.

    945 votes

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    [Lock Objects is live 🎉]

    Hello,

    Thank you so much for sharing your suggestion! We're happy to let you know that Lock Objects is now live across on Apple, Android, Windows, and Web.

    Lock Objects lets you secure images, text, shapes, and sticky notes so they can't be moved or deleted by accident.

    For more details, please check out this article.

    To get access on iOS, update to app version 7.0.30. After updating your app, please refresh it to see the latest features.

    The feature is available on all plans (Free, Essential, Pro and Special Edition).

    Feel free to share your feedback and let us know how the feature works for you! For additional feature improvements, suggest your ideas in the separate threads.

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  10. please make a function to link another document within a document!!

    I am making a short summary to study for my class final, I would love to be able to link a different document within my goodnotes folders to a specific word to have more detailed information

    for example: my note says " - the sea is full of organisms", I then tap on the word "organism" and my notes on organisms I took during class pop up, because I was able to link them to my short summary

    890 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you for sharing your ideas! We’re happy to share that the option to create links to other documents within your Goodnotes account is already available.

    You can currently add:

    • Links to any external website
    • Hyperlinks to any notebook or whiteboard from your files

    You can add links to text in textboxes, stickers, and shapes to make your notes more interactive and organized.

    For more details on how this works, you can find a step-by-step guide here.

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    Goodnotes Team

  11. I'd love to be able to have sub folders and be able to add tags to my documents to make it easier to sort them

    873 votes

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  12. Would be great having a feature that allows you to write stuff with a stylus pen or finger and then, if wanted, convert it to text.

    790 votes

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  13. I love using the lasso tool to move my handwriting around on the page. I also use the vertical scrolling feature to write my notes, but when I want to move text from one page to the next within the lasso tool, I can’t just drag it on. I have to copy/paste to the next page then cut or erase the text from the previous page. It’s a small thing, but a change that would improve work flow.

    754 votes

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  14. I love that I can search my handwritten notes! The rub is that sometimes something I'm searching for, spans multiple notebooks. It would be wonderful to be able to search all of the netbooks for the currently selected category!

    655 votes

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  15. 609 votes

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  16. I need access on my mac...!

    591 votes

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  17. sometiomes I use the ruled paper and wanna type on it,but the textbox seems not precisely fits the line spacing of the paper , i hope I can directly type on the paper lines ,not type in a textbox. Thanks!

    586 votes

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  18. Stop having lasso be the default tool. I cannot even remove it from the toolbar. It is frustrating that everything always goes back to lasso. I can’t even do multiple text boxes one after the other because once you type in a text box once and click off it goes straight to lasso instead of having text toggled on like it used to

    543 votes

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    Hello! Thanks so much for your feedback and for sharing your ideas with us.

    We’re excited to let you know that we’ve updated the Text tool and introduced a new dedicated floating menu for text boxes, including more customization options.

    One of the new tools is Pin Text Tool — when enabled, it keeps the Text tool active so you can create multiple text boxes continuously without having to reselect it each time.

    This is especially helpful when you're focused on adding or adjusting text in your notes. The pin will automatically turn off once you switch to another tool.

    Feel free to try it out and let us know how it works for you!

    This improvement is available in the latest Apple update.

  19. Simulaneously share notebooks for use through the web with other users.

    Talkboard is a free app by Citrix that allows for sharing of a white board with multiple users. The writing features are in general, the same as good notes.

    If notebooks could support features to share with other users simultaneously, even select notebooks, then I would be able to use good notes as a collaboration tool on top of it being a note taking tool.

    516 votes

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    We’re happy to announce the release of our new update GoodNotes 5.5 including “Shared Documents”. You can now share a document with other GoodNotes users and work together on them. You can read everything about the first version of shared documents here: https://medium.goodnotes.com/link-sharing-share-documents-adb36f99c583

    Details on how to use the new features and FAQ are available here: https://support.goodnotes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001571256-Sharing-a-document-with-other-users-to-collaborate-on-it

  20. Add/integrate the SDK from Adonit for the new Jot Script just announced. This stylus has a 1.9mm tip and is suppose to produce the best experience for note-taking. Just make sure you can disable pinch-zoom while writing to prevent any unwanted issues while writing (maybe have manual buttons for zooming in the menu bar when connected to the stylus?)

    497 votes

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