Skip to content
← Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes

How can we improve Goodnotes for iOS/iPadOS/macOS?

Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes

Categories

JUMP TO ANOTHER FORUM

(thinking…)

Selective iCloud Sync

I would like to choose which notebooks / documents get synced through iCloud. I have plenty of documents on my iPad that I don't want to have on my iPhone. Things like PDF manuals or PDF presentations that I just can't use on the smaller iPhone screen.

96 votes

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close

We’ll send you updates on this idea

Gary D shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
How important is this to you?

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close
Submitting...
An error occurred while saving the comment
  • Bryce Dunford commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have multiple devices all synced, but with different sizes of storage. It kills my storage in my smaller devices to be synced to all the docs I need in my large storage devices.

  • Jishnu Chatterjee commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any update on this? It's 2024, 8 years since the original post. I'm having the same issue. I've turned off the sync option completely.

  • Milky Way commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is so important lol, why would I want to sync ALL my files with icloud...

  • Nathalie Calvet commented  ·   ·  Report

    Honestly, it’s one of the main reason why I regret buying the Mac version, I don’t need to upgrade my iCloud storage and I don’t need to have all of my GoodNotes file on my computer, but I would really like to have at least my planner and some time sensitive notebooks. I don’t want to delete all of my old notebooks from my iPad. I might just stop using GoodNotes and switch to OneNote or a note shelf or even notability

  • Eva Jane commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, essential for notes with private health information not allowed to be synced by the cloud.

  • Sheri Lammi commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature is absolutely required and, if not resolved, May drive me away from using GoodNotes.

  • Théo Bourdais commented  ·   ·  Report

    It seems a lot of people have to turn off sync because GoodNotes can quickly take GB of storage if we sync every file

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Highly requested when working with sensitive data that is not allowed on the cloud.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same issue here as SW below noted: This is also useful for data that can’t be allowed on the cloud. I’m currently stuck choosing between not syncing my data and not using Good Notes.
    Would be useful to be able to select a folder or a notebook for sync.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    As noted by other commenters, this is a privacy issue, a security issue and a storage issue. At present, GoodNotes users can’t use the collaborate function without making all (at least up to storage limitations) their documents accessible on the cloud. This may also affect users with many local files but a poor internet connection who would like to sync only a small collection of documents.

  • Michelle Oladehin commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a very good idea, because we like to feel that we have some control in our own lives, especially since all this COVID-19 Pandemic started. In addition, many of us don’t realize how little storage we actually have on a new device, and as a newbie and then before you know your juggling things around. I never understood the reason why we could never have additional SIM cards for storage, unless it’s just about more money, who knows...

  • SW commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is also useful for data that can’t be allowed on the cloud. I’m currently stuck choosing between not syncing my data and not using Good Notes.