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Feature Request: Shared Folder Collaboration with Real-Time Updates

Dear GoodNotes Team,

I am a teacher who relies on GoodNotes daily for lesson planning, organizing resources, and collaborating with colleagues. While I truly appreciate the powerful tools GoodNotes offers for handwriting and annotation with the Apple Pencil, there is one feature that would greatly improve collaboration for educators:

The ability to share entire folders with colleagues so that multiple users can:

Add new documents to a shared folder.

Write on and annotate shared documents using the Apple Pencil.

View and access changes in real time, including edits, new notes, or added files.

Currently, we can share individual documents, but the inability to collaborate across entire folders makes it difficult to manage shared lesson plans, student resources, and collaborative projects efficiently.

Providing folder-level sharing with real-time updates would make GoodNotes an indispensable tool for teams of teachers who need to work together seamlessly. This feature would allow us to better serve our students and streamline collaboration across classrooms.

Thank you for considering this request. Many educators would greatly benefit from these enhancements, and we would be excited to see GoodNotes continue leading the way in digital learning tools.

Sincerely,
Desperate Teacher

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  • Crystal Lambert commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is our #1 request! Absolutely necessary for folders with multiple exhibits during trial

  • Jonas Engeler commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I got the same problem as a teacher! Would be such a time saver!

  • Stefano Betti commented  ·   ·  Report

    Extremely critical. Would be so helpful. I paid for Goodnotes 6 thinking I could do this like I do in ios notes.

  • Taylor MacMann commented  ·   ·  Report

    If I could have a folder for each topic (marketing team, support team, exec team) that everyone could collaborate out of each folder.

  • KP commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely need this function and, as another user has said, this is a paid app that should offer this functionality.

  • Tyler S. Clark commented  ·   ·  Report

    Will cancel if this isn't added by end of year. 3 years and it's a must have feature for a paid app.

  • Mystery Soldier commented  ·   ·  Report

    Extremely critical. Would be so helpful. I paid for Goodnotes 6 thinking I could do this like I do in ios notes. It’s even free to do there. Sad that I can’t do it here.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Instead of sharing every document on its own, it would help a lot, if one can share a collaboration link for a whole folder.
    Especially for working in a group with several single documents, a shared folder would increase efficiency a lot.

  • Nick Carter commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am an instructor and 1 currently share my good notes by exporting to PDF, copying to onedrive, and sharing the link. I only want the students to have a read only copy. I have to do this every time I update a students record, several times a day.

    The collaboration feature would be ideal if only you could have the option of making the document read only.
    This feature would save a massive amount of time and effort. I could update the students progress and they could see the changes immediately

  • Vanessa Guerrero commented  ·   ·  Report

    The sharing option that we have now is good but being able to share with classmates without them editing would be even better. It’s frustrating spending so much time on a document for someone to accidentally delete notes.

  • Karen Silberg commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put this at the top of your list. I share my personal notes in college with classmates but DO NOT want them to have the ability to edit them. Sometimes when thumb scrolling on our phones, if the eraser tool is selected, sections can easily erased by accident.

  • Senichi commented  ·   ·  Report

    I sincerely wish for the functionality to share an entire folder with collaborators. Sharing multiple notes one by one with specific members is inconvenient and inefficient. If this feature could be implemented, I would be delighted.

  • Vic__ dlt commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be great if we could share folders with our collaborators! All files within the folder would then be updates on each of our devices and it would save us a lot of time instead of having to share files one by one.

  • 1millionbox commented  ·   ·  Report

    Instead of having to manually share a collaboration link notebook by notebook, have an option to share an entire folder at once for collaboration.

  • Pat P commented  ·   ·  Report

    I just signed up and purchased GoodNotes 5 and am trying to figure out a way to do just this. I may not be able to stay with the app if I can't figure this out.

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