I say this as a UX + Product Design consultant for the last 30 years of my life: The new toolbar is absolutely TERRIBLE. You redesigned something simply for the sake of redesigning it. Redesigns should only happen when doing so makes something markedly BETTER. This does not.

Every single thing I do takes 3X the effort — LITERALLY — simply to change the pen colors for the diagramming work I do. I now have to hit a subcategory icon (shapes, which makes no sense visually) every time I have to change color — which happens 6-8 times per MINUTE.

I cannot believe you have overcomplicated something that was so incredibly simple and effortless. And was the reason I gave you my money in the first place.

Literally looking for another app to use. As grandiose as this may sound, you have truly *destroyed* my productivity with this ridiculous change.

Please give an Option to you choose between the old, docked toolbar and the new. I really dislike the new even though i used it for like a month now ...

PLEASE go back to the old tool bar for Apple Pencil Pro. It´s driving me nuts that I have to scroll to go to the eraser. I took out a piece of paper mid lecture today!

I hate the floating toolbar. Please allow us to go back to how it was before!

Dear Goodnotes. I am losing my mind. PLEASE. Just allow us to revert to a toolbar where it's not floating. I can NOT teach my students like this. I have lost all precision due to the floating bar being in my peripheral view. Please. Just allow me an option to revert to the old toolbar where it wasn't floating. My life is at stake.

While your initial suggestion is commendable, I have a query regarding the necessity of utilizing the pin function every time I select the textbox icon. In my opinion, it would be advantageous if the pin button retained the last usage. For instance, if one requires the Lasso tool or pen for note-taking, and subsequently returns to writing within the textbox, it would be more efficient to generate additional textboxes without repeatedly using the pin button.
I appreciate your prompt attention to these issues.

When using the text box the toolbar will still drop down to the text box instead of staying by the stationary toolbar, very very annoying. In the next update please let the textbox settings stay at the stationary toolbar, and add the previous textbox menu (with only some choices like delete and copy etc) to the end corner of the textbox. Also please remove the default switch to lasso, it’s just unnecessary and annoying. And when marking a text it would be much better if a small menu popped up close to the marked text like previously, so with copy, paste etc. And finally for the fonts, previously it was possible to easily access the different bold, thin and regular formats for a specific font, but now you have to first search for the font again and then go to the format choices, which takes much longer. I added screenshots with little comments to make it more understandable I hope, please read them! Btw start with the right pic furthest down then the left etc etc.

Somehow the new update made the toolbar even worse — now it is way more inconvenient to switch tools! Before you could access the lasso, pen, eraser, and highlighter all under the same section, meaning it only took one click to switch between any of them. Now with the updated toolbar, it takes extra clicks to switch back and forth between all of them. They also changed the pen sizes to require an extra click by having them all together instead of separate, so rather than easily switching sizes, you have to first click on it once and then you can select the size. The original layout was much more convenient and easy to use, and there should be the option to go back to that one. It takes so much more time now to switch between the tools, making it a pain.

You liars tricked me. I wasn't updating because I HATE how the floating toolbars take up more screen real estate and revert every single text box to a lasso so I have to click the text box over and over again.

I thought we got the old toolbar back because you said "Revert to the default layout: Restore the original setup anytime."

I've been a Goodnotes user for about 8 years and I am furious. LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!

I hate the way the floating toolbar and floating undo/redo controls take away document real estate. Please allow us to go back to how it was before!

You did not fix anything. You were supposed to bring back the favorite button. There is one thing for sure. Fire the new guy you hired.

Please display the bookmark addition button permanently in the top-right corner so it can be accessed immediately from the left tabs.
Please revert to the previous UI.
It's hard to understand why the bookmark UI was hidden and the Tools tab made independent. Now we have to go out of our way to add bookmarks from the left tabs, and then open another tab just to review them. This is extremely inconvenient and frustrating.

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I’ve been using this app for several years now and agree with every one else in asking for the old toolbar layout back. Please make the default whatever was last used. Why on earth is the tool reverting to “lasso” after I make a text box, this makes the app un-usable for me. I am constantly adding multiple text boxes.

Also a [bug] I had to restart the app because the keypad wouldn’t show up when I was trying to edit a previously created text box. Which every time I clicked off it we did the revert to lasso tool.

Please stop giving updates no one wanted. I would happily go back to the version we had before this app became a subscription.

Oh PLESE wtf. I was so exited when I read that you could revert it to the default setup. Because I, like ALL of us, want the old toolbar from the last version back. Not this sh*t.

The shape tool still S*CKS and the toolbar is the worst thing that ever happened.

ALSO, it is very inconvenient that you can’t switch from pen to keyboard typing in the toolbar anymore.

Seriously, get your sh*t together and LISTEN to us.

I hope both sides of the pillow of whoever did this are warm.

I got really excited when it said we could revert to the default layout bc i thought the toolbar would look like it did before this update... i was very disappointed. But at least we can customize it now, which is a basic feature that had no reason to be taken away in the first place !

Why can't we just have the option to revert back to the way things were before?? I don't know anyone who likes this new toolbar. Ik sunk cost fallacy but dang

What i loved (past tense) about good notes is that i saw all my color palette, why would you make it smaller if it will cover most of the row anyway?? I need it to be full again! If I wanted a tool box like your competitor i would have subscribed to them, if it works don’t fix it !

I hope that whoever is involved in introducing this feature steps on lego

BRING THE OLD ONE BACK PLEASE. Why would we not even have the option to change it to a wider view?! I cannot be scrolling this much. This is the worst.

There also seems to be a bug with shapes. I have noticed it with circles, first of all the preview when still holding the pen is a zig-zag kind of shape instead of the circle itself, secondly when you try to adjust the width and height of the circle it snaps to certain lengths and when you quit adjusting it snaps back to a different shape. its kind of hard to explain but just try making a small circle thats wide/high

When using the zoom window the pen automatically switches to the eraser sometimes. It seems to be linked to automatically switching back to the pen after having used the eraser because when I select the eraser and then the pen manually is doesn't seem to randomly switch to the eraser while writing.