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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Feature Request: Enable Collapsible Sticky Notes in Read Only Mode

    I would like the ability to expand and collapse Sticky Notes while using Read Only Mode, without switching to Editing Mode.

    Currently, collapsing and expanding Sticky Notes requires interaction with the editing interface.

    It would be extremely useful if:

    • Tapping a collapsed Sticky Note expanded it in Read Only Mode.
    • Tapping it again collapsed it.
    • No editing tools or object-selection menus appeared.
    • The note remained completely protected from accidental modification.

    This would make revision and reading much more convenient, especially when using Sticky Notes for additional explanations, definitions, important facts…

    1 vote

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  2. Please bring back the typing tool in handwritten documents as a separate button in the toolbar.
    Also, please fix the overlapping of the typing “toolbar” with the title when typing.

    16 votes

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  3. Add a pressure-sensitive eraser, which allows the user to adjust the pressure level. Feeling different pressures determines whether the eraser function is activated.

    16 votes

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  4. Add a built-in translation feature that allows users to select any word, sentence, or paragraph and translate it directly in Goodnotes, especially when studying PDF files. This would be very helpful for students and would save us from switching between Goodnotes and other translation apps.

    2 votes

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  5. ノートを「読み出しのみ」にしてるときに縮小した「付箋」を開けるようにして欲しいです。というかワンタップで拡大縮小できるようにして欲しいです。

    2 votes

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  6. Ich fände es super wenn man die Ordner frei verschieben könnte und man sich nicht mehr ein Sortiersystem wie z.B. nach Alphabet oder nach Erstellungsdatum aussuchen müsste.

    1 vote

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  7. The precision of the taping tool and the eraser tool are two features that need to be very detailed. Before the latest update, you could tape over something and then erase, with precision, to reveal parts you didn't want covered up. For example, you can tape over all of "15-25", then erase specifically over the dash (-) to show that is a range you are trying to recall. Now, when you try to erase, it will delete panels of tape, revealing the parts you are trying to conceal.

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  8. Hello, I hope you can support the setting of the pure black color when selecting the color of the note paper, because the black color appears as gray in the application.

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  9. I’d like to suggest that Goodnotes add an independent opacity slider for the Pencil tool, allowing users to adjust stroke thickness and opacity separately.

    Currently, in the standard version of Goodnotes, increasing the pencil thickness also makes the strokes lighter and more transparent. As a result, thicker strokes appear gray and faded rather than dark and clear. This is quite frustrating, especially when I want to use thicker pencil strokes while maintaining their original intensity.

    Interestingly, the China version of Goodnotes already has an opacity adjustment slider that solves this problem. Users can set their preferred opacity independently, so even…

    1 vote

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  10. I would like to suggest adding an opacity control (0–100%) to pen tools such as the fountain pen, ballpoint pen, brush pen, pencil, highlighter, and tape pen.

    This feature would allow for greater flexibility and precision in note-taking, highlighting, and creative work.

    11 votes

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  11. Currently, documents can be sorted based on certain criteria, such as creation date. However, I would like to be able to arrange them in any order I want, just like rearranging apps on an iPhone’s home screen.

    1 vote

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  12. I would like Goodnotes to support exact-match searches.

    More specifically, I would like the search function to be designed with dictionary-like use in mind, such as extracting only the relevant pages containing a specific term from textbooks imported into Goodnotes.

    Currently, for example, searching for “cisplatin” may return results containing unrelated words such as “amyloidosis,” which makes the search function difficult to use.

    This happens consistently when searching Japanese text and is extremely inconvenient.

    2 votes

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  13. Wir brauchen die Zoom-Ansicht für das Whiteboard!
    Ich liebe das Whiteboard & finde es total praktisch, das einzige was fehlt, ist die Zoom-Ansicht, dass man genauso entspannt schreiben kann wie in anderen Formaten, das wäre toll!!

    2 votes

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  14. Sometimes I change one note in my notebook to landscape but, the tape gets messed up. It goes thin instead of its normal thickness (think of when you go up and down and its thin). I think the tape should have different setting of freeform and the tape we have now.

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  15. Feature request:

    Hi GoodNotes team,

    I would like to suggest a feature for better dark mode note-taking.

    When the page background is dark, it would be very helpful if pen colors could automatically reverse or adapt for visibility. For example, black handwriting could appear white on a dark background, while still preserving readability.

    Also, when exporting notes, please allow users to choose whether the handwriting should be exported as black or white. This would be especially useful because notes that look clear on a dark background may become hard to read when exported or printed.

    Suggested options:

    Auto-invert pen color…

    5 votes

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  16. I'd love to have a specific plan I'd be willing to buy, all I want is unlimited notebooks. I dont have any use of AI or Audio

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  17. Please make something that we can change the size of importet PDF‘s to the size A4 or anything without it changing to be a paper sheet.

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  18. Please create a layout for flashcards that resembles an index card that is ruled on one side only.

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  19. 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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  20. Dear Goodnotes Team,

    I would love to suggest introducing an optional Real-Time Handwriting-to-Font feature, similar to the functionality offered by Freenotes.

    The idea is that users can write naturally with their Apple Pencil, while Goodnotes instantly transforms their handwriting into a font of their choice as they write. Ideally, users could choose from a selection of beautiful handwriting fonts, including the option to create or upload a font based on their own handwriting.

    I believe this would be particularly beneficial from an accessibility perspective. People living with conditions such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, joint hypermobility and other chronic pain…

    1 vote

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