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1. Convert Handwritten Photos into Editable Digital Ink

   I would love to see a feature that allows users to take a photo of handwritten notes and convert them into fully editable GoodNotes digital ink.

   The key difference from importing a photo is that the handwriting itself becomes editable.

   How it could work:

   1. Take or Import a Photo

      • Users can take a photo of handwritten notes from:
        • Notebook page
        • Loose paper
        • Whiteboard

   2. Convert Handwriting into Digital Ink

      • GoodNotes AI analyzes the handwriting and reconstructs it as editable digital ink strokes.
      • The converted notes should closely match the original handwriting style and layout.

   3. Replace the Photo Background

      • Instead of keeping the original photo background, GoodNotes places the converted handwriting onto a standard GoodNotes page.
      • Users could choose lined, dotted, grid, or blank paper templates.
      • This creates a clean note page rather than a photo of a whiteboard or sheet of paper.

   4. Fully Editable Notes

      • After conversion, users can:
        • Erase individual strokes
        • Move handwritten content
        • Resize notes
        • Change ink colors
        • Use the lasso tool
        • Add additional handwriting
        • Organize content across pages

   Example Use Case
   A student takes a photo of a professor's whiteboard before leaving class. Instead of saving the image as a static photo, GoodNotes converts the writing into editable digital ink on a clean notebook page. The student can then reorganize the notes, add annotations, erase sections, and continue studying within GoodNotes.

   Benefits
   * Turns static photos into editable notes.
   * Makes classroom whiteboard notes much more useful.
   * Allows users to digitize old paper notes without manually rewriting them.
   * Creates cleaner and more organized notes by removing paper backgrounds, shadows, glare, and other image imperfections.
   * Bridges the gap between handwritten notes and digital note-taking.

   This feature would make it much easier for students, teachers, and professionals to capture handwritten information from the real world and seamlessly integrate it into their GoodNotes workflow.

   Don't import the photo—import the handwriting.

   I would love to see a feature that allows users to take a photo of handwritten notes and convert them into fully editable GoodNotes digital ink.

   The key difference from importing a photo is that the handwriting itself becomes editable.

   How it could work:

   1. Take or Import a Photo

      • Users can take a photo of handwritten notes from:
        • Notebook page
        • Loose paper
        • Whiteboard

   2. Convert Handwriting into Digital Ink

      • GoodNotes AI analyzes the handwriting and reconstructs it as editable digital ink strokes.
      • The converted notes should closely match the original handwriting style and layout.

   3. Replace the Photo Background

      • Instead of keeping… more
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2. New version is so much worse

   Now its nearly unusable,I can’t edit a type-in document,It won’t let me change the colors or edit the title type,it is not comfortable to find the type-in part either.It just got so much worse,I’m close to switching to another note taking app.Please fix these and let us get back the previus version !

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3. Smart Learn Needs a Daily Card Limit Like Anki

   I think Goodnotes Smart Learn seriously needs a daily card limit system similar to Anki.

   Right now Smart Learn can become very aggressive with recommendations when you have a huge number of flashcards.

   Imagine being a med student with:

   • separate study sets for every chapter
   • thousands of flashcards
   • eventually 20,000–30,000+ total cards

   At that scale, unlimited recommendations can become stressful and mentally overwhelming.

   I think there should be a feature where users can set:
   “Smart Learn can only recommend X cards today”

   Example:

   • Today limit = 200 cards
   • Smart Learn then intelligently chooses the MOST important 200 cards from all pending cards using spaced repetition and forgetting probability.

   This would:

   • reduce stress
   • make revision sustainable long-term
   • prevent burnout
   • improve consistency
   • make huge flashcard systems actually manageable

   The goal of spaced repetition should not just be “maximum cards possible,” but “maximum retention with sustainable mental load.”

   I genuinely think this one feature could make Goodnotes much more powerful for serious students like med students, law students, and competitive exam prep users.

   I think Goodnotes Smart Learn seriously needs a daily card limit system similar to Anki.

   Right now Smart Learn can become very aggressive with recommendations when you have a huge number of flashcards.

   Imagine being a med student with:

   • separate study sets for every chapter
   • thousands of flashcards
   • eventually 20,000–30,000+ total cards

   At that scale, unlimited recommendations can become stressful and mentally overwhelming.

   I think there should be a feature where users can set:
   “Smart Learn can only recommend X cards today”

   Example:

   • Today limit = 200 cards
   • Smart Learn then intelligently chooses the MOST important 200 cards from all… more
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4. Allow custom Google Drive folder for Auto Backup

   Currently, Google Drive Auto Backup is restricted to the root level of My Drive. I use Goodnotes together with Obsidian, with my Obsidian vault stored in Google Drive. I would like to back up my handwritten notes as PDFs directly into a folder such as:

   Google Drive → Obsidian Vault → Goodnotes

   More generally, allowing users to select an arbitrary Google Drive folder would make Auto Backup much easier to integrate with file-based workflows and other applications.

   Ideally, tapping Backup Location would open a Google Drive folder picker where the desired destination can be selected.

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5. Sync between iOS and Windows/Android

   I am a user who subscribed to the Goodnotes Essential plan a few days ago. I was looking into why my Goodnotes library won't sync between Windows and iOS, and I found the following text:

   'If you purchased this plan before September 23, 2025, you are eligible for Goodnotes Cloud. If you purchased this plan after September 23, 2025, you will need to upgrade to the Goodnotes Pro plan to use Goodnotes Cloud.'

   When will cross-platform sync be supported for the Essential plan? I subscribed to this plan because the pricing clearly indicated that the Essential plan also supports cross-platform sync, so I am confused that the sync is not working.

   I am a user who subscribed to the Goodnotes Essential plan a few days ago. I was looking into why my Goodnotes library won't sync between Windows and iOS, and I found the following text:

   'If you purchased this plan before September 23, 2025, you are eligible for Goodnotes Cloud. If you purchased this plan after September 23, 2025, you will need to upgrade to the Goodnotes Pro plan to use Goodnotes Cloud.'

   When will cross-platform sync be supported for the Essential plan? I subscribed to this plan because the pricing clearly indicated that the Essential plan also supports cross-platform… more

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6. [Fountain Pen] Improvements

   The good notes fountain pen does not write how a fountain pen should. A fountain pen has a metal nib that creates thin cross strokes and wide down strokes. The pen in good notes is the opposite with wide side strokes and thin down strokes. The apple notes fountain pen is perfect in recreating the look of an actual fountain pen. This is the only reason I have to stay with apple notes. The pen interface is the most important for me. Otherwise, I would use good notes.

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7. Easy two-page view in one window

   I would love it so that there's an easier way to view two pages from the same notebook at once in the same window. It's a pain to have to open a whole new window and then re-open everything just to see two pages. I would love if there was just an option for Goodnotes to do it without me having to go through all this hassle.

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8. bring back continuous text box and allowing use to set to specifc font color

   New update removed ability to stay on typing function and will revert back to Lasso. This is so annoying. Also bring back allowing the user to choose their default font color. My school uses dark colored ppts and when typing the auto selected black font makes it impossible to keep up with note taking as i constantly must highlight the text and change it to white font.

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9. Bring back the ball point pen

   I hate using the fountain pen because I want all my writing to look consistent. The fountain pen has places where it's thicker and places where it's thinner and it drives me crazy. The ball point pen was way better because it was consistent. Bring it back!

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10. Make making flashcards as easy as writing notes, i dont want to type

    I dont want to tap to edit everytime i want to make a flashcard by pen, i just want to write them then slide to a new one. Its exshauting to tap write save then exit everytime for someone who just wants to write them by pen

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11. Table Function

    It would be really cool if we had a button again in the Windows version that you could click on and, like with the keyboard, click somewhere and a table would appear. After that, you can write in it, and if you need more lines/columns, you can press a small plus sign.However, there could also be a small window that appears beforehand when you click on the table icon, where you can select which layout you want.

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12. New update = hot garbage

    1. The tool bar being ON my document is blocking parts of my notebook, making my working area smaller.
    2. When in split screen mode half of the toolbar disappears(we used to be able to scroll over still) and will only reappear if i make the window bigger.
    3. Instead of functions being displayed on the toolbar i now have to press extra buttons to get to things like the bookmark, but why?
    4. Why is my pen automatically the lasso? In GoodNOTES you would think i would automatically need the pen no?
    5. Not everything needs to be a drop down menu! The double bar was goated! One tap to get to things NOT FIVE!
    6. The text box function is completely ruined. I have to tap it extra times to move it or expand it, but why?
    7. WHY ARE TEXTBOX CONTROLS ON MY SCREEN BLOCKING MY DOCUMENT?? JUST PUT IT BACK AT THE TOP OR ON THE SIDE OR SOMETHING BUT ON THE DOCUMENT I AM TRYING TO REFERENCE?? WHYYYYYYYYYYY?
    8. Press and hold to go into text mode? Why? There was a nice button that we could press that would instantly take us there. Now we press the text box button and then press and hold. Just for it to look odd.

    1. The tool bar being ON my document is blocking parts of my notebook, making my working area smaller.
    2. When in split screen mode half of the toolbar disappears(we used to be able to scroll over still) and will only reappear if i make the window bigger.
    3. Instead of functions being displayed on the toolbar i now have to press extra buttons to get to things like the bookmark, but why?
    4. Why is my pen automatically the lasso? In GoodNOTES you would think i would automatically need the pen no?
    5. Not everything needs to be a drop down menu! The double… more
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13. Custom folder background

    Let us customize the background of our folder just like MacOS! I feel like I can put in quick info related to the folder in the background itself

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14. Swipe to edit flashcards

    I need to be able to swipe through the flashcards IN THE EDITOR. I do NOT want to go back to thumbnail view, click on the next card, check if it has an error, go back to thumbnail view, swipe down, click the next card, remember which card I just opened, etc! I don’t want to do this to add a new flashcard either!!!!!

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15. Support text-based PDF highlighting & add rectangular PDF text highlight

    There should be an option to be able to highlight the pdf text in the highlighter color you have selected. Similar to how you long press on a word and it selects, it should highlight, that way its much cleaner and easier on laptops to use. It should be in a rectangular highlighter shape. This feature is available in notability and is really urging me to switch.

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16. Remove background for images

    The tool similar to the one they have on word ( either the remove background, or set to transparent tool) for images… because I love to make aesthetic notes and it is so time consuming having to manually remove the background on images of third party tools and then import them into my notes

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17. After using lasso tool, put it back to pen tools.

    Currently, after using lasso tools, tapping with Apple Pencil will switch back to the eraser forcibly. It is so inconvenient that doesn’t revert to the tools I was using before, like pen or highlighters. Before the updates, it was used as usual. So please.

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18. Typing Feature in Toolbar

    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.

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19. [Eraser] Pressure Sensitive Eraser

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

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20. Give users "a button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable the liquid glass effect within the software!

    Please completely disable the Liquid Glass dynamic effect for older devices (such as my iPad Pro 2018, 12.9-inch with A12X processor), or provide users with a "button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable this feature within the app!!!
    
    (Before Apple required apps to support Liquid Glass effects as a condition for listing, GoodNotes ran extremely smooth and fluid! After recent updates, it has become laggy, frequently killed in the background, and suffers from delays.)
    
    Since the app introduced the Liquid Glass effect a few months ago:
    
    ❶ Typing is noticeably sluggish, with an average delay of two seconds before text suggestions appear;
    
    ❷ Apple Pencil 2 also experiences frequent lag;
    
    ❸ Most critically, due to these performance issues, the app is constantly terminated by the system—every time I switch away, GoodNotes restarts, severely impacting productivity. As a result, I'm seriously considering switching to a competing app (since Liquid Glass consumes too much system resources).
    
    I sincerely hope you can consider this request!请为“陈旧的设备”（如本人的ipadpro2018，12.9寸处理器：A12X）完全关闭液态玻璃动态效果，或者给用户“一个按钮”，让用户拥有自主选择打开或关闭该软件内的液态玻璃效果的权利！！！！！！
    (在苹果未强制要求app适配动态玻璃效果才能上架软件“前”，goodnotes非常丝滑流畅！！app更新后卡顿、杀后台，延迟)
    自从前几个月该软件更新了液态玻璃效果后❶app打字都很卡平均延迟2秒钟才弹出打字的候选词
    ❷而且Apple pencil2也时常卡顿，
    ❸更要命的是，正因如此该app被频繁杀后台，每次app切换，goodnotes就重启，严重影响效率，以至于准备打算弃用该软件选择友商（因为液态玻璃占用系统性能过多）
    希望可以采纳！！！

    Please completely disable the Liquid Glass dynamic effect for older devices (such as my iPad Pro 2018, 12.9-inch with A12X processor), or provide users with a "button" that allows them to freely choose whether to enable or disable this feature within the app!!!
    
    (Before Apple required apps to support Liquid Glass effects as a condition for listing, GoodNotes ran extremely smooth and fluid! After recent updates, it has become laggy, frequently killed in the background, and suffers from delays.)
    
    Since the app introduced the Liquid Glass effect a few months ago:
    
    ❶ Typing is noticeably sluggish, with an average delay… more

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