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Customer Suggestions for Goodnotes (Apple)

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  1. Please introduce a theme customization feature in Goodnotes.

    It would be great if users could personalize the app by selecting their own colors or applying themes from a theme store.

    In addition to light and dark mode, please allow customization of the writing UI, menu colors, and background styles as well.

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  2. Standard pencil feels too transparent and unrealistic. Please make it look more natural and much less transparent, more like a real colored pencil.

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  3. Please fix the issue where handwriting strokes become stretched and unintentionally connect to other letters when Apple Pencil Hover is enabled! Writing feels natural when Hover is turned off, but this issue always occurs when Hover is enabled.

    When hovering the Apple Pencil near buttons, the interaction animations either do not exist or feel awkward compared to Apple’s apps and other well-designed apps. (The buttons only fade instead of changing size or responding naturally.)
    Also, I do not think the keyboard shortcut hints need to appear when hovering over these buttons. (This applies to all buttons.)

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  4. GoodNotes feels very slow and outdated when it comes to the slow animation when clicking on folders. Instead of feeling snappy and responsive the long animation leaves me feeling sluggish.

    The same goes for when I open the page view sidebar and the search sidebar. These slow opening animations are outdated and make GoodNotes feel unnecessary sluggish when compared to Notability’s snappy, simple animations.

    4 votes

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  6. Please update Goodnotes for Windows. There is no reason we can't have the same versions as iPad users, like changing fonts! Give us more features PLEASE

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  7. Write in Place makes the page automatically shift to the left while writing, so your hand can stay almost in the same position. It does not matter where on the page you begin writing. As soon as you write a letter or a word, the system measures how far your pen moves to the right. The page does not move during the stroke itself, but every time you lift the pen, it immediately shifts to the left by exactly that amount.

    This is especially important for cursive writing: if you write a whole word in one continuous motion, the page…

    2 votes

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  8. hello goodnotes.I am from India. I am currently using the 1year(essential) plan. but I want to upgrade my subscription to the special edition/ lifetime subscription. but it seems like ,in India- the special edition subscription is not available .there is only the essential/yearly plans and one Pro plan. so it will be very helpful if you add the special edition plan for India region.

    I desperately need the special edition plan. and it is not available in India region so is there any other way that I can buy the special edition subscription.

    if you add the speciality some subscription…

    1 vote

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  9. I sometimes work with several workbooks in parallel, for example, several projects. I maintain one workbook per project.

    It would be great if there were a task function (task type, task, task description, responsible person, deadline, status, task category, relevance indicator in the central task register) that would converge centrally on a user workstation, regardless of which workbook it is in. This would make work much easier. It would allow to-dos recorded in meetings to be managed more effectively without losing track of the big picture.

    If it were also possible to synchronise by task type (calendar entry, task entry)…

    3 votes

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  10. The Goodnotes AI monthly credits are very limiting. As a student in an accelerated program, the credits run out quickly especially when trying to transcribe a lecture. I also wouldn’t mind paying for an annual, all inclusive subscription (without credits) at a higher rate. AI generated quizzes would be a plus as well.

    1 vote

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  11. Hello GoodNotes Team,

    I have a small feature request regarding the page navigator.

    On my previous 12.9-inch iPad, the page thumbnails were displayed four per row. I organized many of my bookmarked pages assuming this four-per-row layout.

    After switching to a 13-inch iPad, the navigator now displays five thumbnails per row. Because of this, the layout of my bookmarked pages has been disrupted. The rows I organized are now mixed, which makes it difficult to recognize them at a glance.

    It would be very helpful if users could customize the number of thumbnails per row (for example, choosing four instead…

    2 votes

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  12. Text tool feels clunky compared to Google Docs

    Issue: Copy/paste, selecting text, and typing across pages doesn’t feel smooth or reliable.
    Why it’s annoying: The friction breaks flow and makes typed notes feel like a worse experience than handwriting.
    Request: Improve the text tool to behave more like Google Docs:

    Auto-add pages as text grows (no manual page management)

    Smoother transitions across pages when selecting/typing/erasing

    More reliable copy/paste behavior

    3 votes

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  13. With recent updates, the option to filter or prioritize favorited documents within a specific folder has been removed. Now, clicking on Favorites just throws every single starred document into one massive global list.

    This completely disrupts an organized workflow. When I am working inside a specific folder, I want to be able to filter for or automatically pin the favorites of that exact folder to the top, without having to look at files from completely different projects.

    Please bring back local favorites filtering or an option to sort folders by "Favorites First".

    1 vote

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  14. The Masking Tape feature is amazing for active recall and memorization.

    However, when a page contains many masking tapes, users currently have to tap every single one individually just to review the full content.

    This is especially inconvenient when users want to quickly review the entire page or check the overall structure of their notes before testing themselves again.

    A simple “Reveal All / Hide All” toggle would make studying much smoother and faster.

    Possible options:
    • Reveal all masking tapes on the current page
    • Hide all again with one tap
    • Optional notebook-wide support

    This would greatly improve…

    1 vote

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  15. Subject: Zapier Integration Request - Automate GoodNotes Workflows

    Hi GoodNotes team,

    I'm a fan of your app and would love to integrate it with Zapier to automate my workflows. Specifically, I'd like to:

    Create new GoodNotes notebooks/documents automatically when triggered by events in other apps (like our job management system)
    Organize notes based on job details (client name, job ID, etc.)
    Optionally export or sync GoodNotes content to cloud storage
    Do you have plans to launch a Zapier integration? If so, when might this be available? If not, is there an API or webhook I could use in the meantime?

    2 votes

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  16. In GoodNotes 7 it is no longer possible to set a default text style, and text backgrounds are missing. Both features existed in GoodNotes 6 and are essential for my work (e.g. creating assignments, official documents). Please clarify: is this a bug that will be fixed, or a deliberate design decision that will remain?

    7 votes

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  17. I hand write vocabulary lists using a Goodnotes notebook. I’d love to be able to turn my handwritten lists into separate flash cards, without typing them all in please

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  18. I often use different sets of highlighting colors depending on what I’m working on. It would be very helpful if Goodnotes allowed users to create and save groups (or palettes) of highlight colors. That way, I wouldn’t need to manually change the highlight colors each time I switch tasks or subjects.

    5 votes

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  19. This feature was previously there but recently been taken away. It is very cumbersome to custom the type, size and colour of the font every time when i try to write. So this feature called “save as default” option should be there for typing font, size and colour.

    5 votes

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  20. Hello GoodNotes Team,

    I’ve recently noticed that in the latest version of GoodNotes for iPad or Iphone, the “full-page text input” mode no longer provides an option to change the font size and style.

    In previous versions, users were able to freely edit both the font size and font style while using full-page text mode. This was especially useful for multilingual users like me who often type in Chinese and Japanese — since these languages have different character heights, being able to adjust the font size ensures that the text aligns properly within each line.

    In the current version, however,…

    4 votes

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