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  1. Use
    ‘Cmd + T’ or ‘shift + T’ (ect..) to add new textbox
    + ) move textbot by ‘shift + (direction key)’

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  2. It would be really helpful if you could type like on word with regular line break and just leave space for drawing/graphics. That would be perfect

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  3. With the new update, the ways that images get/don’t get selected is weird. The icon in the toolbar is only for inserting, whereas before I would use it to move and edit my images, and I would have the lasso deselected for images so I wouldn’t accidentally edit my background/template. Now I still have images deselected because I don’t want to move images while I’m moving something else, but now instead of using the image icon I have to hit the pen tool and select there, which seems to defeat the purpose? I just don’t get why I can select…

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  4. Make the writing in pictures permanent, and move with the pictures if I rearrange them. It is very frustrating trying to use this feature when every little thing, moves what I have written to the background or simply moves it to another part of the picture/page where I do not want it.

    I literally only use Notability for this feature since they do not have this problem, and I wish to finally switch completely to Goodnotes!

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  5. please add support for e-ink tablets - particulary boox, the highly popular boox air 4c doesnt seem to support it even though its android. Just says not supported by browser.. these e-ink tablets are really popular. I bought a subscription to goodnotes as i assumed it would run on android.. it will on a basic android tablet but not on these e-ink android-based ones like boox.

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  6. Ein Würfel der vom Lehrer und Schüler im Whiteboard benutzt werden kann. Um Online Würfel Brett spiele zu spielen. Oder Geschichten zu würfeln.

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  7. Every Good Notes Essential plan bought since September 23rd 2025 (previously called "All Platforms Yearly" doesn't enable the user to sync their files between Apple and Windows/Android. So the users basically have two separate apps.
    That is absolutely useless.

    The advantage was to access and edit the files on different devices.

    For example: It is way easier for me to type flashcards on my windows laptop than on my iPad but I can't even open them on my laptop if I export them (wich already would be inconvenient). So I can't use them together. Study Sets aren't even supported for…

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  8. Pleaseee make a feature where we can hide and unhide tapes in one click and have the option to do so with EACH tape color at a time. Something similar to KiloNotes! It just takes too long to individually press the tapes when we need to review!

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  9. 2 votes

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  10. Using Whiteboard quite intensively right now there is one thing I‘d love to be added: pins! For example the app prodrafts has that feature on their whiteboard where you can place a pin anywhere on the whiteboard by long pressing somewhere. You can name that pin and set a color. There‘s a pins menu where you can see all your pins and by tapping on one quickly navigate to its place on the whiteboard. When zooming out the pin gets bigger so that when fully zoomed out you see all these „isles“ on your whiteboard with their pins readable, making…

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  11. The new Text Doc document type offers the option to insert “Code Block”, which is intended to be an area for source code. However, it seems that the code block is not using a monospaced font, which may be an overlooked bug.

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  12. Dear Goodnotes Team,

    My name is Praphul P, and I am from India. I am currently building an online educational platform that will launch in the next two months. During my research, I found Goodnotes to be the most powerful and suitable tool for conducting classes, mainly because of its smooth writing experience and excellent web interface.

    However, after the recent update, the interface—especially the new toolbar design—has become difficult to work with. Many of the tools and buttons are now positioned inside the canvas area, which was not the case earlier. This creates a major issue for educators like…

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  13. I used to be able to open two goodnotes apps at once, but that feature has disappeared over the summer. Every time I try to open two, it just reloads the first. This is very frustrating as I take all my notes on goodnotes, so when I try to make study notes I have to download all my notes and open them up separately. Additionally, I've noticed that my Windows Surface Pen isn't working as well on the app. Text will be delayed (and curves will appear smaller or letters will turn out jargon). My erase feature (from the back…

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  14. I really enjoy using Goodnotes.
    Currently, when handwriting is converted to text, the placement and size often do not align correctly with PDF templates, requiring manual adjustment.
    If you could add an auto-adjust feature—similar to PDF forms—that automatically fits text size and position to the lines, it would greatly improve usability.

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  15. The amazing LaTeX conversion feature is currently hindered by the need for us users to manually insert LaTeX code (like \textcolor{...}) whenever we want to change the color of a rendered equation.

    To significantly enhance our experience, I ask you to integrate the standard Text Color Picker to allow for direct, easy and instant color changes upon selecting a converted equation. Implementing this would automatically handle the underlying code changes, making it extremely practical and fast to style the converted equations.

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  16. When I duplicate my text box, or simply finish writing in it, a “bug” appears with only part of the text box duplicated, which remains there and cannot be removed. It also happens that I write in a text box, go to another document in GoodNotes, and when I return to the document I wrote in, the text box is no longer there. I always use GoodNotes for my studies in my IPad, and it's very frustrating when I go to use the app for my studies and waste time stressing over these issues. In the end, the app I…

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  17. 95% of the time I use this app I am in split screen mode. Just yesterday I was able to switch between pen colors and pen sizes with 1 tap. Now (even stripping my tool bar to the bare minimum) the pen sizes are consolidated and I need to tap a button then tap the pen size I want- even though there is extra space in the bar to expand the menu. This app is starting to feel clunky, I need to tap twice to change my pen size, I need to tap twice to book mark a page, it…

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  18. There should be an option to automatically filter your document outlines. I continue to toggle off pdf outline to only view my custom outlines but every time I make a new document or even leave the app, all the outlines are back again making it hard to navigate sections of my notebook.

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  19. Add the ability to search by document title in the search function.

    Enable AirPrint directly from within GoodNotes documents.

    Add a feature that shows how many documents have been selected when choosing multiple files.

    Along with these, I suggest restoring other useful features that existed in GoodNotes 4 but are not available in the current version.

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  20. I suggest implementing customization for the floating bar, including position options and a transparency slider.

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