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  1. I’d love to see the ability to group multiple pages within a notebook and manage them as a unit — including the ability to duplicate, reorder, and export grouped pages.

    This feature would significantly enhance workflows for users who work with planners, journals, or recurring templates. For example:

    Duplicate a monthly set of pages (calendar, trackers, notes, etc.) to easily create the next month’s section in a planner.

    Reorganize grouped sections (e.g., move an entire month or topic section to the front or back of a notebook).

    Export a specific section as a PDF without manually selecting each page.

    Apply…

    1 vote

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  2. Calculator for math problems or for money purposes

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  3. It would be great to have an AI-generated summary option for transcriptions from your audio recordings, just like in the image.

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  4. As a mathematics teacher and a regular user of GoodNotes 6, I greatly appreciate how the app supports digital teaching and note-taking. However, during my daily use—especially in teaching complex concepts—I found that a few additional features would significantly improve the experience, particularly for educators like me:
    1. Merge and Split Strokes: This would allow us to combine or separate drawn elements easily—very helpful when organizing mathematical constructions or diagrams.
    2. Edit Stroke Properties After Drawing: It would be beneficial to tap on a stroke and adjust its style (e.g., dashed, dotted, solid) or thickness, which is essential when emphasizing…

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  5. ToDo list widget

    ive seen many to do list requests but what would be really useful is a todo list widget on ios/android that's easy to update and i can easily check off things i already did.
    I use goodnotes all day everyday and switching between goodnotes and a to do list app gets annoying, id rather have it all in once place!

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  6. It would be super nice to be able to add other function like the “delete” touch on the toolbar when you’re using the apple pen to write. Look at the pictures if you don’t know what I’m talking about

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  7. Please add 1.2x or 1.25x since 1.5x sometimes is too fast to catch up. Thanks!

    2 votes

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  8. the thumbnail sidebar is larger than I remember it. My iPad is on the smaller side so I find it irritating to use the app when the sidebar takes up a third of my entire screen. I know I can close it or switch it to windowed mode but I like having it open on the side to easily switch between pages.

    Is there a way to make it smaller at all? Preferably so it’s only 1 page thumbnail wide instead of 2? Thanks!

    1 vote

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  9. For my student with low vision and cerebral palsy, the speak screen function would be very helpful. Instead, it seems they will have to use another app. It is an unfortunate oversight to not have available in Goodnotes and it hinders access for people with disabilities.

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  10. It is really annoying, that whenever i swipe up on my iPad to close Goodnotes, it also scrolls up the document. Please improve your touch detection to dismiss such swipes, so the document stays in place.
    You see this issues in the attached screen recording, where the "I am here" text will scroll up when the dock gets shown through the swipe up from the very bottom of the screen action. It will also scroll the document further, when i move my finger further up to reveal all application windows.

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  11. Double tap for Apple Pencil 2 to show quick palette or tool changing. Have it available for not only for Apple Pencil pro but support other Apple Pencil

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  12. Increase 2 new functions
    1. Each pages have the stratified function
    2. More pen and pencils sort

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  13. Idea Description:
    It would be incredibly useful to be able to attach audio to a specific word or phrase within a note. This audio could be:
    • either a voice recording made directly within the app,
    • or an imported audio file (such as a .mp3, .m4a, .wav, etc.) — not just a voice recording.

    When the user taps or clicks on the word, the corresponding audio should play automatically.

    Why it matters:
    Currently, GoodNotes allows for general voice recordings, but it is not possible to link a specific sound to a specific word, nor to import an external audio…

    1 vote

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  14. Hi GoodNotes team,

    I’d like to request a feature that allows users to receive push notifications when a collaborator edits a shared document—whether by adding, deleting, or changing content.

    This would be incredibly helpful for those of us who use GoodNotes for group study, work collaboration, or project planning. At the moment, it’s difficult to know when changes have been made unless we manually check the document. A notification feature would make collaboration much more efficient and responsive.

    Thank you for continuously improving the app!

    1 vote

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  15. Hello your is very good but it lacks organising very much and I have kept images from the Notability
    It’s very frustrating how i cannot find the PDF
    And there is no custom sorting of the PDF

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  16. I would love for the old function to classify a flashcard into different categories once I’ve tested myself (easy, difficult, very difficult, didn’t get it). Goodnotes used to have this option but it doesn’t have it anymore. I want a better spaced repetition algorithm for the study set.
    When I use it right now, I have too many flash cards at once (the really easy one and the hard one all at once).

    4 votes

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  17. Similar to MS paint it would be useful to have a paint bucket tool that would fill a color inside the lines of a shape. Most of the functionality is already added with the shape fill color option, but for drawings that dont use it there is no efficient way to fill the space.

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  18. The new scroll bug is really annoying me while taking notes in lessons I can’t even study cuz it scrolls to the wrong spot. Please I beg yall to resolve it. I have to force quit so it would stop.

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  19. It is unfair that new users can get Goodnotes Cloud, but those of us who started paying for Goodnotes subscription for the express purpose of syncing between devices can't have it if we've signed up in the past for icloud sync. I feel I'm being punished for taking you at your word that it was already available.

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  20. Hi everyone,

    I have a suggestion for improving Goodnotes, specifically regarding the zoom tool. Many users rely on this tool because it allows for more precise and therefore cleaner handwriting. However, the issue is that the resulting text often ends up being way too small.

    It would be great if as shown in the image there were an option to set the final text size before writing, so you can see how large the text will actually appear on the page, even while using the zoom tool.

    This feature would make using the zoom tool much more pleasant. I also…

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