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[Layers is in progress 🚧]
Hello,
We’re thrilled to say that we hear you—one of our most-requested features, Layers, is on its way!
Layers is gradually rolling out to Goodnotes Pro users on iPad and Mac. This early version supports up to 5 layers in notebooks. Please note that it isn’t available during a Pro trial.
Layers is currently experimental, so your feedback is especially important. Please share your experience to help us understand how—and whether—we should develop the feature further.
Learn more in our Help Center.
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Goodnotes Team
An error occurred while saving the comment Layer Functionality (Highly Requested) ★
Add & Toggle Layers: This is a critical feature. For students solving workbooks, we need to separate handwritten notes, solutions, and the original text.Having a Layer System (Add/Hide/Show) would allow us to solve the same problem multiple times or hide study notes without duplicating the entire document. Many competing apps already offer this; it would be a game-changer for Goodnotes.
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Dear Goodnotes Support Team,
I am writing to report a severe editing issue caused by the app's automatic PDF text recognition behavior, which currently frozen manual touch inputs on the document.
When opening a PDF, Goodnotes automatically recognizes the text data and forcefully clusters a wide area into an unwanted purple selection block—even though I did not long-press to select any text. Furthermore, this text boundary recognition is highly inaccurate, capturing oversized regions regardless of the actual text layout.
The critical issue is that within these faulty, automatically recognized text areas, all other manual touch inputs are completely disabled.
My only goal is to tap on the empty spaces within that region to insert a new text box for typing or to add a hyperlink. However, because the app prioritizes the automatically recognized text data area, the entire region becomes completely unresponsive to the Text Box and Link tools. I am entirely blocked from inserting text or links where I want them, simply because the app has forcefully occupied that space with its automated text index.
To resolve this workflow-breaking issue, I strongly request the following updates:
1. Provide a [Toggle Switch in Settings] to completely disable this automatic text recognition/selection feature for users who do not need it.
2. Ensure that manual user actions (like tapping to insert a Text Box or Link) [take absolute priority over the existing PDF text data area] so that users can freely type anywhere on the document.
This text recognition behavior severely hinders the core note-taking experience. I kindly ask your development team to review this mechanic and release a swift fix.
Thank you. I look forward to your response.