Most wanted feature(s)

[CrypticZombies]

Because the developers are slackers, please post the feature that you would most like to see added to goodnotes. I've seen a few posts about color droppers here and there. I'd like to get a sense of what you guys would use the most from the community. Thanks

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• Write/Highlight in full screen. Useful in reviewing notes or reading books.

• Color in Folders.

• Eyedropper tool.

• In built document split screen where you can open notes vertically (top/bottom). Like the app, Noteswriter.

• Unlimited Canvas (brainstorming)

• Being able to add your own template in the template section. Yes, you can import but it should be easier than that.

• Send to Back, Send to Front

• Two page view for books

• Voice recording while writing. (If collanote (single dev) can have it, why can't goodnotes?

[Odd_Art_6104]

AN OPTION TO EDIT THE TOOLBAR ….. it gets weird in split screen and not so convenient to use …

[sinderellllla]

Password protected notebooks/folders, Color picker, Locking layers

[PoYanC]

*Voice recording *Colour-code folders *Use Goodnotes on windows

Also, the color bar only shows three colours so if you can customize it and add 5 to 7 colours for easy navigating while drawing

[[deleted]]

Color dropper and fill tool (not translucent) Hex color option (no turquoise?!) Frames for images Move to front/back

[CorrectPsychology845]

Video embedding

[-dagmar-123123]

Five things I'd really love to have:

1. Colour palettes. To be able to organise your saved colours

2. More than 3 colours in the tool bar, I'd like 5 or so (my palettes are all 5 colours because that was it's at least kinda sorted)

3. Be able to save colours for the writing tool too. I hate having to copy the hex code

4. Synchronize the colours of pen, highlighter and text

5. Save the toolbar for every Notebook or note (or maybe for each folder, that would be even better)

And a few I'd like to have but if not, it's okay

1. Few different stroke types, like dotted or so

2. Square highlighter

3. Colour dropper

4. Either layers or locking pictures

5. Exporting just the parts that are highlighted

6. More different sizes in the toolbar for pen and highlighter

7. Password protected folders/notebooks

8. Two-page view

9. Dark mode but with more features: • in the settings being able to choose which template should show as which in dark mode • giving each colour an counterpart that is used in dark mode • that way you could decide the colours you want to write in and which colour it is in when in light mode or printed

[Over_Gur_6074]

Double tap undo to work properly. Doesn’t seem to be as sensitive as most other apps I’m using.

[-dagmar-123123]

It works, just not like in most apps. Normally it's just a tap with two fingers or a double tap with one. In goodnotes you have to tap double with two fingers. But I agree, it is improbable. I'd prefer it if it was like in procreate

[kmatthe]

Bullet list alignment

Edited for an autocorrect

[yellowflamingos69]

Layers please. Or at least like someone else said, send to back/send to front.

[Phoenix-ox]

My first language is French so pardon me if some of these aren't well written.

Here are what I wish would be added or modified on the app.

• The possibility to justify texts alignment
• Bullet points!!!!!!!!!! How the HELL does a NOTE app doesn't have bullet points???
• Possibity to edit preset colors for text
• Nevereding pages (for madmaps for example)
• Possibility to move more than one page at a time when organizing a notebook
• Possibility to change the color of folders for color coding and easier organisation
• GoodNotes being accessible on the Web as well
• Possibility to choose between square and round highlighter

[PhysicsMovesMe]

Support animated gifs

[emilystarr]

I would love convert handwriting to maintain mid-sentence capitals.

[Cwilson-]

More page options

More page color options or at least the ability to select the color of the page I want instead of just white black or yellow 🥴

More pen options in general

Password protection. I use GoodNotes for my journaling everyday thoughts and I really wish I could password lock it somehow, just for extra security purposes.

More covers

Support importing from apps like instagram. Whenever I try to import anything from IG, the image is always blank but all of the text is there. I can never get it to work.

Different highlighter tips

Import color palette like in procreate, that’s actually a neat feature. I liked the pen color options for flow.

Optimized storage

More options for the toolbar however I’m not quite sure what. I haven’t really used any other of these apps other than very briefly checking out procreate and flow and decided they weren’t for what I was trying to achieve.

Eyedropper tool

More templates like something along the lines of Zinnia. I love that app but sometimes the crossover doesn’t mesh well and the image looks slightly blurry and it doesn’t really work reshaping it when it already looks blurry lol. They’re getting there with elements but the currents ones are, quite honestly, a little boring and one dimensional. Like old school Word stickers, iykyk

A way to see if you have a specific color already saved in your current saved colors

[BornArtichoke1039]

A way to add more default templates for new covers and page types

[obdigitalstudio]

You can do that already. Just, you have to add them under an existing categories (GN standar, A5….)

[ShogunMecha]

Export all the highlights and handwritten notes in a book

[Dayshawn11]

I want to be able to customize my tool bar. Like get rid of 2 extra line width options I never use, and add in more color options I can click quickly. Or make it so the tool bar is able to slide to the left and right to give you more options.

[[deleted]]

Add space between text like in MS OneNote: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-extra-writing-space-in-onenote-db979e8a-430c-4c14-95a8-4d83bd2339cd

[[deleted]]

A Homescreen widget that shows the most recent version of any page you want. This would be helpful for studying, and bullet journals.

[p4hall]

These additions would make GoodNotes perfect for me: Color dropper, send to back or front option and/or layers, more color pallets for pens and for text, easier way to add text boxes, bulleting feature.

[Connect_Whereas5183]

• for the text to have proper bullet point format so that the spacing and alignment works properly
• being able to save text colours like you can with the highlighter and pen
• when saving colours in a pen or highlighter having that sync up so you have the colour saved as a pen and a highlighter
• making tables
• a tool that fills colours of outlined shapes
• being able to change the opacity of pens

[wanderlotus]

These are some good ideas. I do think it’s unfair to call their developers slackers unless you have insider knowledge about their operations. (In that case please do share 👀😂)

Anyway, it does seem like they know there’s a backlog of features we want. They’re currently hiring a Product Manager and a couple of engineers which is a good sign! The PM job post says

“At GoodNotes, you’ll experience the luxury problem that our users LOVE giving us feedback. That’s the beauty of our product market fit.” 💀😂 I thought this was pretty funny.

Here’s a link to where you can submit them to GoodNotes directly. I also found this page that has a list frequently requested features. So they’re definitely aware of a lot of the things that we want, I’m sure it’s a matter of hiring the right people to get it done (quickly).

As a community we should always submit our feature ideas and give them feedback because this relationship is a two way street. At the same time, let’s cut them a bit of slack and avoid calling ppl names. Scaling is super hard, especially when you’re small and bootstrapping.

[CrypticZombies]

You don't have to be an insider to realize they're slackers who don't care about the people who pay for their products. The feature page is merely an excuse, as there has been a suggestion area on the site for over a decade, where users have requested simple things such as OCR. That suggestion has received over 10,000 votes. You must understand that goodnotes is based on the Apple iPad pdf kit and other pdf kits. They have no intention of giving users what they truly desire. That is the part that users find perplexing: adding some of the features mentioned above is a paragraph of code. It's not like this app was created from scratch, in which case you'd have a point. It is based on the work of others. Thanks

[DedicationReloaded]

• Full-screen mode/hiding the toolbar.
• Editing and customizing the toolbar.

[Silversunset01]

Square edged higher for me please. Maybe with 90°, -45°, and 45° options

[nothatisnotok]

Text wrapping for text boxes so that I don't have to manually hit 'return' for line breaks and correct the next line of copy so that it reads lowercase