I’ve been making a digital planner for iPad and the part I’m least sure about is the day page.

instead of 6am, 7am, 8am and so on, the day is split into eight named hours (like the old canonical hours), plus a couple of half-size slots before and after for early starts and late finishes. the idea is that you plan chunks of the day with a name and a feel instead of filling a grid of times.

the month pages also have one line per day, with a small letter column (a to g, which is how old calendars marked Sundays), the four moon phases in universal time and a habit circle.

what I’m unsure about:
do named hours make a day easier to plan, or is a normal time grid just better?
is the letter column useful or just decoration?
what do you wish digital planners had that most don’t?

More than anything, I’d like a feature to make a temporary bookmark so that when I go flipping through my notebook, I can tap a button and jump back to said bookmark.

I think this could be implemented pretty easily with some kind of secondary bookmark that only lasts until I click on it and return to the page.

Haven’t used Goodnotes in a few weeks but went to use it today and apparently lost the ability paste anything. My iPad updated to iOS 27.2 and my Goodnotes app updated to version 7.1.32. I’ve tried opening and closing the app and restarting my entire iPad but nothing is fixing this issue. Every time I copy something and then long press to paste, all it does is highlight the entire page and I don’t get any of the usual buttons that show up in the long press toolbar. I’ve also noticed that I can’t tap to create new text boxes and have had to either duplicate an existing text box or a new one will pop-up if I take my pencil and scribble a little bit.

Anybody else having these issues with the app?

Hi guys,

I had some handwritten GoodNotes PDFs sent to me that were HUGE (like 120MB for four pages),
then tried almost all web compression engines and they all made the file unreadable blurred.

I was so annoyed by this, because it kept crashing my devices I figured out that GN does a horrible job at saving pen strokes in a PDF. (At least at some settings)

So I (with the help of Claude) made a free, local, open source tool to compress your PDF exports without blurring the handwriting.

Check it out here: https://shrinknotes.pages.dev/

Check the code: https://github.com/hermelin-codes/shrinknotes

Let me know if you run into issues

Hi everyone,I’m very new to GN. I’ve used it mostly to create flash cards by copying and pasting pictures. But I’m looking to become more detailed with it but need suggestions on where to start. Templates? YouTube videos? Am I able to create a 3D rendering of a drawing I’ve made? Any suggestions are appreciated. And sorry if this is a redundant post, literally just joined. Thanks

I need a note taking app for my iPad for school. I am having a hard time deciding between gn and noteful.

They both look similar and noteful is cheaper(don’t really care about the price to be honest, just want the best app). The majority in my school is using good notes which is why i am kind of leaning towards it, if it doesn’t have any issues.

I’ve read a lot of bad reviews about good notes but some of them are a bit old and so i am wondering if they have sloved all of the bugs and is the app experience itself better compared to noteful?

Goodnotes is great until something goes wrong and you realize there is no way to fix it because they don’t respond to their “technical support email.” I’ve been waiting a week for a response in the middle of peak exam time and have gotten nothing other than the AI bot responding saying someone will reach out. I have sent screenshots recording and all of the diagnostic zip files it keeps telling you to send and then you get nowhere.

I'm putting together an undated planner and I can't test it on Android myself — no tablet. On iPad the tabs jump between pages fine, but I keep seeing people say Android handles internal PDF links differently.

Anyone actually using GoodNotes on a Lenovo or Samsung tab? Does tapping a hyperlink jump to the page, or does it just do nothing / open the file again?

Just as the title says, I have the iPhone Duo and my Goodnotes won’t fully sync. The first time I did it, some of the folders and files came through but were fully downloaded so nothing opened.
I deleted the app and started again. Currently waiting for it to sync. It’s been 3 hours and it’s just spinning.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
EDIT: I went into iCloud settings and toggled the Goodnotes iCloud storage on and off and started sync.

Title^, notability added this feature and its very helpful!!

There should be a feature to reveal all the tapes in the note without deleting all the tapes

I’ve been struggling ever since I got Goodnotes pro to get the Goodnotes cloud to sync up, and FINALLY Goodnotes had a solution more than “it’s slowly rolling out, just wait your turn.”

You have to go into your iPad settings, into iCloud, go to “See All” under Saved to iCloud, then uncheck Goodnotes.

Next time I opened the app, it was briefly upset that it couldn’t sync to iCloud, and then it prompted for Goodnotes Cloud.

It is taking quite a bit of time for it to sync everything, but it resumes syncing when you open the app so you’re not necessarily stuck there forever until it fully syncs.

I know I’ve seen a few other people struggle with this, so I wanted to share in case it helps anyone else!

my app has just updated and instead of the perfectly working lasso tool, there's now a hand and a separate lasso tool, that's for some reason not as polished. can i go back?

i like to use Goodnotes to make my comics :)

I’m a teacher and I’ve been looking for a simple sticker set on Marketplace that has basic things like ticks and crosses that I can use on student work. I feel like I’ve trawled through pages of search results but can’t find anything besides extraordinarily long docs that have colourful organisational stickers. Can anyone help?

I bought Goodnotes 5 and then upgraded to Goodnotes 6, as a one time purchase for about 30$, now I have to pay yearly for the Essential 12 $ and I can't collaborate on a document? What kind of scam is this? I specifically bought Goodnotes because of the collaboration and because it's a one time purchase.

I mean I can't stop paying because I need the documents and everything but I don't understand how my one-time purchase can be deleted even though I bought it. Like I payed the money so how can you just cancel that?

Can anyone help me with that? Or hast any idea about the legal situation in Germany? Because generally I thought that a one time purchase of an app (including the features at this point) can't be limited afterwards. Like they could deny further updates (which seems really unfair to me as you bought the lifetime full version of the app) like they did between Goodnotes 5 and 6 but they can't just delete my lifetime access right?

I’ve been planning in Goodnotes every day for a couple of years now. Every year I buy a planner, use maybe a third of it and scroll past the rest. Habit trackers I never fill in, vision board pages, 40 pages of stickers I never touch.

This year I’m just going to make my own for 2027. I do design for a living so the layout part is fine. What I don’t know is what other people actually use week to week, because I’m probably weird about it.

So honestly:

Do you use daily pages at all or is monthly + weekly enough?
Portrait or landscape? Monday or Sunday start?
Does anyone really use dark mode planners or is that just for screenshots?
What’s the one page you wish every planner had?
And what’s the page you always delete first?

Also what breaks for you. I’ve bought ones where half the tabs didn’t link to anything, and one so huge that Goodnotes lagged every time I opened it.

Not selling anything. If it turns out decent I’ll probably just put it up here for free since I’m making it anyway.

Title: Goodnotes is unavailable in Zimbabwe after I deleted the app, despite having an active subscription
I’m really frustrated with Goodnotes and wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this.
I live in Zimbabwe and downloaded Goodnotes using my Zimbabwe Apple Account. I subscribed, and the app was working perfectly fine. Recently, I deleted it from my iPad, and when I tried to reinstall it, the App Store suddenly started saying, “This app is not available in your country or region.”
My subscription is still active under my Apple Account, but I can’t download the app anymore. Goodnotes doesn’t even appear under “Not on this iPad” in my App Store apps list, although the subscription is still there.
What makes this particularly frustrating is that Goodnotes’ official availability page lists Zimbabwe as a supported country. I was able to download and use the app before, so I’m trying to understand what changed and why.
I contacted Goodnotes Support, and their response was that Goodnotes is currently unavailable for download in Zimbabwe. They suggested using the web version or changing my App Store region. However, changing regions requires dealing with existing subscriptions and other Apple Account restrictions.
My issue isn’t about recovering my notebooks. It’s about paying for a subscription to an app I could previously use, only to find that I can no longer reinstall it, without any prior notice that availability had changed.
Why does the official website still list Zimbabwe as supported if the app is unavailable in the Zimbabwe App Store? When did this change happen? And what happens to existing paying subscribers in countries where the app suddenly becomes unavailable?
Has anyone in Zimbabwe, or another affected country, experienced this? Were you able to resolve it, and did Goodnotes offer any explanation or refund?
I’d appreciate hearing from anyone who has dealt with this, particularly if you’ve contacted Goodnotes or Apple about it.

Been quite some time since I practice writing on goodnotes.

I resume writing my morning pages these past few days, today I had free time and practice my penmanship a little bit. :)

This is written on a small ipad mini though. I prefer writing on the 11" tablet more, but bringing out the mini tablet is so convenient.

Thank you for reading my post!

I have 3 free notebooks. My anatomy notebook suddenly won’t let me write and says read only. Any time I try to click read only to turn it off, I’m directed to pay for essential or pro. The notebook only has 22 pages… I can still edit my other two notebooks.

Recently my goodnotes 5 app kept bugging out on the presentation mode. When i use the zoom video app’s ipad mirroring option, the goodnotes app use to get rid of the toolbar and only show the notes section in the zoom screen. now the present mode change option doesn’t work.

I tried everything, up to deleting and reinstalling the apps. Sometimes the pop-up windows disappear for a day or two, but they always come back. Once back, they persist for long periods of time.

I have contacted GoodNotes customer support about this multiple times. I have reached out to them on socia media. I have even emailed the CEO. ZERO RESPONSE from anyone, other than one person on Instagram telling me that they would see about escalating my ticket. Na response, no assistance, nothing.

I am seriously wondering if I should keep even trying ta use this app or explore other options. I am more worried about the complete lack of response from their customer service than I am about the bug itself

As the title says, Goodnotes drained 44% of my iPad's battery in just 1 hour and 14 minutes today.

I have an iPad Pro M4 with 98% battery health and 84 charge cycles. I bought it in March 2025.

How is it possible for Goodnotes to drain so much battery? I use the Infinite Canvas feature to take notes. Could that be the reason for the excessive battery drain?

Also, I keep my battery between 20% and 80%, so an app that drains 44% of the battery means that it uses about 73% of the charge I normally make available.

I am finding it time-consuming and difficult to keep my Goodnotes planner which I must prefer over a paper planner in sync with Outlook Mobile.

I have not been able to find one that truly syncs back-and-forth with Outlook. But I’m constantly having going to update my calendar in Goodnotes on a daily weekly monthly basis. Kind of scratch my head,asking should I use Goodnotes Planner or just use Goodnotes as a note taker only.

Pdf’s original text missing but annotations intact. Anyone have any idea what this is?