What It Does

The Elements Tool lets you save and reuse custom content across documents. It's a personal library of reusable items accessible anytime. For students, professionals, or note decorators, Elements Tool streamlines using diagrams, signatures, or stickers in an efficient, organized way.

An element can be anything you create in Goodnotes—handwriting, highlighting, shapes, images, text boxes, or any combination of these. All elements are organized into collections, similar to how folders organize your notebooks in the app. This structure makes it easy to find any element when you need it.

How to Use It

Create an element from existing content

  1. Select the content, then choose the More (…) icon of the Object Menu > Create Element.
  2. Select an existing collection for your new element or choose New Collection..., name it, and tap Create. Use descriptive names for your collections (such as "signatures" or "stickers") to easily find it later.

Create a new collection of elements

  1. Select the Elements tool from the toolbar.

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  2. Scroll the bottom list of collections all the way to the right, then tap the plus icon.

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  3. Name the collection in the "title" field.

  4. Add more elements to it via Add Photos or Import from…

  5. Choose Create.

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Goodnotes Marketplace offers a variety of ready-to-use collections to save you time. Simply tap the Marketplace icon next to the plus icon. See Purchase and use items from the Marketplace.

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Insert an element

  1. Choose a collection from the scrollable list at the bottom of the popover.
  2. Choose an element, or drag it onto the page.

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  1. Tap the Open in New Window icon on the Element popover.

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  2. To maximize the work space, you can drag the handle at the top of the Elements window into the Goodnotes window to enter Slide Over mode. </aside>

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Once inserted onto the page, the element will stay selected as a whole. This allows you to easily edit the inserted element. For example, many built-in elements are composed of both an image and typed text (e.g. the "Sign here" sticker), and after inserting such an element and de-selecting it, you can use the Text tool to edit the text and the Image tool to edit the image.

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Edit / Share a collection