What It Does

The Lasso Tool is an incredibly versatile and powerful tool that lets you select and manipulate content created in Goodnotes in all sorts of ways. Whether you're moving content around, deleting it, coloring it, or resizing and rotating it, the Lasso Tool gives you the flexibility to work with your notes in the way that suits you best. And with customizable settings, you can choose to select only certain types of content, making it even easier to work with your notes exactly the way you want to.

How to Use It

Select content

Select the Lasso Tool.
Draw a loop around the content you want to select.

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By default, a circular (free-form) lasso is used, but you can switch to the rectangular lasso from the contextual section so that you can drag your pen diagonally to create a frame to enclose the content you want to select.

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<aside> 💡 To make sure you only select the content you intend to, the loop or frame you create should touch only the object you want to select. If the loop/frame is too big, you might end up selecting things nearby unintentionally.

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Circle to Lasso

Instead of breaking your flow and switch to the Lasso Tool, you can use the Pen Tool to select and manipulate groups of notes with the Circle to Lasso Pen Gesture.

Using the Pen Tool, draw a loop around the area you would like to select.
Lift up your pen, then long press with your pen on the circle stroke you have made.
You will notice your circle turn into a dotted line, indicating that you now have a Lasso selection.

Once the content is selected, you can do any of the following:

Move the selection

Drag it to a new place.
Tap outside the selection to apply the change.

<aside> 💡 It's possible to move a lassoed selection across page boundaries (in vertical scrolling mode).

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You can tap on the selection to bring up a context menu, then choose any of the following:

Cut / Copy / Duplicate the selection

Choose Cut/Copy/Duplicate.

Delete the selection

Do any of the following: