On the homepage tap the settings icon > Settings > Document Editing. You can then:
- Enable or disable:
- Automatic Screen Lock: when disabled it prevents your iPad screen from turning off or locking while listening to lectures/meetings.
- Status Bar: removes the iPads status bar (showing the date, time, etc.) from your workspace to make GoodNotes look minimalist.
- Pull to Add Page a gesture for adding new pages to your notes in the app.
- Show Page Number: When enabled, GoodNotes displays the page numbers when scrolling the pages in your notebook (left bottom corner).
- Choose
- Tool Position to appear at the Top or Bottom.
- Scrolling Direction to scroll Horizontally or Vertically.
- Turn on/off Auto Advance for the zoom tool.
- Choose how you want your documents to open:
- Automatically open new imported documents
- Open Documents as New Tabs: when turned off, each document you open replaces the currently opened one.