The Lasso Tool is one of the most flexible and powerful tools in GoodNotes. It allows you to select objects created in GoodNotes and do all sorts of things on them, such as:
- moving
- Copy/Cut & Paste
- resizing & rotating
- converting handwriting to text
- taking a screenshot of anything on the page
- changing text color
- deleting
- dragging and dropping
- adding an Element
Selecting something
With the Lasso Tool, you can select or "lasso" an area on a page by circling it. To select objects created in GoodNotes (handwriting & highlighting, text boxes, images), draw a loop that simply touches them. (If the loop is larger than intended, it might select unintended objects nearby, too.)
Using the contextual menu
To perform more actions on the selection, tap on it to bring up the contextual menu.
| Action | Effect |
| Take Screenshot | Takes a rectangular screenshot of the selected area. This screenshot can then be shared. |
| Resize | Lets you resize or rotate the selection. |
| Color | Lets you change the color of handwriting, highlighting, or typed text. |
| Convert | Converts your handwriting to typed text, which can then be shared or copied to paste it back to the page as a text box. |
| Copy/Cut | Copies/Cuts the selection. You can then long-press on the page with your finger and choose Paste. |
| Delete |
Deletes the selection |
| Add Element |
Lets you save content for efficient reuse across Notebooks |
Selecting a particular type of objects
By default, the tool selects every kind of object that you created on the page, but in case you want to select a particular type, please tap the tool twice and enable only the relevant option. For example, if you want to select handwriting, but not images, make sure the "Handwriting" option is enabled and "Images" disabled.
