This feature is very important to me. I am a researcher and love to take notes with Goodnotes. However, I use a reference manager (i.e. Zotero) to manage all the papers I am reading. I would love to use Goodnotes as well for annotating the papers, but it is a massive pain to do so currently, as one has to export the pdf to goodnotes, and after annotation, export it back to the reference manager.

I feel like a simple button that allows you to export the pdf to the location that it was imported from should not be too difficult to add, but would make the app much more useful for reading papers.

If we could Open in place, other apps could be used to handle Webdav sync. (For example, DEVONthink, Notebooks).

Why this feature is important to me: I want to be able to organize my files in iCloud or Dropbox or whatever using a filing system - in my case it's tag-based, but it could be folder-based too - a filing system that doesn't depend on whether I'm using tablet or computer. In my case, I have computers at home and office and tablet for the train. I want my documents to be integrated in my general filing system. I don't want my documents imported into the specific iPad app I'm using to annotate them. Importing means that I have to remember with app I used to open the file. Importing means that I may have multiple copies of the file, if I open it with different apps that requiring import rather than permitting open-in-place. Importing means that I have to duplicate my filing system or something like it within each app, which is a non-starter. Importing means that I have no way of opening the file on my computer unless I buy the corresponding Mac-app - no, sorry, I think that's possible via what used to be called "itunes file sharing" but is now managed by the Finder. Though I can't actually make it work, at the moment - all I see under Goodnotes is a log file that won't open. And I have to be connected via USB, I think, so this doesn't really seem like a good option.

Yes, this is a critical feature. What is the difference between ‘Open in Goodnotes’ and ‘Copy to Goodnotes’ when they both do the same - which is make us save the file in GN before letting us edit.

‘Open in Goodnotes’ should let us open PDF from any app, allow us to annotate and if after that we want to save in GN, let us do it. Rather than making us save in GN first before doing the rest.