Double-Page View / Split View / Side-by-side View
As a professional musician, GoodNotes is almost perfect for viewing and marking up sheet music both during rehearsals and performances! In my circle of friends and colleagues, GoodNotes is really becoming our go-to app! We unanimously agree that the only feature that is missing for viewing sheet music is the ability to view two pages at once (like an open book or in Mac's Preview "double-page viewing"). Is it possible that I'm just not seeing this feature?
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We’re excited to announce that we have completed this feature. It is now available in the update GoodNotes 5.3 for iPadOS (13.1).
With the update, we added full support for iPadOS’ multiple windows. It lets you do much more than viewing two documents side by side. To read everything you need to know about opening multiple documents, please visit goodnotes.com/ipad-os.
How to open a new window:
You can now open GoodNotes in multiple windows to view two documents side by side, view two pages of the same document in Split View, or pair it with other apps in spaces across your entire system. To open a new window, drag any of the elements listed below to the side of your screen:
- the app icon from the dock
- documents from the library
- folders from the library
- individual pages from the document thumbnail view
- tabs from the tab-bar
You can also use the buttons in the library action menu or from the tab-bar to open a new window.
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Marten
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YES so I could use/make planners in Landscape AND Portrait MODE , as well..Without having to decide in advance..while buying them this or that way, and being restricted then either way--( bulletjournaling)
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박규남
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What we want is a two-page view in one window, NOT an one-page view in multiple windows like currently implemented. ‘Flexcil 2’ supports this, and it’s like reading a book in real life. You can refer to the image attached.
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Anonymous
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So many comments about the same thing. Yet developers shut their ears off (or their fingers while writing the code) .
This is a basic feature which has been demanded, not something advanced or high level.
How badly I wanted to like and highlight each of the below mentioned requests by various users.
Please listen to your customers. You are because they are.
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Albert Brückmann
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When I play the piano, I need to see as much as I can. On my 12.9 iPad, I therefore would be happy to see 2 sheets at once and when I scroll, I'll see the next 2 sheets. Can this be done?
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T
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Yes, 2 page view within the app is desperately needed. I would use this feature daily for study, teaching and music.
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Erika
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The fact that this has been requested hundreds of times in multiple posts over the past 8 years, yet nothing has been done is quite sad. It is clear this is a desired functionality that other apps have figured out how to provide. The two-window solution simply doesn’t work in every situation, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people requesting the two-page view. Please make this happen!
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Lama
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We need a new template like an open book with two pages side by side. It is better for the visual memory so add it fast please. You can do it to be automatic comes with flipping the screen.
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Anonymous
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This is very simple to implement in GoodNotes. Hope devs will consider it
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Anonymous commented
AMEN! Please add this feature.
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Mewari
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Please add double page viewing '
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Keith Andrew Murphy
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Yes, I’m a musician (and educator) too, and it was in doing a Google search to see if there was a way to view 2 pages side-by-side in Goodnotes that I stumbled upon this thread... so I STRONGLY support adding this functionality. As some other musicians mentioned, it’s really a must for us, and this app is so great in many other ways (I’m sure I’m not the only one that has a sheet of music-lined staff paper as their default template, lol)! But the lack of 2-page view is a deal breaker for many usages, unfortunately. Every pianist, conductor, and composer (at minimum) will thank you!
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迟程
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希望可以出横屏双页模式,这样方便在横屏的时候阅读书籍
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迟程
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希望可以出横屏双页模式,这样方便在横屏的时候阅读书籍
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Ali commented
This is my dream.. hoping they’ll make it true soon!
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Tony
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Totally agree. Amongst other things, I use it for music and I would prefer to use GoodNotes with my annotations instead of flipping back and forth between PDF Adobe and GoodNotes.
To me it is a major usability issue that would enhance the desk top feature. -
Vincent
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Really, GoodNotes?
That suggestion was made in 2013 and you managed to answer in 2019 that you implemented something else that’s not what was asked for?Read the comment, it’s about « book view », seeing left and right pages at the same time. So no, it doesn’t seem to exist. 2013-2021, how long will such a basic feature have to wait? This is so disappointing.
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Carlos Cordero
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Hello, This is not exactly what we are asking for but rather we want to see the document like an open book with pages side by side and when we scroll to the right we want to se the next set of two pages. Is that possible without opening two windows? As a composer and conductor this app is my main app and would love to advocate for it more but the two pages at a time feature is a must for us. Thank you!
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Dea
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yes i would love to have double page viewing so i dont need to make a landscape 2 pages template or 2 windows for the same document
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Sean-Lee
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Please add double-page viewing
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Bao Richard
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please add double page viewing, it will be really helpful for reading pdfs.