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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Scott San Filippo
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We should be able to view two pages at once like in a real paper notebook. This should be available in portrait and landscape mode - but especially landscape mode. The "workaround" of opening the app twice is unacceptable and does not meet this improvement. Thanks.
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Scott San Filippo
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The multi window workaround - is not acceptable. To be a real notebook, it has to act like a real notebook - we need a view that spans two pages at a time. I need this for my bullet journal template. reviewing the site, people have been asking this for 6 YEARS! Is this just impossible to do?
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Shuai Zhang
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1. Add a two-page display mode
Two-page mode allows you to take notes more like a real book
2. Split the screen in one program instead of two separate programs
Sharing a toolbar is more convenient
3. Page turning animation is not very smooth, always need to move a large range of hand to turn the page, I hope to optimize the movement, one hand slightly stroke can turn the page
4. Draw in straight line in highlighters are easy to use, and I'd like to add a same function to the fountain pen.so, Take notes more smoothly
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Benjamin
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Hi @GoodNotes, the solution you describe is not what is required here.
What is missing is the very straightforward possibility to read a document (especially an imported PDF) in a double-page view, like a book.
This is a very standard feature is every PDF reader, Adobe, Preview, etc.
This is really missing, especially in the desktop app (but also on iPad).
Can you please implement it? It should NOT be hard to do this :) -
Kwon oh seong
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I waana see two pages.(Not window mode)
I want to see more information in my Ipad without touch. -
Anonymous
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especially good for slides created via beamer (latex) -
where things appear in the next slide on top of the current one.
Horizontal scrolling ruins the effect. -
Anonymous
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Show two pages at a time by native method
We need two pages functionality by native method (not by multi split view).
Every user wants it for very long time.
We were very tired of waiting.When will you update?
We want to know clearly about this update schedule. -
Anonymous
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I wish the same! This would give the exact same feeling like a real notebook: having two pages open side by side in landscape. Currently it’s hard for me to write a real bullet journal like in a analog notebook (Leuchtturm or Moleskine). Opening another GoodNotes windows in split screen ain’t a satisfying solution.
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John
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Agreed. The solution you implemented is not what is needed here. We need to be able to turn the page with a single gesture, not advance one side by one page and the other by two pages. That is simply confusing and over-complicating what could otherwise be a very simple and useful feature across all disciplines--not just for musicians.
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Sheila
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Showing two pages in one screen.
I want to see two pages at once just like real note is. So, please make options of it and make it possible to change each notes.
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Dfrtkkiu
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Sometimes I want to get an overview of my notes by checking the correlations between them
Make it more like a pdf reader so I can read two or more pages at one time -
Jacob Shapiro
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The "try this instead" is not really helpful because the whole point of a two-page-at-a-time navigation (like macOS Preview's "View -> Single Page / Two Pages / Continuous Scroll" feature) is that you can quickly see a lot and flick through many pages quickly. If you open two windows of the same document you would have to keep turning pages independently on both windows--what??
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Jeffrey Suen
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It should be allowed to show two pages of the same notebook at the same time instead of only able to show two notebooks side by side. This allows us to read more at a time, or even draw diagrams that can span two pages.
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Young-jung Kim
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We need 2pages view for one document so that we use maximize our ipad for horizontal mode.
please develop this option.
thank you
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Sang Hoon Jeong
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I don't meant that 2in1 pages is shown 2 docs in split view. I mean same doc , but can see previouse pages and next page side by side. Like normal book.
When use landscape mode view (ipad) -
Nick
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*From the suggester of this feature*
Three things:
1) This is a super roundabout way of doing this and is not what I meant when I suggested this simple feature 6 years ago. If we can’t turn a page like we would when turning a page in a book, it defeats the purpose. Used by a musician on stage, they need to be able to turn both pages in view with one gesture or they will suddenly be caught without the right page. You haven’t added the feature I suggested.2) Good Notes 5 is behind yet *another* pay wall. Users who have been loyal to Good Notes since prior to version 4 will remember having to repurchase the app once already. The same is true of Good Notes 5. However, offering a $1.00 update bundle softens this downside.
3) At this point, musicians or people serious about score study and fluid workflow should just go to ForScore. It may be $14, but you won’t be punished for being a loyal user by being charged for updates that don’t add significant features.
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Anonymous
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Agree. This would be extremely helpful
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Vincent Danos
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it would be convenient in the desktop app to be able to look at 2 pages of a pdf document side-by-side (as is possible in pdf viewers such as Apple's preview app).
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Anonymous
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Split view like in the app “Easy Annotate” which allows you to...
1 - view two documents at once
and / or
2 - view two pages of the same document at once.
(This is especially useful for learning languages because you can view two languages at once, one language on each page.) -
Anonymous
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Please add this feature.. I'm an emgineering student and having the ability to veiw am example while working on a problem would be great!