[Object Alignment] Visual Guides to Align Objects or to Grids
Lines to locate the different elements in the page. When you want to align two elements is really difficult because there aren’t any guides that assure you the correct position.
This feature would be optional, I mean, if you want, you could use it and if you didn’t want, you wouldn’t use.
[Object Alignment is in progress 🚧]
Hello,
Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions! Great news! Object Alignment is currently in progress and will go live soon.
When you drag a shape, sticky note, image, text box, or handwriting on your canvas, real-time guide lines will show you exactly when it lines up with a neighboring object's edge or center -- release to snap into place. Everything can also snap to the grid for clean, evenly-spaced layouts.
We'll keep you updated as things move forward, and we'd love to hear your thoughts or any additional feedback you'd like to share in the meantime.
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Goodnotes Team
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A. R. (DWohco) commented
I Would Love To Have This Feature It's The Only Feature That Keeps Me Using Notability - me2
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Haylie
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When I'm making several shapes or using images and want to be able to auto align them by either aligning of the top, bottom, middle, etc. Also the ability to space them evenly would be amazing.
The ability to link/group these shapes/images together -
Kyn commented
This would allow you to align elements like text, images or stickers with greater ease instead of trying to 'eyeball it'. (Similar to how Canva or Adobe does this on their design interface) When an object is selected and you are moving it around the page, a line will appear alongside another element on the page, and the object will stick to that line when you move it close, indicating that it has snapped into the same position.
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Seb Martin commented
+1 for this. I'm genuinely surprised this is still not implemented 10 years later.
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LeeAnn Jacobs commented
Being able to align objects and then group them would be a HUGE timesaver
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Quang Huân Ngô commented
Make an option when turned on it shows magnetic dots in the cross-hair of square paper or on the dots of dotted paper.
Line drawing by hand will snap in between two dots.Advantage :
- Easy to draw geometryDisadvantage :
- Might be annoying to write when the option is still active -
1millionbox commented
Allow for the shape, pen, or highlighter snap feature to instinctively recognize an intersection of polygons, lines, or just a plain dot. This feature is mainly focused on imported documents and images. In the image below is a triangle (redrawn for clarity) where at each corner, the blue do for the highlighter snap shape is not at the corner. The snap tool should detect intersections, such as for a grid line or corner of a polygon, and automatically move to the intersection.
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Mohammed Haji commented
when moving images or elements around the alignment feature will center the image or element in the middle of the page or align the image in relation to other images or elements
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Petrolekas Pantelis commented
I Would Love To Have This Feature It's The Only Feature That Keeps Me Using Notability
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F.B. S. commented
The one thing that I am missing after my transition from Xournal++ to iPad + Goodnotes is the feature to toggle “snap to grid” for grid page templates. I would really appreciate if this were to be implemented!!
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Christin Krüger commented
For example, if I put several photos on a page, I can only align them by eye. It would be nice if there was a guide line that makes it possible to align the photos/stickers etc. properly.
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Stuart Mortimore commented
I'd like to see this feature implemented in Goodnotes, as well as a ruler, so that accurate shapes e.g. triangles can be drawn.
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Melody Dalgleish commented
I am starting to use GoodNotes for more and more things and this is definitely a "must have" feature for some of my stuff.
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Art Geigel
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OMG yes. This drives me nuts.
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Marco Li commented
It would be great for my OCD if I can snap images like in notability for when I want all my photos to be the same size
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Thair Butma commented
This is currently the only reason that sends me back to use the competitors ( n0t@b!l!ty) app , I wish if this is gets implemented by the team.
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CMWalt
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It's straightforward.
Create a set of tools like found in Photoshop ( or any design software ) which allow objects ( text, images, shapes, stamps, etc.) to be selected and aligned to:
1. an object
2. the canvasAdditionally, add a tool for grouping and ungrouping objects and one to "send to the back" or "bring to the front" (practical when objects overlap ).
GoodNotes is a note-taking app, and it should be equally considered a design app. Missing these simple tools that allow me to organize my content makes GoodNotes less effective and less efficient ( and often frustrating ) at its intended purpose—organizing one's notes.
Link to Adobe Photoshop page describing functionality:
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CHRISTEL JIRAH CODILLA
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Please include this. Since this is still only available on Notability, I tend to use the other app more often.
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Samantha Maselli commented
Dear Goodnotes,
We are leaving Notability as a school and have started using Goodnotes. My upvote is for the 500 users who will want this. We would love to have this feature available by Fall of 2022 :)