links - improve usability
Goodnotes has implemented links to websites as well as internal pages for some time now. However, they are still incredibly cumbersome to use, especially for handwriters. I propose the following improvements:
1) Internal links
In most cases the page one wants to link to is already open in another tab or window side by side. But to create a link there we still have to navigate to this page again within the link creation dialogue.
It would be faster and more intuitive to have an additional entry in the document menu and page browser to simply copy a link to the currently viewed page. see images
Then I go back to the tab i‘m actually working in and paste the link there, thereby automatically creating a new textbox with the link (and some generic link name).
2) External links
Atm we can drag a url from the browsers address bar to a page in GN. While fast this usually doesn’t work too well. Sometimes GN recognizes the plain text as possible link automatically, but not always. Also, links to specific pages are usually quite a bit longer than just the domain name and thus unsuitable for plain text. But starting a new textbox, typing something, selecting it and than adding a link is waaaay to slow and awkward.
I propose this behavior instead. When i drag a url from the address bar onto GN it should recognize this and automatically create textbox with a link, with the top lvl domain name as link text and the url as link target. If the user wants a different link text, it can always be changed later with the existing dialogue. (which is buggy and unreliable btw.)
The existing baseline functionality of adding a link to a word somewhere inside a lengthier typed text would not be changed by this.