Skip to content
← Customer Suggestions for GoodNotes

How can we improve GoodNotes?

Customer Suggestions for GoodNotes

Categories

JUMP TO ANOTHER FORUM

(thinking…)

Add tagging of documents and locations within documents

It would be a great deal, if it would be possible to tag all documents and (possibly) each position within each note with one or more tags. There should be a tag list for each shelf of notes, such that I can have different sets of tags for each shelf. It should then be possible to open the tag list for a shelf, click on a tag, and get a list of all usages of this tag with all documents and all locations within documents. Clicking on a usage should open the document (in case it is the tag of a whole document) or the document at the tagged position (if the tag is attached at a location within the document). The list of usages should be sorted according to the document names, and if there are more usages within a document, according to the page number. It should also be possible to jump from a tagged position within a note to the list of usages, and then to another usage, and so on.

To tag a note or a location within a note, one should be presented a list of available tags within this shelf. Then, one can select one or more tags, and possible also add one or more tags, which then can also be selected.

It would be ideal, if this approach was combined with folders (and subfolders ...) within each shelf, as is proposed in another feature request. One speciality of this request is, that these folders should be kept separately from shelves, in order that different tag groups can be maintained, one tag group for each shelf.

This feature, would make a great application, as GoodNotes already is, much more valuable. It would make GootNotes also a great knowledge management tool - with only little implementation effort. Looking forward for this feature being added! :-)

2,179 votes

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close

We’ll send you updates on this idea

Johannes Mayer shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
How important is this to you?

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close

We're glad you're here

Please sign in to leave feedback
Signed in as (Sign out)
Close
Close
Submitting...
An error occurred while saving the comment
  • jagadish singh commented  ·   ·  Report

    The more I use Goodnotes, the more I miss tagging. I was playing with the search feature on the goodnotes 5 where the last searched keywords are also shown. With that as the starting point, I believe it should be possible to implement tagging as a feature and go deeper into multi-tags and so-on. Apple notes has done a wonderful job of tagging, multi-tags and addition/removal of tags to make the "smart" folder.

    Kindly consider this on higher priority and implement this feature.

  • FW commented  ·   ·  Report

    If there is any reasons that drive me away from GoodNotes, this must be the one. Also, written #tag does not work. I need a tag management too that can rename tags or merge tags.
    I use GoodNotes for work. Every of my notes are related to a customer, and a product. We have multiple customers and product hence folders does not work for me.

  • Michele Orefice commented  ·   ·  Report

    I use goot notes professionaly for my daily work and it is great. Tag would be a plus. I´m using now the "ordering" feature but I can´t remeber to use always the same words.

  • Martta commented  ·   ·  Report

    I see this feature as one that is related the hyperlink request, which has many votes.

  • Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes PLEASE, adding a possibility to add tags in a consistent way and filtering/searching by tags would be of enormous value. I use GoodNotes for my digital journal and keep all days of a year in one notebook. Hence looking up regular occurrence of items (marked with a tag) would be very helpful. Often my handwriting is not recognised by search and hence the trick using something like #tag and then search for it doesn’t work reliable enough. Which then leaves me with browsing through many many pages ….
    And now with iOS 15 and apple notes I’ve learned how easy things could be!

  • Gu He commented  ·   ·  Report

    As someone already said: Even a very simple tagging system would be helpful. My notebooks are growing, and it's becoming harder and harder to find things. The outline feature doesn't help either.

    Btw: Better than _searching_ for tags would be IMHO the possibility to simply _filter_ notes by tag.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Holy moly, I ordered an iPad last week with the sole purpose of using GoodNotes, because I've heard such amazing things about it. I've been planning out my organization, and had just assumed it had a tagging system. How does it not? That's like information-organization 101. :-o

  • Lee Turner commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm half way there by reviewing my notes and adding a typed "#tag" in the margins - so as long as I remember the hashtag, I can easily search for occurrences of it

    Some hyper-linking between these and some listing features of hashtags would really go a long way however - been finding it invaluable for organizing my thoughts!

  • Payton Garland commented  ·   ·  Report

    Adding even rudimentary document tagging would be incredibly valuable... For me, I use good notes to read various research papers. I would love to be able to tag them with author, university, research group, topic, etc

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please PLEASE add this feature! I’ve stopped using GoodNotes because I have trouble locating documents. My handwriting isn’t always searchable.

  • vw commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any progress here? Not having this simple feature that is used on most other platforms is severely hindering adoption. Given how there are multiple sub-topics within any one notebook, not sure if I will be able to continue using unless this update happens... or at the very least confirmation that it is in the works.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Another +1

    Whether you use multiple documents, notebooks etc there are always related topics. a TAG system would make a massive difference to easily search them. And as per someone below, UX to see available tags during editing.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Almost 8 years later, how is it still not a thing?!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    It should be a great add for organizing the notes

  • Dragon Don commented  ·   ·  Report

    New GoodNotes user here. I’m actually dumbfounded that this isn’t here! It would be wayyyyy more useful than the beta email feature that just rolled out....

  • Daniel MacLean commented  ·   ·  Report

    The logic is so Skeuomorphic of a paper notepad. It could be really be a good mix of that, and knowledge managmente tool, very under the hood. Don't need to become like Flexicil, that's another kind of app, but an IDEA EXPANDER, we need to really connect parts and snippets, organize them, etc. And Tags would be great

  • Damien commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would add that the function of the tag would also allow you to have the same document in multiple folders. So you would have only one copy of the document, but it could co-exist in multiple folders: for example, you can TAG it to the TODO Folder and a PRIORITY folder. Changes made to the document would be reflected in the document, no matter how many folders it is tagged to.

  • Guillaume commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just do what Johannes is suggesting .. it would make it perfect ! :)
    A digital note taking tool is yet a baby product, Knowledge Management Tool is a grown-up product

← Previous 1 3 4