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! :-)
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Ariana Erkelens commented
Oh my goodness please, this would be lovely for going through a book and tagging each page with the topics that are on that page, so I can search that later on and get all the related info without just looking for key/buzzwords.
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Josiah Majorins commented
This would actually be very helpful. I use Goodnotes mainly for college notes, I import slideshows from class and then take notes over them and for recall while studying it would be so great if I could manually add tags to each document regarding big ideas from the content, so I can later just search up “stoichiometry” for example and get any notes I have regarding stoichiometry
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Luis Miguel Lara commented
It would be useful to be able to include tags on each page of a notebook and have a view filtered by tags. Thus we would have a notebook time ordered and viewer by labels.
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Alexandra Jensen commented
I use the “Favorites”/red bookmark feature EXTENSIVELY. It is critical to my workflow. But sometimes I need the ability to scroll/scrub through pages that I have bookmarked ONLY. I can see them in thumbnail view, but cannot just jump from page to page easily. There needs to be a “go to next favorite/bookmark” ability so I can toggle easily.
Also, I would absolutely die of happiness if you introduced MULTIPLE types and colors of bookmarks. For example, being able to label pages with multiple tags would be so helpful. So I can easily find pages that have been marked with GREEN and RED bookmarks/labels, for example. Or, just identify the pages marked with GREEN. Being able to custom-name said labels would be a massive bonus as well. This would help keep me so much more organized and be able to see different information at a glance in documents that are quite long.
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Moustapha Abdellati commented
we need tags...
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Anonymous commented
A newer notaking app called Noteful offers tagging. As soon as they add in handwriting recognition, it will be a worthy contender to Goodnotes and Notability.
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Paulo Duarte commented
It would be great if GoodNotes had a function to create tags, with following functions:
- The user would be able to tag a a custom area of a page
- The user would be able to quickly navigate trough specific tags selected by himThis funcion would be super userful for students
use tags as categories of specifics subject , filtering reading and exercices by topics. Similar function is made with software "LiquidText", but no other software do that.
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Declic Video
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jagadish singh commented
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.
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FW
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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. -
Art Geigel
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Sometimes I write something down I need to access quickly later or refer to later in my notes many times. For example a contact's name and phone number. Or an address for a store. Our dimensions of something. Or an equation I always use.
I would love to lasso a chunk of content and create a “category” tag for that content. The category tags I can edit for what makes sense to me.
Then later in the document I could use a new reference tool in the tool bar that adds to my notes a “see x” icon of some sort where “x” would be a link to the tagged content I chose. Tapping would bring up that content overlaid visually for quick review. Or tap again to take me to the original source.
Right now I’m either adding to an outline or going back to the original content, copying, and pasting again a million times.
And NO! The sticker feature is not a solution for this.
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Julie
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Be able to add tags like on iCloud drive to classify notes
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Michele Orefice
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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.
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Martta
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I see this feature as one that is related the hyperlink request, which has many votes.
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PJN
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Organize PDFs by tags, not just via static subfolders
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Goh
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add a functionality to add tags by #keywords (hash tag) like the Notes app in iOS 15.
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Bill Hansley
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Fully integrated tag support would be fantastic!
As a first step, I'd be happy if I could reliably search for #something. Currently, search ignores the hash symbol and finds all occurrences of "something" in my notebook. That's less than useful behavior for treating something like a hashtag.
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Thomas
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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
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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.
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John M
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TL;DR: Some Notebooks belong to multiple Folders (if Folders are ideas/projects/etc.) – the current implementation doesn't allow for this.
At the moment, Notebooks are organized as though they are traditional files. In the sense that a file belongs to a singular directory and has no reference elsewhere.
In particular, I use GoodNotes for reading/annotating research papers – and many of these papers belong to different folders. For instance, say I have a class PSY 2170 and a project Deep Belief Networks – I may have a paper which was assigned by PSY 2170, yet actually turns out to be wholly relevant to Deep Belief Networks, so I would want to have it related to both as I would otherwise need to recall where I first encountered that paper.
Of course, this creates a problem for backing up to iCloud/Google Drive/etc. but I would imagine that in the worst case, the files could be duplicated into their appropriate hierarchies. I'm not exactly sure how GN would state/prevent external edits, but internally, I imagine the structure would be much more akin to a "dump all the files centrally and maintain a database with folders/tags to maintain the current mode of presentation to the user" – so that everything in GN __looks like it's part of a directory structure__ but behind the scenes, it's just an index of files with associated metadata that creates that structure.
It would be great if this were applied to tags as well – if GoodNotes implements them (https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/4329300-add-sub-folders-and-tags).
These other topics seem relevant/similar, but hopefully I've used more common words to increase visibility. 😅
- https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/40352914-notebooks-shortcuts
- https://feedback.goodnotes.com/forums/191274-customer-suggestions-for-goodnotes/suggestions/39469666-link-to-folders-and-notebooks-such-as-symbolic-li