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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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 commented
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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 commented
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 commented
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 commented
Be able to add tags like on iCloud drive to classify notes
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Michele Orefice commented
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 commented
I see this feature as one that is related the hyperlink request, which has many votes.
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PJN commented
Organize PDFs by tags, not just via static subfolders
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Goh commented
add a functionality to add tags by #keywords (hash tag) like the Notes app in iOS 15.
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Bill Hansley commented
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 commented
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
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 commented
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 -
Danilo Luiz commented
I want to complain! the application update, from version 4 to 5, had two big setbacks. for two important tools have been removed. You can't make your own menu, index or table of contents by writing for quick access to the page tab. now you can only bookmark a particular page, without writing the description, so in a document with multiple bookmarked pages, I can't know exactly which one I'm looking for, I have to waste time looking. and they also removed the tool that made it possible to return to the last page viewed, in case I needed to leave it, to consult something on another page. a total setback… no longer a professional tool. I ask you to work on it or I will not recommend it to colleagues and I will stop using it.
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Anonymous commented
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
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Lee Turner commented
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!
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Payton Garland commented
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