Double-page viewing.
As a professional musician, GoodNotes is almost perfect for viewing and marking up sheet music both during rehearsals and performances! In my circle of friends and colleagues, GoodNotes is really becoming our go-to app! We unanimously agree that the only feature that is missing for viewing sheet music is the ability to view two pages at once (like an open book or in Mac's Preview "double-page viewing"). Is it possible that I'm just not seeing this feature?
We’re excited to announce that we have completed this feature. It is now available in the update GoodNotes 5.3 for iPadOS (13.1).
With the update, we added full support for iPadOS’ multiple windows. It lets you do much more than viewing two documents side by side. To read everything you need to know about opening multiple documents, please visit goodnotes.com/ipad-os.
How to open a new window:
You can now open GoodNotes in multiple windows to view two documents side by side, view two pages of the same document in Split View, or pair it with other apps in spaces across your entire system. To open a new window, drag any of the elements listed below to the side of your screen:
- the app icon from the dock
- documents from the library
- folders from the library
- individual pages from the document thumbnail view
- tabs from the tab-bar
You can also use the buttons in the library action menu or from the tab-bar to open a new window.
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Michael Van Dusen commented
Just adding my voices to this, yes please, a proper two-up, "facing pages" option please!
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Alex commented
Please implement 2-page view for single PDF as described by multiple comments below. I would like to view 1 PDF file in 1 Goodnotes instance with 2 consecutive pages open side by side, e.g. to read a book in PDF format as I would do on my Mac with Adobe Reader or Preview. My sure to integrate an option to view cover page on seperate page, similar to Adobe Reader.
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Caitlin Person commented
As a teacher and musician, I have information on back to back pages of a pdf, and need to be able to have both open on screen at the same time. This is different than 2 separate windows side by side (while needed for other reasons, and happy to have this option, it is not the same thing). Please allow me to be in one window-> one pdf->able to have 2 pages (ex. page 33 and 34, then swipe right to left and we see pages 35 and 36...) showing, in landscape view, at the exact same time.
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Luca commented
Completely agree with the rest of the community. The Multi-window feature is useful and valid, but for a completely different use.
Please implement a double page (spread) view, to facilitate the viewing of more content from the same document.
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Rob Vel commented
Multiple windows is a better feature but that’s not what was requested. I’d still love to have two page view for one notebook one window on landscape mode…. Great app I don’t know why they don’t add this.
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Titti Potesta commented
As a musician, book view is a must, I can’t believe that after all this years and comments GoodNotes is still lacking this feature. Love the app, but just went back to PDF Expert because of this.
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Adrian Blair commented
this is what we wanted, it seems like a pretty basic feature sadly you completely missed what the user was requesting!
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Anonymous commented
I’d rather we don’t have the multi windows and just let us have the two page view please.
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Anonymous commented
GoodNotes is perfect and all but just it ruined everything without this function. THE MULTIPLE WINDOW IS NOT DOUBLE-PAGE VIEW! Please it’s been years now and I think I’m just switching to PDF expert instead I’m really disappointed.
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Yuri commented
Please do this! The two windows implemented right now feels just like a work-around, not a solution!
This feature will be also *super-awesome* in the MacOS version of the app, since the screen size on it is almost always bigger than any iPad's screen and also practically always in "landscape" mode.
I'm currently using a 34'' and usually I have to switch app whenever on my Mac because I cannot stand the fact that I can just read one page at a time with GoodNotes. It's quite annoying!
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Yuri commented
Please do this! The two windows implemented right now feels just like a work-around, not a solution!
This feature will be also *super-awesome* in the MacOS version of the app, since the screen size on it is almost always bigger than any iPad's screen and also practically always in "landscape" mode.
I'm currently using a 34'' and usually I have to switch app whenever on my Mac because I cannot stand the fact that I can just read one page at a time with GoodNotes. It's quite annoying!
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許耕偉 commented
Just realized it's been 7 years for Good note to not improve this.
All the comments are clear enough, can anyone from good note give us a valid reason of not doing the improvment? -
Jenna commented
Yes!! I use Goodnotes for sheet music and the ability to see two pages at once and not have to scroll four (!!!) times to achieve this is so necessary. Their “workaround” of having two instances of Goodnotes opens means each side would have to be scrolled twice, and if I’m playing piano or an instrument, I don’t have the time to scroll that many times before my next note is coming up.
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Anonymous commented
I would like to voice support for 2-page view (open like a book), which is NOT the same thing as opening GoodNotes in multiple windows. Please add this. I am also a teacher/musician/scholar and would find this so valuable.
I regularly use inferior annotation apps like PDF expert because GoodNotes lacks this basic capability.
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Marten commented
YES so I could use/make planners in Landscape AND Portrait MODE , as well..Without having to decide in advance..while buying them this or that way, and being restricted then either way--( bulletjournaling)
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박규남 commented
What we want is a two-page view in one window, NOT an one-page view in multiple windows like currently implemented. ‘Flexcil 2’ supports this, and it’s like reading a book in real life. You can refer to the image attached.
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Anonymous commented
So many comments about the same thing. Yet developers shut their ears off (or their fingers while writing the code) .
This is a basic feature which has been demanded, not something advanced or high level.
How badly I wanted to like and highlight each of the below mentioned requests by various users.
Please listen to your customers. You are because they are.
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T commented
Yes, 2 page view within the app is desperately needed. I would use this feature daily for study, teaching and music.
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Erika commented
The fact that this has been requested hundreds of times in multiple posts over the past 8 years, yet nothing has been done is quite sad. It is clear this is a desired functionality that other apps have figured out how to provide. The two-window solution simply doesn’t work in every situation, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people requesting the two-page view. Please make this happen!
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Lama commented
We need a new template like an open book with two pages side by side. It is better for the visual memory so add it fast please. You can do it to be automatic comes with flipping the screen.