Infinite Canvas
The biggest pro of digital note taking is the boundaries of traditional one and paper that it breaks.
Studies have shown that learning efficiency and understanding of a subject is increased by higher order learning and mind mapping. For these techniques, an infinite canvas is needed.
It would be highly appreciated if this function would be added.
Thank you.
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Mehmet Akyüz commented
+1. GoodNotes is the best iPad app I could find for white-boarding while sharing the screen over video chat. Working with pages is very limiting.
Infinite pages could be a specific type of item, such as QuickNotes. It could be a Whiteboard item or something.
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Daniel commented
Rather than have an infinite working space, an alternative might be to be able to create a pre-defined number of pages. So if you know you need 10 or 30 or 150 pages, then being able to tell Goodnotes that, both in creating a new document and in existing documents, might take the chore out of having to create one page at a time manually.
We then just need to ability to write from one page to another and to copy and paste images from one page to another.
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dirksikora@web.de commented
I would join this wish, in combination with a feature from OneNote, which I appreciate very much: Create a gap on the page by inserting a space of any height. This creates space between existing text or sketches for additions.
It might be a problem to move the space to the next page, because the content of the next page is delimited. A compromise would be creating a page on which the moved part is pushed. -
Brett Ryan commented
This is needed for situations where you're brainstorming or replacing a whiteboard.
I believe that you can still keep the "page" framework but make pages closer together in a grid, similar to how https://draw.io works when you turn on page layout.
I love the style of goodnotes, but unfortunately notability wins here due to its support for this feature.
Horizontal scrolling isn't a workaround.
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Rahul Chachada commented
I think the problem can be solved very easily where you provide a sperate page for such infinite sheet which do not provide you option to export pages into pdf.
Please bring this feature as I use goodnotes for revision charts preparation and finite sheet limits my area. For this sole feature I am considering of leaving goodnotes which I don't want to since I love this app so much. -
Anonymous commented
I would like for an option/toggle to switch between infinite page scroll so I don’t have to keep pulling to add pages. Also, give this toggle in the three dots pane under scrolling direction (so you will have to change it to scroll settings), because it will be required in the case of a Quick note, or even let’s say you forgot to toggle this setting while creating a notebook.
Why I am suggesting a toggle is because many people would have become used to this setting while others not.(those who are relatively new to Goodnotes or who came from notability) -
Starvon Washington commented
+1 on infinite long sheets. Just started using GoodNotes - I love it! However I am jumping to Noteability App for that feature. I'd love to switch fully to GoodNotes - please add! Thank you!
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Allan commented
This would be a fantastic feature. I find it very limiting that GoodNotes is based on paper sizes. Infinite canvas would make it easy to drop other note-taking apps.
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MaxOs commented
Infinitely long sheets is the one feature why I prefere OneNote over GoodNotes
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Anonymous commented
Remove the margin/spacing between pages and find a way to allow pen strokes to cross a page boundary to another page. This would pretty much give people the same thing as an infinite sheet within the current framework.
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Anonymous commented
Ooooh so excited for this to get on the development roadmap. I also liked the comment about potentially donating toward the development. Right now I use another app (paid 9.99) that acts as my infinite scratchpad and then have to switch between GoodNotes to organize the ideas into notebooks or develop the organization logic. The other app I use as an infinite visual only saves the file as a .png so I don’t expect it to save pictures, objects, or anything fancy... it’s really just like a brainstorming scratchpad/brain map to make sure I get the ideas down without distraction of how ideas connect or can tie to other ideas on another page. I previously had a large 10’ piece of butcher paper across my wall and a couple white boards to accomplish this type of note taking. I know some scientists and programmers who also work like this. I would’ve gladly given GoodNotes a donation toward this development instead of another app! Maybe it can be a notebook type? Or just an independent sheet type outside of a notebook? Thank you for your great product!
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simon wan commented
in many cases , I use GoodNotes as an electronic blackboard or scratch paper when I have a discussion with the team. It would be great if there is an infinite page so
We don’t have to turn between different pages, just like Onenote. -
o s commented
Would it be more feasible to have a similar system to the page layouts in notability where the page size is still fixed but there no longer is a gap between pages allowing for writing to cross between pages easily?
And if this would still be incompatible with the features you listed could the user at least get the option to sacrifice those features to have infinite scroll when creating a new note?
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Anonymous commented
INFINITE SITE
scrolling through one infinite long site -
Mario Goebbels commented
Would probably be an idea to go along the lines of what Nebo does and introduce a special page type that is infinite.
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Anonymous commented
Are you developing an infinite sheet option? Else will have to switch to other apps for that. One single infinite sheet like one note
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Erick commented
Hello!
We need them to have the option of having infinite sheets, without neglecting the notebook ... Please! -
Anonymous commented
Might be an issue when exporting to pdf format though as it is quite linked to paper size format
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jeroen commented
When linking my ipad to my mac to record educational videos, the document does not scroll smoothly (what I see on the ipad - smooth scroll - is not the same as what appears in the screen recording on my mac - nonsmooth jump between pages). The ability to smoothly scroll through a document is essential, in particular in edu context...
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Adam K commented
> If infinite pages aren’t currently feasible could a feature making it easier to write on the bottom 1/4 of a page be added. Currently the pages locks and I think a simple allowing the page to not lock to my screen and position the bottom portion freely in the middle of my screen would make a huge difference.
This is exactly what it needs. Other applications do this, such as Procreate. It's very difficult to write in the bottom section of the iPad and forcing this is terrible UX.
Update: I've solved this folks. Switch your scrolling direction to vertical, and make sure you've always got an extra page added. Then, when you need to write at the bottom of a page, you can simply scroll up and onto that last blank page, but writing on the bottom of the previous page.