[Multi-Tab] Ability to use multiple documents side by side as tabs
Ability to use multiple documents side by side as tabs (similar to ios version)
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[Open multiple documents in tabs is live on Android and Windows 🎉]
Hello,
Thank you so much for sharing your suggestions and voting for that idea! We’re excited to share that opening multiple documents in tabs is now live on Android tablets and the Windows app.
You can now switch seamlessly between multiple documents using tabs—without losing your place.
Any new document you open will appear as a tab, while your previously opened documents stay open in the background at the exact location where you left off, making it easy to jump right back in.
Currently, this feature is available for an unlimited number of Notebooks and Whiteboards. For Text Documents, it’s limited to one active document for now—but this will be resolved soon.
How to enable Tabs
- Go to the Library
- Tap Settings (top-right corner)
- Go to Settings, then Preferences
- Open Document Settings
- Enable Open documents as Tabs
Feel free to share your feedback and let us know how the feature works for you!
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Goodnotes Team
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Liz Gonzalez commented
i would love to be able to have multiple notebooks open at the same time, as a student who would use this app both to take notes and to do homework on the same notebook, it would be a hassle to do a problem and scroll up to my notes every single time instead of being able to have it side by side, similar to the ios version
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Julian Z commented
A function to have multiple tabs open like on the ipad version would be great. Especially for students.
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Maria Tapia commented
Ha pasado un año y algo, pero aún nada.
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Nora commented
I really need this!
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Kletha
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It has been almost one year since this was suggested, is there any information on the progress of this feature?
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Daniel pahlavan commented
Hi, I believe that a few factors need to be taken into consideration.
1. several tabs: similar to the original version, having several tabs.
2. Save the page location: avoid showing the page location from the first page again once we exit the document.
3. Multitab interaction: Texts and graphics can be moved between two tabs.
4. Drag and drop is operational across tabs. -
Cristina MartĂnez de SeptiĂ©n commented
Me gustaria poder abrir varios archivos a la vez, sin necesidad de tener que salirme del que estoy editando, de manera que pueda tener varias pestañas abiertas
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Sahar Zarei commented
It has been almost a year but this Feature still hasn't came , also the android version is slow and keeps lagging please do something about it
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Alice Benatti commented
i can do it
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Clare Chalk commented
The ability to have 2 Goodnote windows open at the same time in Android version is a must for digital planning, enabling being able to have a planner open and another for sticker storage/use via drag & drop, just as IOS has the ability
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경동 commented
This is the most urgent feature for Goodnotes for android...
I was so looking forward to use this feature on the beta versions but it doesnt seems to be included even on the official release...
If there is no tab feature on official, then it is nothing different from the Samsung notes.. -
Alexander Karamitev commented
please consider adding the tab bar feature from ios where you can easily press a tab and it just jumps to the page
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Miriam Rieger commented
it is necessary to open multiple windows with this app and to be able to open even the same page twice. For notes in university, it is also great to have those windows one over another. This way we don't have to keep sliding the page back and forth to shout on the page in a suitable font size. Furthermore, the pen options should be approved for a better access to multiple colors and pens.
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Thái Bảo Nguyễn commented
Need tab of file like IOS
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Guille MartĂn commented
Yes this is the best!!!!
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Bernd
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Being able to have two documents open in Goodnotes might be the relevant factor for me to decide for goodnotes rather than inkodo.
I use a 400 page long script. When I switch to another document in goodnotes to take a few notes and go back to my 400 page script, Goodnotes does not save the exact location in the script where I was working. Then I have to scroll through the pages to find the relevant section again. This sucks
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Ponkrit Siriphun commented
Make it can open multiwindows and can open same file (even in multiwindows mode)
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Zheng Liu commented
Splitting the screen in two is very useful for using GoodNotes for teaching. I really would like to have it on Windows.
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Dimitris .Theopoulos commented
ont know if its only for me but the option to write while in portrait is locked and I can only scroll. I think the most optimal way to write is portrait and when that ability is locked its a real dealbreaker
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Lucas Ristol commented
I would like to be able to take notes with the app when I split the screen in two
