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Right now GoodNotes offers an Auto-Backup feature, that is similar to a realtime sync. However, as it has huge drawbacks:
- Auto Backup is a one-way sync only. If we manually place a PDF in the GoodNotes backup folder, it isn't synced to GoodNotes.
- All the backed-up documents land in the Auto Backup folder. There's no way they would land at a place where we store our documents in the dropbox, so we have to export PDFs manually to the dropbox.
Therefore, managing files is frustrating for heavy users as me, because I need to have a filesystem in GoodNotes that resembles that of my dropbox, but I need to manually import and export everything in between, and I need to create all the folders twice (on my computer and on the tablet). And whenever I rename a folder or move files, I need to do the same in GoodNotes. That workflow is inefficient and outdated.A true real time sync has a few requirements, e.g.:
- Some files or folders (the ones that have been viewed / edited) would have to be stored locally on the tablet while others are not (otherwise the whole dropbox needs to be synced).
- GoodNotes would have to give up on the simple category / subcategory system (which few would deplore I guess)A simple and practical first implementation could be this:
Let's just keep the Auto-backup feature as it is, but let's make it a 2-way sync! Files that we put in the GoodNotes folder automatically get synced to GoodNotes, while files that we annotate in GoodNotes overwrite old (unannotated) files in the Dropbox folder.But of course it would be preferable to have a true two-way sync for the whole dropbox folder with free choice which folders should be available offline etc.
(And of course this counts for other cloud services)Keep up the good work! :)
I use GoodNotes heavily to take notes in scientific papers. Let's look at the workflow:
- download the paper as PDF, save it in dropbox/papers/experimental/title.pdf
- open goodnotes, move to folder papers/experimemntal
- choose import from dropbox, choose paper in dropbox/papers/experimental/title.pdf
- in goodnotes, scroll to the paper to then actually finally read it
It's obvious that this should be made simpler! Please make a 2-way full sync option. This feature is long overdue!