GoodNotes Tips & Tricks: Effortless Document Management With Drag & Drop And GoodNotes On The iPad
Drag & drop has been outstanding so far. Never before has it been easier to grab documents from a variety of sources and just drop them all into your GoodNotes library where you can annotate and organize them easily so that they‘re always with you. Just tap and hold on the document that you want to share and start dragging it to another app as soon as it lifts. You can also hold onto a document while you flick up your finger to reveal the dock and easily switch to GoodNotes. Release your finger and the document will be right in your library — ready for annotation & markup. That is only one way how you can use drag & drop with GoodNotes. Here are a few more things that are now possible:
1. Dragging images and pictures from Photos to GoodNotes
Let’s say you‘re thinking about what you want to experience during your next vacation. See the Colosseum and relieve how gladiators have fought during the Roman empire? Visit the Pyramids of Gizeh in Egypt? Or enjoy the gorgeous view from Victoria Peak of one of the world‘s most beautiful skylines in Hong Kong? A digital travelers journal is the perfect place to plan trips like that and collect inspiration. With drag & drop, you can now easily add images from a variety of sources to your digital journal. It is pretty much like your mom’s old photo albums, where she used to stick in Photos and write a few lines — just for the digital world.
2. Drag a screenshot to the page and add it as an image
With iOS 11, Apple has introduced a completely new and improved way of dealing with screenshots. When you‘re taking a screenshot by pressing the home button and the lock button of your device simultaneously, a small preview will appear in the bottom left of the screen so that you can start editing it right away. If you don‘t do anything with it, it will save to Photos after a few seconds. Now here‘s the cool part: This screenshot can be dragged as well, right from the preview! Say you’re studying a book for school or university and you need to take notes on it. Suddenly, you come across a super important page that you really want to remember. With GoodNotes, iOS11 and drag & drop it is super easy to add this page right to your notebook to annotate it: Take a screenshot and start dragging the preview. Hold on to it and switch to another open tab in GoodNotes lift your finger and the page will be right there as an image. Easy as that!
It is like tearing off a book page, magically making it smaller and then gluing it into your notebook.
3. Create a new document from a dragged photo
Sometimes drawing a picture is the easiest way of explaining things to other people. So skip the back-and-forth-emails to communicate with your co-workers and just watch:
Of course, you can also use the newly introduced annotation feature of iOS 11 to markup the image and then forward it to your co-worker via email. However, with GoodNotes we want to offer a solution to keep all your documents securely stored in a single place. Especially when working on projects, you may want to have all necessary information at hand. GoodNotes lets you create stand-alone documents from images and their preview will be shown in your library. In the case you saw in the video above, you could easily add the next redesigned version to the same category to keep track of the progress.
Drag & drop take the iPad to a whole new level and allows lots of interactions in apps like GoodNotes that were unthinkable before.
GoodNotes 4 is available on the App Store for iOS. It is the best app to manage your paperless document workflow. It lets you save, manage, annotate, and organize all your documents so that they won‘t ever be lost again. Thanks to drag and drop, it is now easier than ever to manage and annotate all important documents in a single app.
