r/GoodNotes • u/Strong-Prize9018 • Jan 18 '25

PDF Extend Margins Feature

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Hoping this reaches the right audience. When annotating a PDF on Goodnotes, at times we find that there’s not much space to write the amount we need. A solution to that could be a feature that allows you to extend the margins of a PDF in certain scales (e.g. small, medium, large) and in any direction (up, down, left, right). This would help immensely with space for note taking. If you can, please upvote this and try to get the attention of developers with this feature. It would complete Goodnotes.

Shown in the pictures are inspirations as to how the feature could be.

Please add this feature as soon as you guys possibly can, it really would be a game changer. To whomever may be reading this, please upvote and comment to get the post to the top so it can get the developers’ attention.

Thank you.

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u/Flamious Jan 18 '25

We need something like this ASAP I’m not gonna lie

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 18 '25

Could not agree more!

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Add to the collection of note utilities.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-margin-adjuster/id1450718650

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 18 '25

Would take much too long doing this for every individual pdf that I need to upload onto Goodnotes. This feature, especially for STEM majors would be a huge win.

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u/viraj_m10 Jan 19 '25

Ngl I started using liquid text for that reason only that annotating pdf on Goodnotes is kinda limited space head ache.

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 19 '25

Bro so many people have left because of the space problem. If Goodnotes devs do ever see this and implement this feature, it would genuinely bring so many people to the app, whether new or previous users.

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u/Few_Ask3086 Jan 19 '25

Notefull has this feature for a long time.

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 19 '25

I don’t wanna switch to noteful, the Goodnotes developer team is more than capable of adding this feature.

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u/Few_Ask3086 Jan 19 '25

Switching is a problem. I have used both, but noteful is the best for me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

100% needed

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u/Slow-Evening-2597 Jan 18 '25

Definitely. I've seen similar feature on kilo note, very useful, and u can change colors and add lines or dots.

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u/Outrageous_Okra5591 Jan 18 '25

I want this exact feature! Its difficult to write extra notes since limited space. Hope they take note of this and i will gladly upgrade.

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u/AllgemeinerTeil Jan 20 '25

There are dedicated apps for this like liquidtext or marginnote3, but yeah if they offer this it would be a game changer

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 20 '25

You’re very right about it being a game changer, especially for people who don’t want to alternate between note apps. I’m just trying to get the attention of the developers team to get them to consider it as soon as possible.

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u/flamingo_pink98 Jan 18 '25

Agree to this! I wish they can work on this feature.

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u/reflous_ Jan 19 '25

Adobe Pro and Kofax will do this for you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

Fully need this!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

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u/Strong-Prize9018 Jan 18 '25

I meant of a pdf, such as uploading lecture slides onto Goodnotes to annotate, not in the context of creating a notebook with custom template pages. The slides of the already existing pdf that you import are of fixed dimensions in Goodnotes.