Does anybody know of a good way to export a reader-view news article from Safari to GoodNotes? (On iPadOS I would like to be able to read and annotate news articles in GoodNotes.)
This current process works but has many steps:
Go to a news site in Safari (possibly logged in behind a subscription paywall)
Turn on Show Reader View in Safari
Gesture a screenshot by swiping in from botttom left corner with pencil
Slide toggle to “Full Page”
Press the share button
Press “Open in GoodNotes”
Press Open
Press Import as New Document
Press folder name, eg. “News”
Press “Import to News”
Using a direct export from Safari (share button > Open in GoodNotes) would be ideal, but it (i) doesn’t preserve the reader view and (ii) seems to trigger a fresh download without being logged into the news site, i.e. the content in GoodNotes may show a login page for the news site instead of the actual news content.
The “Reader PDF” options method takes 11 steps (this is because the option doesn’t have a memory and defaults back to the Automatic option, meaning that you need to reset it on each export) and gave large text and moved the article’s image away from its caption.
The share via print method was also 11 steps, again gave the large text, but was more consistent in that the article images turned out to be in the correct place.
IMHO the reader-view formatting of method 1 is easier to read. I might stick with this method even though it’s tedious if you’re doing this many many times a day. Methods 2 and 3 have the benefit of automatically naming the file based on the article headline though, which is handy.
If I could glue these steps together using the Shortcuts app – to get the process down to 1 or 2 steps – that would be ideal, but I don’t like my chances.
That’s what I was originally suggesting. Looks like @masonlr is already doing that, but with the pencil-swipe-up-gesture instead of the “unpinch.”
@masonlr, if you are on Twitter you should tweet a suggestion to improve this workflow to GoodNotes. They are very active developers with a lot going on in beta right now. The challenge is probably that from Safari to Good Notes, the page still has to be converted to PDF. Curious whether the share sheet button could automatically activate the pdf converter and then bring the user directly to GoodNotes. That would save a bunch of steps.
I don’t think that would be possible because Safari is not very “scriptable” in Shortcuts and as a result, most of those 11 steps simply cannot be automated.
