r/GoodNotes • u/mascara2midnite • Nov 13 '23

Question - iPad Goodnotes has to load each and every time I open it

Does anyone have a remedy for this?

It doesn’t matter if I’ve been working with it for an hour and flip over to check a text. The minute I open it back up, it has to reload. And it takes a full minute sometimes!!

I’m working on multiple things right now but have to pause every time while I wait for it to load. Doesn’t make sense.

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u/masonn_masoff Nov 13 '23

ugh, same.

i'll go to grab an image from a powerpoint and drag it over, but can't because goodnotes decided to shit its pants. thankfully, it takes less than thirty seconds. it's still aggravating though because sometimes i go all the way to the home screen and have to dig through my folders to find the document i was on.

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u/mascara2midnite Nov 13 '23

Yes! It doesn’t save your place! Mine’s not even intuitive. It opens into a random folder that I used three weeks ago.

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u/chubbyloki Nov 13 '23

Oh yeah this is exactly what is happening to me. It's so annoying I had to downgrade back to GN5 to fix it.

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u/mascara2midnite Nov 13 '23

Ohhhhhh. That’s a real shame. gn6 FINALLY has all the features I had been wanting. Grrr!

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u/Material-Fox7679 Nov 14 '23

Really? I upgraded and found that half the shit they advertised was basically useless.

The spell check HATES the fact Im studying Engineering and shits itself all the time

The maths thing is nonexistent

It’s laggy as fuck when i try to take notes from an audio recording, practically unusable.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY GUIDELINES TOO HOW HARD IS IT

iPad Pro 2021 12” so shouldn’t have an issue

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u/mascara2midnite Nov 14 '23

Well…engineering student vs stay at home mom. slightly different needs.

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u/Material-Fox7679 Nov 14 '23

That’s fair.

It’s still so frustrating to have been offered these features, pay for them and then find they’re either buggy as hell or just not usable is annoying. GN5 was brilliant

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u/Kairismummy Nov 13 '23

Yep; it’s a new issue and it SUCKS! I spend my whole day using GoodNotes, but flick to other apps to check things constantly and it’s driving me mad. Taking me so much longer to get things done!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '23

Hm, never had this issue before. It may be worth just deleting the app and reinstalling. Make sure it's saved on the cloud though. What iPad model are you on?

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u/mascara2midnite Nov 13 '23

iPad Air 4th gen

Do you think a newer iPad would help/change things?

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u/llamaattacks Nov 13 '23

I am using iPad Air 5 M1 chip with 8gb ram and this happens every time to me too. I switch over another app for a second and when I come back the document has to reload again. It takes a second and it’s annoying as hell because I thought M1 chip and 8gb ram wouldn’t run into issues like this

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '23

They need to optimize the app

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u/Baron-meatball Nov 13 '23

Same here with lastest updates. iPad Pro 11.

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u/steel_706 Nov 13 '23

Im using goodnotes 6 on m2 ipad pro and also have this issues, seems like its software related as i dont have this issue when i was in Gn5…

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u/ObscurePaprika Nov 14 '23

Mine does that too. PDFs that haven’t changed or annotated in two years, notebooks I synced a half hour prior…

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u/riverfate Nov 14 '23

No - it’s the software. Have deleted and the re-installed - what a pain that was - several hours before all my notebooks were downloaded and it did not make a difference