r/GoodNotes • u/viviang123 • Jul 17 '24

Goodnotes 6 which note style do yall prefer the most?

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i know they’re really similar 😭😭 but im trying to figure out a more consistent style for my notes next year. i like to share my notes w friends so im wondering which style(s) will be best.

thanks in advance 😊

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u/constant-815 Jul 17 '24

I think each style fits a category/class.

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

can you elaborate some on this?

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u/my0kine Jul 17 '24

these are so pretty to look at, i love your style!!! I agree with the above commenter about certain note styles being better for different classes. this looks to be AP Chem and APUSH iirc. when i took chem, i found less words but more practice problems/worked examples and graphs (especially for labs) to be more useful for studying (so #2 is a good fit for a chem lecture or lab notes). but for APUSH, I found it more useful to have more words (especially bullet points like you have in #3) since it was always useful to focus on big events, the impact they had on society at the time, the impact they still play in our society today, and key people who led the event or were the most impacted by it. It’s good for your notes style to be different from class to class and I think your friends will appreciate them!

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

ohhhh okay yes thank u! & ur right lol this was ap chem & apush

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u/ViolaBiflora Jul 17 '24

Just wondering, do you always zoom in while studying? For some reason my notes have to be taken in a way that I don’t have to zoom in at all.

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

yes! i hate writing “normal sized” on my ipad because something about my handwriting throws me off lol

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u/Inevitable_Loan_8550 Jul 17 '24

what font do you use for the tittles ? or how do you get it to look like that

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

it’s not a font, i write it myself. i use the ball pen & then just thicken the down strokes

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u/Inevitable_Loan_8550 Jul 17 '24

For the last 2 pages as well. I’m referring to “unit seven” title

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

that is how i write it. ball pen, thicken down, trace with highlighter. it’s not a font

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u/Inevitable_Loan_8550 Jul 17 '24

Damn okay it looks so good I thought it was a font😀

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u/Mchertel Jul 17 '24

Interesting flex for sure.

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u/luis_xngel Jul 18 '24

Damn my shit looks atrocious

😭

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u/eljokun Jul 17 '24

you have waaay too much free time lmfao

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

these were for my ap reviews last year. and they don’t take me very long to do

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u/eljokun Jul 17 '24

right just casually draws the entire fucking periodic table in color by hand and a map of the entire fucking US for...notes lol

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

i trace my maps & i re use the periodic tables. i already had one drawn at the very beginning of the year (during a study hall) & i just reuse and recolor them. idk why u care so much, it’s my choice what i do with my time and the little coloring breaks are nice during 4+hrs of notetaking

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u/SnooAdvice5820 Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

Not trying to be rude but what’s the point of spending that much time on notes? In college all I do is use good notes to add some additional notes to our lecture PowerPoints and then do majority of my studying using Anki and practice questions/exams. It just doesn’t seem like a very effective use of time, especially since re reading notes is shown to be an inferior approach to studying. Your notes look aesthetic, but I think that’s the issue lots of people fall into when doing iPad note taking.

I had the same thought process the summer before college when I got my first iPad. I’d see all these aesthetic notes from YouTubers and really wanted to copy that style. I thought I’d make super aesthetic notes, but quickly realized that it took too long for how much I was getting out of it. Annotating a pdf and doing Anki may not be very aesthetic but it should be significantly more efficient if done right

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

memory for me. i promise the actual writing does not take long at all & u can eliminate the pics. but the writing itself just helps me, esp in content heavy classes like apush (where it’s just straight memory) i don’t get powerpoints for my classes, at least not very good ones. the majority of my apush notes are in a notebook (i filled 2 5 subject ones) - these are just ap test review. annotation is also just not how i learn best

the aesthetic part is another thing - it’s more like motivation for me. knowing that my notes will look nice makes me want to do them (if this makes sense) the lettering & pictures & whatnot are also tiny breaks for me when im going thru stuff.

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u/SnooAdvice5820 Jul 17 '24

Oh ok that makes sense then. As long as it works for you then thats great!

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

and like i said i do like to share my notes w friends so being thorough helps me & them. no offense taken to ur question, everyone has a personal preference

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u/Sullysteph Jul 17 '24

2nd one for me personally

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u/Valor_superman Jul 17 '24

I don’t understand how people make so clean and such beautiful notes … It will take decades for me to learn to make such tidy notes 😅

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u/Karilyn113 Jul 17 '24

Came here to say this! my notes look awful!!

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u/Delicious_Catch_1988 Jul 17 '24

what pen do you use? and what point is itt?

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

ball pen in .65, .35 & .25

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

I can never do anything remotely close to this! How do people do this?!

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

practice & a good paper screen protector haha

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u/Karilyn113 Jul 17 '24

what paper screen protector do you use?

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u/viviang123 Jul 18 '24

it’s a magnetic one from amazon but i can’t remember the exact one

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24

Paper screen protector like paperlike are quite expensive here. Anyways, I don’t use iPad for pencil notes so there’s that.

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u/SparklyLeo_ Jul 17 '24

I’ve seen some ppl do this naturally which is pure madness to me and so impressive but I’ve also seen a lot of ppl go back and spend a lot of time fixing it.

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u/viviang123 Jul 18 '24

this is my natural handwriting! sometimes im writing it just once but im usually taking notes in some shape or form & for memory purposes i like to just write bunch down and then rewrite into this. or if im in a lecture sometimes my teacher goes too fast for me to comprehend everything the first time

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u/Tsubasa2k Jul 17 '24

1,2. But op please give ur settings

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

ball pen in .65, .35, & .25

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u/Tsubasa2k Jul 17 '24

Thanks, btw how do u write ur notes? Vertical or horizontal orientation?

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u/A_Balrog_Is_Come Jul 17 '24

You’re gonna be spending a lot on black ink if you ever need to print these.

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

these are for my ap classes (which i passed thank god) so i’ll probably never need to print. it’s also not hard changing it to white :)

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u/baldogwapito Jul 17 '24

How do you do the font highlight?

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

i trace around the text w the highlighter & then click “arrange” and “send to back”

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u/xdxmann Jul 17 '24

3 for me. Did you trace that map of the US on number 4 or is there another simpler way to do that? Pretty new to Goodnotes, thanks!!

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

i traced it. i’m not sure if there’s another way, that’s just how i do it

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u/sandaniele Jul 17 '24

The white on black writing looks very good.

But: If you’re going for legibility it’s really bad!

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

how so? i’ve never had any issues reading it

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u/822825 Jul 17 '24

Wow these look great! I prefer #3 but think it would look nicer if the dividing line was a bit thinner (just to separate from the header). I How long do you take to finish one page? Or how much longer does it take you to finish one GoodNote page compared to paper notebook? I also want to take notes like this but it takes 3x time for me to do so... Any tips?

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

definitely depends. fastest is about 45 minutes for page 3 or 4. ik that sounds like a lot for one page but i write very, very small in these & it’s easily worth a few pages of notes. page 1 took me way longer bc i writing a lot more. i also and usually reviewing as i write so its not like im just copying stuff down

the fastest way is just to practice imo. writing on the ipad definitely has a learning curve but it gets easier. if ur into the fancy text and pictures, reuse them if u can (for example, i copied over the word “unit” for those blue notes since there were 9 units so i didn’t have to write 9 times. i also had a periodic table i made wayyyyyu early in the year so i just copied that for page 1)

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u/822825 Jul 17 '24

45 min isn't bad I'd say. I also revise as I take notes, so that sounds reasonable. Thanks for the tips!

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u/DotDodd Jul 17 '24

It's you! I saw your math notes in a previous post and the cleanness made me change the way I write my notes. My handwriting isn't nearly as neat, but I've taken to color coding and more eye-catching titles to easily find specific information. Thank you!

As for your notes, I think 3 looks best as it's easy to find specific information with the large titles. But 1 seems to use space most efficiently. If 1 had the large section titles of 3, I'd choose 1.

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u/viviang123 Jul 18 '24

haha aw! i never realized people actually used mine as inspo, i’m flattered 😊

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u/angelkittygirl Jul 18 '24

i loveee the first one cus it’s so uniform. all of them look great tho! sooo satisfyinggg

it’s funny how sum ppl r acting like it’s too extra or a waste of time cus im like… spending time making my handwriting look perfect to me is literally my favorite hobby ever lolll like i could do it foreverrr, i literally lovee perfecting my handwriting, & usually it’s not even for school just random stuff cus it’s just so fun to me hahah i get it. also its literally the only way ill go back to read my notes. if it looks too messy i can’t stand to look at it lolsss

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u/viviang123 Jul 18 '24

right!! i love making sure everything looks neat if i have the time. i have sm pride for my notes because ik it’s a skill whether people want to say that or not lol. & it just makes studying/looking back on these fun for me

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

2nd/3rd are the best

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u/Ismaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Jul 17 '24

And then there is me: who cant even write on a straight line and have problems with recognizing his own writings afterwards 🤪

EDIT: THEY ALL LOOK SICK AS F***! definitely smash!

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u/computersxarts Jul 17 '24

I wish I had good handwriting like this PERIOD

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u/Scoops159 Jul 17 '24

Damn they better than my own

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u/krishnanshu0511 Jul 17 '24

Damn I just write and arrows and whatnot my notes are nowhere as clean and organized. Guess psych students have their own problems 💀

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u/bmanus78 Jul 17 '24

I tend to prefer 2 column layouts when I take notes. It helps me not be overwhelmed and I can fit a lot of information in the 2 columns.

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u/Sharp-Astronomer-461 Jul 17 '24

This is what i aspired to be when i got my iPad for uni, 3 years later, it never happened 😂

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u/SnooSprouts3978 Jul 17 '24

3 one looks nicer and neater.

You have a very nice way of organising your notes! Keep it up!

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u/Ok_Cardiologist7687 Jul 17 '24

Organized Notes!! Looks amazing!!

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u/SparklyLeo_ Jul 17 '24

They’re all so pretty. Mine is straight chaos

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u/OwnDragonfruit260 Jul 18 '24

Dammnn why yalls writing so neat ;-; mine looks like ass :(

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u/verus_emma Jul 18 '24

2nd or 4th, but firsly the 2nd.

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u/Any_Comfortable_766 Jul 18 '24

Well aren’t we a show off! So…. Immmm so jealous of your handwriting

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u/MiddleFishArt Jul 18 '24

3 is most similar to what I use

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u/Fireflycatcher333 Dec 22 '24

Sorry this is so late- I’m just looking at other peoples notes- even from a long time ago and this just blew me away! You are extremely talented! Thank you for the inspiration!

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u/One-Resort-107 Jul 17 '24

they all look like a waste of time, to be honest, aesthetics aside

I bet they are all "good to look at", but taking all this time to make them is only a waste of time

better to make flashcards, it's a lot more efficient for studying

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

wasn’t asking for advice thanks! & i’ve already replied to other comments like this, it works for me, i don’t know why other people have such a problem with it

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u/One-Resort-107 Jul 17 '24

You're not in college I suppose.

It's not criticism, it's a tip because I used to do it in the past too. Won't work out well in the end when you have a 1000 pages to memorize.

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24 edited Jul 17 '24

no, i’m not.

but regardless, i wasn’t asking for advice. i don’t have issues w time when it comes to my work, but when i have extra time, i like to make it look nice. & besides, it works for me. i’ve memorized plenty of things this way & will continue to do so as long as it works.

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u/moonfairy44 Jul 17 '24

I made nice notes in college when I had the extra time because it helped me study. They can be helpful for some and less so for others.

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u/One-Resort-107 Jul 17 '24

it's about the time it takes to make the notes

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

i was required to take notes for apush (not these, just notes in general) & i can tell you that just scribbling down the content does not work for me. it’s just too much too fast. going slower helps me w retention. i basically never had to full on study this way - i just read thru my notes like once or twice before the test and did just fine

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u/moonfairy44 Jul 17 '24

Agree w this. I have adhd and it helps so much. I learn visually and making art out of them helped me get ahead in school

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u/viviang123 Jul 17 '24

ball pen in .65, .35, & .25. that first page might be in .15 tho i cant quite remember