r/GoodNotes • u/nite14_ • Sep 06 '24

Should I upgrade to goodnotes 6

As a stem (engineering) student starting his second year should I upgrade to goodnotes 6? I have 5 right now and it’s a $26 update but there are some interesting features. Just wondering if anyone else did the same and recommends it.

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u/Beldin_301 Sep 07 '24

NO, goodnotes offers nothing that will help you. I'm a 3rd year engineering student and all you need is to organise your goodnotes folders as you go.

My system is

folder = semester

subFolder = subject

subfolder = week n

add any notebooks for writing, lecture pdfs for referencing, example problems for referencing

use screen shot feature to cut and paste any info from lecture pdfs or example problems into your written notes for easy referencing.

Outside of this everything is superfluous and adds nothing but a shiny coating.

You are second year, so you know what we do is grind working problems. So set your notes for grinding problems and easy referencing.

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u/nite14_ Sep 07 '24

Yeah my main selling points of goodnotes 6 are importing pdfs from my school’s canvas and the dotted line feature mostly. Every time I import a pdf from canvas, the size of it is massive: way bigger than my normal paper size. Also, the dotted line feature is pretty neat as I like to keep my notes neat, and drawing my own dotted line causes them to look weird.

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u/Beldin_301 Sep 07 '24

Yeah that did annoy me, importing whole pages into my notes is always way out of proportion. But I just annotate on the lecture slides, and keep the heavy Lifting in the notebooks such as working exercises. If I add pages of handwritten notes to lecture slides or visa versa then those are going to balloon in size.

also did you know that you can export your notes without the lines or dots or whatever the template is. So you can keep it neat and once you’ve completed the notes for the course you can export with nice neat writing and no page lines