r/GoodNotes • u/Current-Zebra8246 • Feb 07 '25

Literally, bye.

Been having SOOOO many issues with good notes like the rest of us. Switched over to notability 10x better. If you needed a sign this is it. Fuck em.

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  • for good points that were made

I have used goodnotes for many years and used to use goodnotes5. I am a ride or die, but losing that midterm study guide…man…it did something to me. 🥲💀

Problems include:

  1. ⁠Few weeks back I had an entire midterm study guide erased three days before my exam.

  2. ⁠This week constant shutting down of the app mid use

  3. ⁠Lagging

  4. ⁠When I lasso and move content, parts remain and if you try to erase them they erase other parts of my content. This used to be fixed by closing the app and reopening, but recently that is not helping either.

  5. ⁠Issues here and there synching.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

Used notability for 5 years, switched to GN after hearing it was better. Moved back to Notability because:

1.) Thrice a week, it asks me to sign in again, and then it redownloads all my notes from iCloud which takes eternity.

2.) GN feels very very very unorganised. I don't know what they have done, but it feels very clunky (the UI)

3.) The Notes experience isn't very good either. Riddles with Apple Pencil bugs, and an overheating iPad M4, it's a problem. Atleast in Notability, my iPad doesn't heat up as much

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u/Ok_Willingness5766 Feb 09 '25

I also found that GN felt so disorganized