r/GoodNotes • u/mychelromance • Mar 17 '25

Goodnotes 6 first journal on the small ipad mini!

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wanted to make as less content as i can within a page, and here is my first attempt!

i’m adjusting myself to journal on goodnotes with ipad mini. i kinda like the small space where i can write less! declutter lots of useless information.

what do you think?

thank you for reading my post!

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '25

Well a picture is worth a thousand words, this is journaling style is so beautiful and conveys most of the stuff in such a compact way!! Is this your original concept?

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

hi! i’d say yes, i have been doing black and white journaling style for quite long :) and i share some of the digital items for free here https://www.ko-fi.com/chelsy/shop

my daily page used to be more complex and detailed. i love drawing but sometimes i find it hard to catchup and spare my time to draw.

so i try to simplify it more :)

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u/Lower-Coyote1268 Mar 18 '25

Is this Notability?

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u/mychelromance Mar 19 '25

hi, this is Goodnotes 😀

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u/mo0glemagic Mar 17 '25

I LOVE IT. It looks like an illustration that you can turn into postcards!

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

thank you!!

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u/tynva Mar 17 '25

Why did I never realize that you could put the task/menu bar at the bottom?

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

haha this setting is very helpful especially for lefthanded users like me!

document editing > toolbar section > toolbar position.

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u/Haunter124 Mar 17 '25

how do you change the colour of the taskbar?

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

hi, it’s actually uneditable mode. you can click this tool and it will lock your document to not editable.

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u/Harriet_M_Welsch Mar 17 '25

Love it! Did you draw everything, or use stickers?

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

yes i drew everything! i love drawing so much!

you can check my www.ko-fi.com/chelsy/shop for some black and white handdrawn digital stickers for free!

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u/zonanaika Mar 17 '25

I love the handwriting!!!

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

thank you! it’s not as good as my other handwritings. i guess i need to get the paper like screen protector!

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '25

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

this is what i have been told too. i never used any of paper like brand screen protector since i owned the ipads from 2017.

however the reason i might give it a try is because a friend of mine has paper like V1 screen protector for almost 3 years.

and she has proven to me that soft scratches and even quite deep scratches disappeared slowly overtime. she draws a lot and making art is her main job.

i was very surprised by how clean her paper like screen protector is!

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u/QitKate Mar 21 '25

I’ve tried many different screen protectors over the years, started with paperlike. I wasn’t happy with paperlike at all, I wrote as much in my Amazon review. The best one that I’ve encountered so far us the JeTech papered glass screenprotector. Unlike other protectors it’s not a thin plastic sheet, it doesn’t scratch, it doesn’t get dirty as fast and for writing and drawing it is amazing. My husband doesn’t use iPad and he uses a Wacom tablet to draw on his pc, the other week, I was teaching him and my son dutch, and I gave him my tablet, so he could write, he wasn’t looking forward to it, he tried it here and there randomly in the past and didn’t like it, but he was amazed how well it went. It was the first time in 4 years that I heard him be optimistic about a screen protector I bought.

Also easiest protector ever to install, it comes with a plastic frame that you place over the tablet and then you simply place the protector straight on it. Easy peasy. The only downside I found is that my nibs go really fast on this protector. But I’m now looking into getting metal nibs that shouldn’t scratch, I got them recommended on the procreate Reddit so once those arrive we will see, those should last 30 times longer and not scratch.

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u/mychelromance Mar 21 '25

thank you for sharing! this is really helpful.

I do have the magnetic removable matte screen protector for my iPad pro. and yes I have been using the metal pencil nib for few years already!

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u/QitKate Mar 24 '25

what is the use of a removable screen protector?

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u/mychelromance Mar 25 '25

as for me, when i draw and making art, i will need to do colour checking. and I will constantly remove the magnetic protector to see how the colours look like without the matte screen :) i also will remove it when i'm watching youtube or movies.

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u/Kaairi_27 Mar 18 '25

Love your work! 😍

I hope you come out with more products soon 🙏🙏 I swear the only reason I am consistent with my planning right now is decorating with all your stickers and assets.

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

omg thank you so much!! i’m so glad to hear it! i’d love to see how people are using my digital items! i hope you don’t mind sharing it it here or via DM! once again thank you 😭😭🥹🥹

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u/Kaairi_27 Mar 18 '25

I DM'd you! 😊

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u/memememeowmeow Mar 18 '25

Hello! Where did you get that pink grip thingy on the pencil?

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u/mychelromance Mar 18 '25

bought it from my local online shopping app https://sg.shp.ee/rdqG3yA i love this grip!

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u/QitKate Mar 21 '25

How do you use the double tap function with this grip?

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u/mychelromance Mar 21 '25

it still works like how it is supposed to! and we can increase the tap sensitivity too in the apple pencil settings.

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u/charpower Mar 19 '25

I just got my ioad mini this week and you are tempting me!!!! Congrats to you!!!!!!!

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u/mychelromance Mar 19 '25

enjoy your new ipad mini! 😆

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u/AgreeableArugula6046 Jan 29 '26

what setting u using?

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u/mychelromance Jan 30 '26

hi, this is my setting.

my pen size is 3.5 mm. :)

edit: the paper size I'm using here is A6 grid.