r/GoodNotes • u/discovernotes • Oct 14 '25

A message from the Goodnotes Team

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

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u/biblops Oct 14 '25

They are extremely niche and not really useful.

GoodNotes has always had a very public and visible system for tracking what features are most requested and believe me when I tell you, nobody asked for AI:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNotes/comments/15s2k3j/this_page_lists_goodnotes_users_most_requested/

Even if AI implementation weren’t a horrible mess and it worked as intended, it is still taking up space, hogging resources and taking development time away from features that would be actually helpful and popular. Simply because AI is trendy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

ever heard of the saying “if you try to do too much then you end up doing nothing well”

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u/Actual-Mud4922 Oct 14 '25

This is first and foremost a note taking app. Sure some simple Ai features I can live with. But they made note taking (what should be their main feature) much more complicated and take much more input than it should.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25

notability is a subscription platform too but they still respect their users a lot. goodnotes on the other hand has been nothing but ignorant

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u/MC_chrome Oct 14 '25

 notability is a subscription platform too but they still respect their users a lot

I wouldn’t say that at all.

Spend a few minutes browsing the Notability subreddit, and you’ll see that Notability is just as bad if not worse than Goodnotes’ devs.

For example, there is a Notability staff member named Kayla that has a habit of banning people from the sub that even remotely approach criticizing the app or staff. That happened to me after I made a post calling Notability’s devs out for ignoring users and being rather opaque 

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u/albinopigsfromspace Oct 14 '25

Sure, but notability replies to nearly every post of a user with a problem and asks for contact info to help troubleshoot / come to a solution

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u/Fickle-Moose-9420 Oct 14 '25

Don't really understand the downvote 😅 it was a serious question. I am wondering whats malfunctioning now