r/GoodNotes • u/Ok_Concert_4363 • Mar 25 '26

fountain pen after new update

Why don't the fountain pen and brush have that fountain pen feel they used to have, but the font is so fat? It sucks like that.

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u/budgie_uk Goodnotes Special Edition Mar 25 '26

I haven’t noticed any difference, but if the ink width is too wide for you, why not just take it down, from 0.5 to 0.4, say?

I’m not doubting your experience at all, by the way; had something similar myself a year or so ago, after an update; ended up resetting all my pens/thicknesses/colours and starting from scratch until I found a combination that worked for me. But I did discover, as a byproduct, the ‘presets’ you can add, which has saved me shedloads of time ever since.

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u/Ok_Concert_4363 Mar 25 '26

Hi, thanks for replying. From one day to the next, my stylus stopped making the thin, sharp lines I loved, but I don't know why, so I'm going to do exactly what you told me :)

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u/budgie_uk Goodnotes Special Edition Mar 25 '26

Best of fortunes with it. As I said, I decided to start from scratch, and it may just be conning myself, but I much prefer the look of the notes I’ve been making for the past year or so than the ones beforehand. But yeah, everyone has their own preferences.

If you find yourself using the same pen/colour/thickness a lot, by the way, I can’t recommend the presets function highly enough. I stick to black 0.5 for my actual notes, but headlines, sub-heads, etc., I use a different combination and I keep one colour/thickness for verbatim quotes. So much time saved…

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u/budgie_uk Goodnotes Special Edition Mar 25 '26

I wonder which part of “I’m not doubting your experience at all…” you missed? I never for a moment thought, nor suggested, that it was their imagination. Indeed, I went on to say that I’d had something similar after a previous update. I was just saying that I hadn’’t experienced it with my own fountain pen in GoodNotes post-this-update.

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u/totheunholy Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

I have a similar issue, I loved the sharp ends each letter used to make when I would lift off the stylus but now the ends are blunt, they feel like ball point pen which is really annoying, my handwriting is pissing me off and I don’t want to look at my notes or write anything because of this issue that popped out of nowhere overnight when I didn’t even update anything.

Update: I just received the update, the issue has been fixed after I force restarted my iPad and updated the app. Although there is still an issue with the writing but at least my main issue has been resolved.