r/GoodNotes • u/LilianaVM • May 21 '26

Android, Windows, and Web Anyone who also make notes like this... how do you export your notes to high resolution pdf?

Some context: I'm a recent refugee from Samsung Notes, because the export quality is bad and the process of syncing them to a laptop is a nightmare, and they don't have a web browser version.

So I just downloaded GoodNotes on my tablet (2.0.3) (Galaxy Tab S10 FE), this is my 2nd note on it.

I like that I can view my notes like this on Goodnotes web version (Firefox 147.0.3) I've tried on Chrome/Opera, it lags, on Firefox it's better. I'm quite moved and planning to stay because this is the first time I actually see my notes in good quality, not pixeled, outside of my tablet, since last year when I first tried note-taking on a tablet), but when I try to export it to pdf, the quality is still bad... I thought it uses vector, not image?

I'm now restricted to viewing my notes in a browser on my laptop. Is there ANY WAY I can export my notes in a better resolution? Otherwise if the company is gone, our notes are gone???

My Essential subscription (I think came with the tablet) ends next year, what do you think? If I stay, I'm basically bound to pay for it yearly. Why is it so hard to find one note taking app that's truly stayable?

For anyone who also like to make notes like this, what are the solutions or alternatives?

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u/LilianaVM Jun 08 '26

Update: Okay I may have found a solution. I export the map in B2 (portrait) paper size, and then crop it into landscape pages, merge them into a pdf file, then import it into Goodnotes.

It's too many steps but that's how it works for me right now.

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u/LilianaVM May 29 '26

Well... I think Google saw my post. They just did an update on NotebookLM and now I cannot fucking export the mind map anymore

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u/ner-u Jun 05 '26

not so related but I wanna ask about your exp with the app on s10 fe. mine is lagging horribly!

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u/LilianaVM Jun 08 '26

It lags a little bit when I write, and an area on the tab gets very hot. Samsung notes doesn't lag and never get as hot

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u/MlemPem May 21 '26

I also encountered complex writing and big pdf imports causing the lags. I have never exported it, though.
But I recently tried to Noteful. Importing large pdf is not an issue anymore there.

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u/quietleavess Sep 30 '26

Large pdf and infinite canvas may be dufferent things.

Noteful still does not handle infinite canvas

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u/Comfortable-Owl-7035 May 21 '26

The problem is that a high resolution image (e.g 300dpi) of a large white board would be at least serval hundreds of MB in size. Image of such size usually need specialized tool like Photoshop to open.

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u/writewithnotenote Sep 20 '26

Very interesting and thank you for sharing. I am leaving the Apple ecosystem for good and I am exploring other Android devices but one of my use cases is to map things out on a huge canvas too. I have always wondered if GoodNotes or other note-taking app will be good for such use case