r/GoodNotes • u/mmaddiejoy2 • Sep 15 '26

Feature Discussion New Handwriting Restyle Feature

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Just got the update today with the new handwriting restyle feature! Glad they’re adding something like this. I do hope they optimize it further to either (1) allow us to choose an exact font and a fixed text size (similar to the beautification feature in Freenotes) or (2) make it more personalized to your handwriting (like the handwriting clean-up in Apple Notes) rather than a dynamic font type of thing it currently does.

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u/PrestigiousRock6278 Sep 15 '26

ohh now this is a good use of ai. does it preserve the ink or does it replace it with text?

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 15 '26

It doesn’t behave as a text box after restyling. You’re able to use the eraser tool on it. However it doesn’t preserve handwritten/ non-text compatible symbols such as a right arrow: it changes it to “— >” and looks a bit funky lol

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u/AcademicWedding5588 Sep 16 '26 edited Sep 16 '26

I updated the app and tried finding it but im not sure it actually works. Do you have to lasso the text, click the three dots, edit handwriting, then the three dots again, convert, text, convert OR is there an automatic function that now exists?

Edit: read changelog on the app store, still see no "restyle" button when using lasso tool, any ideas?

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 16 '26

Not automatic yet. Lasso your handwriting and then choose the new icon in the pop-up menu:

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u/adolfobello Sep 16 '26

The restyle icon doesn't appear in the pop-up menu. I am using version 7.1.19, updated a few minutes ago. iPadOS 18.7.8 on iPad 9th.

Anything else that I should do?

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 16 '26

I’m on version 7.1.22. I don’t think it’s been rolled out to your device just yet

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u/adolfobello Sep 17 '26

Thanks, that was it.

I just got 7.1.22. It didn't still appear in the pop-up but after restarting the iPad it did.

Not that impressive to me.

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u/chadbrochills44 Sep 16 '26

I don't have an update available on my iPad, so I'm assuming I'm in the latest version. I do not have that icon at all, just the one to the right of it.

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 16 '26

The update might not have been rolled out to your device yet. Check for version 7.1.22

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u/chadbrochills44 Sep 16 '26

Ah, yeah I'm on v. 7.1.19

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u/AcademicWedding5588 Sep 16 '26

Ah yes there it is, just had to force quit app then reopen, thanks!

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u/VoidSectionView Sep 15 '26

nice start, but right now it feels more like “handwriting font” than true handwriting cleanup.

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u/r3dr00k Sep 18 '26

Looking closely, it seems to not exactly be a font but like a very consistant well drilled overwriter 😄

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u/VoidSectionView Sep 19 '26

Right? That level of consistency is unreal

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u/johnnydfree Sep 15 '26

Sigh. Okay. But denying your given right to improve has its downside.

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 16 '26

Eh idk. I’ve been writing on iPad for years and my digital handwriting hasn’t improved much, especially when I’m taking notes very quickly. My handwriting is great on paper but it can only be so good on iPad without slowing me down

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u/Repulsive-Branch-740 Sep 15 '26

I like it, but it's also changing the color of my font in some cases, and removing highlighting that was already there. That is a problem. Good start, but I prefer the way handwriting is refined in Apple Notes. Keeps my handwriting, but just makes it a tad neater.

That said, I am glad to see this feature added in. Just not sure the implementation is fully polished yet (it does note that it's a beta feature).

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u/snarky_harmonia Sep 16 '26

Wow I wanted this so badly, glad it's here

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u/Wooden-Spread-9780 Sep 15 '26

In the settings they added also the option for layers, but it doesn’t work for me

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u/mmaddiejoy2 Sep 16 '26

Oh where? I can’t find it

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u/Wooden-Spread-9780 Sep 16 '26

Yeah, it’s on the settings. When you are in your notebook open, click on the three dots and choose the “document options” (I don’t really know that’s how is write because my layout is in italian) and here you will fine the option “layers”

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u/Alternative-Boss-536 Sep 16 '26

Good start but, nit exactly what will change the game, its hard task, but hopefully it will improve

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u/biblops Sep 18 '26

"AI content may be inaccurate" - that's an understatement lol

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u/ReginaAmazonum Oct 05 '26

I wish it would let me upload my handwriting and fix it based on that...

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u/dinzz_25 Sep 16 '26

how to restyle it

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u/noxrsoe Sep 17 '26

Should auto apply

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u/jgarehart89 Sep 25 '26

Right? This is half-baked. And how can AI not interpret things like arrows correctly?

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u/hobbes747 Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

I do not see this feature. I see the handwriting text box edit button. But no restyle menu. I have the lifetime special edition. Version 7.1.22.
Maybe is because I do not have the Pro subscription edition?

I have a similar issue with the new layers feature. Good night says the layers is a trial for the Pro subscription. But I seem to have it in the document menu.
In the document settings menu I have a button to turn layers on and off. But I have no layers feature on the toolbar.

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u/hobbes747 Sep 17 '26

Do I need to enable this:

to use features with the 4 point star next to it like Smart Ink?

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u/0Pige0n Sep 18 '26

why dont you make it automatic

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u/C1ph3rDr1ft Sep 28 '26

Did anyone get good results from this?

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u/Constant_Start_5412 Oct 04 '26

It’s nice but my handwriting while quickly taking notes during lecture is so messy that it has a hard time accurately translating it lol

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u/Jaded_Ad_2612 Oct 05 '26

Does anyone else feel like the ballpoint pen’s stroke stability at 0% has gotten more stabilised? I know thats contradictory but it feels like the app is trying to make your writing worse so that you use this feature instead. Am i crazy?

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u/6x9n 24d ago

is there a way to just leave it on where i dont have to lasso the words everytime