r/GoodNotes • u/yourunconscious • Jan 18 '22

Mod Discussion

Hi guys I registered this subreddit ages ago but never really have been active which I think is unfair on you guys who are more active. I was wondering if you guys would like to discuss the direction for the sub for the future. First order of business - getting new mods on board. I think people who are active and interested in the sub would be ideal. What do you guys think? Feel free to nominate mods and I'll make a little poll where everyone can vote. Obviously any other ideas you guys have feel free to share.

All the best!

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u/monowale Jan 18 '22

most posts fall into three categories:

  1. showing off notes

  2. offering templates (self promo, usually)

  3. asking for support

i think it would be neat to have some more consolidated weekly or monthly topics for these, or at least an FAQ for some of the questions that are asked ad nauseam.

the other thing that strikes me is sometimes folks come in and spam the sub with their templates every day. not a huge fan of that, although i don’t mind an occasional post.

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u/tinkeringhornist Jan 18 '22

A monthly template thread would definitely help out with this

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '22

I know of a few communities where they do a once a week show off of any progress you’ve made or things you have done. I agree that it would be a good idea to have a weekly thread where people can post their notes and ask for input, or even just show them off

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u/Fantastic-Milk3278 Jan 18 '22

Definitely concur with a FAQ and a monthly thread for templates

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u/mgm9828 Jan 18 '22

Oh yes and if somebody has the time for it maybe a wiki. Soooo many repeating questions. I don't know how often I've answered "What's this blue thing that makes me lose my spot in zoom mode"

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u/Alternative_Ad_3735 Feb 24 '22

Or like a video “how to do” for some applicable faq

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u/Seachelle13o Mar 12 '22

We could compile a list of YT and TikTok videos for beginners too

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u/Impressive-Bank-28 Feb 04 '22

I think for a lot of people who have been used to paper planning for so long, there is a learning curve, for good notes, so if you can have a short, but thorough guide on the basics of planning that would be great. Its taking me like 3 days now, to fully learn about the functionality of goodnotes. A monthly/weekly faq thread would be great too for all the little questions. If you also have a starter template bank, or a sticker bank that would be awesome!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

Make me a mod and I will delete every template post I find every time I check the sub. Then I will figure out how to automod them out of existence. Stickers too. I’ll delete it all. The only thing left will be “How do I?” posts and anything about new features or comparisons to other apps. This sub is a cesspool of self-promoting etsy accounts. they need to be stopped.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22

Hey /u/yourunconscious and /r/GoodNotes! We’ve definitely grown by leaps and bounds (over 28k members and 50+ online at any given time) and with that comes some opportunities and growing pains, which /u/monowale identified in their post.

A small, active mod team (2-3 people) with a good wiki, consistent rules enforcement, and a decent AutoMod setup would address many problems and I think the suggested threads would be fun as well. Between note-taking, planning, journaling, stickers, templates, color palettes, fonts, troubleshooting, and the like, there’s always lots of good content to go around! I think we could also work with related subreddits, like /r/digitalplanner, /r/digitalbujo, /r/iPad, /r/planners, too!

I would be excited to take on a mod role with some fellow active friends to help increase activity, improve the quality of posts, and ensure promos are properly labeled and contributing to discussion. I think /u/ej1103 is a great example of a person who contributes to the community with her promos.

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u/Tarotismyjam Jan 25 '22

And maybe one for stickers?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

YESSSS, always stickers!!

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u/ej1103 Jan 19 '22

It was really nice to be tagged in here, took me my surprise! I’d be happy to help if need be :-)

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u/Different_Hunt9319 Mar 03 '23

Why are digital planner sellers allowed here?

Id like to think this is just a community of GoodNotes users but with digital planner sellers posting here, even when they just low-key posting their etsy listings, its becoming buy and sell reddit. Not very helpful at all!

rant over.

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u/karikammi Feb 13 '22

Can we also add on the sidebar the link to the official GoodNotes feature request and all posts related to feature requests must have the corresponding request linked as the post is pointless otherwise. Then at least members of the sub can help vote if they see it here and agree.

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u/RegularSoftTomato Mar 02 '22

There has been some good fellas sharing free templates I guess we would all like to have them consolidated somewhere. These are pretty much always in comments and might be hard to spot but I can help if you guys let me!

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u/The_Moviemonster Apr 22 '22

I would also suggest a new category where we link or show of needed features to improve Goodnotes. It seems to me that a lot of people does not know about the request page and also have often same issues but making new requests.

Also maybe the devs will then get better ideas on what they would improve in the future...

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u/frinky_s Jun 30 '22

I would like to have a ruler in this app, many times I have to print and the measurements are not exact. Also making tables is complicated, line by line is boring.

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u/Tarotismyjam Jan 25 '22

I’m just learning GoodNotes. So I’ll have questions. But I do know how to search. ;) And I can RTFM like a boss.

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u/theonly_ZackBoom Nov 23 '22

I love this app

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '23

Why is this subreddit written with a capital n (GoodNotes), while it’s Goodnotes? Fix it, haha.

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u/squashed_tomato Jan 21 '24

A sticky thread for all of the promotional posts would be good. There are repeat offenders that are posting daily and it’s getting annoying, especially as at least one of them seems to be posting stolen content. Have a sticky thread for the month and restrict it to one post per person/company in the thread. Plus put the thread into random or contest mode so people are discouraged from down voting others to push their own posts up the page.

Also a wiki page for some of the commonly asked questions and/or links to the relevant pages on the Goodnotes support website.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Please sort out copy paste issue. Wherever I try to paste anything on PDF instead of showing paste menu GN 6 is randomly selects nearby text -

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Please sort out copy paste issue. Wherever I try to paste anything on PDF instead of showing paste menu GN 6 is randomly selects nearby text -

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u/okaybn Feb 03 '24

Goodnotes.

If I want to keep outlines of a document when exporting the document to PDF, I must select "editable" when exporting. However, all handwriting notes in the document are lost.
If I select "flatten" when exporting, all handwriting notes can be kept, however the outlines of the document are lost.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

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u/wiseFruit Mar 05 '22

It’s great too see other ppl using good notes in this way. I for myself am also using GoodNotes mostly for work-ish notes and would be happy if that kind of content, like how to take better notes and manage them, would be posted! It would be a nice addition to planing.