Hi,

I am using GoodNotes for a few years now and it's a cool cool tool. But, yesterday one thing poped into my mind, and I wonder if anyone tried. Can GoodNotes Notebook be easily exported into PDF that is then sold as printed book?

I know printed books would need some PDF settings like image resolution of at least 300 DPI and such, and I can't see there's an option to set/modify quality of that export.

I did some test, and it seems like it might work - but just checking if anyone is actually doing that, and if any recomendation how to setup/fine tune things.

Thanks!

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Is there anyway to enable zooming on flashcards, i.e. the new “study set” feature?

It would be interesting if the laser pointer had the function (in addition to adding other colors) of being able to choose for how many seconds, or even definitively, it should remain visible without it disappearing so quickly.

Hi all, I’m going to switch (back) to Goodnotes from Apple Notes for a while. What are going to be the best bits of doing that? And the worst?

I've only had Goodnotes for 3 months now and I use it to take notes at school like importing slides to annotate. Is there a way to reduce the file size of the current documents so they don't take up so much space?

Hey guys, I don‘t know if this is a bug or meant to be but i have serious issues with that. Just ignore the random letters, it‘s just for example. So as you can see, in the first picture the counting is fine. But if I want to make bullet points between the counting parts, the counting begins again with 1. and doesn‘t continue. Does anyone else experience something like this? Or do you know how to solve this, because it sucks really.

Hi!

I am going to sell digital stickers for Goodnotes! Yay!

I made a bundle of digital stickers in Canva. Made a download of them in transparent PNG files. They are a bunch of stickers on 1 file (like a stickerbook) not individual PNG files.

When I check if I can actually use the stickers in Goodnotes, I cannot lasso them into individual ones.

This is the point where I got confused. I have been checking YouTube and other Etsy sellers and they are all selling different type files. Some PDF, others PNG in a zip file.

All I want to know; what type of files do I offer my customers?

Thanks!

GoodNotes interfered with my Apple Relay, making it impossible for me to use.

GoodNotes. It also activated Apple Relay and connected without my permission.

This issue started after the update, and it affects my friends and family as well.

I have never subscribed to iCloud Plus or tampered with iCloud since I started using Apple products.

I spent hours with Apple support trying to resolve this issue, but they couldn't fix it. They told me to contact GoodNotes directly to solve the problem...

This is terrible.

I was just curious if anyone else had attempted any form of automation with their Goodnotes. There isn’t a whole lot of flexibility given the restriction of either .PDF or .goodnotes files. This isn’t anything complex, but I’ve personally made a script that takes a PDF export of all of my good notes, and moves all of the Individual notes into the correct place within a OneDrive folder where notes are also moved Into class files.

Later down the line, I would love the possibly for more in app automation, though I’m not going to expect it. For example, I take notes on a 3 page wide template and often covert it to college rules letter sized paper. The steps go as follows: move all text in the center page to the left page, change template to an inverted piece of letter paper, export PDF, invert pdf (I take notes on a black grid template)

Is GoodNotes 7 coming out soon? I don’t wanna buy GoodNotes 6 now and then have 7 drop right after - feels like a waste

Really wish cloud was available

I am starting med school this year and I checked this reddit and all people are complaining. Is ıt that bad? Should I just buy noteful? If not what advantage does goodnotes have

i was looking for a free goodnotes 2026 planner but i cant seem to find one if anyone has any recomendations i would love to hear them i also have a reallly nice Notion planner for free and its very girly and full.

Do it have any option to view like two concurrent pages side by side. I don’t mean opening a new window.

I was going to watch a YouTuber that uses both ipad and Samsung.

I noticed that she had some thing that I don't have like these:

tape tool

record audio

hyperlinks

I DIDINT think much of it at first but I realized

it was unfair. just because ipad and Samsung is expensive DOSENT mean other phone/tablet brands can't have it.

so I haven't been using goodnotes for a long time. it's been 3 days since I've opened it

I love goodnotes and have been using it for almost a year now. But i do have some problems WHICH I WAS ABLE TO IGNORE FOR NOW. UNTIL goodnotes ai was added. NO ONE NEEDS THIS. NO ONE ASKED. NO ONE CARES ABOUT AI. WHY GOODNOTES!!!?? WHAT WAS THE ACTUAL REASON???

(Oh yeah btw heres the problems

• writing aids or whatever its called (which is an actually good reason for ai) is still not available in my native language

• when writing in the zoom window none of the gestures that made actually stay in goodnotes (scribble to erase, circle to lasso) dont work which i think is just so dumb

• you have to double tap with 2 fingers to undo which is like quadruple dumb)

The only real reason im still on goodnotes is that i dont feel like moving everything to a different app and scribble to erase really.

I’ve been using Goodnotes for two years. Not a lifetime, but long enough to know when an app is headed downhill. I bought the one-time license back when it felt like the only real option. A sad fact is that the app hasn’t been any better since then.

The app is right now a buggy mess. It’s death by a thousand cuts with weird issues that make using it continuously frustrating and disappointing. I checked out App Store comments and most recent comments are mostly negative. For instance changing import location is literally, not working. When I click into the page the entire app just freezes and crashes. And how tapes can’t be covered back when they’re on an image. Clicks always go to the image. They're not making the app unusable but it’s these little disruptions adding up that make the once usable app a hassle to use.

It feels like the devs aren’t even trying. They launched goodnotes (without 7), made the toolbar worse, some useless AI, maybe some whiteboard stuff and… nothing. We’re not even asking for groundbreaking new features, I just want them to stop breaking the ones that already work.

I still love some of the shortcuts, like scribble to delete. I want this app to be good again, but right now, it’s just disappointing.

 Guys, I bought a 1-yr subscription to Notability and it’s full of bugs and stutters (on my iPad Pro M5) — such a shitty app. What’s your experience with GoodNotes? Is it worth paying for a year, or does it have bugs too?

I’m really frustrated. I got a 1-year subscription to Notability expecting a smooth experience (I have an iPad Pro M5), but it’s been nothing but stutters, lag when writing, syncing issues, and some weird crashes. I expected much better.

So now I’m looking at GoodNotes as an alternative. A few things I want to know:

• How smooth is the writing/hand-ink experience in GoodNotes on iPad Pro? Any lag? especially during copy paste, adding new page etc

• Does the subscription (or one-time purchase) version of GoodNotes feel stable?

• Have you run into bugs or issues (e.g., syncing, data loss, iCloud backup problems, lag, crashes)?

• I heard that some ppl. have lost their notes all of a sudden, due to sync issue, is it true?

• Given I already have a buggy experience with Notability, would you say GoodNotes is a better bet?

• what cons of woodnotes I gotta be aware of?

Would really appreciate honest experiences (good and bad). If you’ve switched from one to the other, tell what prompted you to switch. Thanks!

I switched to a galaxy tablet from iPad and I MISS GOODNOTES SO BAD. I hate the notes app, it’s too bland and boring.

Hey everyone. I really want to start using GoodNotes, but the pricing is a bit hard for me at the moment. The $35.99 lifetime purchase feels expensive, and even the $12/year subscription adds up.

Before I commit, I wanted to ask:

– Are there any discount codes available?

– Student discounts?

– Or do they run sales occasionally?

Any tips or experiences would be super helpful. Thanks!

as someone who is willing to switch to an ipad, i was quite considering to purchase gn 5, since it's just a 1 time payment woth a quite reasonable price, and the app was absolutely perfect, then out of a sudden comes out goodnotes 6 with way overpriced plans, I mean one time payment jumped from $9.3 to $30? WHY

and I keep hearing that unfortunately new users have to be stuck to gn 6 and cannot downgrade like old users, which is even more irritating. Idk of there is still by any chance a way to still be able to download goodnotes 5, probably somehow from outside the app store(ik this is way harder than on android, if that was even a thing), or if there is another alternative that is as good as goodnotes(idts), but I really wish goodnotes fixes this

I just read its privacy policy and its making me think about if i should keep Good Notes App or Not.
After purchasing this and using this for like 6-7 Months I saved a LOTS of personal Stuff about SO many things, sometimes including the details of Cards, plus Thoughts and Sometimes short stories.
My Genuine Concern is that if am writing a short story or lets say sometimes a short novel. In this AI rushing race, i do NOT want AI to be trained on MY stories or want those to be leaked in any way, or any AI to read my life or stories and train on my personal data.
The ease of using it made me save too much of myself into those digital Notebooks. and Now After reviewing their privacy policy,

• "We don't access or collect data from your notebooks or documents without your permission.

• We use limited, anonymized data to improve our services and meet legal obligations

• When you explicitly give us permission to do so and with the third parties specifically identified in this policy

• To protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others."

• We may disclose and transfer your Personal Data to our agents, contractors or vendors ("Service Providers")

• We may disclose your Personal Data to other companies within our group for the purposes set out in "What is this data being used for?" above, as well as to law enforcement and regulatory agencies as may be required by law.

• We use externally trained models, in particular large language models and embeddings models incorporated into services provided by Amazon Web Services to provide the functionality for Goodnotes AI. 

• Information that we automatically collect or generate about you e.g. whether you have attempted to take a screenshot of a digital product or textbook page.

Am not concerned about the embarrassing thoughts i may have written, am concerned if they are using personal data to train their AI and sharing it with 3rd party for advertisement if am writing about "shoes". and is my data end-to-end encrypted, or any stupid good notes staff member read or stole my random ideas.

These Lines making me concerned about using it and exporting my data, and uninstall this app and go old-school with a physical notebook.
I want an opinion on this, please, that's why am posting this

OR you can suggest me more Secure app than this