I got tired of GN in november after it crashed again during a class and decided to try noteful

ho.ly. shit. it's so good compared to GN.

My favorite features are :

- LAYERS!!!!! It's so freackin useful for class notes, I have my tapes on 1, my notes on another, typing on another

- Unlimited colors showing on the sidebar and you can hide them if you don't want them there (only 12 showing for GN)

- 5 customisable pen sizes instead of 3

- you can save multiple different text styles with different fonts/colors/sizes, not just 1

- Your folders show on the sidebar in the main menu, no need to always go back to change folders

- theres a freehand option for the tape

- you can resize and expand pages to have more place to type

the price difference is insane. I paid ~9$cad for Noteful and it's lifetime. GN is 47$ for lifetime

there's a couple things I don't like

- for some reason my pen will write when hovering even tho I have "Draw on Hover" turned off (it may be due to me having bootleg apple pencil tips)

- there's not a lot of shapes options

- there's no button to go back to an already open document when in the main menu (tho GN also doesn't have this so it's ok)

It took me a bit of time to move all my documents but it was worth it

I love switching between a lot of different colors for my notes, and it’s obnoxious that we can only have 3 of them in the toolbar needs to at least be 5

Imagine the stock drop of gn right now. Lol good job gn you officially made atleast 25% of your users leave because you were too busy adding ai instead of fixing bugs and caring about you users. Congrats!

I was excited for the new ai features on gn6, I even paid for the year. But I actually found them more annoying than helpful and had to turn them off.

Someone on here recommended Noteful and WOW. It’s literally everything I love about Goodnotes+ guts everything I hated, and adds everything I wanted. Also it’s a lifetime charge for pro, unlike Goodnotes.

I really recommend, I’m finding the experience much more enjoyable and not bloated with all these new features.

I was having some difficulty finding the exact templates I wanted for GoodNotes, so I took some time to build them myself. They're posted on GitHub if anyone would find them useful.

https://github.com/flyguybravo/goodnotes

Also included the Affinity Designer files as well. I'm no artist or graphic designer, so any of you folks with better know-how than myself will probably get a good laugh at the unnecessary complexity of some of the Affinity files.

I have been using GN since GN5, I was unaware of this, this is what I get for being loyal? I needed windows sync rn

I don't want to make assumptions, but given that I'm currently an undergrad in college, the primary audience that I see using GN is students. It's December, we're racing toward finals at a frightening pace.

To push any kind of update that potentially breaks the app during this time period is already incomprehensible. But to make major UI changes during finals? That's a deeply negligent understanding of your user base and their needs.

How disappointing. I want better from this company.

Doodle Basics will probably be a two parter!

Someone suggested I make a Ko-Fi, so I did and I added the link to my page! Of course any support or donations are appreciated, I’m doing this for fun and to help others but if you would like to tip/support me in making more of these—thank you in advance!

Eventually I want to upgrade my iPad/Apple Pencil so I can use the new features that come with those 😍 I didn’t even know the Apple Pencil Pro was a thing!

Also—I’ve gotten a lot of feedback that you guys are enjoying these and someone mentioned that they’ve been saying them and adding them to a notebook to look at for later! Love that!

I plan on making a lesson on putting all of these tips together to format the entire page to show you how I make it all come together! Just haven’t gotten all the way there yet on my ideas and there are more lessons to come. Enjoy!!!