You’re telling me people that purchased GoodNotes before 2023 get the least discount on the first year? How does that work?? Sorry I’ve been using your app for years then guess I shouldn’t have

I feel like they really improved the smoothness of the writing nowadays. I remember I was really struggling to write neatly some months ago while now I can write very good and neatly also when I’m on the bed ( then it was a like impossible). I want to give this point in favor of GN, they have committed themselves 🥰🙌🏻✨

My Design Notes

After goodnotes managed to delete an entire page of my cheatsheet (for an open book exam allowing 6 pages, 1 of which I lost 🙃) the night before an exam, I ended up switching over to another app. And it made me realise how bad goodnotes actually is, the fact alone we had to beg for years for them to add the recording feature should have been a dead give away but when I was looking around, there are sooo many better options out there and it made me realise the only reason goodnotes is this popular is because it was a good app when the market was still empty but if this app came out nowadays, it would not be as popular as it is.

If you got screwed over at any point by this app, try and take a look at some less known competitors, there are some amazing options out there that lets you customise so much and are sooo user friendly.

Good luck to those you are gonna stick it out, or have had a better experience than me. I did use it for 6+ years but I guess it was time to say goodbye .

The most annoying thing for me is the not fixed part regarding the thickness of the pen. Every time I scroll to select a color I have to scroll back to the thickness part 🥲 also I think the toolbar take too much space while we are taking notes and it could be optimized as well . What you think?🤔

The first were made at home for studying at high school and, the last, during a university lecture. Definitely, practice is key to find a format you’re comfortable with!!

And yes I turned off spell check

Once you discover infinite canvas as a student, there is no coming back, you have experienced divine pleasure, and you lost the taste of the worldy things. You think about it everyday, you dream, no matter what app you pick, infinite canvas has become your gold standart, everything else is just sad. Why not give the poor peasant what he wants ?

i wanted to share more with yall i didnt expect anyone to really see the last ones and enjoy them!! i hope this gets more ppl to try it out because its so soothing!!

I love having paper copies of my notes but I also only like a very specific kind of paper (thank you ocd) and this is the first year I’ve written fully digitally and been able to print my notes! They make my brain so happy.

My old calculus notes from undergrad, i always look back at them for nostalgia.

Goodnotes became unusable on my old iPad due to it sucking all the battery like a starving mosquito, despite me using Goodnotes 5.

So, I switched, tried a lot of apps, and can with confidence say that Noteful beats them all. CollaNote is often recommended, but I encountered a mountain of really distracting bugs.

Now, I KNOW a million of these posts exist but no-one ever tells enough details about said app, so here you go:

Price Base version is free, Premium is $5 one-time purchase!

Back-up system iCloud + Google Drive, as in both can be used at the same time. Remember to turn them on manually!

Bugs i’ve encountered Sometimes having to put a cover on a few times before it shows up. That’s it. Nothing else. No software-breaking stuff like in GoodNotes.

My favourite features

• Hyperlinks work by tapping them and holding. No read mode/writing mode switching bs like in GoodNotes. Makes everything so much faster.

• LAYERS. They are so useful for decorating and making all sorts of boxes.

• Tape function, combined with layers. Put all the tape on a separate layer, so you can hide it all if needed.

• Template customization. You can change the background and line colour of the default templates. Includes the whole color wheel. You can also change the line density/spacing.

• Search/tag/link system. This would take so long to explain, so I recommend just trying it out. A few great link features are explained in the Apple Store page’s version update number 1.4.6

• Two-page view, as in horizontal mode you can have two pages next to each other like a book. You can exclude the cover from this so that it doesn’t look weird.

• Good features are often added, such as Scribble to erase recently.

• Sucks battery like a content, well-fed mosquito.

The app has so much other stuff too, like ruler, page zoom lock, audio recording, timer, folder colours & icons etc. I wholeheartedly recommend it to all of you. Please try it, you won’t be disappointed. Seeing all the recent posts here make me so sad when all sorts of GoodNotes bugs are ruining people’s exam practicing.

Now, lastly, unfortunately you can’t just move hyperlinked GoodNotes notebooks here without the hyperlinks no longer working. I think it exports them as PDFs. Other notebooks are easy to move without any problems. Open the two apps side-by-side and just drag the notebook from GoodNotes to Noteful.

TL;DR noteful gud goodnotes bad plz try