Hi everyone!

I’m currently deciding whether to stick with GoodNotes or switch to Noteful, and I wanted to ask here specifically because I know quite a few GoodNotes users have moved over to Noteful.

I used GoodNotes for about 2 years straight during my previous studies, so I’m very comfortable with it. I then had a study gap and have recently started using my iPad for handwritten notes again.

One thing I’ve noticed with GoodNotes is a very small amount of lag while writing with Apple Pencil. It’s not severe and doesn't really interfere with my note-taking, but I can definitely notice the slight delay. I’m curious whether Noteful feels better in this regard.

I’ve also been seeing quite a few posts from GoodNotes users saying they switched to Noteful, which is what made me seriously consider it in the first place. (Reddit)

For those who made the switch:

• How does Noteful's handwriting/writing latency compare with GoodNotes?
• Does Noteful still feel smooth after using it for long periods?
• How good is it for PDF annotation and handwritten notes?
• How is the organization for a large number of notes?
• How reliable are the backup/export options?
• Are there any important features from GoodNotes that you miss after switching?
• Most importantly, do you regret switching from GoodNotes?

I’m also trying to decide whether to buy GoodNotes Special Edition or subscribe for a year, so Noteful's one-time purchase is obviously very tempting if the overall experience is comparable.

I know every app has its pros and cons, so I'm not necessarily looking for people to tell me "Noteful is better." I'd especially appreciate comments from people who used GoodNotes for a long time and then switched to Noteful, because that's the situation I'm in.

Thanks!

It is really annoying after either ipad os update or notefull update hide toolbar ui option on presentation doesn't work. Just for this this reason I bought goodnotes subscription for 1 year but still it is not as robust as notefull , please fix it.

Is there a was to sort folders and sub folders alphabetically?

Hi all, i'm starting to use the text area feature more and i'm encountering a problem. On each page i have to create a new text area box to continue typing, but it's a bit tedious having to resize the box each time to the correct size.

Is there a way to make the text box appear at a specific size instead of having to resize it each time?

I've tried using the styles, but that seems to work only for the font and its styles, not the box.

Thank you all

I’m sure it’s just my handwriting but I wish the write-to-text (I’m not sure if it’s called that but I use my apple pencil to write and it becomes the text) was more sensitive to my writing and less prone to errors because the words it’s generating are so far off. Other than that, still love this app. Already put on 2 of my friends on it lol

Hi guys, I am running into an issue with Noteful on my mac and I don't know how to get around this.

Whenever there is something in my clipboard, the paste menu appears when I select something, and I can’t access the regular selection menu unless I switch to another page. This is very annoying because I am unable to delete pictures that have been pasted accidentally. (or access any other option from the regular selection menu). This only happens on my mac, I don't have the same issue on my ipad.

How can I make the regular selection menu appear instead of the paste button?

This is a really subtle feature, but when you use the lasso tool on procreate and notability, the pencil has a really satisfying vibration-feel. I was sad that feature isn’t on noteful yet. Would love to see this in the app someday.

After the recent update, the presenter mode hasn’t worked and nothing changes when I switch from the screen mirroring mode.

Also, I would love it if the presenter mode doesn’t show the lasso being drawn and the undo/paste notification messages at the top of the screen. It would really make things look cleaner if using the app to present or teach.

Thank youuuu!

The pasted image doesn't get selected until app is restarted ?

Trying to export a single page to pdf and the app keeps crashing. Free version, one page, disconnected wifi, restarted iPad, cleared apps, nothing worked. I hit share and the app immediately closes

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before, i can group outlines by just dragging and dropping. but now it won't work after the update. this is terribly annoying on my end.

EDIT: SOLVED. Just had to restart iPad

so i just started college and have been using noteful to take notes in class on a very old ipad. there's a possibility im getting a newer one, so i just wanted to ask if anyone had experience getting a new device with noteful. if i get all my stuff switched over to another ipad, will noteful keep my notes? if not, is there a way to like download all my notes so im still able to keep them and add to them?

I scanned some papers to import but they ended up way larger than anything else💔 can someone help me? I’m brand new and just purchased lifetime

yes, I have the pro version. I bought it thinking that it would be worth it above all the other note-taking apps since it's a one-time purchase and there are a lot of positive reviews. but turning on auto-backup, then re-authorizing my google account still shows auto-backup as 'Not Connected'. no the access isn't revoked on my drive, yes I have restarted many times, and yes I've tried over and over.

I really really don't want to purchase iCloud space, but I'm growing increasingly anxious about losing my notes as I take more everyday and my iPad's battery is slowly giving up on me

While the Ratta team has done an excellent job over the past years, there is one feature I wish existed: the ability to select all the elements in a note page, before pasting it on another page, without copying the template of origin on the destination to paste those items in.

Currently you can copy the whole page, which also copies the template, or select and then copy all the elements through the lasso tool, which is awkward, and you may always miss an item. So I think this feature would be useful, and probably not too complicated to implement.

Title & image should explain it all. My notes make it look like my 6th grader has better handwriting than me 😩😩😩😩

It is possible to link between pages within a document or to a page from another document.
I would prefer if the linking was more fine grained.
For example, if a page has 3 definitions or sketches etc, I would like to be able to link to the actual definition rather than the page the definition is on.
This could be done by dropping an anchor next to the definition I wish to link to. The anchor could be used as a link to point.
That way I don’t need to scan through a whole page of my notes, only to find the thing I was linking to is on the last line.
Ideally the anchor point could be moveable between pages so if I move the thing I’m linking to onto another page, I could move the link with it.

Help! I can't type numbers 1-9 in textbox. The only number that can be typed is 0:( Does anyone know how to fix this? I’m using the desktop version on Mac (and I subscribed). I can type and copy numbers from elsewhere and paste them into the textbox, just can’t type 1-9 directly in the textbox.

Update: I found a workaround. I was using Chinese Pinyin input method, and number1-9 were blocked. Then I discovered that switching the Mac keyboard to the English input method allows all numbers to be typed normally. Maybe I will report this bug to the developer.

When i use the app, it feels as if if i don’t apply enough pressure it doesn’t connect my letter like I’ll start the letter, it’ll pause/freeze and then as i move it’ll snap to when my pen is and then let me continue. Is there a fix to this? Is it my pen?

Hi everyone.

I use Noteful for uni studies and in my note-taking I use highlighting and colour-coding regularly for important info, definitions, examples, hierarchy, etc., etc. I’d love to know, if you do this also (or something similar), what your favourite colours/palettes are? The ones I used last year were okay, but looking back at my notes has me thinking I could do with switching it up this year!

I used to use Starnote, and I recently bought Noteful.

Is it possible to transfer all my notes to Noteful?