r/GoodNotes

I just like to send this out into the wild periodically.

It doesn’t matter what app or device you use or if you keep a physical journal. If losing that journal, planner or notebook is going to cause you distress, make sure that you have independent backups. What I mean by independent backups if it’s an app, they usually have automatic backups through some cloud service. That’s great, except that it syncs directly with your app, which means if you lose the documents in your app, you lose the documents in the cloud. That cloud backup only protects you against device failure. It only protects against app failure in certain circumstances.

What I recommend is that you make your own PDF of your document when you change it or when you have significant changes whatever workflow works for you. make sure that you keep your own consistent PDF backups.

If you use a physical notebook take a picture of the pages as you finish them.

hello everyone,

in case anybody is planing or thinking about switching from iOS to android with goodnote in mind: dont. My iPad broke and I swirfed to an xioami pad 8 as an substitute and save to say, I’ll be looking for another app very soon. There is no cloud menu on the android app, meaning manual backups all the way. The app is also very laggy which I never had on iOS either. lastly, the entire user experience is complexity chopped. no automatic spacing (you open the notebook and have the the page sized to the screen), long loading times and lastly very little customisatio.

All in all: what a massive letdown. please be aware of this.

Hi all, I am a technical trainer and public speaker in tech, as well as avid user of GoodNotes.

A few months ago I started developing an iPad/iOS/MacOS app for myself, focusing on the aspects that I felt I needed when presenting using my iPad and an external screen/projector.

The app has evolved to the point that I think it has the potential to be of general interest, but before I go much further, I'd really like to understand how people here currently use GoodNotes when teaching.

I'm particularly interested in "presenters" who connect their iPad to a projector/TV/external display and annotate PDFs while teaching.

The problem I'm trying to solve is that the presenter's workspace and the audience's view are hardly ever the same thing.

For example, I'd like to keep separate notes for the student handouts and my own narrative, to be able to navigate the slides freely while showing something else (e.g. so I can view what's coming up, decide what to skip when pressed for time, etc.), to annotate for my own purposes vs for display, to scribble on the presentation view without annotating the document permanently... in short, do various things on my iPad while the external display remains a clean presentation intended for the audience.

I would really like to gather people's views and experiences with GoodNotes, so as to learn and improve my own workflow, with an eye to coming up with new useful features for my app.

If you are a teacher or presenter using iPad/Apple Pencil for your work:

- How do you currently present your slides/material?

- What does GoodNotes do well?

- What frustrates you when presenting?

- Would having a different presenter and audience view actually be useful?

- What would you want to be able to see privately on the iPad while teaching?

I will be starting a TestFlight beta phase with friends and colleagues soon, but if anyone who actually teaches this way has any interest in trying the app for themselves and let me know what they think, feel free to get in touch directly.

I don’t want your language add-on that auto-add themselves to my device. Give people what they pay for or be replaced…. The Modern era is crazy. I’ll pay some programmer kid in India to make a better simply app.