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a) Information we collect automatically: Your privacy matters to us. We do not automatically collect any personal data and no other data that will enable us or any third-party to personally identify you. We do automatically collect anonymized, aggregated statistical data like the number of visitors per week, the number of created documents or the average time users spend on the site or in the app per session. None of the data we collect allows us or other parties to personally identify you. Neither us nor any other party can access, modify, or read any of your documents that are saved in the app.
Thanks! It's one of my favorite, no-fuss setups.
Yes, it's a digital bullet journal I made myself. I shared a link to download it in this Reddit post, if you'd like to download it. I use the journal in the GoodNotes app on an iPad.
Buyer Beware.
No mention of Windows on the Goodnotes home page (https://www.goodnotes.com). That should be your first clue. If you go to to the 2nd link in your message then click on Time Base Technology Limited (authors of the app), it takes you to Goodnotes. I'm guessing it's a flat-out scam, or an emulator. If an emulator it's not authorized by Goodnotes. Either way, if I owned or used a Windows machine, about as likely as winning the Powerball, I would not put questionable software on my computer.
It’s both surprising and not surprising that on a platform that pretty much everything (my estimation that everything tends more towards games and free apps), you can’t find a note taking app like GoodNotes or Notability. Both apps allows you to create a note based on standard printed paper. And it comes with various templates both default and from 3rd party.
The problem with Surface and the Windows platform is OneNote. It’s free and it makes other developers less willing and unable to compete. So the users end up with only one viable choice (yes there are a few others but none quite in the same quality as the aforementioned apps).
Because there are alternatives to OneNote. For example, I use GoodNotes and unlike OneNote which doesn’t handle dropping PDF into your notes as a separate page that integrates with the rest of your notes, GoodNotes does.
It also treat your notes as a page (Letter, Legal, Tabloid , A4, A3 in Portrait or Landscape etc. Which eases the process of making a hard copy of your notes.
There’s also Notability. And if you’re less inclined with writing, there’s app like Bear Notes.
Even Apple Notes is good enough for most iPad users.
GoodNotes if said tablet is an iPad.
No idea on the Android front though. All of my other devices are Windows and Android, but GoodNotes fits my needs so well that I purchased an iPad Pro for my tablet.
You can still use OneNote on your Mac. No need for OneDrive. Just sign in to your Microsoft account. I don’t know how it is now but when I was using OneNote sync engine on Mac and iPad was pretty remarkable instantaneous.
But if you want to move on: try the Apple Notes app as others have suggested but if you need notes app with better handwriting support- GoodNotes is a good alternative. It’s on Mac and iPad/iPhone. It’s also one of the few apps that’s not subscription based. You only pay once to have access for both Mac and iPad/iPhone:
I use Goodnotes 5, it is the only app that my handwriting is really neat with loads of customization options. Your notes are automatically synced to your iCloud and you can also enable some backup options to other clouds like Google Drive. You can also manually export them as pdf or photos anytime you want.
Another popular choice is Notability, but less and less people use it due to its new subscription model vs one time purchase that Goodnotes has.
If you have the Apple Pencil it’s really good with https://www.goodnotes.com
You can import pdfs and images, and have multiple tabs open. Then have a dice roller swiped just off the right side of the screen. Depending on the game that’s all you need.
I haven't used it yet, but the app and first three notebooks are free, then to access unlimited notebooks is a $7.99 one time fee - you can see more here https://www.goodnotes.com/pricing
TL:DR: GoodNotes 5 should support this workflow, but I haven't tested it
(I was hoping someone else would answer this with a suggestion that they have actually tested, but alas,)
I've been looking for something like this for a while, and I am honestly surprised that it seems to be such an uncommon use case - even though on the windows side a very considerable portion of laptops are can fold into a tablet mode and have pen support.
Unfortunately (although, to be honest, it wasn't very good) Inkwell on OS X was not updated to 64-bit and was removed from macOS Catalina onwards. I was hoping that the "scribble" feature that came on iOS would also work with graphics tablets, but alas more than 2 year later it hasn't happened. Apple also released PencilKit, but it both only works for Apple pencil, but also is only read-only on macOS (so there wouldn't be a feasible way to force it to work with a graphics tablet.)
I haven't had a chance to try it out, but GoodNotes 5 has support for tablets and ink to text conversion.
I recommend the following two apps for PDF’s on my iPad:
GoodReader is my daily use app for my reference materials. I couldn’t have gone paperless 10 years ago without it. It’s way more than just a viewer or markup tool. It’s also a sophisticated file managment utility that syncs with my cloud drive to make it easy to access all my files.
For note taking in class or meetings, sketching, and for PDF markup that requires more flexible hand markups or creative markups with lasso selection, copy, paste, and transform features my goto app is GoodNotes. Similar name but very different program.
Both are wonderful and worth considering.
Just today, I’ve discovered the app GoodNotes & have been setting up a new 2021 BuJo planner. I’m really liking it so far- good options for me without being so overwhelming that I rabbit hole. I checked & the pages are printable, but I’ve not yet printed them out to see how they register.
It looks like it’s just designed for iPad though.
I recommend iPad Air 2020 with Apple Pencil 2 as hardware; GoodNotes, Notion apps for note taking; ProCreate app for drawing.
GoodNotes is currently hiring for software developers who don’t just specialise in iOS/macOS. They’ve stated in the job listings they’re looking beyond the Apple ecosystem for GoodNotes. However, it likely won’t happen for a LONG while. Link to their current job opportunities: https://www.goodnotes.com/careers/
This is what I found pn the features. It says iPad, iPhone and Mac in the same sentence and the feature of searching your notes does come up here as well, so I’m positive that you are indeed able to search handwritten notes on a Mac(book).
in this video - GoodNotes note taking app for iPad and My PDF Planner for GoodNotes, Notability and etcGoodNotes app is here and
I’m doing pre-recorded “lecture” videos. I use an ipad with the apple pencil, and use the built-in screen recording function (be sure to turn the mic on—it’s not on by default). I use an app called GoodNotes, and just write on a blank document. I use a graph paper background, which comes in handy (I teach physics).
Last quarter, one of my colleagues (a chemist) would join his Zoom meetings from their computer (for the webcam) and also a dummy account from their tablet. They set it up so the tablet could share their screen, and used it as a whiteboard.
I used GoodNotes. It's 100% not designed to do this, but it worked out really nice. All you need to do is digitize your preferred scoresheet, then save it as an image. With GoodNotes you can create a notebook template and insert an image as a page type. That way when you create a new page, it makes a copy of the image you provided.
It's not perfect! Basically it means each score sheet has duplicate items like the totals box and the information area. I am going to mess around today in photoshop and make one single image that is both teams' scoring area and see how that scales.
Like I said, it wasn't really designed to do this, but it worked out. Being able to zoom into each scoring box was so nice, and I ended up using a different color for each pitcher which made the scorecard much easier to scan.
The one and only GoodNotes. Tryed a lot. Used it in university for the last 5 years. Never had problems.
Uses iCloud and if you buy the iPad app you can also download the mac app for free. trust me, its worth every cent.
I tested out a bunch of the hand-written notes app, and by far my favorite has been GoodNotes. It syncs well for me between my desktop, iPhone, and iPad. i don't believe it is Windows compatible though, but didn't really dive into that.
A few things:
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I use Goodnotes to write down stuff using an Apple Pencil, you can get templates for music scores or guitar tab: https://www.goodnotes.com
Guitar Pro is pretty neat: https://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php?pg=guitar-pro-ios-android But I find it better for tabbing something I already have written down. It's faster for me to physically write something down (using Goodnotes) first, then for more long term storage throwing it into Guitar Pro is better (I use the Mac version instead)
A good metronome can be great for practicing with as well and several exist on the iPad and iPhone side.
Don’t forget GoodNotes and Notability (for stylus based notes) on iOS. Not as popular as OneNote because they cost $10 vs free (for OneNote). But if you’re invested in the Apple ecosystem (by that I don’t mean you’re constantly buying new Apple devices), you tend to prefer well executed, design-centric applications from smaller developers even with the added cost.
I like the idea of taking notes by hand for the reasons which you stated, but I would prefer for my notes to be digitized, so I don't have to keep buying new notebooks (and losing the old ones). For that reason, I have had my eyes on the iPad pro, with the GoodNotes 5 app, but I can't afford it. Kinda a bummer.
- Good Notes 4
- IOS (ipad)
- https://www.goodnotes.com/
GoodNotes lets you take beautiful handwritten notes and annotate PDF documents. The handwritten notes are searchable and are created using a pioneering vector ink engine. Thanks to iCloud sync, your documents in GoodNotes will synchronize between your iPad and iPhone automatically.
Need to organize my documents (life and work-related) and be able to sync with my other devices; trying to be digital and paperless
Thanks in advance!