Much more convenient than trying to remember where you last left that notebook you used three months ago. And you only have to carry one iPhone or iPad with you. I want to have headers and be able to make tables just by typing and selecting whatever formatting tool I want.įor less than the price of three 100-sheet spiral notebooks, you can have an unlimited amount of digital notebooks for everything you might possibly need, including taking notes in class or meetings, balancing your books, creating graphs and charts, planning your daily events, and more. I want to create bulleted lists and things I can check off. What I want, though, is the option, when I create a new notebook, for it to fully be a typing booklet - complete with formatting options like the Notes app. This is a great option if you want to create a notebook with pictures or annotations because you can manipulate the typed text however you want the box to be, including copying the box and pasting it onto another page. There is an option to add a text box, which allows you to type, and it even adjusts to how much you type (the box grows in size as you add more words). I realize that GoodNotes is designed specifically for note-taking, but sometimes, I just want to type in a notebook instead. Why no type? GoodNotes 5: What I don't like Since they're now in digital form, sending copies to someone for reference is no longer a total pain. They're completely searchable, so if I want to know which bill came to $112 last year, searching will help me find it quickly. I've started importing my electric bills, just so I have a digital copy of them. The OCR scanner is absolutely invaluable. In fact, you can have the same exact notebook open in three different windows, all on the same page, edit in one window, and watch your edits appear across all three windows. The tabbed window will kinda be in your way and doesn't really look that good, but you can have three notebooks open at the same time. Then, feel free to drag a third notebook over into the tab view. You can open GoodNotes to your main dashboard and drag a notebook to the left or right to open two windows side-by-side. And this works in both landscape or portrait iPad positioning, but the way. You can drag the app from the dock at the bottom of the screen and off to the left or right to bring up multi-window mode.īut GoodNotes takes this a step or two further by integrating additional ways you can trigger multi-window mode on your iPad. Just like with any app, you can open GoodNotes in two windows side-by-side. I'm going to focus here on features exclusive to iPad because it's the iPadOS 13 update that has helped make this a reality. Pro multitasking GoodNotes 5: What I like You can have two different, or even the same two, notebooks open side-by-side, plus a third notebook open in a hovering tab.
GoodNotes will then analyze the text of the note and make it searchable/Īlso exclusive to the iPad and iPadOS 13, you can open GoodNotes in multiple windows. When you tap the add button, one option is to "Scan document" which will ask for access to your camera, and then take pictures of the paper you're importing.
on iPadOS 13, GoodNotes now supports OCR scanning, so you can quickly import paper content to your digital notebook. You can either hide the interface from others or allow them to see everything you see. This makes it possible for you to mirror your iPad (or iPhone) to a big-screen TV or monitor. You can also turn your iPad into a digital whiteboard using Presentation Mode. Creating a new folder, note, or Quick Note, which is a single-page note using the default paper, which you can add to a specific notebook later on. You can organize notebooks into folders and favorite them to move them to the top of your list where they're easier to find. You can create sketches for presentation, annotate PDFs that you've imported, and even search all of your notes - handwritten, typed, or imported as a PDF.