


Some people use this zoom tool feature to improve how their handwriting looks in the app. When set to auto-advance in the app’s settings, the zoom window automatically moves as you take your notes. The zoom window starts on the margin you set when you’re using auto-advance. The zoom window has navigation arrows on the right side for moving the window on the page and icons on the left for creating a margin for your page. The zoom tool lets you add tiny handwritten notes to fit more information on a page. I never thought I could ever say this, but the handwriting experience in GoodNotes is now as good as the one in Notability, if not better. There is no lag and palm rejection is excellent. The handwriting experience in GoodNotes has improved dramatically since iPadOS 13. GoodNotes has made the pen tool feel as natural as possible. Again, this depends on the look you’re going for. If that is your preferred inking experience, you will enjoy using the Brush pen.įor the Fountain pen, you can calibrate the Tip Sharpness to make it Round or Sharp. At maximum pressure sensitivity, the more pressure you apply on your Apple Pencil, the thicker your strokes become. The more pressure sensitivity you allow, the more realistic your pen strokes become. Pressure sensitivity makes your handwriting experience more realistic. It has five levels (Min-Max) and these are measured in percentages. Let’s hope in the future we will be able to add more.įor your Brush and Fountain pens, you can set Pressure Sensitivity. This is especially inconvenient for your pens because it means you have to replace one of the three thicknesses to use a fourth pen thickness in the app. On your toolbar, you can only have three pen colours and three thicknesses at a time. You can adjust them to the exact thickness you need. Your pen sizes are in millimetres (from 0.1mm to 2.0mm). In GoodNotes, you can rearrange your palette colours. You can add colours using a Hex code, colour wheel or just pick one from the palette above the Hex code. You can Edit your Pen Colour to add more colours to the palette or remove those you don’t want. You can customise your pens at the far right end of the toolbar to change their colour and thickness. GoodNotes has three different pen types ( fountain, ball and brush). Take a Photo: useful for lectures and meetings.You can create a new notebook in GoodNotes by other ways too: So they allow you to import and save custom paper templates to the app’s template library. You can name your new Notebook and tap Create when you’re done. GoodNotes has a lot of paper templates for different purposes and the developers understand that these templates might not work for everyone. These templates come in Portrait and Landscape modes. It has three paper colours ( white, yellow and dark) to choose from. GoodNotes supports many paper sizes ( A3-A4, Letter, Tabloid and GoodNotes Standard). You can choose a notebook cover for the notebook to have a beautiful thumbnail on the homepage. The app creates a notebook using the default template you’ve set in your settings.Ī new Notebook takes a bit more time to create. Creating a QuickNote is the fastest way to get started in GoodNotes.

This process allows me the simple, minimalistic and practical planning I like, AND helps me turn my digital planner into a memory keeping journal.On the homepage, you can create a new Notebook or a QuickNote to start taking notes in the app. I’ve gone back and deleted tasks from earlier in the week and have added digital stickers, photos from my camera roll, and some journaling.Īt the end of the week I’ll use the space on the bottom left of the planner (blank grid box, Priorities, and Home) and decorate that and add more pictures. See, in the photo below, how my Friday, Saturday and Sunday are just simple text lists of tasks? I then use the now blank space to add photos from my camera roll, and simple journaling. I see no reason to keep silly, repetitive tasks like “do laundry,” or “take out the trash.,” lol. My general practice is to delete boring tasks when they are completed, either at the end of the day or the end of the week. I turn my planner from a to do list into a memory keeper. When I finish a task I highlight it in GoodNotes. Not with digital stickers or with lots of decoration, but with simple text. It is then that I add all the things I want do accomplish during the week. On Sunday I do my planning for the week ahead. Step 6: Fill in details (appintments and to do’s) during Weekly Planning.
