You’ll also see a little shopping bag, which takes you to the GoodNotes Pop-Up Shop, where you can purchase new paper templates, covers, stickers, and more. You may also have access to the GoodNotes Community through a tab in the bottom right of your screen, but this feature isn’t yet available to all users.Īt the top right of your screen, you’ll find icons for a few more handy tools, including settings, bulk editing, and notifications. You’ll also notice a menu at the bottom of the GoodNotes app, which includes the search tool, a place for your shared documents, and quick access to your bookmarked note pages (favorites). You can also tap on the name of any document or folder to access additional menu items. This has to do with the way GoodNotes wants you to create and organize your notes and notebooks (more on this below), and it makes complete sense. When you open GoodNotes 5, you’ll be treated to either a list or grid layout (your choice), which displays all of your notes, folders, and notebooks in a quick and easy-to-read format. #alt#An image showing the user interface for GoodNotes 5. You can’t manually arrange your items, which is why we’ve used numbers to force the sorting. As it is, I’m happy enough just saying goodbye to the last paper journal in my life.#caption#The GoodNotes user interface can be sorted as a list or a grid (shown), and arranged by date, name, and file type. Had I to do it over again, my entire physics degree would live in GoodNotes 4. It’s so good I’ve found myself fantasizing about how convenient it would’ve been to have this technology when I was an undergrad, carrying around a different composition notebook for every course. This app lets me do text search of handwritten notes, and it works almost perfectly. All of that handwriting in the images above? It’s fully searchable. On top of that, digital features like copy/paste, erase, and undo are all available, not to mention dozens of options for color and drawing style, plus the ability to add new blank pages (in any of multiple paper types) inside the journal.Īll of that would have been enough to make the switch worthwhile, but it has another feature that’s incredible, and would be completely impossible with pen and ink. And GoodNotes 4 also syncs with iCloud, allowing me to access it from my phone if necessary and eliminating my last significant risk of data loss. So that’s all the organizational features of my paper version covered. Just drop a bookmark at each new section, the bookmarks tab becomes an index: GoodNotes 4 takes care of that with its bookmark system. The primary selling point of the system is its organization, with an index for all the different sections. If you’ve done any Bullet Journaling though, you know it’s not just about the lists. Paired with the Apple Pencil, using it feels just like writing on paper, and lets me quickly jot down anything I need to remember. I’ve recently switched to an iPad Pro 9.7 for my mobile computing (about which a longer post soon), and with it begun using a phenomenal app called GoodNotes 4 that solves every problem with my old journal and then some. One moment of clumsiness with a beverage or forgetfulness on a bus and my life could become a desperate scramble.įortunately, that’s all over now. Being beholden to a stack of paper has been a source of constant, low-level anxiety. Everything else I do lives on my devices now, constantly backed up and accessible everywhere. Trouble is, it’s also meant carrying around a red Moleskine that I look at multiple times a day. Physically writing out my tasks, moving them around, Xing them out it’s kept me focused and given me a visual record of my productivity that’s unmatched by any of the software tools. I’m not evangelical about it, but it’s worked very well for me. I tried a bunch of phone apps with very little success, and eventually stumbled on Bullet Journaling. This past year I’ve finally gotten busy enough to need a more robust system for keeping track of my tasks than my previous mess of memory, post-its, and smudged words on the back of my hand.
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