Goodnotes 6 4+

Goodnotes 5 takes what is good about Goodnotes 4 and make it even greater. For what it worth, the app streamline the experience of notes writing on Ipad and makes it easier to sort through your notes. It also provide a lot of useful tools and features for your notes taking needs.

I have been using GN for almost an entirety of my studies in an engineering courses and the app have help me a lot. Full disclosure, I start off with GN 4 and was given the free early upgrade pack to GN5 for the existing GN4 users.

Believe me when I said the features on GN4 felt very archaic now compare to GN5. The double tap to undo and triple tap to redo is a god send. I do not think I will able to return on using GN4 or even any other note taking app.

There are cons of course but for me it is primarily the performance. The app perform inconsistently. Sometimes it is buttery smooth, but other time it got its fair share of noticeable lagginess. There are some occasional crash here and there, but from my experiences it is only a minor nuisance and does not effect your progress.
It worth mentioning that the app constantly autosave each of your strokes to minimise any potential progress loss. So no need to be paranoid.

As such, I think this is a very good investment if you are looking for a dependable note taking apps. It have tonnes of features, a lot of customisation, good constant updates and most importantly, VERY EASY to use.

I started using GoodNotes 5.0 version and I am very pleased with the functions they have, they make my first experience of digital note-taking much better. I love the different colors of pens and highlighters. The different fonts are also a nice touch. I am truly in love with the options of having three different pens. But I must say, it could have been more perfect if the brush pen is a little bit more brushy (?) like the ones in Procreate. I would also prefer to have reading mode where I can read my e-textbooks two pages in one view but I cannot even do that here. Also, there are times when I make my exercises using GoodNotes and I have to draw tables, I hope the developers see this review and take it upon them to implement table features, clip art pictures, the shape features like in OneNote. If there is also a template for tables would be nicer. And please do add more cover templates! Over all, this was a nice note-taking app but not the most perfect one yet! That is why I give this four stars!

I love it but there’s always room for improvement.
I would love it if there was a way I could INSERT AUDIO which
would help A LOT in my language lessons.

Number 2 it would really help if I could ANNOTATE OUTSIDE THE PAGES and maybe if I could ATTACH DIFFERENT PAGES TOGETHER to form like a whole page so I could look at my notes in one go so I don’t have to flip to the next page all the time. I just wish there was a setting for that.

Another suggestion of mine is to maybe add like a KEY that we could customise. For example I always use the red highlighter to highlight words I don’t understand and next to it I always write the definition, so then I can just put the colour of the highlighter in the key and I can just go through the words. Sometimes the search thing doesn’t pick up some of the words from the pdf cuz it can get rly blurry actually so I don’t blame it or sometimes my handwriting is just really messy. So if I could just pick the highlighted words and go through it myself instead of having to flip through all the pages that would help A TON.

Also last one I would LOVEEEE if there was a COLOUR PICKER that can generate the exact colour hex from the page so I don’t have to take a screenshot of the colour and go to the internet every time just to find out what the hex colour is and type it in.

That’s it from me if u read this pls consider some of my suggestions, many of my friends agree with them too :)