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What is Goodnotes?

Goodnotes was founded back in 2013 and currently has offices in Hong Kong and London with 200+ employees from 30+ nationalities. Our app offers industry-first digital paper, powered by AI, and with over 26 million monthly active users and average rating of 4.75/5 from 1.8 million user reviews, Goodnotes is the No. 1 App for Productivity on the App Store. We won Apple’s iPad App of the Year for 2022. Goodnotes 6 is a powerful note-taking app designed to provide a seamless and natural handwriting experience on digital paper. The comprehensive solution combines the simplicity of handwriting, the power of digital tools, and advanced AI features to enhance productivity, planning, organization and live collaboration. Whether you're in a meeting, on a call, or brainstorming, Goodnotes keeps your ideas organized and accessible. Key Features: - Seamless Handwriting Experience - PDF Document Annotation - Sharing & Collaboration - Advanced Spell-check & Word Prediction - Shape Recognition - Voice Recording - Sync Across Devices Enjoy seamless digital handwriting with real-time spell-check and intelligent word prediction, helping you maintain both accuracy and speed. Import and annotate any document, including PDFs and images, highlight, underline, create, save and reuse your custom designs, graphics and elements, take notes directly within the documents and share with your team to collaborate on in real time. Sync your notes across all your devices effortlessly, ensuring you have access to your important information anytime, anywhere. Effortlessly draw and create perfect shapes with our intelligent shape recognition technology, ensuring your diagrams and illustrations are precise and presentation-ready.

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Take beautiful, searchable handwritten notes and effortlessly organize all your documents & notebooks in a single place

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Goodnotes turns complexity into clarity. Goodnotes 6 - Notes Reimagined. Goodnotes is a powerful note-taking app that combines a natural handwriting experience with powerful AI-enabled digital capabilities. Whether you’re taking notes, brainstorming, or planning, Goodnotes empowers you to do your best thinking and creating. Goodnotes is used by more than
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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

I love the fact that Goodnotes syncs easily over many devices. I can annotate from one and pcik it up later on another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

Need to check that the latest version of Goodnotes is downloaded otherwise there are sync issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

I needed a planner and project solution that I could access easily on my phone as I am out of clinic a lot. Most only really work on a tablet. good notes works equally well on a phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

Goodnotes classroom is a game changer when it comes to sharing files amongst our student Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

it is very limited to iOS and some of our student doesn't own an iPad hence it limits our sharing capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

On top of the similar features it has with Notability, it solves our sharing with our students while in class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

The many templates and wide applicability of the app.

I would no longer want to do without handwritten notes in the books I read for work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

I have so many ideas for my own templates, but I often fail to figure out how to make them work. For example, links in the document. Advanced functions take a lot of time and repetition to internalize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handwritten notes and reading of specialist literature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

The best thing about Goodnotes is that it can replace many of your notebooks. As well as your planner and your sketch book, you can use it to annotate notes on PDFs. I no longer have to carry around several notebooks. Now I just have Goodnotes on my iPad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

The types of paper and notebook covers in Goodnotes are limited. There are some more available in the store, but I would like to see some truly original templates, such as pro level graph paper, triangular grided paper or different coloured papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

Goodnotes has enabled me to read PDFs and annotate them. It has also allowed me to carry around just my iPad instead of my iPad and several notebooks (each of which serve a different purpose). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

The most helpful about Goodnotes is the use of the Apple Pencil with my iPad Pro.

The upsides are:

-Drawing on PDFs

-open big PDFs like architecture plans

-generate notebooks with many pages

-getting always new app updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

I dislike about Goodnotes that I could not use the automatic backup with the iCloud Drive.

The price for the new Goodnotes 6 is a little bit expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

I don't have to print the big architect plans for going to the construction area.

I have all my plans at my iPad. That is more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

It works flawlessly on my iPad, MacBook Pro and even iPhone. I have all my notes everywhere I go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

When I import a file it assumes this is my new page template. It's very annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mixing up scribbling on Agendas with taking careful notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

Ease of use, fluid inking engine, great customer support. Most of our iPad users use Goodnotes daily for taking meeting notes and marking up PDF documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

The only feature we'd like, that is currently there, is having the ability to force auto-backup to an individual's Onedrive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

A key part of our digital transformation journey in enabling users to break free from paper notebooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hi William, thanks for your honest review! We are glad that Goodnotes plays such a crucial role in your organisation's digital transformation journey!

The ability to auto back up your data to a OneDrive account is available with our Enterprise plan - you can find more information at https://www.goodnotes.com/business.

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Goodnotes is easy and comfotable to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

Sometimes therme are top less item for business use, more for the privat use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to condition plans and forms, so i can do a goog documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

Simple and self-explanatory in use, ideal for professional benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

No complaints - everything is in order within the scope of the task! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Goodnotes solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quickly and effectively digitize fast ideas and thoughts! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Goodnotes?

The simplicity and how you can use it across multiple devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Goodnotes?

It can be a bit expensive initially but it's good after that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Allows me to organise my notes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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