I can enable the eraser’s optional Erase Entire Stroke mode, shown below. There’s undo and redo support, but say it was a while ago and I don’t want to undo back through everything I’ve done since then. ![]() Say we start with this document, where I’ve written some text and then highlighted it in yellow (GoodNotes puts highlighter behind text, even if you draw it over the top, which is what you’d want). This allows for an incredibly useful feature that makes editing and fixing mistakes a lot easier and faster: optionally erasing entire strokes. The thing, though, is that the app remembers your actual strokes and renders them, rather than laying down pixels in a big flat image. GoodNotes has an eraser tool, and you can change the size and shape of it, which is normal enough. It’s the fourth button from the left on the toolbar the square/circle/triangle one.ĭon’t forget to turn it off again before you start writing or highlighting, otherwise it’ll try to polygon-ify that stuff too. It’s great for drawing dividers, boxes, and rules on pages, and it obviates the need for a ruler - software or otherwise. You can toggle a mode (in the main toolbar, anytime) where GoodNotes will turn your wobbly scribbles into straight lines, properly round circles, and regular polygons, just like ClarisWorks used to. My handwriting is crud, and GoodNotes still manages really well - to the point that I don’t bother entering text via the keyboard at all (which you can readily do, if you prefer, in as many text boxes as you like). When you export a PDF, you also get the recognised text embedded in it, so it’s searchable and highlightable there too. You just write stuff, and then you can search for it later, complete with on-page highlighting. There’s no separate view or special interface. It also does it in a very unfussy way: you don’t have to tell it to do anything it just recognises handwriting all the time, and updates its recognised text whenever you edit pages. GoodNotes does an alarmingly capable job of recognising handwriting. They’re not all unique, but their combination within a single, paper-like app that works well with the Pencil is extremely compelling. Here’s a quick list of the GoodNotes features I find most powerful. ![]() These days, I honestly prefer using the iPad, Pencil, and GoodNotes for the sort of planning and analysis work I need to do in the course of writing novels. Those limitations are apparently gone now. As it turns out, it wasn’t the digital aspect, but rather just technological limitations that were holding me back. I can’t draw, but pen and paper have always been my tools of choice to assist my thinking process and get away from a computer-like constrained mindset. That’s not something I need, and I find GoodNotes superior otherwise. I’ll state up front that if you require audio capture (including, for example, browsing your notes in sync with recorded audio), you’ll want to try Notability first GoodNotes doesn’t do audio. You can readily go and learn about the app yourself my purpose today is just to highlight the features that distinguish it from some of the competition. ![]() In short, I’m using GoodNotes with an Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil and the iPad Pro solved that part, and so I started to consider whether I could finally go entirely paperless. Previously, the problem with this idea was a lack of stylus input precision, and also the lag that plagues digital drawing tools. One of the most promising aspects of the iPad’s physical form-factor is that it can potentially replace much-loved paper notebooks, which I’ve long used for planning, note-taking, design sketches, and so on. I’m going to be quite brief here, because I’m busy, but I wanted to share this with you. Using the iPad for: Taking notes and planning - Matt Gemmell Matt Gemmell Books Podcast KESTREL Once Upon A Time Stories About Blog Contact ≡ □ MIDDLESHADE ROAD is out now! Using the iPad for: Taking notes and planning Feb 23rd, 2017
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