Just as a counterpoint: I've been really enjoying goodnotes on the ipad lately. GoodNotes is a notetaking app which is not an infinitely zoomable canvas. And I

Just as a counterpoint: I've been really enjoying goodnotes on the ipad lately. GoodNotes is a notetaking app which is not an infinitely zoomable canvas. And I love it. (I'm not affiliated in any way, I'm just a huge fan). Goodnotes documents are essentially paper notepads that you can write in. New pages are added to the document as you need them (usually by swiping right from the last page). I've tried a couple infinitely zoomable canvases but I tend to make a bit of a dog's breakfast when I use them: - Everything ends up in a seemingly random place in the document, and at different zoom levels. I personally find I tend to gradually zoom out while I write in infinite canvas apps. After awhile it gets increasingly difficult to find things I've written earlier because old things get small. - There's no natural sense of "before" or "after" on an infinite canvas. This is kind of the point, but it makes me work harder to keep items arranged in space or tell a story after you've taken a bunch of notes. If you don't, then you've got to go hunting for things. Goodnotes doesn't have this problem. I can sit down and just start writing, or flip to a new page and write there. Because pages have a natural order, my notes end up in a nice chronological ordering. Each page is individually coherent, and its easy to reorder & delete pages later if I want to throw away some of my rough note pages. And each page is screen sized. There's no ambiguity about how big each pen is, or what the right zoom level is for something I've written. Each page fits on the screen. The next page is a swipe away. Infinite canvases are better for connecting disperate ideas - like mind mapping. But the notes I've taken in goodnotes feel easier to read later, or screen share and present. I find I tend to go back and read them more often.