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Goodnotes is a great app, I've been using it for years. But it has two big usability issues: 1. Your documents are not organized spatially. They are dumped in
by jwr 4y ago
Goodnotes is a great app, I've been using it for years.
But it has two big usability issues:
1. Your documents are not organized spatially. They are dumped in a way that is convenient for application developers to implement. This means that every time you launch an app with an idea in your head, you spend time and mental effort on finding the document that you want to open. By the time you get there, the idea is often gone.
2. Its "paper" isn't screen-sized. Seems silly? Perhaps — but on my iPad Pro about 10% of screen space is wasted on "margins" just because their "paper" isn't the right size. If you don't implement an infinite canvas, that's fine, but then provide a way to quickly take notes on "pages" without zooming, panning, or otherwise fiddling, and provide a way to use all of the screen.
I feel like we underestimate the power of simple and the power of spatial organization.
- josephg 4y agoYep. I also tried to use it recently to draw some diagrams for a blog post and discovered (to my horror) that there's no nice way to export the diagrams for publishing. I'd like either SVGs or, failing that, PNGs with transparency. The only options are as a series of JPEGs (with a white background) or a PDF. What a hassle.
- Tagbert 4y agoAre the PDF exports vector or bitmaps? Update: Just did a quick test and it appears that the PDF export is a vector output. You can open and edit it in Affinity Designer and likely other graphic programs and then export from then to SVG or something else.