By default, GoodNotes shows the entire page, but you can use your fingers to zoom the image. Included, from left, are the Category menu, a zoomed-out view of the article’s pages, the zoom window, an option to clean up the shapes that you draw, the text box, pen options, highlighter options, the eraser, a selection tool for your writing (but, unfortunately, not writing from the document), a “no writing” tool to prevent inadvertent marking, undo, redo, and the file options. You can see that the options are fairly simple, which could be good or bad depending on your perspective. In the images below, I demonstrate some of features that are most relevant for annotating journal articles and commenting on student papers:Ībove is the default view with a paper from the most recent issue of the American Sociological Review.
You can also print files, but that is less relevant for me since my goal is to avoid printing.
Goodnotes 4 pdf#
For sharing with others, you can export your files to PDF so that others (such as students) can read them. (Unfortunately, Word documents are reformatted to better fit the iPad screen, so it is likely that you will need to convert them to PDF before uploading in order to ensure that they retain the characteristics of the original documents when commenting.) GoodNotes also automatically backs up your changes to the cloud storage platform of your choice. It is easy, for example, to set up folders for different types of notes and import files, including Word documents and PDFs, from various cloud storage options. In my limited time so far, it has worked fairly well for what I want.
This post by Polina at Helpful Scribbles was also, um, helpful (see her list of brief reviews here). It is hard to say how GoodNotes compares to the other options, but I liked that it seemed designed to allow me to do all of the things I wanted and, if nothing else, it is only $5.99 so there wasn’t a big financial risk involved. The list of apps that can be used to do these things is a bit overwhelming and includes GoodReader, Notability, and the app I ended up trying, GoodNotes 4. The other day I wrote about my initial thoughts on the iPad Air 2, which I recently purchased with my start-up funds in the hopes of digitizing my workload, including grading assignments, reading journal articles, and taking (and storing) notes on meetings and presentations.
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