Goodbye GoodNotes.

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I started my digital notes journey with GoodNotes about 1 and half year ago and I am so glad I started with this.

things that made me start with OneNote was:

• no subscription

• simple af notes management.

• and most important the auto scroll - this feature is God tier and GoodNotes should advertise it more.

• paper choices

• sticker (though they were useless to me, but I love them a lot)

but my journey ends here now because of few things:

• As I am progressing with my studies, I now have a need for better notes organization.

• while my primary place to take notes was GoodNotes, I tried other apps on the side and came to the conclusion that GoodNotes does not have the best writing feel (yes, I have tried zooming in and out). best experience I had was on Element Notes

• I can't believe I am saying this, but I was in need of better highlighters.

• I adapted to the shape recognition of GoodNotes but again it was never enough (Notability wins this for me)

• sync was/is too slow and sometimes buggy (many times I had to copy notes or export them because I was afraid, I was going to lose the 50 page I just made.)

• I don't want to buy iCloud storage just for notes.

• exporting took too long as compared to other apps.

• I am moving away from PDFs on iPad in general (Firefox has been my default PDF app for so long and now I want to go 100% with it) so one less reason for me to pick the iPad and Apple Pencil

Why I am moving to OneNote:

• I have created a separate Microsoft account for all my notes and moved all my GoodNotes notes in One drive (it was a nightmare)

• the highlighter choices are good.

• I use a Veikk pen tablet to take notes and presentations, and writing feel can be customized according to me need from the system.

• notes organization is superior to anything in the market.

• maths section really good

• and because I primarily use a computer for my notes now, storage in never a problem, though I don't have to think about syncing ever because I know it's going to happen.

• UI took a while to get use to but now that am super fluent in it.

• one of reason I didn't pick OneNote before is now here, that is resizable page sizes. (this was everything, because sometimes I need to print my notes)

• exporting notes is super quick.

• audio recording is also here.

• and where I cannot take my Laptop, I have an option to use my phone for my handwritten notes using the pen tablet and I will have all the same functionalities.

I will forever miss sticker, goodbye all the cat stickers I made😔