A lighter mental load, lighter physical load, and even lighter impact on the environment – that’s what you get with Goodnotes.
Goodnotes is the note-taking app loved by students worldwide, used to take lecture notes, annotate PDFs and slides, create study material, and ace their exams.
Curious about what you can achieve with Goodnotes?
Here are five reasons millions of students worldwide rely on Goodnotes to unlock their full academic potential.
Take lecture notes with minimal effort
Forget lugging your heavy laptop or multiple notebooks to class. Goodnotes and your iPad are the perfect lecture companion.
Can’t write or type fast enough to catch everything being said? Turn on audio recording in Goodnotes, and focus on absorbing information instead. Now with audio transcription, you can have Goodnotes automatically generate a transcript, from which you can drag and drop key points into your notes.
Tip: If your professor’s provided lecture slides or notes before the class, you can easily import them to Goodnotes and annotate them during the class.
Ask Goodnotes: Your must-have AI study buddy this year
Got 50 pages assigned for readings this week? Use Ask Goodnotes to highlight all the key points, and even generate a practice quiz to test your grasp of the knowledge.
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Ask Goodnotes is a built-in AI-powered Q&A tool within every notebook, designed to help you sort through the noise and find what you need.
With Ask Goodnotes you can do the following:
- Ask questions about the information in the notebook
- Automatically generate practice questions to help you review
- Summarize complex or lengthy passages.
Essentially, Ask Goodnotes does the heavy lifting when it comes to finding and making use of the information in your notes.
Get early access and see the magic for yourself…
- Open the Goodnotes app
- Click on the sidebar
- Select 'join the waitlist' in the bottom left hand-side
- Then you’ll get added to the early access program shortly
Due to regional restrictions, Ask Goodnotes is unavailable in some regions. Learn more here.
Easily practice active recall to remember everything you learn
Active recall is one of the most effective study techniques when it comes to memorizing information. Essentially, it’s the act of testing yourself on information you’ve learned before.
Goodnotes also has two features built for you to help test yourself on your study material: Study Sets (aka. flashcards) and Tape.
In Goodnotes you can create freeform flashcards with images, handwriting, or typed text, so you can practice active recall for anything and everything. When in split view mode, you can easily drag and drop pieces of your notes directly into flashcards.
The Tape tool allows you to hide and reveal sections of your notes. So for example, if you wanted to test yourself on the parts of a cell, you can first temporarily hide the labels on the diagram to see if you can remember the names. Tapping the tape reveals the answer!
Hundreds of digital stationery items at your fingertips in the in-app Marketplace
Looking for note-taking templates just for students? Or perhaps you’d like to add some decorative stickers to your notes?
Whatever notes you’re trying to create, you’ll be able to find inspiration to help you get started on the Goodnotes Marketplace. Any item you purchase will automatically appear in your Goodnotes app ready to be used! There are hundreds of digital planners, templates, covers, and stickers to explore, and new items added regularly.
What’s more, if you’re a paid user of Goodnotes, every month there are new Subscriber Specials as a bonus for you to download at no extra cost.
Never lose your notes again
Yes – Goodnotes can search your handwriting.
When you use Goodnotes for all your notes and documents, you can say goodbye to endless page-flipping and skimming. You’ll be able to find every instance of “benzene” in any of your notes when you’re revising for a midterm and be able to flip to “CHEM101 Lecture 1” as fast as you can type (or Scribble) it in the search bar.
When you’re using Goodnotes throughout your academic career, that also means that you’ll be able to easily find and refer to your previous notes on the same subject, if ever you need a refresher.
Ready to unlock your full academic potential with AI-powered note-taking?
Download Goodnotes today and create up to 3 notebooks for free.
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