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5 Tips to Become a Goodnotes Pro

Clean up notes with AI, explore ideas with Whiteboard, and collaborate easily.

App Store Award winner Goodnotes has new AI features that make it more powerful than ever. Here are five ways to get more organized and productive with Goodnotes.


1. Get help from an AI assistant

Goodnotes can clean up and summarize your notes, even if you scribbled them by hand. For typed text, the app can also fix grammatical errors and adjust your tone to be more professional, friendly, or confident. To try it out, tap the icon with a sparkly star. That will bring up a chat screen you can use to create custom templates, diagrams, and study questions based on the contents of your notes.

Pro tip: The AI chatbot can teach you how to solve a tough math equation. Just select it with the lasso or enter it manually.


Let Goodnotes convert your handwritten notes into text that you can copy and share.

2. Polish your papers

Goodnotes’ new Text Docs feature turns the app into a full-fledged word processor. You can type an essay and format it neatly with subheads and block quotes. Need help outlining? Tap the star icon, select “set a goal,” and share the subject and length of your essay; Goodnotes will propose a structure, with suggestions for the length of each section.

Pro tip: Type forward slash (/) at any time in the document to bring up a menu of tools to quickly change formatting, insert a table, or add images, videos, and audio.


3. Explore ideas

The all-new endless Whiteboard (it just keeps scrolling and scrolling) lets you sketch without constraints. You can customize the color and pattern of the board, zoom out to type or write in a different spot, and easily import documents into the canvas by tapping the plus-sign icon and scanning with your camera. Whether you’re trying to figure out a class assignment, creative project, or business idea, Whiteboard makes it easy to visualize your process.

Pro tip: Bring order to your brainstorming by adding a template to a Whiteboard. Goodnotes has Venn diagrams to visualize similarities and differences, charts for educators and students, and business templates for a SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.


Brush up on your science class notes by reviewing an audio transcript and your schematics at the same time.

4. Automate your note taking

Goodnotes can transcribe and record at the same time, then generate a summary in a clean bulleted format. Just tap Start Audio Recording in the drop-down tools menu.

Pro tip: The transcription feature works in a dozen languages, including Portuguese, Spanish, and German. Tap the three dots to pick a language.


5. Collaborate with your team

Up to 50 users can now view a Whiteboard or text doc at the same time and add comments. To invite them to collaborate, create a shareable link in the export menu or add their emails.

Pro tip: Collaborators can email PDF files directly to your Goodnotes library. Enable the feature by selecting “Email to Goodnotes” in the app’s settings. Goodnotes will generate a personalized email address that saves the PDF attachments it receives.