Hand written journal with search... best of both world! – GoodNotes 4 Review

I used to Journal in Day One, but realized that writing with the keyboard just doesn’t stimulate the brain the same way as good old pen and paper... The ideas themselves are not the same at the end. Not sure why. But after reading my old (paper) diaries and Day One one Sunday morning, I realized I had to go back to hand writing for true introspection. Once the iPad Pro and pencil came out, I went through every note taking app on the App Store and GoodNotes is the only one that worked so well in terms of OCR. I wish there was a journaling notebook option built in, with journaling centric feature, like date/location based entries, etc. A way to import your own page templates (would love a dot pattern) would be awesome. The UI could be a little better... Some of it feels like a dev designed it. And some of the UX could be more intuitive. But the core feature is so powerful and works so well that I’m still giving it 5 stars.
Review by saxgod on GoodNotes 4.