The biggest issue I have found for taking notes in lecture with Goodnotes is that when I am given a powerpoint to follow along with I tend to make annotations and notes side-by-side the slides. But I get distracted very easily when I quickly run out of space, either forcing me to add a new notebook page and have it after the slide.

But then I am constantly flipping back and forth trying to reference the images. The only way that I am able to take the slides and add extra notes is to individually add each picture to a notebook page that gives me extra space. But when your professor posts over 200+ slides it can make it time consuming to complete this.

However if there was an option to add in multiple images at a time to individual notebook pages it would get rid of a lot of the formatting problems. The only other app I have seen take this into account is Microsoft, but the feature is limited to microsoft programs such as one note or powerpoint, but when you try to export the blank slides into Goodnotes, the note taking feature that gives you extra space for notes disappears as it is a feature limited to only microsoft. I don't enjoy using one note or powerpoint because I already have a system for taking notes on Goodnotes. But then I spend hours creating the notebooks alone.

If there was a template created that recognizes the format of the presentation slides, such as a word document or a powerpoint and automatically applies it to the slides it would not only eliminate the need for programs like microsoft that has a monopoly on this type of format. But draw more students needing that extra space for annotations into using goodnotes for their lectures.

Below I have attatched some ideas for the templates, which includes options for portrait and landscape notebooks mixed with the use of powerpoint or word documents. There may be an option for placement of the boxes depending on the user is left or right handed so that their hand is not covering the slides while they annotate documents.

I am surprised that this feature has not been implemented as it would maximize the efficiency of taking notes through goodnotes.