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Thanks for the feedback. Would you mind sharing why GoodNotes can not be used for teaching because it is two rows of tools?
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The Apple Pencil latency is also down to 9ms in GoodNotes. However, GoodNotes doesn’t use “stroke prediction” which will make the line look “slower” than in Apple Notes when drawing longer lines quickly. It won’t affect the usual writing experience. Do you notice a higher latency when you’re writing as well?
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I'd argue this is critical. When I write in Apple Notes, there is no perceived latency whatsoever. It truly was the last barrier to replacing analog notebooks. Goodnotes 6 **still** has quite noticeable latency when writing--The line simply does not keep up with the stylus tip. (I am on Ipad m4 pro 18.1).
I understand the desire to not open source the code base and accept 3rd party contributions, but it would be a huge win for goodnotes to finally eliminate the writing latency and thus totally obviate the need for paper notebooks. It is in my mind the last frontier here. I am a developer (C and Rust), so know performance a bit. I imagine a few possibilities:
1. Goodnotes 6 has surrounded the PencilKit API with abstractions/indirection that have hurt performance at the benefit of increasing code readability.
2. Goodnotes 6 has alter the behavior of line strokes to simulate its different pen styles. For instance, the fountain pen in Goodnotes 6 may be achieved by alternating the default PencilKit stroke to achieve the goodnotes 6 stroke.
3. Goodnotes 6 is using the apple PencilKit API as intended and apple has hidden optimizations in its native notes app to eliminate latency.
Whatever the reason, I think securing the stroke "feel" in a notetaking app should be the first and foundational goal. If Goodnotes has not chosen to use stroke prediction as the moderator in 2019 explained, then it should offer an option to turn it on.
Thanks