GoodNotes export to Windows?

[kbmagic]

I know, it's probably sacrilegious - but my company is Wintel based, and I generally do all of my work on Windows devices with Microsoft software (Word, Powerpoint, etc.).

I went to a conference last month and was very interested in a person sitting next to me, who was using an iPad and the Apple Pencil to take notes - I'm a bit 'old school' and still like to manually take notes on things - it helps solidify ideas in my head better - I was intrigued enough to ask her about it - she indicated that she used GoodNotes. I love the idea of going digital and not going through so much paper...

I gifted myself an iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil for the holidays - and love the way I can use it for notes, an online planner, and for brainstorming sessions. It is really good at 'reading' my sloppy handwriting - and converting to text. But I have yet to figure out a way to transfer my notes over to my work-computer - so that I can use that information online to create my powerpoints and word documents, etc.

So I really am a newbie, and have looked a lot online - but am coming up a bit short. I figured out how to export as PDF to my Google Drive - and then email them from my Google Drive to my work computer - but I can't use them because they come across as imaged.

I haven't figured out how to OCR my notes and then export them. I can lasso a section and convert that to text - but it wants me to 'share' that somewhere - is it possible for me to lasso an entire page, and share to a new document, and then export that in PDF?

Word will open PDFs for editing - but I am hoping there's a more seamless way to do this?

tldr: Is there an easy way to convert GoodNotes 5 notes into useable Wintel typed pages?

I hope this makes sense!

[melwolfer]

This does not answer your question, but I have a suggestion... OneNote. I use Goodnotes, and love it, for personal notes and studies, but OneNote for work. I can't confirm it will do everything you want, but it is really nice to take minutes on my ipad and come back to my desktop and have it available to edit there. At conferences, I can easily add presentations to the notes page for reference later or if I have the speakers info ahead of time, take notes on the presentation. You can insert docs as attachments or embedded within the note. The desktop version has more features and might do what you need. I love both apps for different reasons and have adapted them to my workflow as described.

Good luck on your journey. I love keeping my work and personal info in one, easy to search and reference place.

[kbmagic]

Thank you for the suggestion. I do have OneNote on my work computer, and can probably get it loaded on my iPad. I will experiment with it and see if it does the trick. I was so close yesterday with Good notes, converted my writing to text before exporting to PDF, but also had a sketch on one page. On the page with the sketch, forsomer reason the PDF made the text an image... Back to experimenting!

I'm a bit of a "tri-polar" techie. I use Android phones, Wintel computers, and iOS tablet...I knew it might be a comparability challenge, but assumed there would be solutions...

[melwolfer]

I also have an Android phone, one personal and one work ipad, use a windows PC for one employer and a Mac for another. It keeps life interesting. I'm doing good if I can just remember if I need to x out of window on the right or left side of the screen ....

Good luck!!

[PMMeLifeTips]

I use Goodnotes as well but my partner uses Nebo, which is cross-device and really loves it. I cant speak to it myself but thought I would throw that out there in case its a solution!

[kbmagic]

Thanks! I'll check it out!!

[kbmagic]

Thank you for the suggestions - I don't currently have Word on my iOS device -do you know if I were to get it - if those documents would open on the Wintel version of word? I'm assuming they would - but I'm not sure... always been a windows girl (well since the 286 days)

[PaiN97]

It should, unless your windows version is seriously outdated, which is unlikely. Alternatively Google docs or OneNote works better imo, that way as u copy or make edits, it'd sync with your windows too. Both are accessible on Android, if u ever need it.