ZoomNotes

I use Zoomnotes to Use my digital PDF planner it works great. Love all the features. It took a bit to get used to but now it’s so much better then the other apps out there. I use it daily have several planners and am working a creating my own planner right in Zoomnotes

This app has a learning curve yes, but it is so well supported by an amazing Facebook group where the creator of the app even will message you about fixes, updates or problems you experience. I experienced a bug from an update, he contacted me, I sent my planner to him to see what happened. He fixed it and sent it back to me, that is unheard of customer support! Amazing. There are so many wonderful video’s on YouTube to help you thru the learning curve, and they are constantly make this app better. You won’t be disappointed!

Not intuitive Certain settings are far too embedded Help toggle would be helpful - just type in the search to find what searching for

This app provides way more than meets the eye and it’s worth taking the time to discover all the features. It gets updated frequently, adding more and more enhancements. The developer is extremely responsive to requests and issues in the Facebook group.

I've been using this software with my IPad Pro and Apple Pen for about 18 months for teaching (Engineering lectures at University). It does an excellent job, with only a few minor quibbles - sometimes, text I've written (and see on my own screen) isn't showing up on the big screen. But for the money, this has been an excellent choice. Beyond being able to mark-up my PDF notes in real time as if I were writing on an overhead projector, it also has allowed me to fill in PDF forms, to edit papers and theses, and even make hand-written notes and drawings of research-related ideas I've had. Very pleased with this software! Editing to add: I got a new iPad and Pen - the old ones were aging badly. Now ZoomNotes has a bunch of issues, some of which may be to do with the updated iPad. Connecting to a projector is now an adventure - every time. iOS now (stupidly) has this interface that allows you to either mirror or extend your display and that gets in the way, so that I have to plug in, let iOS do it’s thing, then tell ZoomNotes to display on the second display. Now it decides to display only the top left hand corner of the file in a highly zoomed form that doesn’t match the iPad screen, so I have to press and hold on the external display button on ZoomNotes, select a resolution (like 1280x640 or whatever) and then re-click, then resize the image with my fingers, and now it actually displays. This doesn’t even work reliably - sometimes have to unplug and retry that process, and, if it doesn’t work after a few goes (each go taking several seconds, where I’m standing in front of a few dozen undergraduate students looking incompetent), I eventually give up and drop out to the system settings where I tell it to just mirror the display, and now the students can see the whole editor, rather than just the display. Also, if I get a text notification during the lecture, that will now be seen by the students … far from ideal! Also, it’s now super-glitchy. The palm recognition system doesn’t work the same as it did before, so I’m often accidentally selecting tools/stuff I don’t mean to. Also, if I step away and talk for a few seconds, when I come back, it’s often in eraser mode rather than pen mode (the mode I would have left it in). It’s bad enough that I’m contemplating trying a different software package … reluctantly, because I’ve got a lot invested in ZoomNotes.

I have found it fast and easy to learn. There are features here that are not in other digital note taking programs. Love the layers, calendar integrations and how easy it is to maneuver around.

Updated: Dec 31 2022 The developer of this app is always listening to what people ask for and always delivers. He always around to help people out even when it is user error. Love this app. Just buy it. I have tried all the apps for digital planning and this is the only one that works for me. I some times have issues but they are usually user error. Updated: Sept 6 2023 I love this app. There are always new things coming. Unlike all the other apps out there we do not pay a subscription. Hopefully it stays that way. Ed is always listening to the users and is continually upgrading the app. Only problem I have is getting my planner to sync to my phone but that is also not a big deal to me. Keep up the amazing work.

Zoomnotes definitely has a steeper learning curve and is not as aestetically pleasing to look at as Goodnotes but it is a powerhouse of a app with the ability to sync your calendar events and Apple Reminders as well as create linking between documents and external sites. I'm starting to use it as my PKMS which I never thought a notetaking app could do!

I use this app everyday. I use it to create PDF documents from web pages. If I have to send a WhatsApp message, I often create it here and then copy/paste into WhatsApp. It’s the bee’s knees.

Anything you want, Zoomnotes has it.