Research shows that writing notes by hand is the best way to remember information, but digital notes are a lot easier to search and organize. GoodNotes gives you the best of both worlds.

One of the most popular note-taking iPad apps, GoodNotes is now on Mac. Write notes on your iPad in Sidecar mode with your Apple Pencil, and the app’s powerful OCR feature converts them to searchable text. When you sketch, GoodNotes can automatically straighten your lines and smooth curves to form perfect shapes.

GoodNotes makes it easy to add images, create outlines, and maintain to-do lists. You can also import PDFs and images and annotate them.

GoodNotes also makes everything easy to find: Tag documents or organize them into folders and sub-folders. You can even search handwritten text across multiple files. And because everything syncs to iCloud, your work is available—and searchable—on all your devices.