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Handwritten notes are slow, which is partly the point and mostly a problem. Typally types what you say straight into GoodNotes — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere GoodNotes lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on GoodNotes's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Handwriting recognition that converts your writing to text, and search across handwritten notes.
Handwriting aids memory and cannot keep up with a lecturer. The usual compromise is fragmentary notes that made sense during the lecture and are useless a week later.
In practice people use it for: Typed text boxes alongside handwriting, lecture summaries written straight after, and the explanation of a diagram.
There is no GoodNotes extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Click first. Typally types into GoodNotes wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
GoodNotes is primarily an iPad app. On desktop your options differ, and Typally ships for Windows and macOS rather than iPadOS.
Typally covers the desktop half of a handwriting workflow: handwrite during the lecture, then speak the summary immediately afterwards into whatever you revise from. The handwriting does the encoding, the spoken summary catches what your hand could not keep up with. Note that Typally ships for Windows and macOS, not iPadOS.
A student handwrites during a two-hour seminar and then, walking to the next building, dictates four hundred words of what it was actually about. That summary, not the handwriting, is what she revises from.
Handwrite during the lecture and dictate the summary immediately after. The handwriting does the encoding, the spoken summary catches what the handwriting missed.
GoodNotes is primarily an iPad app. On desktop your options differ, and Typally ships for Windows and macOS rather than iPadOS.
Yes, it has handwriting recognition and search. That is different from dictation, which captures speech.
Through the on-screen keyboard's microphone, into a text box. Typally itself is a Windows and macOS app.
Handwrite live, then speak a summary afterwards while the lecture is fresh.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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