How to Record on Goodnotes 5/6: Audio & Lecture Recording

Bothered with taking notes in handwriting? Goodnotes comes as a good replacement of your paper notebooks to efficiently create notes at study and work. For Goodnotes 5 and 6, an audio recording tool helps you to add an audio clip to notes to boost productivity. 

What's more, you can use third-party screen recording tools to record on Goodnotes to create lecture or presentation videos that engage your audiences better. Now, follow us to learn how to record Goodnotes on PC and Mac.

What Is Goodnotes and Why Do You Need It?

Goodnotes is designed as a full-featured digital notebook app to replace traditional paper and pen. Integration handwriting with typed text on the same page, the app can create a favorable environment for note-taking. It offers a template library empowering users to quickly make notes for learning, planning and more. Whether for study, work or personal use, Goodnotes offers an excellent yet distraction-free experience to take and organize notes.

Certainly, you can benefit from Goodnotes in many aspects. The app boasts flexibility to customize notes. You can erase and rewrite the content, draw shapes and graphs, etc., to update notes anytime. You never need to worry about losing your notes. Besides saving the notes to your computer or phone, Goodnotes can automatically back up them to Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.

How to Record Audio on Goodnotes Natively?

Since Goodnotes 5, an audio recording feature has been added enabling you to record audio notes that can be synced to the moment you write or revise them. Compared with text, audio recordings deliver messages in a more immersive and memorable way. You can play back the recording to avoid missing important information in lectures.

Next, let's add audio recording to Goodnotes.

Step 1. Open or create a new notebook on Goodnotes.

Step 2. Tap on Microphone icon on the navigation bar.

Step 3. When it starts recording, the mic icon will turn to an orange recording icon.

Step 4. Tap on the recording icon to stop recording.

Step 5. After that, a waveform icon appears on the navigation bar. Click it to play the audio.

Step 6. If you want to add a new audio clip, tap on the mic icon again to start recording.

How to Record on Goodnotes to Create Lecture Videos?

In addition to audio recording, you may hope to create a video lecture to explain the notes for better engagement with audiences. To make it, you need to screen record Goodnotes as a video clip. Unfortunately, Goodnotes doesn't have a screen recording feature. So, a third-party screen recorder is essential to record Goodnotes for creating lecture, presentation or explainer videos easily.

How to Screen Record Goodnotes on PC

iTop Screen Recorder is industry-leading screen recording software for Windows. It is designed to capture everything on your desktop allowing you to record the whole note-taking process on Goodnotes and present the content clearly in a video.

The screen recorder includes a set of features to deliver you the best experience to record on Goodnotes.

▶ Record on Goodnotes with audio and webcam: By automatically detecting microphone and webcam on your PC, iTop Screen Recorder can capture you demonstrating the notes with your voice and face.

▶ Record on Godnotes with high quality: iTop Screen Recorder boasts maintaining clear and vivid images while screen recording. You can also customize the video resolution (up to 4K) and frame rate (up to 120fps) to achieve better results.

▶ Record on Goodnotes with no time limit: As a free program, iTop Screen Recorder applies no time limit on screen recording. You can record a lecture or explainer video with Goodnotes as long as possible.

▶ Annotate while screen recording: The drawing and annotation tools enables you to add text, draw shapes, and highlight important information to make your audiences understand the content better.

▶ Editing screen recordings at one stop: You can use the inbuilt video editor to trim, crop, merge your recordings as well as add effects, background music if needed.

iTop Screen Recorder has an easy-to-navigate interface, helping you learn how to record on Goodnote with no guesswork. What’s more, thanks to hardware acceleration, you can enjoy an extremely smooth performance.

Now, follow the steps to screen record Goodnotes using iTop Screen Recorder.

Step 1. Download and install iTop Screen Recorder on your PC.

Step 2. Open the note you want to record. Launch iTop Screen Recorder. Go to Record > Screen. Select the recording area. Turn on Mic and Webcam to record yourself explaining the note. Click REC to start recording.

Step 3. Use the drawing tools on the mini control bar to annotate the note if needed.

Step 4. Click Done button on the mini control bar to stop recording.

The recorded video is saved to Files > Video. From here, you can access the video editor to enhance the recording. Or, directly play, save or upload the video at will.

How to Screen Record Goodnotes on Mac

QuickTime, the pre-installed media player for macOS, is recognized as the most efficient solution to record what’s happening on your screen. As iTop Screen Recorder, it supports capturing screen, webcam or both with audio hassle-free.

How to record on Goodnotes using QuickTime? Check the guide.

Step 1. Open QuickTime from Application folder.

Step 2. On the menu bar, click File > New Screen Recording.

If you want to record Goodnotes with webcam, please select File > New Movie Recording.

Step 3. For screen recording, click the arrow next to the Record button and select a microphone to record Goodnotes with voice.

For movie recording, click the arrow icon next to the Record button to access options. Choose a camera and microphone to record Goodnotes with yourself. Set the recording quality and adjust the volume control to hear the audio if needed.

Step 4. Click the Record button to start recording. Drag to select the recording area, or click anywhere to record the entire screen.

Step 5. Click Stop button to stop recording.

QuickTime can automatically open the recorded video. You can also choose File > Save to save and rename the recording.

How to Record on Goodnotes - FAQs

Why can't I find audio recording on Goodnotes?

There are some requirements for recording audio in Goodnotes successfully.

• Goodnote version: 5.9.78 or higher;
• iOS version: iOS 15 or higher;
• macOS version: macOS 12 or higher.

Please check your device and app version. Update them to meet all of them.

Note: The audio recording tool is not available for Windows.

Can I backup my audio recordings?

Goodnotes provides several ways to back up audio recordings to preserve important information.

1. Sync with iCloud: When your Goodnotes is updated to the latest version, all notes that include audio recordings will be synced through iCloud. But ,you should ensure enough iCloud storage, especially for backing up large files.
2. Automatic backup: In your library, click the gear icon > Settings > Automatic Backup > Choose File Format, Goodnotes or Goodnotes & PDF.
3. Manual backup: Go to the library. Click the gear icon > Settings > Cloud & Backup > Manual Backup > Back Up Now. The backup file is exported as a .zip file. Choose a location to save it.

How to reduce background noise in my recordings?

Goodnotes embeds a noise reduction feature in the audio recording tool. You can enable the feature to remove background noise from audio recording during playback to enhance the audio quality.

1. Top on the Waveform icon to access the audio recording.
2. Click on the arrow icon under the timestamp.
3. Turn on noise reduction.

Note: Currently, the feature is only available for iPad Pro (2021), iPhone 14 Pro or above devices.

Conclusion

How to record on Goodnotes? Using the built-in audio recording tool, you can narrate the notes to make it easier to access. Also, you can take advantage of a third-party screen recorder to record a lecture on Goodnotes. For Windows users, iTop Screen Recorder enables you to present yourself while recording Goodnotes to make the lecture video professionally, while QuickTime is a preferred choice for Mac users.