Apps like Tana and other note-taking app are fantastic for written notes. But ideas don’t just live in written form.

Unlock the Power of Hybrid Note-Taking: Integrating GoodNotes with Tana

Ev Chapman
4 min readMay 22, 2024

Ever felt like your ideas are trapped within the confines of text apps?

Apps like Tana and other note-taking app are fantastic for written notes. But ideas don’t just live in written form.

Sometimes in order to explore an idea, or get a breakthrough we need to draw out a concept, brainstorm or visualise our ideas in some way. Quite often I’ll reach for my iPad to draw something out as I’m exploring a new topic.

A recent page from my iPad notes. Sometimes our ideas need visualisation

But trying to get a good workflow being your note-taking app and your handwritten drawings can be a nightmare.

Luckily I’ve been working on this for quite a while and feel like I’ve been able to develop something that works fairly seamlessly between my iPad sketches in Goodnotes and Tana.

Here’s How It Works:

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Ev Chapman

Personal Knowledge Coach. I Help Solopreneurs Turn Their Personal Knowledge into Profitable Ideas with a Tailored System That Transforms How They Think & Create