How to transfer my existing notes from Goodnotes to Notability?

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Hello, I was a Goodnotes user and have lots of notes in it. Now, I have switched to Notability, so now I want to transfer my notes from Goodnotes to Notability. Please help me with this.

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Search the inter-web thingy for the above words to get some ideas to try. I just did that search and found numerous hits.

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Curious as to why you switched. I used both for a while and found Goodnotes to be superior. Has Notabilty gotten better?

Edit: I just took a quick peek and it seems Notability requires you create an account with them now.

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I find Goodnotes UI cluttered, and like Notability’s notes organisation, in which we don’t need to open folders to check which notes present it it, we do it by expanding folders without opening them. And I also feel that in Notability my handwriting is smoother than Goodnotes.

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I haven’t found any solution to transfer my audio notes.

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I am no Notability user, but according to Google:

To transfer audio notes from Goodnotes to Notability, export the Goodnotes notebook as a Goodnotes file (which contains the audio) and then import the resulting Goodnotes file into Notability. This preserves the audio recording, which you can then play back in the Note Replay feature within Notability. (…) * Notability cannot directly import the native .goodnotes file format for editing. However, when you export a notebook as a Goodnotes file, it creates a .zip file that contains the notes and audio.

And this is something Google AI has generated based on this Reddit thread and this YouTube video.

Apparently, the .goodnotes file is a ZIP container. So, renaming the extension from .goodnotes to .zip, unzipping the ZIP container, retrieving the MP3, and importing that later into Notability should do the trick.

So, it can be done, but it is a manual process.

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Did the folks at Notability support or their forum say?

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Thank you guys for your replies, actually I have gone through my research regarding transferring my audio notes from goodnotes to notability. I have not found any direct way to do this but here I have found a workaround on it. To transfer audio notes you first need to export your notes in goodnotes format and then change file extension to zip. After unzipping the file you can find your audio files in a subfolder in it.