How to Digital Bullet Journal: Digital planner tutorials for iPad Goodnotes
Ready to use your bullet journal as a digital planner? Check out these digital planner tutorials for iPad GoodNotes and Notability! Each tutorial has detailed images and step-by-step instructions.
Need help with your digital planner/digital bullet journal? These tutorials will teach you how to make a digital planner and how to use a digital planner in the GoodNotes and Notability apps. Each tutorial comes with step-by-step instructions and a video tutorial.
Click on the links underneath the preview images to go to a specific tutorial. If there is a tutorial not listed on this blog post, leave it in the comment section and I’ll try to add it to the list!
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Use the table of content below to navigate through the tutorials:
How to Get Started with Digital Planning
- Decide if you want to make your own digital planner in Keynote (MAC) or PowerPoint. You can also buy a custom digital planner to skip the DIY part.
- Download the GoodNotes app on your iPad. Android users try the apps Metamoji, Noteshelf, EzPDF, and Xodo.
- Follow the steps on this tutorial to learn how to decorate your digital planner!
Use the tutorials below to learn more about digital planning. ♡
My digital Bullet Journal
Everything about my bullet journal spreads. This blog post will help you get an idea of layouts you might want to create on your planner. I also explain why I switched from paper to digital planning.
How to Make a Digital Bullet Journal in Keynote
There are two applications you can use to create a digital bullet journal. The first one is called Keynote. Keynote is the Apple version of PowerPoint and is perfect to create a digital planner. If you have to choose between Keynote and PowerPoint, definitely give Keynote a try.
Windows user? Scroll down to check out the next tutorial!
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How to Make a Digital Bullet Journal in PowerPoint
The second application that you can use to create a digital bullet journal is called PowerPoint. This app is perfect for Windows users. It doesn’t have all the extra features that Keynote offers but is a great app to get you started. Click on the link underneath the image below to go to that tutorial.
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How to decorate a Digital Bullet Journal in GoodNotes
Already have the digital planner in the Goodnotes app? Sweet! Now let’s decorate it using stickers, fonts, and printables. The link below the image will take you to a tutorial that explains how you can easily decorate your digital planner.
How to Add and use digital Planner Stickers in GoodNotes
Need help learning how to add images to the GoodNotes app? No problem! Check out the tutorial below to learn how to add images to your digital bullet journal.
Keynote vs. GoodNotes
Digital planner differences and similarities between the GoodNotes and Keynote apps using the iPad pro.
How to Use Fonts on a Digital Bullet Journal
Did you know you can use your favorite fonts on your digital bullet journal? Yup! The tutorial below explains how to add the fonts to your iPad and how to use them in the GoodNotes app.
How to Take College Notes in a Digital Bullet Journal
I relied heavily on my iPad to take notes during the lectures and to prepare for my college exams. In the blog post below I explain how to use the app Notability to take college notes. You can use the tutorial as a guide to learn how to take college notes in the GoodNotes app.
How to Take PowerPoint notes on the iPad
I hope your find all the digital planner tutorials interesting and helpful. Don’t forget to leave a comment with your questions ^^,
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Check out my collection of digital planners & stickers.♡
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I would love to learn how to create a planner for Goodnotes using Powerpoint 🙂
Hi Charis,
Thank you for the idea. I will work on a tutorial for PowerPoint 🙂
I have I guess bought a digital planner. And stickers and etc. it is I think downloaded on my GoodNotes. I don’t know what in the heck to do from here. Please please please help.
Hi Belinda,
Please try following the steps on this tutorial to learn how to add/import the digital stickers to your GoodNotes planner:
https://lifeismessyandbrilliant.com/how-to-add-digital-planner-stickers-to-goodnotes-and-notability/
– Jenniffer
how can save and insert flowers and leafs? must I save them as a png? the background of your pictures are black?
Hi Claudia,
If the images are PNG they will have a transparent background. When you save them in OneDrive you will see a black background because the stickers have a transparent background and that’s the default color in OneDrive, but the stickers have a transparent background. If you save them in DropBox you will see a white background, but the stickers have a transparent background. No matter what cloud folder you use, the stickers will not lose the transparent background.
When you add the PNG stickers to GoodNotes you will see the stickers with no background color/transparent.
I hope that makes sense if not please let me know and I’ll explain it in another way 🙂
– Jenniffer
Dear Jenniffer, thank you that makes sense! The flowers and leafs from your video are they purchased? Do you sell them?
when I create a digital planner which format must I choose, that the whole screen of my Ipad is filled out. I alway have a frame and Its not really filled out???
Hi Claudia,
I purchase bundles of flowers and leaves from these websites:
♡ https://creativemarket.com/search?q=flowers%20and%20leaves&categoryIDs=1,24&page=1&u=jeffinner07
♡ https://thehungryjpeg.com/search/flowers?category=graphics&page=1
♡ https://designbundles.net/search?search=flowers&hPP=30&idx=product_price_asc&p=0&dFR%5Bproduct_cat%5D%5B0%5D=8
– Jenniffer
Hi Claudia,
It depends on the size of your iPad. I suggest you keep the height around 768px but play with the width. Create a 1 page PDF with a specific height and add it to GoodNotes. If you notice you still need to fill more space, go back to keynote and make the width a little bit bigger. Keep doing this until you are satisfied with the weight and heigth and then create the whole planner.
– Jenniffer
Hi Claudia,
It depends on the size of your iPad. I suggest you keep the height around 768px but play with the width. Create a 1 page PDF with a specific height and add it to GoodNotes. If you notice you still need to fill more space, go back to keynote and make the width a little bit bigger. Keep doing this until you are satisfied with the weight and height and then create the whole planner.
– Jenniffer