Anyone who has successfully made extensive handwritten notes on tab/ipad ?

It's not the desktop version. Just that my tab is big. Using Samsung S8+ 

It has 12.4 inches screen.

Aye Aye Captain.

Gotten started with Samsung Notes, with a smaller screen size albeit. 

I somehow find the Samsung Pencil way better than Apple Pencil ( I have the old Apple Pencil ) . 

Yeah. I too realised this. Samsung pencil gives the feel of a "real pen". So, it isn't awkward to write on paper after using the tab for long. One of the reasons why I chose to invest in Samsung. (Apart from its superb display)

I have been usingGoodnotes on my11 inchiPad 8th Gen with Apple Pencil1st Generation(yeah the older one :p) with silicon grip, since 2 years now. Initially when I began my preparation, post joiningCGP Batch, I was very excited with the entire idea of Digital Notemaking. I made running notes of Economy (offline class), World History, Post India Independence (online recorded classes) entirely on Goodnotes. This was somehow my way of spicing up my otherwise monotonous preparation. 

Everything was favourable untilI was reminded in class by my then Faculty “how I wasn’t a special case and won’t be getting an iPad in Actual Mains to write my exams; Hence, I shouldn’t give up on the pen and paper mode of note taking.” It didn’t make sense to me instantly, but later FOMO creeped in and the speed issue actually hit me in my first CBT test. 

Later I gave up entirely and resorted to the same old scribbling method of notemaking to work on my “on paper writing skills”. Currently I use goodnotes for reading PDFs and some basic short notemaking. 

However, based on my experience of extensive digital notemaking,here are my two cents which might come handy while taking running notes on Goodnotes -

# Use silicon grip on Apple pencil to avoid pain.

# Select square boxed or ruled paper instead of Blank sheet (for better alignment) 

# Zoom in the portion where you wish to write and then write instead of directly writing on the given space (for better font size) 

# If possible don’t use Glass Template on iPad (it goes alltak- tak -tak -tak when you write, might annoy at times) 

# Select 3 different tip sizes for Headlines or Body and fix them once (So that you do not keep adjusting pencil grip) 

# Select 3 differently pen colours once (for the same reason mentioned above) 

#Use ruler whenever there is alignment issue. Put a straight line, write as per the need. Erase it later. 

#Use “Shape” icon for drawing various shapes 

I am attaching few excerpts from my “Good-notes”@Neyawn for reference-

PS : One night when I was writing something, my father while passing by my side noticed me and curiously asked-“Do you get assignments to submit in your coaching? Why are you making such Dhinchak Rangeen notes? Are you planning to sell it?”  It was then I realised I should probably stop romanticising the art of making notes and rather focus on just getting the job done to the earliest. After all it’d be just me reading my notes. 

PPS: At the end, it’s all about the internal enthusiasm and inherent interest which pushes one to make notes diligently, either on paper or digitally. 

I purchased quite at the end but since then all my running class notes or any notes are on it.....I truly enjoy it...firtunetly I don't feel pain on my fingers..only issue is long haul  reading dries eyes...otherwise I enjoying and regretted why I did got at start...

M using Ipad air 5th gen with 2nd gen pencil 

Question for those of you making notes - do you also condense books like Laxmikant and Spectrum or do you feel like making notes from these books is mostly useless?@AzadHindFauz @Neyawn 

Those are the sources you keep going back to again and again during preparation. And, every time you read them, you're likely to get some new insights on the subject. So, there's no point "condensing" them exhaustively!

That being said, I have made notes from them to connect some dots (eg: agreements leading to partition- Nehru report, Cripps mission, wavell plan etc), some data that I keep forgetting etc.

But, never with the objective of making the book redundant and solely relying on my own notes. 

I keep going back to the books with my notes alongside.

Completely agre with you Azad. Most people underestimate humanities. You may be reading the same text, but it means different things at different times.

NCERTs are written for school kids, but when you read them as a kid vs a graduate vs a seasoned aspirant, your perspective will change.

Also, no use of summarising Polity book. You may create some short notes for parts where you feel you have trouble remembering stuff. But end to end notes for the basic books -pointless!