Tips for long notes

MyScript Notes supports long notes to capture extensive content, but very large notes may affect performance. This article shares tips to avoid lag and improve your note-taking experience.

Improve performance

Follow these easy tips to keep your note-taking smooth and efficient, even with lots of content.

• Organize your notes — Break long notes into smaller ones. Create new pages if you see warning banners to prevent lag.
• Reduce heavy content — Limit the number of images and compress large files before adding them.
• Back up often — Export your notes and back up your library regularly to avoid losing data.
• Fix performance issues — Save, close, and reopen long notes if they slow down.

Consider content notifications

MyScript Notes shows a banner when your note gets too large, suggesting you split or optimize it for better performance. This helps keep your note-taking smooth and responsive.

• Orange banner — Time to wrap up the page and start a new one to prevent lag.
• Red banner — Warning — performance issues ahead. Staying on this page could cause data loss.

To create a new page, tap New page in the banner. The new page will use the same settings as the current one.

Optimize PDF performance

Importing large PDF files can strain memory and impact performance, especially if they contain a lot of images. You can optimize a PDF at any time to make it faster to open and navigate.

1. Open your PDF.
2. Tap ... in the top-right corner and choose Optimize PDF.
3. Choose an optimization level:

• Best quality — Minimal optimization. Preserves the highest quality.
• Balanced — Good balance between quality and performance.
• Best performance — Maximum optimization. Quality may be reduced.

4. Tap Optimize.