![]() Update: Ginger Labs has now backtracked on plans to take features away from existing Notability users, many of whom pointed out that doing so would violate Apple’s App Store guidelines. Instead, they’ll get one more year to use the app without restrictions. K-12 schools will get the full version of free, but existing non-education users won’t. Non-paying users will have limits on how many times they can edit a note and how many brushes they can save as favorites, and they’ll no longer be able to automatically sync notes to iCloud or other online storage services. Notability is now free to download, and will require a $15 per year subscription-or $12 per year for a limited time-to unlock all of its features. (The app is also available for iPhones and Macs, where it’s mostly helpful for reviewing existing notes.)īut after 11 years of selling the app for an up-front price-most recently $9–developer Ginger Labs is leaving that model behind. It supports an array of brush styles and paper formats, and it has a killer audio recording feature for lectures and interviews: Recordings and written notes are synchronized, so you can tap on what you wrote and hear the audio from that exact moment. ![]() Someday I need to find the time to merge all of them into at least two sources, iOS Notes for general and typed notes which I can type from any device with a web browser and Notability for my handwritten notes.The app lets users take handwritten notes on an iPad, ideally with an Apple Pencil. ![]() Personally, this seems like the best setup so far and I still have my old notes in both iOS Notes and even Evernote. I opened the word document within Notability and straight away I had the ability to annotate on it and the completed form is saved as PDF file in my OneDrive. My colleague just finished a survey form and emailed it across to me. Take, for instance, I had to conduct a survey with a customer. Expensive if you need to view all 3 areas at once but to me, I purchased the iPad app ( RM39.90) and sync my notes with OneDrive where all notes will be converted into a PDF file.Ĭouple the note-taking app with the new features of iOS 11 where there is a files app and other productivity apps, this makes the iPad Pro one useful device. Whats bad about Notability? The app for iPhone, iPad and Mac are all charged separately! So that means you got to pay for the iPad app, the iPhone app and the Mac app for Mac OS. For people like me whose handwriting is crap, I need guided lines to help me stay neat for my notes. What is good about the app? It allows me to select the thickness of the pen as well as let me choose the type of paper background I can write on. Granted that my handwriting is extremely horrible but it is the best note writing app I have come across and I can really take quick notes on it during key meetings where I have to have one hand managing my laptop showing a presentation and another hand taking notes. Writing on Notability together with the latest iPad Pro’s fast 120Hz refresh screen really felt like I was writing on paper. Great if you are a fast typer but also difficult when typing notes in a meeting because people would be thinking that you weren’t really paying attention.įinally, I took the bullet and bought the app, Notability. With both Evernote and iOS Notes, I couldn’t do that and that made me try out the Apple Keyboard. Similar to me buying the Pilot G2 pen with at least a 0.7 point because I like the thickness of the strokes. Why? I couldn’t adjust the width of the ink. I used to have an Apple Pencil but writing on both Evernote and iOS Notes was a horrible experience. Finally, I managed to get in a groove that combined all of the above with a combination of both the iPad and the Apple Pencil and also the Apple Keyboard. From my experimenting with the 12.9″ version, then using the latest iPad 9.7″ and then to the iPad Pro 10.5″, I have been trying to figure out a delicate balance between being productive with the iPad or just consuming it as a media player. My iPad experience has been one of many facets this past couple of years.
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