We’ll therefore mostly focus on the iPad version of the app because it makes the most sense for handwritten notes. In Notability, you can either create a new notebook with native or custom templates or import digital notebooks into the app. Whichever device you pick up, creating a new notebook can be a single-tap process. The app looks familiar on different operating systems, making it easy to switch between the devices as you work. We’ve increasingly been hearing complaints about syncing issues with Notability lately, though (so tread with caution). With a bit of time on your hands, you can choose a template, its size, grid spacing, orientation and even page colour for your new notebook. If you’re unhappy with these templates, and Notability has plenty of them, you can add custom templates to the app’s library. You can also browse the Notability Gallery for some free ones.įor digital notebooks, you have to import those. We prefer using our digital notebooks in any note-taking app. You can also bring in PDF documents to read and annotate them in Notability. PDF annotation is quite an effective note-taking method. The app has two pen tools a ballpoint and fountain pen. The dashed and dotted pens are not very practical for handwritten notes. They are, however, cool to have for drawing diagrams and perhaps, creating other things we haven’t figured out yet.Īll your pens have a decent range of fixed pen thicknesses and default colours. We’ve always loved the fixed pen thicknesses in Notability they simply work! You can add custom colours to the palette with a Hex code or colour picker. Those are the best options to make sure you pick the exact colours you want. You can have up to 64 colours in the app. We would need less if we could edit or delete the default colours. Rearranging, editing and deleting colours from this palette is limited to your custom colours. It seems the minimalist in me grows stronger every day. There are 32 colours I absolutely don’t need that force me to scroll the colour palette to use my custom colours. The handwriting experience in Notability is excellent palm rejection is perfect and there is no lag when using the Apple Pencil. The highlighter has the same customisation options as those for the pen tool. It goes behind your ink/text, with the option to bring it to the front. Does anyone prefer a front highlighter that dims their notes? Do tell! Eraser We’re not sure why the developers have kept this option. The eraser, in Notability, erases both per stroke and pixel. Notability can erase the highlighter only, without a dedicated option for it. The developers’ dedication to minimalism has always been very impressive. The zoom tool can help you add tiny notes to your pages, especially when you’ve run out of space. However, over the years most users seem to prefer using this tool to improve their handwriting. It has auto-advance, so you don’t have to manually move it around. In 2022, it is unacceptable to for a note-taking app to have a lasso tool as limited as the one you get in Notability. If we can’t customise what to pick up, we should at least be able to pick everything.Ĭheaper and even free apps can pick up everything on the page. Rearranging your notes in Notability is tedious. You can only select handwriting alone, images alone, etc. You can style your selection to change the type of ink (and we still can’t choose the fountain pen), its colour, and pen thickness.Duplicate, cut, copy, group, save or delete your selection. We still can’t group handwritten notes with other items on the page images and text boxes.Rotate and resize your notes simultaneously or do them one at a time.
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