Whenever I make shareworthy sketches - whether I want to just send to friends or use them for professional purposes - I can send them off without having to tear pages out of notebooks or use a scanner. This feature of the app means that I never have to print out and scan any paperwork.Īnother nice perk is the user-friendly screen lends itself well to sketching. For instance, because Notability allows users to import PDFs, whenever I have a form to complete and sign, I can simply send it over to Notability, fill in what I need to, and then email it back, choosing which pages I want to export. Notability is also useful beyond in-person notetaking. And there's presentation mode to help you share notes in a more traditional, Powerpoint-like format, all while continuing to be easily navigable. You can also turn handwriting into text and share your messily scrawled notes with others in a format they can actually read. More recent versions also allow for more customizability in terms of pen and highlighter colors and the ability to search handwritten notes. Since I downloaded the app in the mid-2010s, it has expanded some of its features, now letting users record audio as they write, allowing them to see what they wrote at each point in a meeting and remember what each hasty scribble means. I could use different colored pens to color code my notes move around notes if a meeting circled back to an old topic quickly sketch tables, charts, and graphs drop in pictures and webpages, and even write directly on the presenter's PowerPoint slides.

I quickly fell in love with the app and found I was able to be more organized than I'd ever been on paper or in a word-processing doc. So, I made the switch from handwritten notes to digital note-taking, downloading Notability on my iPad Air 2. I got the app because, as a student, I had to share work with teachers and peers but also needed to have access to everything I wrote down.

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