Notability - The Perfect Note Taking App?

One of the thing that I am often asked is, “We have ‘X’ iPads in our school. Is there a way to be sure students are leveraging them for every class?” or “We are using the iPad apps for different initiatives, but student are struggling to use them to take notes. They get caught up in typing and sometimes miss part of the lecture.

My typical response is have you looked at Notability?

While there are a number of iOS apps that can be used to take notes like: notepad (built-in to iOS), evernote, Penultimate, Pages and more… Notability by GingerLabs (Currently $.99 in the AppStore regularly $4.99) shines in its ability easily take and format notes while also recording the audio that is occurring at that same moment.

Notability is the perfect companion for the iPad in education. The app is simple to learn and use, but has a robust feature set which includes the ability to audio record a lecture while taking notes.

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Comments

[eslienna]

Is this app worth the money do you think? I just wonder if the standard recording on an iPhone or iPad would be sufficient.

[matt]

Version 3 looks nothing like the photos above, and infact is quite awful. I have emailed the developer my feedback and have been ignored, so i posted to the Facebook page, and my post was deleted.

The new Aqua/candified interface of v3 makes the app look like something most suitable to a 5 year old's xylophone, circa OSX 10.0

I appreciate that one can change the colours, but the whole candy interface is still an eyesore (as compared to refined, subtle, classy and mature textured tan leather look of version 2. Even the app icon has changed from leather book to candy blue). The file browser names are much bigger font (and cannot be changed) and the bubbles around each folder are massive. I don't need a fluorescent yellow cartoon/icon next to each subject group, surrounded my fluorescent yellow highlighting with fat psychedelic colours around it. Each item now resembles the windows7 start menu.

Furthermore the forced page breaks are a disaster also, they cannot be disabled, I have been happily storing documents that i had written in macjournal, and exported to RTFD.  They have a combination of pictures and text, your forced page breaks are a disaster to my photos, I can only fit 2 photos per page, and the next photo cannot follow (across a page break) hence the text is messed up, and the photos are all messed up (and cannot be resited across hard page breaks).

Do not update to version 3 !