Notability
By Ginger Labs
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Apple's Mac App of The Year! Apple Editors' Choice on iPad, iPhone, and Mac! Recognized by Apple as the Best Selling Paid Productivity app in 2015, 2014, and 2013!
Welcome to Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and annotation.
Students, teachers, and business professionals use Notability daily to take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, mark-up photos, record lectures, provide audio feedback and more. It is uniquely designed for each device to provide the best note taking experience at school, at home, and at work. And with iCloud, your notes are always up to date.
Notability is designed for Mac
- Quickly create notes by dragging documents, photos, or audio recordings from the desktop and dropping onto the library.
- Enhance notes by dragging photos, audio recordings, and PDFs from the desktop and dropping onto a note.
- Get more done with smart keyboard shortcuts.
- Handwriting and sketches can be scaled, transformed, free and constrained rotated, nudged (with arrow keys), and restyled.
Capture memorable notes with these essential features
- Type reports and outlines in a variety of fonts, sizes, colors and styles.
- Text automatically reflows around images.
- Highlight typed text.
- Handwriting has been fine-tuned to be smooth and expressive using a trackpad or mouse.
- Sketch and write using a variety of colors, line widths, and styles.
- Record audio during lectures and meetings to capture more detail.
- Import audio recordings from other sources.
Audio Recordings: Review and Give Feedback
- Get more out of your lectures and meetings when you record them.
- Notes automatically link to recordings, so during playback, you can watch your notes animate along with the recording, or tap them to get to the spot that needs clarifying.
- Teachers can also use these features to provide audio feedback to students.
Import and Annotate PDFs
- Highlight, Copy & Paste, and Search PDF text.
- Mark up lecture slides and meeting agendas or complete class assignments.
- Fill-out, sign, and send forms.
- Import doc and ppt files with the help of Google Drive.
All Electronic Workflow
- Create a paperless classroom -- handout and collect assignments via the cloud.
- Speed-up feedback to students and colleagues using Notability.
- Complete, sign, and share documents in Notability.
Organize and Share Notes
- Create subjects and simply drag notes into them.
- Share your notes via email, AirDrop, printer, Dropbox, Google Drive, and more.
- Retrieve recently deleted notes from the Mac OS X Trash.
iCloud Sync
- iCloud automatically syncs all of your notes to iPad, iPhone, and Mac.
Auto-backup
- Dropbox and Google Drive can be used to backup your notes and are great for archiving or recovery.
We hope you enjoy using Notability, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Notability is a registered trademark of Ginger Labs, Inc.
What's New in Version 2.2.0
- Copy and paste pages into another note.
- Define button for non-English languages.
- Improved Text Box insertion on PDFs.
- Bug fixes.
If you're enjoying Notability, we'd appreciate it if you took the time to leave us a review, thanks!
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Customer Reviews
Awesome but a work in progress
Currently in grad school and used to take notes on paper until it became a little too cumbersome and inconvenient. Many of classmates were using Notabilit already although I heard the iPad version has more features compared to my MacBook version. Either way, it is a really awesome app that allows me to organize my notes like never before. I save to Google Drive where notes are saved as PDF. With the Drive app I can read my notes at any time, anywhere.
Suggestion to developer: Kindly add more options to the backup feature e.g. how frequently do I want it to back up and also a “backup now” type of button. Currently it backs up for several days then it seems to stop and I only notice that when I look at my Drive notes and see they dont have the most up to date changes.
It would also be nice to have the ability to change the fill in color within a textbox just like the iPad folks.
Overall: Recommend this app !
Great, but still lacks some features
This is a great note taking app that works as a companion to the iPad app. It it still lacking some key features that are present on the iPad app to make it even better. For example:
-It would be great to be able to change the creation date of a document (similar to how you can change it on the iPad). This is useful when you’re trying to customize the ordering of notes or documents by creation date (for example, if you’re making a new note that is referring to a meeting or lecture that happened in the past).
Other improvements to the OSX version include:
-It is very useful to add graphs and figures in pdf format by simply draging and dropping. However, it would be great to be able to directly insert into a page (in line with the text), instead of automatically being inserted as a new page that you can’t move around in the document.
-Being able to add tables and diagrams natively on the app would be a very welcome addition!
Overall this is a great note-taking app, but it has limited use for now as a companion to the iPad app. Adding simple features already present in the iPad app, and taking advantage of the multi-tasking features of a computer (mainly adding graphs and other documents seamlessly and with the flexibility to move them around) would make this app even better.
Nice Notetaking App!
After downgrading from El Capitan to Yosemite caused me to lose thousands of my Apple Notes, I decided it was time to find another note app. On the one end of the spectrum was Evernote…..but it was overly complex, and offline capability on my phone was going to cost me an additional $5 per month. Ummmm….no. On the other end was Google Keep, but it was overly simplistic, didn’t provide a true client for my Mac, and I don’t trust Google to continue on with Keep with it’s history of killing so many projects for no apparent reason. Then there were a plethora of featureless, buggy note apps in the middle, with no companion iOS version. This app seems like it is the best of all worlds….providing just the right amount of functionality, low cost, offline capability (mobile version), and most importantly synchronization to my phone via icloud at no additional monthly cost.
Cons:
1. Not as full featured as the mobile version leaving out themes, default backgrounds, and default font colors among other things.
2. There is no way to set the first line of the note as the title.
3. I have yet to find a way to mass export all of my notes in 1 click.
Overall (aside from the above-mentioned items) it’s a great app, and so far I’m very pleased with it.
You won’t be disappointed…….definitely worth the asking price, as is the mobile version.
- $3.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Mar 17, 2016
- Version: 2.2.0
- Size: 26.7 MB
- Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Seller: Ginger Labs, Inc.
- © 2016 Ginger Labs, Inc.
Compatibility: OS X 10.9 or later, 64-bit processor