Those things are expensive and unbelievably easy to lose (if you found one in Goodwin Sports Centre last June, it’s mine, and I want it back!). Remember, you will need an Apple Pencil to make the most out of note-taking apps. (For some unknown reason, I also preferred practising my Arabic handwriting in Notability? ) In GoodNotes, you need to switch to shapes to draw straight lines, which is just another unnecessary step. No more highlighting three different different sentences at the same time. The downside is that you can hear the Apple Pencil tapping on screen in the recording, and it is LOUD.Īs a person who can’t draw a straight line, Notability also helps to make my notes much tidier: hold the stroke, and the line will be straightened automatically. Tap on your written notes, and the recording will jump to when you wrote it down (and vice versa). This is such a lifesaver when your lecture is not recorded by Encore! You can speed up the recording for those revision sessions too. GoodNotes lost to Notability on one function: audio recording. My choice is based solely on personal preference. I used it to make annotations on lecture slides, take notes, read & highlight papers and sign any electronic documents. I ended up using GoodNotes 95% of the time. While the latest update introduced dark paper, it doesn’t have a real ‘dark mode’ like Notability does. GoodNotes also offers a much wider range of paper settings, including the Cornell template*, monthly planner and music paper. For each module, I created a master folder and 3 sub-folders for lecture, readings/seminar and exam preparation. The folder system is easy to navigate, and documents are laid out as notebooks with covers. My favourite thing about GoodNotes is the display and user interface. Notability: A Comparison Review of the Best Handwriting Notes Apps for iPad by Drew Coffman For that I recommend reading GoodNotes vs Notability written by Drew Coffman, or search for reviews of each app on YouTube. This blog post is definitely not meant to be an in depth review/comparison of the two apps. After some research ( watching YouTubers take beautiful notes) and much deliberation … I bought both. Both are amazing tools for students who want to go paperless, and each has their own pros and cons.

There are many handwriting apps available on iPad, but the debate on ‘the best note-taking app’ centres around two: Notability and GoodNotes. Download your custom book cover template for free or print from Canva to give your readers a tantalizing first glimpse and get them excited to go on a new. So, when I bought an iPad using my summer job salary, I immediately wanted ditch my notebooks and pens. Throwing them away after exams was painful both emotionally and physically. During my first year at uni, I struggled to organise all of my lecture notes, handouts, flashcards and revision posters.

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