#Notability ipad pdf#
#Notability ipad update#
#Notability ipad plus#

You can import a PDF directly into Notability. When I open the notebook suggested by Notability the app has even highlighted the specific words in the document that I was searching for.

I search for the word test and the app brings up the results immediately. Then I save and close the document and open up the search function. To demonstrate how the global search works, I can open up a notebook and use the handwriting function to write the word test. The other note-taking apps only search within the notebook. At this time, it’s the only note-taking app with this function. Inside the app, you can search globally for your handwriting as well as for typed text. Notability has a global search function (it will look for every example of a word or phrase in any notebook). In addition to these game-changing updates, Notability also has these important features: Global Search Function best in Notability You can also go inside the menus and actively use both sides of the screen at the same time depending on which one you have selected with your stylus. You can reduce or increase the size of a screen. With Notability both sides of your screen are usable.

#Notability ipad plus#

What differentiates Notability from Notes Plus is that Notes Plus also has the split screen feature but you can only write on one of the open screens, while the other screen is stuck in read-only mode. This is a feature that users of note-taking apps have been asking for for a very long time. This allows you to have information on one side of your screen while working on an active document on the other side of your screen. On one side of your screen, you can have a new document ready to be created, alongside another document you’ve already completed. Notability now has an amazing split-screen function. Unique Split Screen Function in Notability In order to select a GIF and move it around you need to use two fingers so you don’t accidentally move something around you didn’t want to move. You just select a GIF and insert it into your document on your iPad screen and you have an automatic GIF function right inside your document. It’s just a nice extra feature that gives you a little more capability. Inside Notability, you can also add GIFs. It is much more fluid and I just really like the feel of it. So why am I saying that Notability is now the number one note-taking app instead of Notes Plus when they both have the same features? Here’s why: I personally like the handwriting function in Notability better than the handwriting function in Notes Plus. But with this newest round of updates Notability now has these features as well. This is why I called it the all-in-one note-taking app. Until now, Notes Plus was the only note-taking app to have auto recording and text conversion. You can even convert your handwritten text into typed text with a clickable bullet point so you can turn it right into a task. What really pushed this app ahead of GoodNotes 4 is that you can choose convert selection which will convert handwriting directly into text without the need to copy and then paste and then delete the handwriting like it is the case in GoodNotes4. This allows you to select the text and copy it into your email and send it on. You can also select copy text to clipboard. You just take your stylus and select the specific text you want to focus on or convert. Using your Apple Pencil, you hand write directly onto your iPad screen, and then you can select that specific text and convert it into typing.įrom there you can change the text size, the font, the color, and the location of the text and turn it into a really nice looking document. With the latest update, this has changed. What set Notability apart from other apps was that it did not have handwriting recognition. The following 2 updates were the changes I felt that Notability needed to take it to the top. For a while now, users of Notability have been sending their feedback for suggested improvements, and it looks like the developers were listening. In order to make it onto the list, there were two features I wanted to see inside the Notability app.

#Notability ipad update#

This update has skyrocketed Notability into the first place position as my favorite note-taking app. I’m excited to say that the latest update to Notability has been a complete game-changer.