Review of Notability App

March 23, 2011 By 9 Comments

Notability App for Note Taking Review

Notability App

Checkout our updated review app for note taking - Notability Version 4

The first thing I can say is the web clip function in Notability is awesome. I am writing this post on the Notability app to get a feel for how it works. One of the features I really wanted to have a look at was the image wrap that is highlighted in the promotion video on YouTube.

There are a lot of note taking apps out there. Notability has some nice features that are not offered in the standard Notes app that comes on the iPad. But is it something that can be used in a workflow?

Notability DrawingsThe text wrap feature works very well. You have the ability to insert web clips, drawings, and pictures. Seamless and easy to use, drag the picture to the location that you want and size as required. Done…

I work in various and remote locations and I like the idea of having an app that can do all the things in one interface. Notability offers that freedom with web clips, drawings, audio recordings, and images.

The ability to add recordings to the note right from the note you are currently working is nice. If you were looking for an audio note tool, Notability gives you the best of both.

Exporting was seamless, you just click export, choose a destination and the options are Email, iTunes,  Dropbox, iDisk, WebDav, or Print. Then you pick the format, choose from RTF, RTF + Images + Recordings, or RTF + Images. You can also export as PDF or Notability format for backup.

The app worked very well overall. Text wrap on images was a very nice feature, and the built-in audio recordings were a pleasant addition. The interface is clean, and intuitive and pleasant to work with. I think this app would serve anyone looking to have a note taking app that would work for business and pleasure.

Some additions that would be nice would be an Android version, and some more drawing tools like graphs, tables etc.

Overall, I am very happy with the purchase of the Notability App. I will continue to use it a little more and will post a head to head review of some of the popular note apps in the future.

What apps do you use for Notes on your Mobile device?

Also, I have a promo code for the App. Leave a comment and I will pick a winner to get the Notability App free!

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  • Md113

    Cool post. Thanks. Do I qualify for the promo code?

  • http://profiles.google.com/dimgala dimgala

    Can you delete the audio track and keep the text, photos and drawings?

    Let’s say I made my short notes during the seminar, reviewed it and added the points I need and I don’t want the audio recording anymore…

    Thanks for the review.

    • http://damangmedia.com/ Matt Clark – Damang Media

      Yes, you can delete the audio tracks at a later time. One of the things I liked about it. Record, then make a note and then nix the audio. Thanks for the questions.

      Also, send me your contact details and I will send you the promo code and you can get the app.

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  • Anonymous

    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 !

    • http://damangmedia.com/ Matt Clark – Damang Media

      Thanks for the information on the version 3 upgrade. Seems like they did a major change for the upgrade. I will have to have a look and compare and update the review. Thanks again for sharing.

  • RNG1

    Are you able to download a powerpoint (.ppt) file, then view and take notes on top of that .ppt file? 

    • http://damangmedia.com/ Matt Clark – Damang Media

      I have not tried that, I will give it a try and get back to you.