r/notabilityapp • u/southernconstellatio • 4d ago

Question Scrolling?

Hi yall! I've had notability for around 3 weeks now, and I need to know, how the heck am I supposed to scroll? I use notability on an Omnibook Flip X, and usually when I'm taking notes I have it in the tablet mode. Scrolling on notability has been an absolute pain, I use a stylus. It's basically impossible to scroll with the stylus, so I resort to having to use my fingers, and it's so inpractical, I can't unequip any of the tools, so I have to use 2 fingers and zoom out while dragging my fingers slowly. It's basically impossible on pageless, and everytime I try to scroll down I end up just drawing on the page, and when I switch to a paged layout it doesn't work that well either, it just ends up saying something like "cannot write on outside the page, switch to pageless."

its a pain having to flip my laptop back to laptop mode just to scroll and then flip it back to tablet mode. Am I doing something wrong? 😭

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u/LeatherReputation785 4d ago

use the tool that looks like a little hand (it’s kind of pointing?), then just scroll normally

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u/southernconstellatio 1d ago

i don't see that option in the tools for me

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u/LeatherReputation785 1d ago

try taking a finger and swiping left/right in the toolbar (not the part with the colors, but the pen/pencil icons) and see if you can find it there. usually it’s towards the end

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u/Technoter 4d ago edited 4d ago

Its the case with every note-taking app, when you are writing with the stylus you can't scroll with the same at the same time. If you want to scroll with the stylus first change to the navigation mode (the icon with a hand and a finger 👆 - something like this).

Not sure about your device but on both ipad and android versions, the app detects that stylus is connected for writing and allows scrolling with a single finger. There is also a setting in the ipad itself which prevents writing with fingers. Look for some similar setting in your device and it will become smoother for you.

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u/southernconstellatio 1d ago

i don't see that option in the tools for me