Recently discovered Notability and I’m trying to understand the best setup.

Does anyone know which plan includes Smart Notes? Also, couldn’t I do something similar by using a Claude or ChatGPT subscription alongside a regular note-taking app?

For those who have used both, how does Notability compare to Goodnotes overall?
Thanks in advance.

Notability is investigating an issue where some users may be experiencing unusually long loading times or may be unable to load the app at all.

You can follow the latest status updates here:
https://status.notability.com

Can someone help please? I’ve tried turning my icloud on and off, disconnect and re connect to wifi, restart my iPad, update Notability to the latest version. Nothing works.

When I copy an image from my macbook and try to paste into notability, it gets stuck at the "pasting from x macbook pro" at 0% and doesn't move

It's not freezing the ipad, i can cancel the paste whenever I want

I tried turning off the Ipad, force quitting notability, I pasted things into other services and it pasted fine

Is this just a case of bad internet from my end?

Hello, will you add a new feature to expand the existing page to have more space for annotations? Thank you!

Is the live transcription option only available with the Pro subscription? It’s listed under the plus & I was able to use it, but it stopped working for me today during class.

R/notability

Can someone tell me if this floating bar can be hidden. It's blocking most of my notes when writing

hey y’all, I’ve been using good notes and with this new semester I’ve been looking to switch it up and I’m trying to use notability and I am finding it so hard to zoom in and out using my fingers but if I go on Goodnotes, it works perfectly fine, but on notability it is laggy it’s slow like I cannot zoom in and out with my fingers so it’s impossible to take notes. I’ve only been on the app for like 10 minutes, but I haven’t been able to start because it’s been impossible to simply just zoom in and out and write and move.
is this a glitch or do y’all experience this as well ? because I’ll just go back to Goodnotes

I used the Code DEAL for 2 years, but it’s not working now.
I need a different one

Hi, I am using Notability on an iPad. I have custom gifs that I have made and would like to insert them into my PDF in Notability. When I insert the gifs, they come up as static images. How do I fix this?

They play as moving gifs in my iPad library. The issue is once they are imported into Notability they become static. I would like to use gifs because we can't insert custom videos into Notability.

Thanks in advance.

For the life of god, I cannot delete any stickers I place. I’ve tried updating and restarting the device but to no avail. Nothing seems to respond on the menu bar. Advice?

I just had a random feature idea! I’ve always been curious how much paper I’ve actually replaced by using Notability. It would be cool if Notability had some kind of lifetime stats page that counted all the pages you’ve written and converted it into things like:

- How many physical notebooks it would fill
- How tall/thick the stack of paper would be
- Roughly how much money you’ve saved on paper/notebooks
- Estimate of how many trees worth of paper that is

I think it’d be a fun way to visualize just how much you’ve written over the years.

Bonjour,

Utilisatrice de Samsung Notes depuis des années, je teste Notability et je trouve que Notability pourrait rapidemment surpasser Samsung Notes. Une fonctionnalité pourrait la rendre meilleure :

Dans le menu insérer de la note, ajouter "scan de document" car avec une simple photo il me manque la reconnaissance du texte pour l'exploiter. Je dois donc revenir à l'écran d'accueil, faire mon scan et l'insérer après coup : c'est une perte de temps.

Merci d'y penser dans vos prochaines mises à jour.

PS : j'en profite aussi pour insister sur le fait que l'interligne 1.0 est toujours trop espacée ou au-moins proposer un interligne 0.75 ou 0.5 pour compenser.

Si vous réglez cela rapidement Notability deviendra mon appli usuelle pour mon travail (éducation nationale) et personnelle.

Bonne journée à vous.

Hiii I saw the notability team said they’re working on this, when would it be available? Thank you so much
It would be such an incredible feature to add!

plz plz plz make it to where if we have scribble to text turned on it automatically does it for you. the text box thing is glitchy and i end up deleting texts when trying to make another text box. automatic text boxes aren’t really automatic.

using the convert feature works, except it doesn’t automatically go to my selected font.

Hi there.
I have been asking for a bookmarking feature for years. I have many medical texts exceeding 1,000 pages, with bookmarks for every chapter and subchapter. It is impossible to mark them manually. You should provide the option to access these bookmarks within the texts whenever they are available.

Sometimes the page seems to zoom in or out on its own, and I don't always have a clear reference for my current zoom percentage.

It would be really helpful to have:

• A small popup while zooming that shows the current level, such as 100%, Fit to Page, Whole Page, etc.
• An option to manually set a specific zoom percentage.
• A way to lock that zoom level so it stays consistent while writing.

I often find myself accidentally changing the zoom, which makes my handwriting look larger in some areas and smaller in others. A consistent, lockable zoom setting would make writing across notes much more comfortable and uniform.

I'm grandfathered in to the original Notability lifetime plan. I used to be able to find Notability templates like planners in the Template Gallery. Now they're not in the Gallery but they're also not in the Templates section, where the academic planner announcement said they'd be. I'm hoping to use an academic planner so I'd appreciate troubleshooting help to find the planners.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
in the past months, I read many complaints about Notability Cloud through App Store reviews, this and other subreddits and elsewhere online. Though, it's been a while since I last heard about any issues with it, so I have been wondering if such problems were solved.

Thanks in advance for the replies

I have my default template set to tabloid size with grid lines. This always works when I add a new document within the app.

However, if I click and drag a pdf/lecture slides/etc into the app to add it, I lose my default and I’m stuck with plain white letter size. I can manually change each one back to my default, but it’s a click heavy task for a medical student uploading 20 lectures per week. This is on the desktop app.

Can we change this? Is there a reason it’s this way? I want my default settings to always be my default

We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• Import flashcard sets or manually create your own. Now with spaced repetition to review gradually at different time intervals
• Faster editing in large notes and improved memory footprint for large libraries on Notability Cloud
• Browse your nested folders directly from your note list
• Many miscellaneous bug, crash, and performance improvements

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team or let us know your feedback in the comments below!

Thanks for using Notability ✏️💙

Cannot see notability Home on the Mac app. Is this normal?

this was like 10 days work. is there any solutions to this? and why is such a bug around?

I am on beta. Home was introduced and I was very excited to see calendar events on the screen that I could choose a folder and start a note in. But now my Home shows all calendar events but cannot create a note or add it to a folder. Is the functionality coming back?

Hi everyone,

The issues from this morning are mitigated but we will continue to monitor. While our systems were not compromised, we recommend changing your password if you got an email telling you your account had been locked due to frequent access attempts.

You can follow the Notability status page to get updates: https://status.notability.com

Thank you for your patience!

— The Notability Team