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App for strictly taking notes?
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[doublepost=1506005799][/doublepost]For give the mistakes I may make in writing a reply.
Either way. Which iPad Pro do you have? 2016, you likely either have the 12.9 or the 9.7. I'm debating between the two that are available now the 12.9 or the 10.5 (I'm in my masters in a science discipline).
Cheers.
I've been using GoodNotes for quite a while, and finally paid for Notability today.
In my opinion (using iOS 10.3.2, IPP 10.5) Notability works better than GoodNotes, in terms of how fast you can draw anything in the screen and the image appear in the app. There's definitely a delay in GoodNotes I am not seeing in Notability.
Also the ability to do UNLIMITED vertical scrolling is something NO ONE (and I am dead serious!) that is using mostly to take notes should disregard. I find much easier to write my notes in Notability instead of using GoodNotes.
...But not everything is perfect, the eraser tool works great, but if I wanted to erase just tiny parts of an image I wouldn't be able to do it in Notability, only in GoodNotes. The way the Eraser Tool works is by "crossing" parts of it, which are erased automatically, however the problem with that is the removal of large parts of the whole thing.
My suggestion would be to add as an alternative to the Eraser Tool the way that feature works in GoodNotes.
I am still looking the app, and so far not regretting the purchase.
In my opinion (using iOS 10.3.2, IPP 10.5) Notability works better than GoodNotes, in terms of how fast you can draw anything in the screen and the image appear in the app. There's definitely a delay in GoodNotes I am not seeing in Notability.
Also the ability to do UNLIMITED vertical scrolling is something NO ONE (and I am dead serious!) that is using mostly to take notes should disregard. I find much easier to write my notes in Notability instead of using GoodNotes.
...But not everything is perfect, the eraser tool works great, but if I wanted to erase just tiny parts of an image I wouldn't be able to do it in Notability, only in GoodNotes. The way the Eraser Tool works is by "crossing" parts of it, which are erased automatically, however the problem with that is the removal of large parts of the whole thing.
My suggestion would be to add as an alternative to the Eraser Tool the way that feature works in GoodNotes.
I am still looking the app, and so far not regretting the purchase.
I'm a math teacher. I use my iPad Pro with a projector and GoodNotes to draw on a. virtual whiteboard. For me it's killer feature is that the user interface elements on my iPad don't appear on the projector screen. In addition, I can set the projector to lock on a portion of the screen, then scroll around and enlarge things on the iPad to make it easier to write on without my audience seeing this. I'm unaware of any note application on any platform that has these features (and if someone does know of such an application, I'd love to hear it).
Another positive feature for me is that it seems more stable than Notability. Trying to copy something form a document of several hundred pages, Notability would sometimes temporarily freeze up, GoodNotes works fine.
The lack of vertical scrolling in GoodNotes is a significant downside for me, but I still use it for these other features.
Another positive feature for me is that it seems more stable than Notability. Trying to copy something form a document of several hundred pages, Notability would sometimes temporarily freeze up, GoodNotes works fine.
The lack of vertical scrolling in GoodNotes is a significant downside for me, but I still use it for these other features.
I second the recommendation for ZoomNotes with Goodnotes a second ahead of Notability.