Notability: Smarter AI Notes 4+

I’ve been using Notability for the past few years and love it. Being able to upload PPT and PDF decks for meetings and then take notes on my ipad has been a game changer for productivity. I can review documents - mark them up - and then send the notes directly back to my team. Except for a (very) slight delay sometimes between my Mac and my ipad, everything was seamless. I recommended Notability to everyone.

However, the latest release of Notability for Mac is a disaster. It crashes often. When it isn’t crashing it’s nearly impossible to use. Trying to drag notes from one folder to another is incredibly frustrating - difficult to accomplish and takes a ton of time to get it to work. Often I can’t seem to drag and drop except on the fourth or fifth try. Imagine if your mouse pointer only worked about 25% of the time. Also - I used to be able to “print to Notability” directly from PPT (incredibly useful for quick uploads) and that feature is gone. And uploading a folder from Finder by dragging it over to Notability is frustrating - super laggy, often results in the “spinning wheel of death”, or just crashes the app. I would go back to the previous version is a hot second if I could. It’s so annoying that I’ve even considered moving to a different notes system - although I really don’t want to do that.

I love Notabilty and the ipad version works great. But I need my full Notability ecosystem to work well together. Like it used to.

I love this app, I’ve been using it for a few years and it’s the only app I’ve ever left a written review on because I just think that it is such a good app and deserves a good review. I love that there are templates that let me take unique notes and that I can organize everything. There’s so many useful features like the math conversion and the learn features. I like that I can easily import documents and large files to directly annotate and take notes, it is super easy to do and doesn’t take a long time to load the imported files. It’s really useful to be able to access my notes across devices and without internet as well so I can review anywhere any time. One thing I hope to see from this app in the future is an expansion on the AI Learn features, there is so much potential for this feature. A few suggestions, it would be nice to be able to easily access the material generated by learn in one separate area instead of having to open each not individually. Perhaps a separate section that contains all the generated Learn materials from the individual notes so you can easily view and access them. Furthermore I would love more options of study features similar to those of apps like Quizlet or Knowt, that way instead of exporting the AI generated material to a different app everything could be done on Notability. The Learn feature has so much potential and I can’t wait to see where it goes. I highly recommend this app.