You can see this in practice in the video below: In practice, GoodNotes’ method means that you can continue writing right away, while Notability’s method forces a delay. In GoodNotes, that detection area is at the beginning of the box, so that it moves the box seamlessly when you start writing from the beginning of the box again. In Notability, there’s an adjustable area at the end of the zoombox, and when your writing gets into that area, the box moves- in an animated fashion that takes about half a second. These boxes always have an auto-advance feature that moves the zoom box for you as you write, and there’s two ways of detecting when to move the zoom box: doing it when you come to the end of the box, or when you continue from the start. My first big gripe with Notability is that the zoom box that’s critical to writing accurately on a capacity touch screen. If it had managed to do this with handwritten notes, I might have at least partially switched to Notability, despite the reasons I’m getting to. Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t work with hand writing notes, which is very unfortunate. This is similar to a feature found on Livescribe pens, and it gives lecture recordings new life when you can use the audio recording that dynamically, rather than just sit there with one long audio file. Another awesome feature in Notability is the ability to record audio, type text notes while recording, and then simply tap on your notes to immediately go back to that point in the recording. I particularly liked the automatic Dropbox sync, something GoodNotes is missing, leaving me sending files to Goodreader (which then syncs them to Dropbox). In fact, every feature I tried out seemed to work better than it does in GoodNotes, and I got really excited. After familiarizing myself with the latest version of it, I started noticing why the name has popped up on so many recommendation lists lately it has really improved since last I tried it. That is exactly why I was recently messing around with Notability, another note taking app for the iPad. I’ve used GoodNotes on the iPad for ages now, but I do own a license for a ton of other apps, and I occasionally swing by them to see if recent updates have put them ahead of whatever I’m using at that moment. A good note taking app is paramount for my tablet experience, and the reason why I eventually gave up the entire notion of an Android tablet.
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