![]() This is a fairly simple spread for the sake of legibility, but these boards can be huge. Most of the time I found myself sticking with the ballpoint pen and wet brush settings, but even after tinkering with the viscosity and thickness settings, Notes Plus still doesn’t offer as satisfying a writing experience as virtually every other app.Įven so, I still find myself returning to it, mainly out of admiration for how well its other pieces fit together. The strokes the Pencil lays down feel “sticky,” especially while using the fountain pen and calligraphy tools. It’d probably be perfect if it weren’t for the writing performance. It’s not anywhere near as smart as the tool you’ll find in MyScript Nebo, but it usually gets the job done. It’s even got an impressive handwriting-to-text tool. Much like GoodNotes, it lets you make a box for squeezing in a few liner notes. ![]() You don’t even need a selection tool, as Notes Plus automatically selects script when you draw a circle around it. Need to erase something? Don’t bother with an eraser tool-instead, just scratch out the word and it’ll disappear. Here (as in Notability), there’s no flipping to a new page to start writing on another sheet instead, you can just keep scrolling the pages down, comfortably keeping your wrist in one spot. This took far more time than I expected because of the inferior Pencil handling, and you can see a couple of spots where I made corrections. It even gives you a “preview” of how it’s “reading” the line so you know what to correct before a full conversion. It’s our current favorite pick for handwriting recognition, as it takes carefully written longhand script and -with little more than a tap of the line-transforms it into something you can email. MyScript Nebo reminds us that we’re getting much closer. We’re still a long way from the days when technology can translate your doctor’s scrawl into a crisp line of 12-point Arial, but MyScript Nebo: The best for handwriting recognition This design may help with the ton of exports GoodNotes offers for printable paper sizes, but such restrictions feel especially limiting on a 9.7-inch iPad. Much as with a regular sheet of paper, you’re stuck with whatever dimensions the page gives you until you flip over on a new one, resulting in the same scrunched-up notes in corners you might recall in school. GoodNotes remains committed to the idea of writing on digital paper as though it were real paper, so it’s not as easy to scroll through multiple sheets of paper, moving the sheet down as you write in one continuous motion. In some ways, this similarity to print works against it. GoodNotes even does a slightly better job of organizing notes by subject than Notability, as it lets you keep separate notebooks for each class or project, each with their own covers. Need to scribble in a few notes between lines? Just use the magnifying tool, which boxes off a rectangular “window” into a smaller part of the page without the need to pinch in. I’m also not a fan of the way the page doesn’t fit the screen without adjustments when you quickly flip to landscape mode. It doesn’t fully convert your handwritten notes to typewritten text as some apps do, but its handwriting recognition is good enough that you can search all of your notes for specific words. ![]() Simply click on the appropriate menu item, doodle the shape on the screen with your Apple Pencil, and GoodNotes automatically converts it into the perfectly formed circle or triangle you had in mind. (You can’t record audio, though.)įor one, you can easily create shapes such as triangles, circles, or rectangles. It’s not quite as intuitive as Notability and so it falls short of “great,” but it offers many of the same options found in its notable rival and even a couple of better ones for good measure. ![]() Time Base Technology GoodNotes 4: The best for organizers IA Writer, but the ability to call up your handwritten scrawl on your phone at any time counts as a major plus. You’ll find that feature in traditional note-taking apps like Notability’s iCloud support works like a dream, so you can easily write out notes from your iPad and consult them on your (separately sold) You can record audio while you’re writing by hand, and you can hear exactly what was being said when you wrote a note. (Weirdly, none of those choices mimic the sulphuric yellow of a legal pad.) It’s easy to import PDFs and webpages and mark them up as though they were paper. Notability also excels by letting you choose between nine styles of lined and unlined paper, and it gives you 15 choices for paper color as well. Notability doesn’t offer many fancy options for writing tools, but the options it does give you work so well that others rarely feel needed. ![]()
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